Business of Hollywood The echoing frustrations of Taraji, Keke and Issa In a recent conversation with Teen Vogue, superstar Keke Palmer opened up about her possible retirement from Hollywood, saying it’s likely to happen sooner rather than later. “I don’t know. I think the timer has started,” she said. “I think it’s because I just haven’t felt By Stephanie • Feb 01, 2024 01:49 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, The ad-supported tier of Prime Video debuted this week, which means that, as with other platforms such as Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+, if you want to remain ad-free, you have to pay more. This is frustrating for viewers because the original lure of streaming was three- By Sarah • Feb 01, 2024 09:05 am
TV Updates The No-Host Daily Show Trevor Noah’s last episode hosting The Daily Show was in December 2022, though he stopped by the Emmys last week to pick up the trophy for Outstanding Talk Series. While on stage, former correspondent Roy Wood, Jr., who began his tenure on the show in 2015 alongside Noah, and By Sarah • Jan 22, 2024 01:03 pm
Top Reads Reality TV’s questionable second chances Recently, Bravo premiered a trailer for a new series called The Valley. The show is being marketed as a spinoff of Vanderpump Rules, mostly because it features former show stars Jax Taylor, his wife Brittany Cartwright, and the ever controversial Kristen Doute. Typically, new Bravo shows are met by anxious By Stephanie • Jan 19, 2024 01:11 pm
TV Updates Rachel's fan-driven revelations Rachel Leviss is really going rogue on her podcast, Rachel Goes Rogue. In the second episode of the iHeartRadio show, she spoke about Tom Schwartz’s knowledge about her affair with Tom Sandoval from the beginning, the role producers and Sandoval played in staging moments on the show, and just By Stephanie • Jan 18, 2024 11:52 am
Business of Hollywood Anthony Anderson's reputation makeover If you ask anyone who watched Monday night’s Emmy Awards, most people think Anthony Anderson did a great job hosting the ceremony. Fresh off of celebrity endorsements from the likes of Colin Jost, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, who were in agreement that he did well, it wasn’t By Stephanie • Jan 17, 2024 02:00 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Sundance Film Festival starts next week, where Kristen Stewart will be front and center on opening night as the recipient of this year’s Visionary Award. Ahead of the fest, she’s featured in Variety, talking about Sundance, about trying to scrape together money for her feature By Sarah • Jan 12, 2024 09:10 am
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise saves the day…sort of Since David Zaslav took over the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate and started shelving films for tax write offs and bragged about the labor strikes saving his studio money, I have asked one question—who wants to work for this guy? Well, we have the answer, and it’s By Sarah • Jan 10, 2024 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, One of the (only) intriguing movies on Marvel’s slate right now is the villain team-up flick Thunderbolts. It is intriguing in the way Barbie was—an unexpected creative team working in a space you wouldn’t expect to see them, which makes you wonder what the By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:03 am
Douchebags New year, new bad man New year, new day, new bad man alert! On December 21, 2023, Asta Jonasson filed a lawsuit in California against Vin Diesel alleging, in part, sexual battery and wrongful termination. In 2010, Ms. Jonasson was hired to work as an assistant to Diesel, who was in Atlanta filming Fast Five. By Sarah • Jan 02, 2024 01:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! I had a moment of disbelief just now as I created a new file on my laptop labelled “2024”. Really?! How are we already 24 years past the year 2000?! It just keeps speeding by, and there’s no time to waste, because we’re By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 09:13 am
Business of Hollywood Another ill-advised merger Today in Thanks, I Hate It news, David Zaslav and Bob Bakish reportedly met (over lunch) earlier this week to discuss a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global. Zaslav you know as the guy who gets booed everywhere he goes, and Bakish was named CEO of Viacom in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 09:46 am
Business of Hollywood Charmed competition Holly Marie Combs is shedding light on the drama that unfolded behind the scenes during her time on Charmed. This week, she appeared on former castmate Shannen Doherty’s podcast, Let’s Be Clear, for the second part of a discussion about their experience doing the show. During the episode, By Stephanie • Dec 19, 2023 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron’s should-be nomination The Iron Claw is one of the hundred movies premiering in the next week—December is always a clusterf-ck but it feels extra bad this year and I can’t decide if it’s because there IS a glut of films premiering late due to the strikes, or I’ By Sarah • Dec 12, 2023 11:18 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, Let’s check in on the world of VFX where everything is always terrible. Guess what? Still terrible! Despite some positive progress toward creating a more equitable, less toxic work environment for VFX artists—at least in the US, the situation remains very dire for many non-US By Sarah • Nov 30, 2023 09:00 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, In the ongoing “state of cinema” conversation, which has mostly been reduced to Marvel nerds yelling at Martin Scorsese for not liking cape sh-t, Christopher Nolan has entered the chat with a very measured response and sensible perspective. What! Someone being sensible about a topic we love By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:01 am
