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 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 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 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 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, 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 By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 11:11 am
