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 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 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 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 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
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 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, By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 03:03 pm
