TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Disney had an epically bad run back in March. It started with their owned-goal response to Florida’s “Don’t say gay” bill, and it just got worse and worse and worse. Don’t worry, things are still bad! More recently there was a C-suite kerfuffle when Bob By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 09:08 am
BFFs Intro for June 15, 2022 Dear Gossips, I’m only halfway through the new Bradley Cooper episode of the Smartless podcast and if you haven’t listened yet, I’m sure you’ve seen the big headline coming out of it about how BCoop shared that it was Will Arnett who got real with him By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Neve Campbell knows her worth Earlier this year, Scream, the fifth movie in the Scream franchise and sadly not titled 5cream, was a hit, earning $140 million against a $25 million budget. Even by non-pandemic standards, that is a solid success story. A successful reboot means the franchise has new life and Scream 6 is By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Douchebags Kevin Spacey’s new charges Yesterday, news broke in the UK that the Crown Prosecution Service announced four new charges of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey, involving three different men. The timeframe of the charges ranges from 2005 to 2013, for reference, Spacey was the artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theater from 2003-2015 By Sarah • May 27, 2022 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Netflix drama! The first trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie, Spiderhead, is here, and it looks like a trip. I’m not sure I’d be 100% on board except that Bad Times at the El Royale is one of my favorite contemporary films, and that has Hemsworth working in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:48 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, In recent times, much attention has been paid to how bonkers the film industry is, but don’t worry, the television industry is catastrophic, too. They’re just better at covering it because there’s so much freaking TV available all the time it can be hard to By Sarah • May 16, 2022 09:10 am
Business of Hollywood Doctor Strange gets summer 2022 off to a healthy start In continuing positive signs for the post-pandemic box office, at least among the blockbuster class, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opened with $185 million in North America this weekend, while netting $265 million everywhere else for a huge $450 million bow. And this is just the estimate on By Sarah • May 09, 2022 09:54 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 6, 2022 Dear Gossips, This week marked the tenth anniversary of The Avengers, which opened on May 4, 2012. I don’t typically mark film anniversaries unless it’s a movie I really, really love like Point Break, or Ocean’s 11, but it’s hard not to think about how The By Sarah • May 06, 2022 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fast X has a new stepdad A week after Justin Lin abruptly left Fast X just as production started, a new director has been found. Fast X’s new stepdad is Louis Leterrier, director of The Incredible Hulk and magician heist flick Now You See Me. If you go back far enough, Leterrier is also the By Sarah • May 04, 2022 02:20 pm
Business of Hollywood Chris Pratt isn’t going anywhere Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is filming now in Atlanta, and on Monday, photos of Chris Pratt and Karen Gillan, along with a coterie of animal-inspired aliens, were seen on set. Pratt and Gillan, as Star-Lord and Nebula, respectively, are sporting new duds, suggesting the Guardians have a more By Sarah • May 04, 2022 10:29 am
Top Reads Netflix cancelled Meghan Markle (and everyone else) Following Netflix’s bad earnings call and stock freefall, the company is in full slash-and-burn mode, axing programming left and right and no one is safe, not even the Duchess of Sussex. Archewell Productions has a development deal with Netflix, through which Meghan Markle was developing an animated series aimed By Sarah • May 02, 2022 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon continues, and we will DEFINITELY talk about the newest Envelopegate, but right now, let’s talk Barbie. Specifically, Margot Robbie as Barbie in the movie she is producing and starring in, with Greta Gerwig directing. The cast is stacked, besides Robbie there is Ryan Gosling as Ken, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fast #Family divorce drama In a bombshell afternoon news drop, yesterday it was announced that director Justin Lin has left the latest Fast/Furious movie, officially titled Fast X, after starting principal photography last week. It’s the second divorce to hit the #Family, following the Diesel-Rock breakdown. If I have taught you anything, By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 09:26 am
Top Reads Bill Murray’s suspension Two days ago, production on Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut, Being Mortal, was suspended after a complaint was made and production company Searchlight determined “that production cannot continue at this time”. Yesterday, further details emerged that star Bill Murray was the subject of the complaint for “inappropriate behavior”. That By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 10:48 am
