Media Manipulation Cumberbatch Con Comic-Con is in full swing and yesterday Benedict Cumberbatch kicked it off in good old fashion convention style—thousands of screaming girls yelling his name in an enclosed space. Actually, I’m trying to remember if Comic-Con was like this in the pre-Twilight days. While I remember plenty of excitable By Sarah • Jul 25, 2014 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch enters the Oscar race In 2011 the Black List was topped by a script for a biopic of Alan Turing, the computer scientist who developed the early computer that the British used to break the German’s Enigma code. You might also recognize his name from the Turing Test, a series of questions meant By Sarah • Jul 21, 2014 03:25 pm
Royals Prince William and the celebrities Prince William hosted an event last night for the Royal Marsden and all kinds of celebrities were there, including Cate Blanchett, Kate Moss, Ralph Lauren and family, and Benedict Cumberbatch. At one point Kate Moss asked him about Kate Middleton. He told her she wasn’t coming and Moss’s By Lainey • May 14, 2014 01:35 pm
Beyoncé Intro for April 24, 2014 Dear Gossips, TIME has released its annual list of 100 Most Influential People. The categories are: Titans, Pioneers, Artists, Leaders, Icons. So who’s a Titan? Beyonce, of course. To me, what’s been most interesting on this list isn’t necessarily who’s on it but the people who By Lainey • Apr 24, 2014 09:46 am
Oscars 2014 Benedict Cumberbatch: Internet Famous at the Oscars One of our producers had a seat in the bleachers this year, taking pictures and Instagram video as part of our social media team. This is the text she sent me around noon: “I’m sitting with the MiniVan Majority.” When Benedict Cumberbatch arrived, no one in her section of By Lainey • Mar 03, 2014 06:03 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict’s double-thumb Here’s my Valentine gift to those of you who are fans of Benedict Cumberbatch – his double thumbs! Bendy was in New York yesterday for the BAFTA New York Presents: In Conversation With Benedict Cumberbatch. So what did they talk about? Well, given that he’s really “internet-famous”, as Sarah By Lainey • Feb 14, 2014 12:08 pm
TV Updates Benedict Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch went on Sesame Street and did a math bit with Murray and the Count. It’s cute, I guess. I don’t have any fond nostalgia for Sesame Street—I only remember watching it at school when it was raining and we couldn’t go outside at recess— By Sarah • Feb 05, 2014 12:27 pm
TV Updates The Batch is back as Sherlock returns Benedict Cumberbatch was enjoying himself at the SAG Awards. I mean that sincerely, no side-eye. Every time I caught a glimpse of him in the audience, he was smiling and laughing, sitting at the 12 Years a Slave table but making time for his August: Osage County co-stars, too. It By Sarah • Jan 20, 2014 09:17 am
BFFs Bendy & Fassy get down Certain corners of the internet have been damp down there after seeing this photo of Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Fassbender getting down at the FOX after-party on Sunday night following the Golden Globes celebrating the Best Drama win for 12 Years A Slave. I would be damp if Chiwetel Ejiofor By Lainey • Jan 14, 2014 11:22 am
Benedict Cumberbatch How responsible are we, really? Reader Jackie sent an email this morning about Benedict Cumberbatch that basically boiled down to, “Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be skating along the edge of other people’s bad decisions, so when does that become a problem for him?” (Emphasis mine). Her examples: playing a white-washed role in Star Trek By Sarah • Dec 17, 2013 01:45 pm
TV Updates Sherlock doesn’t approve Of John’s comedy mustache. It’s T-minus forty days until Sherlock series 3 premieres in the US, or, as I like to put it, T-minus twenty-two days until we all pirate it (“The Empty Hearse” is scheduled to air on New Year’s Day in the UK). Why do By Sarah • Dec 09, 2013 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The (almost) year of Benedict Cumberbatch The Hollywood Reporter put Benedict Cumberbatch on the cover a few months ago, declaring him officially part of the A List. Click here to read Sarah’s piece at the time. All signs did indeed point, then, to it being the Year of Cumberbatch, especially since The Fifth Estate was By Lainey • Dec 05, 2013 10:38 am
Maple Leaf Benedict Cumberbatch’s lock of hair Maybe it’s because I’ve been listening to the words “eat pussy” come out of Rob Ford’s mouth all morning but suddenly everything seems brighter, nicer, easier to look at. Seth Meyers is apparently strongly considering making it a sketch on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Or at By Lainey • Nov 14, 2013 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict’s box office boo-boo So we’ve already discussed today how box office tracking is usually full of sh*t (click here for a refresher), but there is a threshold where it simply doesn’t matter how wonky the numbers are—you can’t deny when a movie sh*ts the bed. And The By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Morning Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch was on Good Morning America today presumably to promote The Fifth Estate. Julian Assange borrowed from Sinead O’Connor this week and wrote a hissy fit open letter to Cumberbatch about his portrayal. Thanks for the publicity, Julian. Don’t you know? Or does he know and that’ By Lainey • Oct 11, 2013 11:36 am
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Cumberbatch: Professional Smart Person He’s played real life mathematicians (Stephen Hawking) and imaginary ones (in The Last Enemy), and Very Smart People real and imagined (Julian Assange and Sherlock Holmes), and now The Batch is filming The Imitation Game, a movie about mathematician Alan Turing and his efforts to code-break the Enigma Machine By Sarah • Sep 18, 2013 05:13 pm
