TV Updates Intro for July 7, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike has entered its third month, so now it’s time for…Ryan Murphy strike drama! Most productions in the US have shut down as part of the WGA strike, but four high-profile productions are still rolling cameras on the east coast, including three under Murphy’ By Sarah • Jul 07, 2023 09:03 am
Break Ups Kevin Costner’s divorce and money drama We have been loosely following the Kevin Costner-Christine Baumgartner Costner divorce drama since it broke out a couple months ago. Costner and Baumgartner are now in court about it, a judge ruled yesterday that Baumgartner has to vacate their Carpinteria, California home by the end of the month. Costner has By Sarah • Jul 06, 2023 02:56 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 6, 2023 Dear Gossips, On July 3, GQ published an article online by film critic and writer Jason Bailey. It was a succinct, if scathing, report of David Zaslav’s litany of (perceived) crimes against cinema, some of which I have covered over the last year. Nothing in the article has not By Sarah • Jul 06, 2023 08:56 am
Business of Hollywood The SAG strike is on hold The deadline for the current contract between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired on June 30 at midnight, but the two groups agreed to extend negotiations till 11:59 PM on July 12 (that’s Pacific time). There’s still a week left for By Sarah • Jul 05, 2023 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Indy flopped, too Two weeks after The Flash flopped, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opened for the extended Independence Day weekend in the US (which also included Canada Day this year for our neighbors to the north), earning a weak $60 million over the standard, Friday-Sunday three-day weekend, and an okay-ish By Sarah • Jul 05, 2023 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angela Bassett finally gets her man Little gold man, that is. After going viral earlier this year when Jamie Lee Curtis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Angela Bassett will at last get her Oscar. Bassett, who was previously nominated for Best Actress in 1994 for playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got By Sarah • Jun 27, 2023 10:00 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 23, 2023 Dear Gossips, Behold! More Warner Bros. Discovery f-ckery is afoot! I don’t even know where to start, this week has been an avalanche of sh-t news from Warners, which is starting to look like the Hollywood equivalent of a fire sale under David Zaslav. The latest round of layoffs By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 09:07 am
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Deadline reported yesterday that the Television Academy and Fox, which is broadcasting the Emmy Awards this year, have been in talks about the impact that the writers’ strike, and the potential upcoming actors’ strike, will have on the show. The Emmys are currently scheduled to happen on September By Lainey • Jun 22, 2023 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise takes Rome As mentioned last week, the big Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 premiere was yesterday in Rome. Rome because one of the movie’s big set pieces, a car chase, takes place in Rome. And … as it always is where Tom’s movies are concerned… the event was a f-cking By Lainey • Jun 20, 2023 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flash’s slow start I really thought, despite Ezra Miller’s many problems and an equal number of delays with the release date, that The Flash would make money. Barry Allen is a very popular comic book character with a high degree of audience recognition, thanks in no small part to the long-running CW By Sarah • Jun 19, 2023 11:00 am
Royals Intro for June 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, In a joint statement last Thursday, Spotify and Archewell Audio, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s podcast production company, had “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together”. Much of what’s come out since, however, isn’t giving “mutually agreed”. Spotify By Lainey • Jun 19, 2023 10:22 am
TV Updates Intro for June 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Veteran television critic and entertainment journalist Maureen Ryan published a show biz book this month, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood. It is at once an intimate portrait of the power discrepancies, discrimination, abuse, and toxicity behind the scenes of some of By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson: The Stars and the Strike At the Asteroid City premiere last night, Scarlett Johansson was asked about the writers’ strike and the potential actors’ strike. SAG-AFTRA’s current agreement expires on June 30. Negotiations have been underway since June 7. While an actors’ strike is not a certainty, it is definitely a possibility, and for By Lainey • Jun 14, 2023 01:20 pm
Style Greta and Margot pre-Barbie The premiere of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City happened last night in New York, and as it is with every Wes Anderson film, since he’s able to bring together so many big name actors in his ensembles, the red carpet was non-stop parade of celebrities. For not just one By Lainey • Jun 14, 2023 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain and The Flash Over the last couple of months, Sarah and I have been mulling over how to cover The Flash. We don’t talk about it all the time, but when it comes up it’s one of those conversations that exasperates both of us – because it’s part of our job By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 11:47 am
Top Reads The HFPA is dead Over the last couple years, we have been on a journey with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. To recap: in February 2021, the Los Angeles Times ran an expose just days before the Golden Globes exposing the HFPA for shady ethical practices and for having zero By Sarah • Jun 13, 2023 10:41 am
