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 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 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 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 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
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 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
