Business of Hollywood Intro for October 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, All week I’ve been watching the headlines and the developing story about Warner Bros. Discovery’s potential sale to another studio. The news came Tuesday morning with “multiple parties circl[ing]” the studio, followed just hours later with reports that WBD’s stock hit a three-year high By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 09:18 am
Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are at it again Buckle up, babes, some new Golden Globes f-cksh-t just dropped! Because our time on this revolving rock is fleeting and precious, let’s keep the rundown of Golden Globes’ f-cksh-ttery to just this past calendar year: there were the “secret” pay-to-play parties; the attorney general of California is investigating the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2025 10:39 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel 2.0 With all eyes on him—except those in blacked out markets controlled by Nexstar and Sinclair Media (but they could and probably did watch on YouTube)—Jimmy Kimmel returned to host his first episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! since his show was abruptly pulled off the air last week. Call By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 10:34 am
Business of Hollywood The View, a Letter, and Lilith ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air last Wednesday and there have been no updates on the show’s future since, but it has remained the top story in Hollywood for days. What we’ve been watching for is whether or not it would stay that way. With social By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 02:53 pm
Top Reads Another late-night host is silenced Last night, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be put on indefinite hiatus effective immediately following “controversial” statements Jimmy Kimmel made in Monday night’s monologue regarding the assassination of right-wing advocate Charlie Kirk. Notably, Kimmel’s comments were not about Kirk himself, but about his alleged killer. Kimmel By Sarah • Sep 18, 2025 11:12 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Walter Benjamin was a cultural critic, essayist, and philosopher who published “The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction” in 1935. Benjamin believed that increasingly easy means of reproduction devalued the “aura” of original works of art, that a print of a painting could “travel” to By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 09:08 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 19, 2025 Dear Gossips, There were some interesting numbers in the Puck newsletter on Monday for someone who loves numbers and her fans: Taylor Swift. This is related to her appearance on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, last week. And the ratings are in. Per Puck: “The NFL brothers’ By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 09:24 am
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
