Media Manipulation Every Best Actor gets an award The race for Best Actor will be between Michael Keaton, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Eddie Redmayne this year. All three were at the Hollywood Film Awards. All three received awards at the Hollywood Film Awards. Jesus, is this show business or is this grade school? As we’ve seen, Keaton had By Lainey • Nov 17, 2014 10:43 am
Media Manipulation Brange at the Unbroken world premiere As promised, here are shots of the Brange arriving at the world premiere of Unbroken today in Sydney. Brad was previously in South Korea and Japan promoting Fury. Angelina, you’ll note, was in Malta directing By The Sea for most of the Fury promotion. They’ve managed though to By Lainey • Nov 17, 2014 08:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rough flight? Brad Pitt arrived in South Korea today to promote Fury. He looks rough. Pale and clammy, non? Flying with the flu is the worst. And it’s not great for the person sitting next to you either. Have you ever sat next to a sniffler? It fills me with rage. By Lainey • Nov 12, 2014 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone charms Broadway Last night was Emma Stone’s Broadway debut as Sally in Cabaret. If Twitter is any indication, she delivered. So far I’ve only found one review at the Guardian and it’s a strong one. Apparently the audience went wild for her first night. And you can see it By Lainey • Nov 12, 2014 10:11 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Jolie & Jennifer: dress-off Jennifer Aniston arrived at Heathrow yesterday with Justin Theroux and the cast of Horrible Bosses 2 for promotion. She also covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Wearing white. You know who else covers a magazine this month wearing white, which means they could be side-by-side at the newsstands? By Lainey • Nov 12, 2014 09:17 am
Media Manipulation Nominate her because she’s ugly Two week ago, it was announced that Jennifer Aniston’s Cake, despite screening at TIFF not securing a distributor, would be released in limited run for Oscar qualification by a new company formed by the producers and rumoured to be backed by Aniston herself. She really wants recognition for this By Lainey • Nov 07, 2014 09:26 am
Media Manipulation Jessica Chastain’s Oscar fight Jessica Chastain has two Oscar-buzzy movies coming out—Interstellar this weekend and A Most Violent Year at the end of December. She’s already got good odds on a Supporting Actress nomination with Interstellar, but some Oscar prognosticators think she’s better and more worthy in Violent Year. Also, Interstellar By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 10:12 am
Weddings Oscar elopement? New cover of US Weekly features Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, an elopement story: Engaged for two years, they still haven’t set a date. Now Aniston’s pushing for an intimate tropical getaway. On the one hand, she’s campaigning for awards consideration for her performance in Cake. Most By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 03:26 pm
BFFs Eddie Redmayne and all his friends Eddie Redmayne is Mr. Congeniality. In the past week, he's had his Les Miserables co-star Hugh Jackman by his side at a premiere for The Theory of Everything … A photo posted by Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) onNov 11, 2014 at 3:16pm PST … and on Monday night? His plus By Joanna • Nov 05, 2014 01:33 pm
Media Manipulation Matthew McConaughey’s 10 Moments and not the SMA On Monday I wrote about PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2014. Click here for a refresher. In short, I thought it would probably be either Matthew McConaughey or Chris Pratt, given the year that both have had. PEOPLE just released its cover for this week. It’s Matthew McConaughey’ By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 11:19 am
Weddings Benedict Cumberbatch is engaged Oh noes… How are you over there Cumber-crazies? You OK with this wakeup call? A notice of engagement appeared in The Times today. Very subtle. Very classy. Very Cumberbatchy. Very fitting of someone called Benedict Cumberbatch. This might be my favourite thing about Benedict Cumberbatch – the way he announced that By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 09:36 am
Media Manipulation Jolie Governor? Angelina Jolie. Vanity Fair. God. Those eyes. THAT FACE. The Jolie was photographed for the December issue by Mario Testino. This, of course, is for Unbroken, opening at Christmas and expected to contend for Oscar. They’ve been expecting it to contend for Oscar for a year now. Or, at By Lainey • Nov 04, 2014 09:37 am
Media Manipulation Hopeless hustle On Saturday Deadline held “The Contenders” at the Directors Guild of America, a day-long symposium in which every distributor with Oscar hopes presented their award season wares, and many actors and filmmakers showed up to hustle. Most of the actors who showed up have outside chances at best, like newly-minted By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 10:49 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Dr Banner and Tony Stark are honoured Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr were honoured last night at the Britannia Awards in LA. Mark was presented with the Humanitarian Award for his work in advocating for clean water. Because, yes, he’s the best. Always. Even Dame Judi Dench thinks so. RDJ received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia By Lainey • Oct 31, 2014 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 29, 2014 Dear Gossips, Jennifer Aniston stepped out yesterday for lunch after it was reported that her film, Cake, will be released for a week in order to be considered for award season. Many took that to mean that she’s making a push for Oscar and as Joanna pointed out in By Lainey • Oct 29, 2014 09:31 am
Media Manipulation Jennifer Aniston: not Oscar but maybe a Globe? Jennifer Aniston is playing catch up when it comes to the Oscar race. Nearly two months after its premiere in Toronto, her film Cake finally has a distributor and is slated to make a one-week awards season campaign run later this year before it hits theatres in January. Deadline breaks By Joanna • Oct 28, 2014 11:01 am
