Movie Reviews and Previews It has begun The 2023 festival season is officially open. The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off yesterday, with a notably lighter crowd at the opening day events. Jury president Damien Chazelle was on hand, and the opening ceremony, which included a lifetime achievement award for Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Lily Gladstone season is almost upon us. Killers of the Flower Moon was already expected to be one of the touchstone films of the fall, but now it is getting a global wide release on October 20. The original plan was for Killers to have a limited release By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 09:20 am
Business of Hollywood The strike is about more than just money A former staffer on the Desperate Housewives set is helping to paint the picture of just how toxic the work environment was. In her new book, End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood, Patty Lin, who worked on the first season of the show, says eye contact with actress By Stephanie • Aug 30, 2023 03:03 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival will kick off this Wednesday – you’ll recall, they’d originally announced that the opening night film would be Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, starring Zendaya. Due to the Hollywood strike, Challengers was pulled from the festival and pushed back for release; it will now By Lainey • Aug 28, 2023 09:36 am
Business of Hollywood Wonkune is no more After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. Discovery committed to the folly of pushing Dune: Part Two to March 15, 2024. So far, all other WBD releases are remaining where they are on the calendar, which means the other Timothee Chalamet flick this winter, Wonka, is still coming out in December. By Sarah • Aug 25, 2023 01:33 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 23, 2023 Dear Gossips, Let Bartlet be Bartlet! This probably doesn’t mean anything to you if you’re under 30 years old but once upon a time there was a show called The West Wing and it won a lot of Emmys and some of us still cling to it fondly, By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 09:23 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Three weeks ago, lawyers representing dozens of reality show stars sent a letter to NBCUniversal accusing the network of “grotesque and depraved treatment”. It is widely believed that most of these stars are from the Real Housewives and Vanderpump franchises. The initiative is led by Bethenny Frankel who’ By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 09:05 am
Top Reads This Week In Strikes Despite negotiations reopening between the WGA and the AMPTP, the double strike continues unabated. Patton Oswalt was picketing yesterday at Warner Bros., joined by his wife, Meredith Salenger, and his daughter, Alice. Credit to Alice for a great picket sign, Please put my dad back to work, he’s annoying! By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 10:45 am
TV Updates Reese Witherspoon: Back to school but not back to work Reese Witherspoon was seen shopping with son Deacon yesterday in New York. She also posted an “almost end of summer” carousel that included both Deacon and his younger brother Tennessee: As for her look yesterday, it’s giving back to school mom. In her case, the beginning of September was By Lainey • Aug 17, 2023 10:57 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, There is so little going on in these final days of summer that I give up, we can talk about MovieTok. Ugh. It started two days ago when The New York Times—it’s always them, isn’t it?—published an article about film critics on “MovieTok”, the By Sarah • Aug 17, 2023 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo protests Florence Pugh has had a big summer, what with being in the Oppen-half of Barbenheimer, the biggest event of our cinematic summer. But she was also supposed to be at work this summer, filming Marvel’s Thunderbolts alongside Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Ayo Edibiri, Steven Yeun, Harrison Ford, Olga Kurylenko, By Sarah • Aug 16, 2023 10:40 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Someone yelled at Stephen Amell Talking Man Stephen Amell first opened his mouth and showed his ass re: the SAG-AFTRA strike, calling it “myopic” and “reductive”, two weeks ago. Then, on Friday, August 11, Stephen Amell was seen picketing on behalf of SAG-AFTRA for the first time since the strike began on July 13, nearly By Sarah • Aug 14, 2023 10:13 am
Business of Hollywood The vibes have shifted Last week, AMPTP met with the Writers’ Guild to talk about talking for the first time since the writers’ strike started. It didn’t go particularly well, but we’re over 100 days into this strike now, and not only is the WGA—and SAG-AFTRA—still incredibly engaged and determined, By Sarah • Aug 11, 2023 03:11 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 11, 2023 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, entertainment journalist and awards prognosticator Scott Feinberg sent an email to studios and award campaign managers, more or less demanding preferential screenings of Oscar hopefuls. Feinberg is the executive editor of awards for The Hollywood Reporter, and frequently hosts their for-your-consideration events and roundtable discussions, By Sarah • Aug 11, 2023 09:10 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Over the last few years, I’ve been writing about Netflix’s strategic push into East Asia and the overwhelming success of that decision given the still-increasing popularity of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripted and unscripted programming. As the New York Times reported last month, “Netflix is the By Lainey • Aug 10, 2023 09:36 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, Billy Porter is making headlines today. We all know Billy Porter, right? As he describes himself in the Evening Standard, Billy says, “I won an Emmy. I’m a fashion icon. Now they need me. Winners write their history, because I’m not supposed to be here looking By Lainey • Aug 09, 2023 09:26 am
