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
Award Season Campaigning Icons at the Governors Awards As Lainey mentioned in the open today, the 15th annual Governors Awards were held last night, and if you’re wondering didn’t we just do this back in January, yes, we did. The 14th annual ceremony was bumped because of last year’s labor strikes, so like the Emmys, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 11:33 am
Style Intro for November 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, We are officially in the back half of November which… how did that even happen?! This year has felt at once interminable and also like a blitz. But the fact is, it’s almost December which means there are really only four weeks of campaigning left before people By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 09:23 am
Gorgessity Angelina’s Classic Lip Angelina Jolie was in New York last night after another screening and Q&A for Maria ahead of its limited theatrical release in two weeks before streaming on Netflix starting December 11. Sarah texted me after she saw it a couple of days ago. It was an all-caps message By Lainey • Nov 13, 2024 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Demi is outside, too All week, Oscar contenders have been outside, promoting their movies, and now it’s Demi Moore’s turn. She’s in France promoting The Substance alongside filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. Though The Substance premiered at Cannes earlier this year, it is only just now opening in Fargeat’s home country. The By Sarah • Nov 06, 2024 01:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning Angelina hustles While the Best Actor contenders may be taking a more casual approach to awards season, the Best Actress contenders stay hustling. Over the weekend, Angelina Jolie attended a screening and Q&A for Maria hosted by the Academy in Beverly Hills. She was greeted warmly by the crowd: © sonyaruben By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 01:40 pm
Award Season Campaigning Best Actors on tour Over on The Squawk, Lainey is handicapping next week’s Sexiest Man Alive announcement, and both Daniel Craig and Paul Mescal appear on the list, so subscribe to The Squawk if you haven’t already and get in on the odds making. Speaking of Paul Mescal and Daniel Craig, though, By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pamela Anderson is campaigning My biggest question mark for awards season this year is how seriously will the Oscar establishment take Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl? They SHOULD take her very seriously, because her performance is terrific. It’s so good that were it anyone else in the role, I have no doubt By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gotham Awards have some overlap Awards season has officially kicked off with the nominations for the 2024 Gotham Awards, which is the first major stop on the trophy trail (the ceremony is on December 2), though the Gothams are rather hit or miss when it comes to overlap with the Oscars. They’re not the By Sarah • Oct 30, 2024 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie: Movie Star Mayhem I was going to post about Angelina Jolie yesterday but I ran out of time. She was at the premiere of Maria at AFI Fest and showed up with curly hair, just like it was styled in her recent editorial for CR Fashion Book. The texture is actually a little By Lainey • Oct 29, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo campaigns on two fronts Jennifer Lopez was busy this weekend promoting Unstoppable. The film had its world premiere at TIFF about six weeks ago and there were back-to-back screenings this weekend at the DGA and AFI Fest. Her outfit at AFI Fest surprised me. This is not what I would have predicted. I mean, By Lainey • Oct 28, 2024 10:38 am
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart: Supporting and Campaigning It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Kristen Stewart pop up in the gossip cycle, right? Maybe since the press tour in the first quarter of the year for Love Lies Bleeding? She spent the summer in Latvia working on her directorial feature debut, adapting Lidia Yuknavitch’s By Lainey • Oct 25, 2024 12:55 pm
