Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Variety posted their matchups for this year’s “Actors on Actors” series, and it’s mostly good and only a little bit ridiculous. Here’s the lineup: * Andrew Garfield (We Live in Time) & Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool & Wolverine) * Ariana Grande (Wicked) & Paul Mescal (Gladiator II) By Sarah • Dec 06, 2024 09:24 am
Style Jane praises Angelina Angelina Jolie was still in New York this week after the Gotham Awards where she received the performer tribute. She was seen at Atelier Jolie, where she continues to spotlight emerging artists and build a community for creative collaboration. Most recently, a few weeks ago, she hosted a dinner and By Lainey • Dec 05, 2024 12:05 pm
Style Zoe and Selena keep pushing Prior to the release of Wicked, Emilia Pérez was holding on to some good momentum up to its release on Netflix. And, as we saw, the stars of the film, Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz were everywhere promoting it. And then came Wicked, also a By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 11:04 am
Award Season Campaigning Gotham rookies As I mentioned when discussing the Gotham guys, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is just eking into awards competition this year. All eyes are on Timothée Chalamet, but we should also be watching his co-star, Monica Barbaro. I will keep saying it until the world catches up—she By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 02:42 pm
TV Updates Award Season Jake? Jake Gyllenhaal had two pretty big wins this year. Road House, despite Sarah’s hesitations about it prior to the release, turned out to be a good movie (you can read her review here) and at the time became Amazon’s biggest streaming debut. Presumed Innocent was also well received By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 01:29 pm
Gorgessity Angelina and Zendaya at the Gothams As Sarah just wrote in her post about the actress contenders at the Gotham Awards last night, this is one of the most competitive Best Actress Oscar races we’ve seen in years. So many strong performances, only five spots, no clear frontrunner for the win at this point in By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gotham Ladies The Gotham Awards continued the all-season trend of 90s icons showing up to every event. Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, and Pamela Anderson, were all on hand last night, keeping up visibility for their films. Anderson is the one doing the heaviest lifting—so far, she hasn’t built any momentum By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gotham Gentlemen The Gotham Awards were last night in New York, or as I like to call them, the extremely early Oscar predictors. The Gothams aren’t a great bellwether for the Oscars, but the awards are decided by juries of actors and filmmakers, some of whom are Academy members, so it’ By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 09:57 am
Award Season Campaigning Cynthia Erivo: Elphaba’s Victory Lap Sarah posted earlier about the American Thanksgiving weekend box office – between Moana 2 and Wicked, it was a record-breaker. And here’s Cynthia Erivo this morning in New York for an appearance on the CBS Morning Show, a little victory lap and more work! Because even though the press tour By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Missing Timmy Last week I mentioned in a couple of posts that the first screenings for A Complete Unknown were taking place and that we should be hearing initial reactions. And indeed the ones right out the gate were overwhelmingly positive. There have since been a few that are more mixed and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2024 12:46 pm
Amazingness Hugh Grant’s glorious misery It was six years ago, during the Golden Globes, that LaineyGossip became a Hugh Grant fansite. Duana was the one who wrote the post back in 2018 during our Globes coverage – Hugh was there as a presenter, his job was to introduce Dunkirk, one of that year’s nominees, after By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 12:57 pm
Style Angelina non-stop It’s been non-stop promotion for Angelina Jolie over the last three months as we’ve seen her promote Maria the way others might promote a Marvel/Disney tentpole – only with a muuuuuuch smaller budget. From Venice to Telluride to Toronto to New York to London and LA and, this By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 25, 2024 Dear Gossips, The most extra press tour, a press tour for and by theatre kids, has resulted in a major box office win. Wicked opened in North America with $114 million at the box office (to Gladiator II’s $55.5 million) and now holds the record for the biggest By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 09:20 am
BFFs A Campaign of Friends It’s the final award season push of 2024 for the next three weeks as we get closer to the holidays when Hollywood temporarily shuts down before coming back to business for the Golden Globes on January 5. This means premieres and parties almost every single night and it also By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 11:25 am
Style Oscar Futures In today’s previous two posts about last night's Governors Awards, Sarah posted about the 90s representation in contention for Oscars this year, and also some of the “overdue” candidates who are part of this year’s race. This post is about Oscar future, mostly those who have By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dude duos at the Governors Awards Just like the actresses, the actors find themselves in a wide-open competition, too, but in their case, it’s less about an abundance of strong performances and more that Daniel Craig and Ralph Fiennes, the presumed frontrunners, haven’t been hustling that hard, which leaves room for others to make By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 12:21 pm