Faux Gossip Gwyneth, Ben, and Jen An email with the best headline just arrived in my inbox from the National Enquirer, claiming an exclusive: Gwyneth Paltrow Plays Peacemaker To Ben Affleck And Jen Garner! It’s the National Enquirer, so by the time you read this post, there’s probably going to be a denial. And, By Lainey • Apr 07, 2016 01:30 pm
Media Manipulation Ben’s next climb Ben Affleck stepped out yesterday. Some photo agencies are saying he was leaving the therapist’s. Gives me a great excuse to write about how he’s going to heal his latest cycle of shame. Sarah posted in the previous article about Warner Bros’ plans and that there’s been By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch is crashing Batman v Superman is still making a ton of dough, crossing $680 million worldwide, but at the rate it’s dropping, it really might not break the much-needed $1 billion. Superhero Face Punch was expected to suffer a big drop in its second week in release, and it landed on By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Still a knucklehead? Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen wrote a great piece about How Jennifer Garner Went Full MiniVan Majority tracking her career from Alias to Miracles From Heaven. Thank you, Anne, for the LaineyGossip mentions in the article. I came up with that expression almost 10 years ago and, at the time, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 11:37 am
Hook Ups Team Huntsman I’ve wanted to post these photos of Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, and Chris Hemsworth promoting The Huntsman: Winter’s War but didn’t have anything to say beyond I’m not sure about the draw of this movie – as Sarah’s mentioned – but I still want to see it By Lainey • Mar 30, 2016 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch gets it done It wasn’t pretty and it will be debated forever, but Superhero Face Punch hauled in $424.1 million worldwide this weekend, with an estimated $170.1 million coming domestically, breaking The Hunger Games’ pre-summer record. If the movie paces like The Dark Knight Rises did in 2012, it will By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 09:26 am
Relationship Assumption Intro for March 28, 2016 Dear Gossips, While Batfleck dominated the box office this weekend (more on that later), Jennifer Lopez is making headlines for talking about their relationship. In an interview with Jess Cagle, editorial director for both PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly, she confirms that there was “genuine love” between them. And yet… “I By Lainey • Mar 28, 2016 08:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck & Gal Gadot can’t save Batman v Superman SPOILER FREE Well. Here it is. After nearly three years of marketing, hype, and expectation, the film I have called Superhero Face Punch arrives in theaters this Friday, where it lands with a leaden thump, an overlong, overly serious, grinding f*cking drag of a movie. If you’re not By Sarah • Mar 23, 2016 09:19 am
Smutty Surgery Ben Affleck’s changing tattoo Countdown to Batman vs Superman. It doesn’t have much competition this weekend either. Or the week after that. So it’s free to dominate the box office for at least two or three weeks. Which is great for Warner Bros. Because, as Sarah has noted several times already, BvS By Lainey • Mar 21, 2016 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is Henry Cavill? Henry Cavill is promoting Batman vs Superman. It opens next week. We’ve been waiting – or told to wait – for two years. And it needs to be a big deal. Ben Affleck, undeniably, is a big deal. That’s only half the equation though. Is Henry Cavill a big deal? By Lainey • Mar 17, 2016 11:09 am
Break Ups Jennifer Garner and the “antsy” Ben Affleck God, the Master of the Universe, the Higher Power, whoever that entity is, s/he is a gossip. That’s how I choose to explain how this happened – that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have found themselves promoting their own movies at the same time, 8 months after announcing their By Lainey • Mar 15, 2016 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman’s Robin’s boy shorts Ben Affleck recently gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly for their Superhero Face Punch issue in which he talks about his older, even more cynical Batman, and the open-ended promise of a Batfleck-directed Batman movie, but the thing nerds are fixating on is that Affleck confirms that at the time By Sarah • Mar 14, 2016 12:22 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ben needs Jen Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck stepped out this weekend with their kids in LA. No tension, not at all. After that amazing Vanity Fair interview, Jen’s been really generous with Ben. She told Extra last week that for their son’s birthday party: “We all dressed up, I dressed By Lainey • Mar 07, 2016 01:14 pm
BFFs Tired but still fresh Ben Affleck partied with Leo and the Wolf Pack after the Oscars. They’re both Warner Bros boys. And they’re both single. I’m sure it was wholesome f-cking night. Maybe that’s why he looked a little ragged yesterday at the Four Seasons. Tired… and yet… still fresh? By Lainey • Mar 02, 2016 03:27 pm
Assy Style JLO hates the phoenix too Jennifer Lopez was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen yesterday and during Plead The Fifth he asked her about Ben Affleck’s back tat. You know, the phoenix. But just in case you don’t have it burned into your brain, here, enjoy: The phoenix isn’t having By Lainey • Mar 01, 2016 11:18 am
Smutty Surgery Ben Affleck’s Oscar face Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were both at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday night. Multiple outlets are reporting that they spoke briefly and that everything seemed fine. Notable because, of course, just two days before that, her Vanity Fair profile had come out. And, well, we all know By Lainey • Mar 01, 2016 10:56 am
