TV Updates Austin Butler closes it out Austin Butler closed out his breakout year hosting the Christmas episode of SNL, and as Lainey said, he hit just the right mix of silly and sincere to succeed as a host. It wasn’t the strongest episode of the year, but Butler showed up ready to play and made By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 10:03 am
TV Updates Austin Butler on SNL: Silly, Sweet, and Sincere As I wrote last week re: Austin Butler hosting SNL, the timing couldn’t be better for him. Austin is in contention for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in Elvis. He is the youngest candidate in the field which is why they’ve been strategic about how By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Elvis join the campaign Award season, we’re in it now, in the thick of it as everyone jockeys for position. Oscar nomination voting begins in exactly a month today, on January 12, and there are tight races across the board, which means everyone is out on the campaign trail. For Austin Butler and By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Kaia keep it quiet Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber have been dating almost a year now. And it’s not like they’ve kept it a secret but they seem to be much lower profile than she was when she was dating Jacob Elordi. Even more low profile since the release of Elvis and By Lainey • Nov 25, 2022 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin, Brendan, Colin, and the wide-open race As Sarah noted in today’s open, the Oscar Academy’s Governors Awards took place this weekend recognising Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir, and Euzhan Palcy who all received honourary Oscars. This year’s Oscar race, however, is heating up. Which is why so many of the contenders By Lainey • Nov 21, 2022 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jacob Elordi: Just Before Elvis I’ve been waiting for new photos of Jacob Elordi for a couple of weeks now – here he is in LA yesterday – because we need to talk about Jacob and Elvis Presley. It was announced this month that Sofia Coppola's next film, titled Priscilla, will be based on By Lainey • Sep 23, 2022 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone loves Austin Butler Austin Butler is having a busy year. Elvis, of course, one of the big hits of the summer—the only blockbuster not based on pre-existing IP, unless you count “Elvis Presley” as IP—and now filming Dune Part Deunx—I will MAKE this joke work, just you watch—opposite Timothee By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in Elvis Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling music biopic, Elvis, is the best and worst of Luhrmann’s brand of ritzy-glitzy filmmaking. On the one hand, Luhrmann’s signature maximalism is perfectly suited to the unabashedly tacky Elvis, both the man who loved flashy clothes and accoutrement, and the icon immortalized in rhinestone By Sarah • Jun 24, 2022 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler, one week out Elvis opens one week from today. As Lainey said yesterday, these are the final moments before Austin Butler’s life blows up once everyone gets a look at him as Elvis Presley. As busy as this week will be for him, it’s the calm before the storm. Because there By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 10:23 am
Gorgessity Countdown to AustinMania We’re heading into the final week of promotion for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, when we get to see just how ready audiences will be to go back to theatres when it’s not a franchise film, not an action film. This is also the time before Austin-mania… Right now, By Lainey • Jun 16, 2022 02:31 pm
Quiveration Austin Butler: Before the Madness Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis premiered at Cannes earlier this week to a big reaction. So far, the 12-minute standing ovation that the film received is the longest of the festival this year and as I mentioned in my coverage of the premiere yesterday, there’s already talk that Austin Butler’ By Lainey • May 27, 2022 11:50 am
Cannes 2022 Cannes loves Elvis Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis screened at Cannes last night and before we get into how it was received and all the reaction, let’s talk about Baz’s outfit because he really served up some TCB energy. TCB, for the Elvis uninitiated, stands for “Taking Care of Business”, which was By Lainey • May 26, 2022 01:13 pm
Met Gala 2022 Four Couples and an Ex Kicking this Met Gala couples post off with one of the lowest profile celebrity couples in Hollywood – and it’s by intention, they do not put themselves on blast. Which is why it’s always a thing for me whenever I see them together. That would be Kerry Washington and By Lainey • May 03, 2022 03:32 pm
Baz Luhrmann Austin Butler: The Gen Z Elvis CinemaCon is happening in Vegas this week. This is when movie studios present exclusive previews of upcoming releases to theatre owners and these days it’s become like a rally for the survival of cinemas. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis was one of the most warmly received films that was showcased By Lainey • Apr 27, 2022 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Cannes does. It was reported this week that Maverick: Legend of the Skies Top Gun: Maverick will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. The Croisette? More like the CRUISETTE. Cannes is BIG, it is GLAMOR, it is By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler is about to be everywhere Austin Butler isn’t a household name. Yet. With Baz Luhrman’s Elvis biopic on the horizon, and a fancy historical war epic looming (Masters of the Air, about WWII-era bomber pilots and co-starring fellow rising stars Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner), it’s only a matter of time before By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:45 am
