Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Four gets the job done Much like Superman before it, The Fantastic Four: First Steps had a fantastic opening weekend, clocking $118 million—which will probably revise upwards, just like Superman, when the actual tally is released later today. The international haul came in at $100 million, giving First Steps a $218 million launching pad. By Sarah • Jul 28, 2025 10:14 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Well, that didn’t take long. Just eight days after announcingThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end next May, and less than a month after CBS paid $16 million to Donald Trump to end a specious lawsuit over an interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes, By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 09:22 am
TV Updates Intro for July 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, The fallout from the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continues, this time, in the form of some cold hard reporting. From the jump, executives at CBS have insisted this decision was “purely financial”, even though it looks at least in part political. But here are By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 09:11 am
TV Updates Stephen Colbert: “The gloves are off” Late last week we learned that despite being the top-rated late-night show in its time slot, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will come to an end in May 2026. Despite CBS calling this a “purely financial decision”, the timing made it pretty impossible to ignore that CBS just paid By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 10:19 am
TV Updates Intro for July 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was all prepared to write about tickets for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey going on sale an entire year early—and selling out instantly—but then news broke that CBS is cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The show will run for one final season and By Sarah • Jul 18, 2025 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman soared over the box office Two weeks ago, I wrote about the “paycheck hypothesis”, which I made up, theorizing that generally, people will only pay to go see one movie per a given two-week paycheck period. Because Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman were opening in the same paycheck period, and Rebirth overperformed its expectations, I By Sarah • Jul 14, 2025 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Best Actresses and Ne Zha 2 At the end of my post about Cardi B earlier today, I mentioned that she was at Demna’s final Balenciaga collection, which was the big ticket show at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday. Michelle Yeoh and Nicole Kidman are longtime friends of the house and they too showed up By Lainey • Jul 09, 2025 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dino crush box office Following the record-breaking box office over Memorial Day weekend, July 4th delivered, too, with one of the biggest holiday box office weekends ever. Jurassic World Rebirth opened with $147 million over the five-day frame (Wednesday-Sunday), and $91.5 million for the traditional three-day weekend frame. Globally, however, it ate up By Sarah • Jul 07, 2025 11:04 am
Business of Hollywood The HFPA is back In news that really shouldn’t be surprising at this point, the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the beleaguered group behind the Golden Globes, have voted to reconstitute and seize control of…themselves. In 2021, the HFPA came under fire following a Los Angeles Times expose that revealed By Sarah • Jul 03, 2025 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Brad Pitt scored a victory over the weekend—no, none of his kids talked to him—as F1 opened with $144 million globally, the biggest global launch of Pitt’s career to date. It’s also Apple’s first box office win (they backed the film, with Warner By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denis Villeneuve ushers in the new Bond Four months after Amazon MGM bought out the Broccoli family, long the cinematic stewards of James Bond, Denis Villeneuve has been announced as the latest director to take on Bond. He will usher in the Amazon era of Bond, whenever he’s done with Dune, that is. Villeneuve is only By Sarah • Jun 26, 2025 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman Begins Summer movie season continues apace, which means the press tour for Superman has officially kicked off ahead of its July 11 release. David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and James Gunn were in Manila for a fan event yesterday. Can’t help but think they chose Manila for the event because of By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 10:17 am
Top Reads IP monsters sue plagiarism machine Today in The Lawyers Are Being Fed news, Disney and NBCUniversal launched a joint lawsuit against Midjourney, a generative AI company that specializes in image and video slop. The suit comes from two of the most powerful holders of intellectual property in the entertainment industry and is in part being By Sarah • Jun 12, 2025 10:22 am
Business of Hollywood David Zaslav admits defeat Last month during the television upfronts in New York, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they’re changing the name of their streaming platform—again—reverting back to the “HBO Max” label they dropped two years ago in favor of the no-name recognition “Max”. Now, that renaming of inarguably WBD’s By Sarah • Jun 10, 2025 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Dakota Johnson is still in New York promoting Materialists, but as part of the press push, she and Celine Song gave a joint interview to the Los Angeles Times which paints a portrait of two artists finding instant understanding and a desire to make a rom-com, but like, By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked Round Two I was so enjoying our temporary Wicked-free peace, but alas, it is over already. The trailer for Wicked: For Good, the second part of the musical’s feature film adaptation, dropped yesterday. Based on the unrelenting Wicked publicity push last year, this marks the official beginning of the For Good By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 03:20 pm
