Kai Cenat Kai Cenat’s new direction One month after the harsh online reaction to his video about mental health and desire to create, livestreaming sensation Kai Cenat has broken his silence on social media. This time, he shared another video that seems to suggest he is quitting streaming for good - and that he’s setting By Stephanie • Jan 16, 2026 02:39 pm
Business of Hollywood Kathleen Kennedy quit the Star War It’s official, after first being reported eleven months ago, Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down as the president of Lucasfilm. As was previously speculated, she is being replaced by not one but two people, with George Lucas’s protégé, Dave Filoni, moving up to president and chief creative officer (he By Sarah • Jan 16, 2026 10:38 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben and Matt are not the VIPs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, The Rip, premieres on Netflix on Friday and as Sarah wrote in her post about it recently, this looks like a solid crime drama, an action movie with a real plot starring big name movie stars that’s disappearing from theatres, which is By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 02:52 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Intro for January 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globes are over, so let’s reflect on the Golden Globes. It was long acknowledged in better days within the industry that the Globes were a bit of a farce. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was a mysterious cabal of largely unknown international “journalists” who were By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 09:07 am
Golden Globes 2026 Podcasting at awards shows The Golden Globes handed out their first-ever Best Podcast award, a bizarre inclusion for an awards show about film and television. I previously wrote about this category and its suspicious, potentially payola marketing scheme, but in the end, the Globes picked the least offensive person to win their inaugural award, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2026 12:45 pm
Business of Hollywood The YouTube Oscars News broke yesterday that the Oscars will move online to YouTube in 2029. The Oscars will continue to run on ABC through 2028, which is its centenary year, and then will shift online in 2029 for a five-year deal with YouTube that includes access to the red carpet and the By Sarah • Dec 18, 2025 10:00 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s Friday and I’m back on my AI bullsh-t, mainly because Disney announced a huge deal to exclusively license Disney characters, including those of subsidiaries like Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel, to Sora, Open AI’s video-based generative AI platform. This means users will be able to By Sarah • Dec 12, 2025 09:41 am
Business of Hollywood What about HBO? With the Warner Bros. Discovery/Netflix merger now on, there are a lot of questions, including what happens to Warner Brothers’ actually successful theatrical distribution model—which, why is everyone so hellbent on destroying Warners’ theatrical model? First it was Jason Kilar and his day-and-date scheme, now it’s Netflix, By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 04:19 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was all set to write about a specific piece of Warner Bros. Discovery merger nonsense, but then the news broke—Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. The two companies will enter into exclusive talks to close the deal. What the timeline of that looks By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 09:08 am
BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, My favorite time of year is the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's. My birthday falls during that time. I think this is why I have a strange relationship with chronology. Because my birthday exists in the never-ending hallway of time, I have no sense By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:09 am
Business of Hollywood Glen Powell’s mixed bag weekend It was a big weekend for Glen Powell, with The Running Man opening on Friday, and hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, but the weekend ended up a mixed bag. The Running Man hit a wall with audiences, opening in second place against magician heist movie Now You See Me: By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 09:57 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, Today in Just Feed Us To The Woodchipper Already news, Bob Iger said that Disney is having “productive conversations” with “unnamed” AI companies about bringing user-generated, short-form slop to Disney+. It’s part of a larger initiative of upgrades planned for their streaming platform, Disney+, which will also By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 09:03 am
Business of Hollywood Taylor Sheridan flounced on David Ellison In a bombshell report originating in Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter, CBS/Paramount golden goose and self-appointed savior of the cowboy way Taylor Sheridan will exit his production deal with Paramount for sweeter pastures with NBCUniversal. Despite new Skydance Paramount CEO David Ellison praising Sheridan as a “singular genius with By Sarah • Oct 28, 2025 10:07 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for October 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, All week I’ve been watching the headlines and the developing story about Warner Bros. Discovery’s potential sale to another studio. The news came Tuesday morning with “multiple parties circl[ing]” the studio, followed just hours later with reports that WBD’s stock hit a three-year high By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 09:18 am
Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are at it again Buckle up, babes, some new Golden Globes f-cksh-t just dropped! Because our time on this revolving rock is fleeting and precious, let’s keep the rundown of Golden Globes’ f-cksh-ttery to just this past calendar year: there were the “secret” pay-to-play parties; the attorney general of California is investigating the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2025 10:39 am
