Dumbass Bradley Cooper said hold my beer I have been annoyed at Glen Powell since the weekend for dressing as Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights for the Casamigos Halloween party. Talladega Nights is owned by Sony, an AMPTP member company and thus, a struck company. The SAG-AFTRA leadership specifically asked members NOT to dress as characters from By Sarah • Nov 01, 2023 09:32 am
Business of Hollywood The post-Halloween strike situation As we saw over the weekend, some SAG-AFTRA members did not heed the guideline about dressing as characters from struck work for the spookiest Halloween (still so disappointed in Glen Powell). Megan Fox actually went as far as tagging SAG-AFTRA in an Insta post of her Kill Bill look. You By Sarah • Oct 31, 2023 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio: Halloween’s Laziest On the plus side, Leonardo DiCaprio was not a Halloween scab. On the downside, Leonardo DiCaprio did as he always does for Halloween: hit up every single party and put in the least amount of effort on his costume. Every year he shows up in a hoodie and jeans and By Lainey • Oct 30, 2023 10:42 am
Gorgessity Celebrating the Glam Squads The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Power Stylist issue has, over the last decade or so, become an entertainment industry standard, establishing the value of fashion and styling in the business and therefore the importance of stylists in the business. This is why Law Roach invented his job description: Image Architect. By Lainey • Oct 26, 2023 12:11 pm
Business of Hollywood The A-listers are on notice On Friday, I mentioned a meeting between some A-list actors and the leadership of the SAG-AFTRA union. The purpose of this meeting was to, among other things, put forward a proposal to restructure residual payments and remove the dues cap for high-earning actors, in the hopes of “closing the gap” By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 09:33 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, As Lainey mentioned in What Else? yesterday, SAG-AFTRA has issued guidelines for Halloween costumes during the strike, which basically amount to “don’t dress up as a movie or TV character”. It sounds sort of killjoy-ish, but I wonder if they did so because they’re getting questions By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 09:08 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for October 13, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s Friday the 13th and here’s some scary news—the billionaires are at it again. “Activist investor” Nelson Peltz (father of Nicola Peltz-Beckham), has restarted his proxy fight with Disney CEO Bob Iger. First of all, I hate the term “activist investor” because it makes me By Sarah • Oct 13, 2023 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is this the end of A24? Growing up in Texas in the 80s, there were three sports everyone took very seriously: football, college football, and professional wrestling. Every kid had their favorite wrestler—mine was Ric Flair because he was the sparkliest—and everyone knew about the “Von Erich curse”. As a kid, I was never By Sarah • Oct 12, 2023 02:09 pm
Business of Hollywood Strike setback After nearly two weeks of negotiations, and rising hope that the SAG-AFTRA strike would end sooner rather than later—a setback. Last night, AMPTP announced the negotiations are “suspended”. Now, take this with a grain of salt, because it is all coming from the management side, and as of this By Sarah • Oct 12, 2023 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors finally figured it out As we learned after a summer of strikes, actors are not supposed to promote struck work, which is any project, film or television, produced and/or distributed by one of the 32 companies belonging to AMPTP. But as we saw earlier this week when Bradley Cooper attended a New York By Sarah • Oct 05, 2023 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors are getting on with it Behold! A rare strike-era movie premiere appears. Not a festival premiere, but an actual, honest to goddess red carpet for a new film. Rebecca Miller’s new film, She Came To Me, has an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, so the cast was able to attend the screening in New York By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:55 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 29, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oh no, the worst possible unintentional outcome occurred—the studios/streamers banded together to form a lobbying group. Far from AMPTP splitting up—damn, I was hoping for that, honestly—Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and other studios with streaming interests have formed the Streaming Innovation Alliance (SIA) By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 09:17 am
Business of Hollywood It’s the actors’ turn The writers’ strike officially ended at midnight, as the WGA West and East leadership voted to recommend the tentative agreement reached with AMPTP over the weekend. Next comes ratification by the guild membership, which will occur from October 2-9. The new mutual bargaining agreement is effective from September 25, 2023, By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 09:15 am
TV Updates Strike cleanup As we wait for the WGA to ratify their tentative new mutual bargaining agreement, here are some housekeeping notes as the writers’ strike winds down. First, while scripted shows, and films, will be slower to come back, with production delays likely to continue for at least another month as the By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 01:49 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, An interesting interview popped up in Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter this week (elsewhere in Puck, Belloni name-checked writers who spoke out unabashedly during the strike, questioning if this will make them un-hire-able going forward. Do not consider this an endorsement of Puck, I just like this one By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 09:01 am
Top Reads Half the strike is over After five days of negotiations, following 146 days of striking, the WGA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year mutual bargaining agreement between screenwriters and the studios. The deal is still “subject to drafting final contract language”, per a statement WGA leadership sent to their By Sarah • Sep 25, 2023 09:34 am
