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- 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 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 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 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
Douchebags Tenoch Huerta: Another (alleged) bad man In a depressingly routine development, Tenoch Huerta has been accused of sexual assault. On Saturday morning, María Elena Ríos, a musician and activist, tweeted in response to Poder Prieto, an artists’ collective which includes Huerta, that “they protect the violator and sexual PREDATOR @TenochHuerta” (translation mine, emphasis hers). Though she By Sarah • Jun 12, 2023 12:21 pm
Business of Hollywood The directors (probably) won’t strike At midnight on Sunday, the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached a tentative labor contract for the next three years. This comes as the Writers Guild enters their second month of striking, and the Screen Actors Guild prepares to begin their By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise vs. Christopher Nolan Ever since the trailers for Barbie and Oppenheimer started dropping, people have been trying to make a narrative of Barbie vs. the nuclear bomb since both movies have the same release date of July 21, but it turns out the REAL fight is between Tom Cruise and Christopher Nolan. According By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 02:20 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike continues, while the Directors’ Guild is currently in closed-door talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and SAG-AFTRA is gearing up for a strike authorization from its 160,000+ members. June is going to be a VERY active month on By Sarah • May 26, 2023 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJost turns it on in Cannes Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last night to largely positive reviews. The film is rated at 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so far and several critics have said that this is his best work since The Grand Budapest Hotel which, to me, basically translates By Lainey • May 24, 2023 09:37 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, This week, Paramount closed down MTV News for good as part of a larger program of layoffs. The Hollywood Reporter put together an oral history of MTV News that is as much a eulogy for the once-powerful youth news organization as it is recollection of MTV’s By Sarah • May 12, 2023 08:59 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike continues, but I want to talk about one specific facet, which is the Taylor Sheridan of it all. He is, of course, the actor-turned-hitmaking screenwriter behind the Yellowstone television universe, which is basically the only thing propping up Paramount right now. They had By Sarah • May 09, 2023 09:03 am
