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 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 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, 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 By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was announced over five years ago in June 2016 that Jennifer Lawrence would star as tech scammer Elizabeth Holmes in a film directed by Adam McKay. Back in April of this year, Adam said that the project was still in development, and it’s an example of By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 08:57 am
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston: “Can’t We Do Something Else?” In today’s open, I mentioned Jennifer Aniston last night on Live in Front of a Studio Audience, and playing Blair in The Facts of Life episode, how great it was to see her as part of that ensemble, and what Duana said about how much f-cking fun she’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland Is Very Tired GQ’s annual Men of the Year issue is here, and Tom Holland is on one of the covers as the “Superhero of the Year”. It’s a genial interview, because Holland is a genial guy, though there is a recurring thread about Holland’s disturbed sleep and how his By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are audiences finally tiring of Marvel? Eternals opened over the weekend and the result is as divisive as the reviews have been. It banked $71 million domestically and over $90 million internationally, for a cumulative $161 million weekend. That is either a death knell for the MCU, or perfectly respectable, or even great, given the pandemic, By Sarah • Nov 08, 2021 12:23 pm
Business of Hollywood Ruby Rose calls out Warner Brothers Ruby Rose starred in the CW series Batwoman for one season before abruptly leaving the show before the start of season two. Last year, she told Entertainment Weekly her decision to leave the show was in part due to an injury sustained in 2019, and that ten days after surgery, By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 09:39 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for October 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, Netflix yesterday revealed its third quarter earnings report and, not surprisingly, they’re doing great with a subscriber growth of 4.4 million, more than the expected 3.8 million, and projected to gain 8.5 million more in the fourth quarter. On paper, then, if you take By Lainey • Oct 20, 2021 09:58 am
Business of Hollywood The IATSE Strike: What to know Over the weekend, IATSE, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees, voted by an overwhelming 98% majority to authorize a strike, which will shut down virtually all film and television production across the US (and it could affect some Canadian productions, which often have a portion of American crew, especially By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 09:45 am
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise: Helicopter Life Forever There were reports recently that Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell, who are still working on Mission: Impossible 7, which may as well be called Mission: Impossible Never-ending, considering how long they’ve been in production for this movie, broke up – even though it’s never been confirmed that they By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 11:19 am
Top Reads Cary Fukunaga spills the tea Theoretically, No Time To Die is slated to premiere next week before opening in North America on October 8. I sort of won’t believe it’s happening until I am actually watching it, but it seems the time for Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie has come at last. By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 11:33 am
Business of Hollywood More Disney drama Do you know how rare it is to have two posts in one day about Disney’s business? I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve written about Disney’s business (other than box office, that is) in the last ten-plus years, but here we By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 11:49 am
