Movie Reviews and Previews Grindelwald upgrade Days after Johnny Depp stepped down from playing Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3, Mads Mikkelsen is in talks to take over the role. I say this as a one-time hardcore Depp fan: Mads Mikkelsen is a better actor and this is an upgrade. Casting him as a villain is a By Sarah • Nov 12, 2020 11:04 am
Top Reads Johnny Depp leaves Fantastic Beasts The election dominated the news last week—as it should—but one thing did manage to crack the all-encompassing vote watch on Friday, and no, it was not chartthrob Steve Kornacki and his big board. It was a statement issued by Johnny Depp, that he has been asked to step By Sarah • Nov 09, 2020 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet goes home In the US, Tenet was released on September 3. Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced it will be available for home video and on demand on December 15. That is 15 weeks of theatrically exclusive play. All the niceties have been observed, Warner Brothers flushed one of their most valuable 2020 titles By Sarah • Nov 06, 2020 11:04 am
Business of Hollywood Ellen Pompeo Wants SO MUCH Less By now it’s beside the point to give this piece a headline like “Ellen Pompeo Gives No F*cks” or “Is a Badass” or any other fawning hyperbole. We know that, we’ve talked about it a lot, and on the heels of Shonda Rhimes acknowledging, again, that she’ By Duana • Oct 30, 2020 02:29 pm
Weddings Mr & Mrs ScarJost Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are married. They started dating in 2017 after getting to know each other when Scarlett hosted Saturday Night Live. They got engaged last year. And now it’s official….they are ScarJost. The announcement is what’s most interesting, to me. It was Meals on By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 09:24 am
Gossip Nostalgia JLo: Hustler, Maid, Wedding Planner, and Boss Remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s, when the word “multihyphenate” became part of the cultural lexicon? It was often used to describe Jennifer Lopez. Of course she wasn’t the first multihyphenate or the last but in that moment, that was how we talked about her: dancer, singer, By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 12:45 pm
TV Updates GLOW actresses asked for better representation, and we won’t see it GLOW’s sudden cancellation due to COVID-19 means we won’t get to see the natural conclusion of the show, but now we are learning what else the cancellation is costing us. It turns out that in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the early summer, a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 11:11 am
Top Reads Shonda Rhimes and the Disneyland Pass Shonda Rhimes’s new cover story in The Hollywood Reporter is so much Show Your Work and I’ve already pitched it to Duana for our next podcast episode because we could spend the whole time talking about what Shonda gives us here. But the detail in the piece that’ By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 10:26 am
Dumbass 2020 reaches new low, Jared Leto to return as the Joker Today in Oh What Now news, it has been reported that Jared Leto will reprise his role as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Yes, you read that right, Jared Leto, once the third best Joker and now the fourth best Joker, is getting a do-over while Joaquin By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Female Revenge Fantasy for the Holidays One of the most anticipated films of the year around the LaineyGossip internet office is Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman starring Carey Mulligan. This movie looks GREAT, and it got very interesting reviews out of Sundance. It was slated for a spring release, but then came COVID and it By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Soul for the Holidays In completely unsurprising news, Pixar’s next film, Soul, will skip theaters and premiere on Disney+. It is shifting back one month from its previously COVID-adjusted release date of November 20 to December 25, when it will be available on the streaming service at no additional cost. In international territories By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 12:52 pm
TV Updates RIP GLOW One of my favorite shows on Netflix is GLOW, the 1980s-set dramedy about an all-women pro-wrestling show starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron. GLOW was strong right out of the gate, and it got better through each successive season. But by the time season three rolled out last By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s Dune’s turn When the first trailer for Dune was released last month, I said it wasn’t going to come out in 2020, and sure enough following Bond, it is the latest movie to pull up stakes in 2020 and seek greener pastures in 2021. Specifically, Dune is taking overThe Batman’s By Sarah • Oct 06, 2020 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond quits 2020, too In the wake of Disney clearing most of their slate out of 2020, the latest Bond film, No Time to Die, has also evacuated this cursed year for hopefully greener pastures in April 2021. The means that No Time Die has now moved back a full year, from its original By Sarah • Oct 05, 2020 10:34 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Barry Jenkins gets Disney money Yesterday, Disney made the surprise announcement that they are laying off 28,000 people due to the ongoing economic difficulties of the pandemic. Even with the theme parks open, with restrictions, of course, they are eating sh-t and continue to hemorrhage cash. These layoffs are just the latest round of By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney quits 2020 Doing the only reasonable thing at this point, Disney has basically given up on 2020, moving 90% of their movies to 2021, including the entire Marvel theatrical slate which will now kick off with Black Widow in May 2021. This brings Black Widow’s total delay to twelve entire months, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:37 am
