Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Last week in Friday’s What Else, I mentioned that Warner Bros. Discovery was going to shelve another completed film for a tax write-off, the victim being live action/animation hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for all its faulty products By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended, there are two things left to do: 1) an all-out awards season bonanza, and 2) figure out what the f-ck the 2024 film slate is going to be. Let’s talk about the latter. Some films, like Dune: By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, The second strike is over! The SAG-AFTRA strike officially ended at 12:01 AM today, Thursday, November 9, 2023. The SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical committee voted unanimously to approve the deal on Wednesday, the work stoppage ends today, and tomorrow, the deal goes to the union’s By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:10 am
Business of Hollywood Strike end in sight? Over the weekend, AMPTP launched their “last, best, and final” offer to SAG-AFTRA, but the actors’ side was quick to clarify one of the major hurdles after weeks of negotiating between the guild and the AMPTP. Unsurprisingly, it’s coming down to AI protections for actors. In that “last, By Sarah • Nov 08, 2023 10:41 am
Business of Hollywood Timmy Chalamet from New York to LA Timothee Chalamet is having a busy week. He was just in New York at the WSJ’s Innovator Awards, ostensibly to present to honoree Martin Scorsese—and kinda-sorta scab while doing it—but he was also there with his girlfriend, another honoree, Kylie Jenner (someone please clarify what Kylie By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, I was going to use this intro to make jokes about Joe Biden reportedly getting serious about AI concerns after seeing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One—not “Chubb Insurance” funny, but close—but then more things happened this week. For one thing, HBO honcho Casey Bloys copped By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 08:53 am
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
