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
Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month Buckle UP because this is a roller COASTER. Six weeks ago, Henry Cavill confirmed he was leaving The Witcher, his hit Netflix fantasy series (to be replaced by Liam Hemsworth). Many people, myself included, assumed this was at least in part due to Cavill’s return as Superman in the By Sarah • Dec 15, 2022 12:19 pm
TV Updates The Golden Globes are back on their bullsh-t After all the hand-wringing about shortcomings, accountability, and whether or not publicists would even encourage their clients to go, it’s back to business as usual for the Golden Globes, or at least an attempt at returning to such. The nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes were announced this morning, By Sarah • Dec 12, 2022 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 3 is apparently dead About six weeks ago, filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran took over the newly named DC Studios at the newly reformed Warner Bros. Discovery under new CEO David Zaslav. Well, everything new is old again, because we are once again talking about the slate of DC superhero movies and By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 10:57 am
TV Updates Don’t forget Ke Huy Quan (again) One of the big narratives in film this year is Brendan Fraser’s comeback as a leading man in The Whale, and while it is great to see Fraser back on top, let us not forget the other big comeback this year—Ke Huy Quan returning to acting in Everything By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2’s big question The final trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water dropped last night during Monday Night Football. It continues to look very pretty. I continue to be unable to tell the blue cat people apart, but I don’t know. Maybe that’s just me? Is anyone else having a little By Sarah • Nov 22, 2022 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Indiana Jones “5” Empire magazine is touting the first look at a movie they are calling Indiana Jones 5, which is strange, because there are only three Indiana Jones movies. Everyone knows that. There are only three Indy movies, no other Indy movies have ever been made, just Raiders of the Lost Ark, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2022 12:05 pm
Business of Hollywood Disney bombshell (late 2022 edition) Today in I Thought We Were Done With Dramatic Disney Announcements News, it was announced Sunday night that Bob Iger is returning to Disney as CEO effective immediately. His successor, Bob Chapek, who has had a truly terrible two years in the CEO saddle, is out. Not to say “I By Sarah • Nov 21, 2022 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz: “Curator of Vibe” Zoë Kravitz is one of three cover stars for GQ’s year-end issue, named as the magazine’s Superhero of the Year. As Zoë herself concedes, playing Selina Kyle, Catwoman, in The Batman earlier this year confirmed her status on Hollywood’s A-List. “Batman was the first time that I By Lainey • Nov 15, 2022 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick 4, FINALLY The last of the completed films that were delayed because of the pandemic were released this past summer. But we still have to deal with films that were meant to be in production in 2020 that were delayed and are just now staggering their way into theaters in fits and By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence on the old Jennifer Lawrence With Jennifer Lawrence, it’s always going to be a candid interview. She is currently promoting Causeway, the first film she’s ever produced, in which she also stars, and in a new profile with Kyle Buchanan for the New York Times, she talks about how the project is the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2022 12:52 pm
TV Updates Shonda Rhimes paved the way Shonda Rhimes was the most recent guest on the 9 to 5ish with the Skimm podcast. She gave listeners some insight into some of the struggles she faced getting Grey's Anatomy off the ground, like the unanimous doubt from executives that the show would find an audience. " By Stephanie • Oct 26, 2022 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James Gunn’s surprising new role Werewolf By Night introduced a new thing into the MCU, the “special presentation”, a one-off story that can just be 50-60 minutes of a good time without worrying about the rest of the MCU, and it was good largely because of that unburdened, light-touch storytelling. The next special presentation is By Sarah • Oct 26, 2022 11:19 am
Top Reads BravoCon returns to mixed results This past weekend, thousands of day-drinking reality TV junkies took over the Javits Convention Center in New York to see hundreds of stars from the Bravo network. There were stars from Real Housewives, Below Deck, Married to Medicine, Southern Charm, Vanderpump Rules and more – all presented to a bevy of By Stephanie • Oct 20, 2022 02:44 pm
