Business of Hollywood Intro for April 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, Duana sent me a tweet this morning that made me laugh but also made me mad. It’s about Succession. And it’s a little inside baseball for screenwriters but …I dunno, LOL, isn’t everyone an aspiring screenwriter these days? https://twitter.com/Bitterstaff/status/1648411714155851776?s= By Lainey • Apr 20, 2023 10:30 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Finally, a bit of good-ish news for Disney-Marvel, or at least it is from the perspective of people who like even a modicum of diversity in their superhero movies. Ike Perlmutter, the long-time head of Marvel Entertainment, was booted from the company this week. Disney is in the By Sarah • Mar 31, 2023 09:10 am
Business of Hollywood The Marvel mess continues Last week, longtime Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso was fired after almost 18 years with the company. The initial reporting was that she “exited” the company, but that was always euphemistic language, and over the course of the week, more and more details spilled into the public’s view, making By Sarah • Mar 27, 2023 01:04 pm
TV Updates Tyler James Williams perseveres Tyler James Williams sat down with GQ and opened up about his “traumatic” experience being a child star – and the harsh words told to him by a producer on Everybody Hates Chris regarding the future of his career. He described experiencing fame as a teenager as “weird”, saying the learning By Stephanie • Mar 24, 2023 01:39 pm
Business of Hollywood The Marvel Mess In a bombshell announcement on Monday, Victoria Alonso, a long-time executive at Marvel Studios, “exited” the company. Alonso, one of the few high-profile female executives in film production, left for “unclear” reasons, per The Hollywood Reporter. Sources are saying that she was not fired. But her departure was definitely an By Sarah • Mar 22, 2023 11:22 am
TV Updates Daniels did a Star Wars By now, it’s a familiar pattern: an up-and-coming indie filmmaker makes a splash, often by being nominated for and/or winning an Oscar and is immediately sucked into the franchise moviemaking machine. The latest case is Daniels, the directing duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the newly minted By Sarah • Mar 21, 2023 11:43 am
Top Reads Law Roach Spills the Tea The biggest story after the Oscars last week was that Law Roach announced his retirement. In the immediate aftermath, Zendaya was the big question – whether or not they would continue working together. Law modelled at the BOSS fashion show in Miami and then clarified that he and Z were ride By Lainey • Mar 20, 2023 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James Gunn’s Superman fanfic Perhaps to the surprise of no one, James Gunn is going to direct the new Superman movie being written and produced by James Gunn. We first learned that Gunn was working on a script for a new Superman movie back in December, when we also learned that Henry Cavill was, By Sarah • Mar 17, 2023 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nancy Meyers kitchen is gone We flew too close to the sun, fellow production design-loving Icarii, for the dream of Nancy Meyers returning to direct a new film, featuring, we may presume, new glorious kitchens, is no more. Netflix has dropped Meyers’ prospective new film, called Paris Paramount, over budget disagreements. Meyers wanted a budget By Sarah • Mar 15, 2023 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel got to Steven Yeun There is probably no better gauge for how the momentum of superhero stuff, particularly Marvel, has shifted in the last few years than how people react to new casting news. Yesterday, it was reported Steven Yeun has been cast in an unnamed but “significant” role in the upcoming anti-hero team-up By Sarah • Feb 24, 2023 11:19 am
Award Season Campaigning Judd Apatow takes on Tom Cruise As Sarah noted yesterday in her coverage of the BAFTAs and the Directors Guild of America awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once was the DGA’s choice for Best Picture, honouring Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for their work on the film. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads at the By Lainey • Feb 21, 2023 10:14 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, After her surprise Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Andrea Riseborough has kept a low profile, skipping out on the Oscar nominees luncheon earlier this week, and the London Critics Circle Film Awards last week. She has a built-in excuse, as she is working on The Palace, an upcoming By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 09:01 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Disney’s back on their bullsh-t, so guess what, so am I. This week, it’s news that recently restored CEO Bob Iger is restructuring Disney after the Bob Chapek era by dismantling Chapek’s Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution group, or DMED. Internally, DMED was unpopular because By Sarah • Feb 10, 2023 09:05 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, a new page went up on the Netflix Help Center, detailing sharing accounts across different households, aka password sharing. A crackdown on password sharing has been coming for a while, but somehow, even my cynical ass didn’t think the rules would be this asinine. By Sarah • Feb 03, 2023 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Francis Ford Coppola is in trouble (again) A few weeks ago, I wrote about set photos from Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, Megalopolis, shooting now in Atlanta. In that post, I mentioned that Megalopolis is a passion project that Coppola is financing himself after everyone else passed…which is maybe a sign that things aren’t By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 01:14 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s one last bit of DC drama just before everyone checks out for the end of the year! Yesterday, Dwayne Johnson took to Twitter to announce he will not be returning to Black Adam under the auspices of the new DC Studios. This is entirely unsurprising given By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 09:17 am
