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
Business of Hollywood JLo, a pro Jennifer Lopez is in New York kicking off the press blitz for her movie Marry Me, which comes out next week. This morning she was on The TODAY Show, interviewed by Hoda Kotb, who she’s friends with, and Savannah Guthrie; it’s a showcase for just how experienced she By Lainey • Feb 03, 2022 11:16 am
Music Intro for January 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, A few days ago, Neil Young told his representatives that he no longer wanted his music on Spotify unless they took meaningful action against the spread of vaccine misinformation on The Joe Rogan Experience. Hundreds of doctors had previously written to Spotify urging the streaming platform to “mitigate By Lainey • Jan 27, 2022 09:30 am
TV Updates Joss Whedon takes himself to the woodshed There is a longform profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine titled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” and it is a masterclass in interviewing someone and letting them take themselves out back to the woodshed. The piece is from writer Lila Shapiro, and it could also be titled “Joss By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 09:29 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscars will have a host again For the first time in three years, the Oscars will have a host again. This year’s telecast is currently scheduled for March 27, and Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment, owner of the network on which the Oscars currently air, stated that they intend to have a host, or By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 02:49 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 12, 2022 Dear Gossips, At the end of 2021, James Franco peeped out of his hidey-hole and gave an interview to Jess Cagle in which he discussed his failures and “blind spot” for power dynamics, highlighted by a class-action lawsuit brought by former students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, who alleged that By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 09:03 am
Business of Hollywood State of the Awards Season Union Hello, it is I, Chicken Little, to tell you a little more about how the sky is falling! We’ve already covered the fata morgana that is Spider-Man: No Way Home’s success and the box office, and now we need to talk about AWARDS SEASON. Oh, did you think By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews There won’t be another Denzel Denzel Washington is on the cover of this week’s Variety, promoting his two-fer as both the star of The Tragedy of Macbeth and director of A Journal for Jordan. For Macbeth, he’s a heavy favorite for an Oscar nomination; if it happens, it would be his ninth nomination By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, As the pandemic rages into its third year—THIRD! YEAR!—Hollywood continues to fret about the box office and movie theaters. The billion-dollar success of Spider-Man: No Way Home has some cheering that theaters are back, baby, but others take a more measured view. In The New York By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, As Sarah covered in yesterday’s open, the Spider-Man: No Way Home box office has been a big story – and relief – in Hollywood the last few days; considering the pandemic, and the fact that there’s been no shortage of Marvel superhero content this year (with WandaVision, Falcon By Lainey • Dec 21, 2021 08:47 am
Business of Hollywood And Just Like…Ryan Reynolds Yesterday in my post about Ryan Reynolds, Peloton, and And Just Like That, I wrote about the turnaround time for Ryan’s agency, Maximum Effort, to produce the new Peloton ad that came out this weekend that basically fixed the company’s crisis following the premiere of the Sex and By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, All year, Lainey has been exhorting us to enjoy Bennifer 2.0, to be glad of Bennifer 2.0, to recognize Bennifer 2.0 as the great gift from the gossip gods that it—they—are. But let us also recognize that the gossip gods have given a By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 09:11 am
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Aniston, the “late bloomer” Yesterday she covered the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter as this year’s recipient of the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. Last night Jennifer Aniston was at THR’s Women in Entertainment event to accept the honour, presented to her by her The Morning Show co-star Mitch Kessler. (Speaking of By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 09:38 am
