Business of Hollywood Intro for April 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s been a wild week for Netflix. Following a disastrous earnings call earlier this week, in which CEO Reed Hastings admitted to a 200K subscriber loss in the first quarter, and estimated as much as a 2 million subscriber loss coming up in quarter two. It’s By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 09:09 am
Business of Hollywood Frank Langella is also being replaced Frank Langella has also left a production mid-go, leaving behind a role that also needs to be recast. A couple days ago, TMZ—I know, I know—reported that Langella was being investigated for alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct on set, and Deadline has now confirmed TMZ’s report, By Sarah • Apr 14, 2022 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Slap has cursed Hollywood (Thandiwe vs Channing edition) Yesterday afternoon, news broke that Thandiwe Newton was exiting Magic Mike’s Last Dance, filming now in Britain, for “personal reasons” and that Salma Hayek would replace her. The official statement released by Warner Brothers, the studio bankrolling Last Dance, said that Newton “made the difficult decision to step away By Sarah • Apr 14, 2022 09:51 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for April 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, Lainey opined that Michelle Yeoh should be in Best Actress contention for the 2023 awards season. While I am still exhausted by the 2022 awards season, Lainey is right and Yeoh is tremendous in Everything Everywhere All At Once. But this is also the exact kind of By Sarah • Apr 08, 2022 09:17 am
Oscars 2022 Will Smith resigns from the Academy We enter week two of The Slap with the news that Will Smith has resigned his membership from the Academy. Facing a potential suspension that could be a decade or more, Smith decided to just resign and not wait for the Academy’s decision regarding discipline on April 18. They By Sarah • Apr 04, 2022 11:59 am
BFFs Will, Bradley, and Leaving the Oscars As Sarah wrote earlier today, the Academy claimed last night that Will Smith was asked to leave the Oscars after slapping Chris Rock and he refused. Sarah was skeptical about this in her post, pointing out that his publicist was seen approaching Will several times after the incident but that By Lainey • Mar 31, 2022 01:18 pm
Business of Hollywood Disney’s troubles aren’t over It has been a bad month for Disney. Their employees are in open revolt over the company’s lackluster response to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, and now they have stars of high-profile projects taking them out like the trash on the red carpet, too. But wait, there’ By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 03:03 pm
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, We’re now less than a week away from the 2022 Oscars and one of the most tightly contested Best Picture Oscar races in recent years. But will Rachel Zegler be there? Rachel is the star of West Side Story, nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture. She By Lainey • Mar 21, 2022 08:46 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last year, Amazon started talks to buy MGM, and yesterday, the merger, worth $8.5 billion, closed. MGM, one of the most storied film studios and one of the last survivors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, is now a subsidiary of Amazon, like Zappos and Whole Foods By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 09:02 am
Award Season Campaigning Andrew Garfield and the Oscar secrets For a couple of weeks now we’ve been talking about Oscar nominees and how, typically, it’s more fun to be a nominee who isn’t a frontrunner because there’s no pressure, you can just enjoy the ride. There are exceptions, of course, as we’ve been seeing By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 01:53 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Hey, did you forget about the HFPA? I wouldn’t blame you if you did. With no Golden Globes televised this year, and still reeling from the revelations of last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been laying low, trying to get their sh-t together to mount By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Batman opens tomorrow, and it’s sure to be another money-maker for recovering movie theaters. But AMC, not content to merely make money but to rake in money, is further increasing their take by hiking ticket prices for the movie. At one point during the depths of By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 09:04 am
Business of Hollywood Aziz Ansari, moving on and moving up Four years after having a #MeToo scandal of his own, Aziz Ansari is doing just fine. He has continued touring as a top-selling stand-up comedian, and he has a new stand-up special on Netflix, Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian, his second post-scandal, plus he dropped a new season of Master of By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:54 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for February 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Just in case you thought the Academy was done making stupid decisions in re: the Oscars, gird your loins because they are not. The latest bad idea is a rehash of something they’ve tried in various configurations in recent years, which is cutting certain awards from the By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 08:52 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for February 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, Remember when the Academy wanted to do a “popular Oscar” to acknowledge the blockbuster films they’re pretty terrible at recognizing, and everyone was like, Ew, no thanks? Well, guess what? They’ve come up with something even more stupid! Instead of letting the Academy vote on a By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 09:12 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you heard? Supposedly, Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be Tom Cruise’s last outings as super-spy Ethan Hunt. In a report about how COVID has caused the budgets of these films, filming consecutively, to balloon out of control, it is also mentioned that M:I 7-8 By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 09:04 am
