Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu hit a grand slam…and a back flip Despite the ongoing pandemic, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings posted a record-breaking opening weekend of $90 million for the four-day frame in the US. Even in normal times, this would be a Labor Day box office record, so it’s HUGE that Shang-Chi By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount shoves off (again) In yet another ill omen for the remainder of 2021, Paramount has moved their remaining movies, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick, to 2022. We’ve been here before, and has always been the case with Paramount, they simply will not risk Tom Cruise’s ire by attempting By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond, for real this time Way back when this interminable nightmare began, No Time To Die was the film industry bellwether, being the first major movie to push back its release date due to coronavirus. Now, though Team Bond is sticking with their current release plan, dropping a final trailer ahead of the film’s By Sarah • Sep 01, 2021 12:14 pm
Business of Hollywood Celebrities and the D&G Comeback As mentioned in the previous Bennifer post, JLo wasn’t the only celebrity in Venice this weekend for the Dolce & Gabbana show. A gallery of the high-profile guest list is attached including Anna Wintour, Helen Mirren, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, Bebe Rexha, and more. So the comeback of By Lainey • Aug 30, 2021 12:14 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, Apple released a new trailer for the second season of The Morning Show this week and the big surprise reveal is that Will Arnett has joined the cast; he plays Jennifer Aniston’s (Alex Levy) agent, Doug. The stereotype of agents in show business is usually douchebag – and By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 09:14 am
Amazingness Warner Brothers tries to win back theater owners CinemaCon, the annual summit between distributors and exhibitors held in Las Vegas, is happening right now. It just occurred to me that this might be the last CinemaCon as we’ve known it for the past 30-ish years. Next year, studios will be able to buy theaters, and then By Sarah • Aug 25, 2021 12:29 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, Here’s another sign that we might be in the most f-cked up timeline – the show that was supposed to be the least messy, the most organised, a show that was all about showing your work, is currently a total sh-tshow, the opposite of good work: By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 09:22 am
Business of Hollywood Emma Stone sticks with Disney When news of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Disney broke, there was rapidly a rumor that Emma Stone, whose star-vehicle Cruella was also moved to a Premiere Access title on Disney+, would follow suit and join ScarJo in the suit. Well, no. That is not happening. In fact, the By Sarah • Aug 16, 2021 10:08 am
Business of Hollywood Reese Witherspoon’s Billion Dollar Baby Actors tied to production companies used to be a big story (like back when Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt started Plan B in 2001) but it is now a standard – big name actors are often producers with “first look” deals and back-end credits. “Executive producer” is a vague term By Maria • Aug 04, 2021 01:19 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson v Disney: Hollywood’s next labor battle Last Thursday, Scarlett Johansson dropped a bombshell lawsuit on Disney, alleging breach of contract. The suit claims that Johansson had a theatrical-exclusive guarantee in her contract for Black Widow—which would not be unusual for an actor of her stature—and that by putting Black Widow on Disney+ day- By Sarah • Aug 03, 2021 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: The box office is back Over the last few months, as theaters have reopened, the box office has been lurching back into gear. Godzilla vs. Kong got the ball rolling, F9 kicked it into second gear, and Black Widow just set a record with a record domestic opening during the pandemic with $80 million, besting By Sarah • Jul 12, 2021 10:27 am
Top Reads Simu Liu’s Big Day There was a lot of Simu Liu in the headlines yesterday. Here’s how it started – with a Facebook post, ahead of the release of season five of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, which of course as we all know now is the show’s final season, and not because By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 10:52 am
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part II: Amazon and MGM On the heels of the news that AT&T is dumping WarnerMedia on Discovery comes the news that Amazon is in talks to buy MGM (you can read an un-paywalled version of the story here). It was always inevitable that Amazon would buy out a studio—as it By Sarah • May 19, 2021 12:17 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part I: WarnerMedia & Discovery Over the weekend, word broke that AT&T, just three years after acquiring Time Warner—now called WarnerMedia—in a blockbuster merger, would dump their still-new entertainment sector and pair it with Discovery to make a separate operation as yet to be named. The news sent a shockwave By Sarah • May 19, 2021 11:42 am
Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are cancelled We are watching the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes implode in real time, and it’s kind of amazing. If you thought the awards industrial complex was completely entrenched, too big to fail, et cetera, well, the last week has really been something. To recap, before the By Sarah • May 11, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews OF COURSE Tom Cruise wants a world tour Last Friday, Paramount shuffled their release dates again, including pushing Top Gun: Maverick from the patriotic and military-movie friendly July 4 weekend to November 19. Now, we are learning the reason for that move, or at least one of them, is that Tom Cruise wants to do a full By Sarah • Apr 14, 2021 10:01 am
