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 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 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 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 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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sets the bar The Venice Film Festival starts at the end of the month, kicking off what is sure to be a strange fall festival season, even after enduring the weird pandemic years. Assuming the WGA and especially SAG-AFTRA strikes will still be going on—which they almost certainly will be —stars By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 01:08 pm
Business of Hollywood The strike isn’t ending anytime soon On Friday, August 4, the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) met for the first time since their original negotiations broke down on May 1. This is the first overture toward the WGA to restart negotiations between writers and studios, and it did not go By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbillion In its third week of release, Barbie has powered past $1 billion at the global box office. Greta Gerwig is now the highest-grossing female director, and the only woman to solo direct a billion-dollar film (Captain Marvel director Anna Boden, along with co-director Ryan Fleck, is also By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 09:54 am
Business of Hollywood Reality stars are pushing back Looks like the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are having an impact beyond writers and actors. Reality stars are paying attention to what the writers’ union and the actors’ union have been doing and what they’re asking for from the producers and the studios and it would appear that By Lainey • Aug 04, 2023 12:46 pm
