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
Movie Reviews and Previews Fincher + Pitt do Tarantino Some interesting news broke yesterday that David Fincher and Brad Pitt are teaming up for a sequel to Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, which is written by Quentin Tarantino. Basically, Tarantino wrote a sequel to Hollywood, but he doesn’t want to direct it himself—probably because he doesn’ By Sarah • Apr 02, 2025 11:23 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big news in independent film, as of 2027 the Sundance Film Festival will call Boulder, Colorado home. 2026 will be the fest’s last year in Park City, Utah, which has been home to the festival since 1981. There have been grumblings for years that Sundance outgrew the By Sarah • Mar 28, 2025 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, As much as everyone says they’re ready for the era of big IP to end, audiences are still turning out for IP-driven projects while original ideas flounder. To wit: Snow White, Disney’s latest exercise in IP maintenance, led the weekend at the box office, Marvel’s By Sarah • Mar 24, 2025 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Ballerina The box office is dog sh-t right now, and five years post-COVID (the start of it, I know it’s still around, a part of life now), movie-going still hasn’t recovered. Live sporting and music events are booming, Broadway is 95% back to pre-pandemic business, but movies are still By Sarah • Mar 20, 2025 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, Today in What is Going On With David Zaslav’s Weird Anti-Toon Agenda, there is an update regarding Coyote vs. Acme and it is actually GOOD. Per Deadline, hilariously named distributor Ketchup Entertainment is negotiating a deal to buy Coyote vs. Acme for an estimated $50 million from By Sarah • Mar 20, 2025 08:58 am
TV Updates Intro for March 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, A thing I find myself saying a LOT lately is “may they never know peace”. I try not to wish ill on anyone directly, because I believe in the threefold rule, which says that whatever energy you put out into the universe will be returned upon you three By Sarah • Mar 17, 2025 09:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, Lainey wrote about Ne Zha 2, the animated Chinese film breaking box office records and “shocking the movie industry”. Well, the industry shocks continue as Ne Zha 2 has crossed $2 billion at the box office, becoming the first non-Hollywood film to break By Sarah • Mar 14, 2025 09:12 am
