Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, Brad Pitt scored a victory over the weekend—no, none of his kids talked to him—as F1 opened with $144 million globally, the biggest global launch of Pitt’s career to date. It’s also Apple’s first box office win (they backed the film, with Warner By Sarah • Jun 30, 2025 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denis Villeneuve ushers in the new Bond Four months after Amazon MGM bought out the Broccoli family, long the cinematic stewards of James Bond, Denis Villeneuve has been announced as the latest director to take on Bond. He will usher in the Amazon era of Bond, whenever he’s done with Dune, that is. Villeneuve is only By Sarah • Jun 26, 2025 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman Begins Summer movie season continues apace, which means the press tour for Superman has officially kicked off ahead of its July 11 release. David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and James Gunn were in Manila for a fan event yesterday. Can’t help but think they chose Manila for the event because of By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 10:17 am
Top Reads IP monsters sue plagiarism machine Today in The Lawyers Are Being Fed news, Disney and NBCUniversal launched a joint lawsuit against Midjourney, a generative AI company that specializes in image and video slop. The suit comes from two of the most powerful holders of intellectual property in the entertainment industry and is in part being By Sarah • Jun 12, 2025 10:22 am
Business of Hollywood David Zaslav admits defeat Last month during the television upfronts in New York, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they’re changing the name of their streaming platform—again—reverting back to the “HBO Max” label they dropped two years ago in favor of the no-name recognition “Max”. Now, that renaming of inarguably WBD’s By Sarah • Jun 10, 2025 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Dakota Johnson is still in New York promoting Materialists, but as part of the press push, she and Celine Song gave a joint interview to the Los Angeles Times which paints a portrait of two artists finding instant understanding and a desire to make a rom-com, but like, By Sarah • Jun 06, 2025 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked Round Two I was so enjoying our temporary Wicked-free peace, but alas, it is over already. The trailer for Wicked: For Good, the second part of the musical’s feature film adaptation, dropped yesterday. Based on the unrelenting Wicked publicity push last year, this marks the official beginning of the For Good By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 03:20 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, Succession is a show about an aging CEO weeding out rivals, sycophants, and lieutenants to find his successor, all while maneuvering to stay in power. In their new cover feature, The Hollywood Reporter paints the current Hollywood executive class as Logan Roy, engaged in their own process of By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 09:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston appears (bonus Mark Hamill) I think the last time we wrote about Tom Hiddleston on the site was my review of The Life of Chuck, the Stephen King adaptation from Mike Flanagan in which Hiddleston stars. I might be wrong, I frequently am, but it is consistent with covering Hiddleston less than we did By Sarah • Jun 03, 2025 09:52 am
Business of Hollywood Stitch ate the box office (Ethan Hunt helped) Following Sinners’ super-powered spring box office (now at $339 million), the 2025 Memorial Day weekend box office ushers in summer with a record-breaking $322 million four-day holiday haul, beating the previous record set on Memorial Day weekend in 2014, when Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, and Star By Sarah • May 26, 2025 10:21 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 23, 2025 Dear Gossips, For a while now, the already fractious relationship between movie studios and film critics has been worsening as studios lean harder and harder on influencers to promote their movies. It’s one thing when they’re using influencers to fill a marketing void left by the devaluing of By Sarah • May 23, 2025 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sinners: A stunning second weekend Ryan Coogler’s Sinners just passed its second weekend at the box office. Opening weekend is a big deal because the economics of Hollywood have been gutted to the point that a film lives or dies by that frame, there is no grace given if a film opens “soft”. Sinners, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2025 10:01 am
TV Updates Intro for April 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Matthew Belloni’s latest Puck newsletter is all about movie stars, and ranking the ones “who actually matter”. Over the last decade or so, one of the ongoing conversations about celebrity in general is whether or not movie stars are made anymore. And what it takes to remain By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 09:23 am
Top Reads Gimme Gimme Moore Demi Moore covers PEOPLE’s World’s Most Beautiful issue, which is the equivalent to Sexiest Man Alive without the campy reveal and endless debate. We also don’t track it like we do the SMA – last year it was Sofia Vergara and before that, Helen Mirren. Solid choices we By Maria • Apr 23, 2025 12:08 pm
Business of Hollywood The Must-See Oscars This is sparking some chatter today – the Oscars are mandating that members must watch all movies before voting. Nominated films are available for online viewing through the Academy’s portal so those logins will be checked. And if they’re screening the films at events in person, they’ll have By Lainey • Apr 22, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon concluded yesterday—at least, the studio presentation bit did—by bringing out the big guns. Literally Tom Cruise, who might as well be christened Mr. CinemaCon at this point, turned up for Paramount’s presentation, as did Edgar Wright and the stars of his new adaptation of By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 09:25 am
