Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Glass Onion is freaking great. There is no question in my mind that, were it getting a typical theatrical release like Knives Out did in 2019, it would also make the kind of money Knives Out did ($311 million worldwide). But Glass Onion is not getting a typical By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 26, 2022 Dear Gossips, Don’t worry, darlings, Don’t Worry Darling is finally out in theaters, which means we’re ALMOST done talking about this movie (probably), after what feels like a seventy-two-year press cycle for this film. It feels like this movie came out a month ago, we’ve been By Sarah • Sep 26, 2022 09:45 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, One of the side-effects of the streaming era is the increasingly combative relationship between movie stars and studios when it comes to salaries. Top-tier talent doesn’t just get paid up front, they get a bite of the back-end ticket sales, and a percentage of home video/sales. By Sarah • Sep 23, 2022 08:59 am
Business of Hollywood Blake Lively spikes the paparazzi Over the weekend, Blake Lively stuck it to the paparazzi by posting a series of photos of her, her growing baby bump, Ryan Reynolds and company on social media. “Here are photos of me pregnant in real life so the 11 guys waiting outside my home for a 🦄 sighting will By Stephanie • Sep 19, 2022 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 26, 2022 Dear Gossips, I promise, I will stop writing about Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO Max just as soon as they stop constantly shooting themselves in the foot. The latest in the “burning down one of the last legacy film studios before our very eyes” stories is that Warner Brothers has By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 09:21 am
TV Updates Intro for August 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, I am sorry to inform you that the HBO Max f-ckery continues. The latest is that they’re removing thirty-six titles from the platform, twenty of which are HBO Max originals. That matters because the originals are in danger of becoming completely inaccessible. Shows without outside ownership stakes By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 09:15 am
Business of Hollywood Slightly less-worse Chris It is a truth universally acknowledged that Chris Pratt is the worst Hollywood Chris. Most recently entered into evidence was his Instagram story about how The Terminal List, his thoroughly joyless and mediocre Amazon Prime military-porn series, “defied woke critics’ scathing reviews” to become a hit. https://twitter.com/TheKavernacle/ By Sarah • Aug 16, 2022 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller emerges as The Flash’s future is questioned One of the major pop culture narratives of summer 2022 is “where in the world is Ezra Miller”, as headlines out of Hawaii in the spring painted an image of an increasingly troubled star going through…something…in the public eye. But then Miller disappeared, while stories about their behavior By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 10:37 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 5, 2022 Dear Gossips, Following the shocking news that Warner Brothers is shelving a couple of nearly finished films, including Batgirl, CEO of the newly formed and poorly named Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, hopped on an earnings call to tell everyone what his big plan is for the merging of Warner By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 09:25 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, When we last met, we discussed the state of the visual effects industry off the back of an expose from Vulture about how terrible it is to work VFX on a Marvel movie. This week, the pile-on continues as Defector’s Drew Magary documents the “VFX crisis” in By Sarah • Aug 03, 2022 09:09 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s Beyoncé Day, I know that is all anyone cares about. I mean, even as I write this, Act One: Renaissance is playing in the background. Like, this is the sh-t I have to finish so I can devote all my attention to Queen Bey. There will By Sarah • Jul 29, 2022 09:00 am
Top Reads Sydney Sweeney talks about money It’s been a breakout 12 months for Sydney Sweeney – she was terrifying on The White Lotus and she was heartbreaking on Euphoria season two, and now she’s a double Emmy nominee for her performances on both shows and has a mystery role in the upcoming Madame Web and By Lainey • Jul 28, 2022 01:15 pm
Douchebags Surprise: The SnyderCut phenomenon was fake! Cheeky headline, but it is at least partly true. Monday night, Rolling Stone released a comprehensive report of how the “SnyderCut”, Zack Snyder’s $100 million mulligan of The Justice League, came to be, and guess what? Just as everyone who has ever used social media already knew, there was By Sarah • Jul 20, 2022 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Endless Summer Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is the movie phenomenon of the year. And maybe of the decade so far? It’s been out now for two whole months…and is STILL doing solid business at the box office around the world. With a total global take of $1.25 By Lainey • Jul 20, 2022 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A little less love for Thor It should have been a relatively quiet weekend at the box office, with the only major new releases being a kids’ movie, Paws of Fury, and a female-driven literary adaptation, Where the Crawdads Sing. But a furious debate ignited online over whether or not Marvel is in trouble because Thor: By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 01:30 pm
Dumbass Intro for July 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Gray Man opened in theaters over the weekend, before hitting Netflix on July 22. Surrounding that, directors Joe and Anthony Russo gave an interview to The Hollywood Reporter in which they said some stuff about Netflix and movie theaters and elitism and by Hera’s long hair, By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 09:03 am
