Award Season Campaigning Campaigning for Grownups The Oscar nominations have been announced. So Oscar campaigning is now in its most intense stretch, especially with so many tight races across the board, including Best Picture. One of the big campaign stops that brought out several contenders this weekend was the AARP Movies for Grownup Awards. AARP used By Lainey • Jan 30, 2023 03:34 pm
Gorgessity Austin and Kaia after the Globes Austin Butler’s date for the Golden Globes was his sister, Ashley. His girlfriend, of course, is Kaia Gerber, who met up with Austin and Ashley at the after-party. Here they are leaving hand-in-hand, after celebrating his first major win. It was 330am, and Kaia was seen By Lainey • Jan 12, 2023 10:40 am
Golden Globes 2023 Austin Butler: Elvis Tabulation Golden Globes Edition Colin Farrell and Austin Butler were the two winning lead actors in the film categories last night. As Sarah wrote in today’s open, there’s a three-way race right now for Oscar Best Actor and both had the stage at the Golden Globes to make their case to By Lainey • Jan 11, 2023 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2022 If the year 2022 in film can be defined by one word, it would be “most”. This was the year of the most in film, when blockbusters came roaring back, and a lot of filmmakers threw everything they had at the screen in a cinematic excess that reminds us the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2023 02:08 pm
Award Season Campaigning Everyone was in Palm Springs yesterday The Palm Springs International Film Awards were last night as part of the Palm Springs Film Festival. We’re getting into the thick of awards season now, and with most of the categories either wide open or in a three-way split, everyone who is remotely a contender was out By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 10:03 am
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 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 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 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 By Lainey • May 27, 2022 11:50 am
