TV Updates Turns out, Spielberg is shilling for Apple After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 09:44 am
Douchebags James Gunn Rehired In a move that surprised EVERYONE, late Friday word got out that Disney has rehired James Gunn, eight months after firing him for bad old tweets. This even after Disney insisted that they would not, despite considerable public and internal pressure, rehire Gunn. Refresher: Gunn, politically outspoken on social media, By Sarah • Mar 19, 2019 09:35 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie + 4 at the Dumbo premiere Dumbo is in theatres March 29th. I am afraid of this movie. Not because Tim Burton directed it. Not because it’s going to suck. There is no way it’s going to suck. The visuals look amazing. Early reaction – at least that I’ve seen – has been positive. But By Lainey • Mar 12, 2019 10:54 am
Douchebags Kevin Tsujihara’s sexting mess What is it with CEOs and sexting scandals? On the heels of Jeff Bezos comes Warner Brothers’ boss Kevin Tsujihara, who landed in hot water after The Hollywood Reporter published a story last week about an affair and text messages exchanged between Tsujihara and actress Charlotte Kirk. Is it gross? By Sarah • Mar 11, 2019 11:22 am
Business of Hollywood Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s Gold Party As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Roc Nation’s annual Grammys brunch has become one of the most well-attended events on Grammys weekend, perhaps THE most well-attended event, especially this year since the Grammys seemed lighter on megastar power than in years past. The brunch serves multiple purposes. First, By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 04:08 pm
Amazingness Will Smith, once again If there was an Oscar for Best Performance on Social Media – and there probably will be one day – the inaugural winner should be Will Smith. He is so f-cking good at this and…so repeatedly good at it. You remember his #InMyFeelings challenge. All the times he punks his kids. By Lainey • Feb 15, 2019 04:33 pm
BFFs Emily and John support The Rock Emily Blunt and John Krasinski showed up to a screening of Fighting With My Family last night in New York. The film is written and directed by Stephen Merchant and produced by Dwayne The Rock Johnson who also plays a small role. As The Rock keeps saying, he doesn’t By Lainey • Feb 12, 2019 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt should just take the L and move on Today in I Knew This Sh-t Was Never Happening news, Paramount has officially put the kibosh on World War Z 2, the would-be sequel to Brad Pitt’s disastrous World War Z adaptation. Originally slated to be directed by JA Bayona and released in 2017, the project ended up passing By Sarah • Feb 07, 2019 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Annie shows her work Anne Hathaway covers the new issue of PEOPLE as part of her promotion for Serenity which Sarah reviewed earlier this week and in a f-cked up way, it might actually be kind of her favourite movie of year? That might be hyperbole but she didn’t hate it, not at By Lainey • Jan 30, 2019 04:07 pm
Business of Hollywood Vanity Fair’s effortless cover As Lainey mentioned earlier, we’ll be unpacking more of our thoughts about the 25th anniversary of the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue as we get through all the features. The cover is GREAT. You know what strikes me most? It’s effortless. It looks so relaxed, so EASY. No one By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 03:26 pm
Business of Hollywood Tech is either saving or killing movies Depending on who you talk to, tech companies investing in and/or partnering with film companies is either the end of cinema as we know it or the savior of the mid-budget movie. We still haven’t decided whether or not something shown on Netflix qualifies as a movie, so By Sarah • Nov 28, 2018 03:50 pm
Music Taylor’s big decisions Taylor Swift is currently on tour in Australia. Which is why she voted early. Yesterday Taylor posted her third election message on Instagram. The first time, she identified her preferred candidates and criticised the candidate she would not be voting for. The second time she PSA’ed about early voting. By Lainey • Oct 31, 2018 04:39 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Cardi B turns down the baby money Cardi B was interviewed on Beats 1 to promote her new single “Money” this week and revealed to Ebro Darden that: "Me and my husband [Offset]...We just don’t wanna show our baby right now," Cardi said before adding "I got offered seven figures [for baby By Lainey • Oct 25, 2018 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 2020 Today in “But we might not live that long!” news, Wonder Woman 1984 has been kicked back seven months, from November 1, 2019 to June 5, 2020. The shuffle comes as Warner Brothers dropped Mark Wahlberg’s Six Billion Dollar Man from their slate (that beleaguered film was acquired last By Sarah • Oct 23, 2018 10:09 am
Douchebags Bryan Singer’s preemptive strike Last year Bryan Singer’s name emerged from the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar when he was sued for allegedly assaulting a minor. Many of us were not surprised, having expected something from that quarter as soon as the scandal moved past Harvey Weinstein and into deeper, industry-wide waters. It happened By Sarah • Oct 17, 2018 10:26 am
Business of Hollywood Shonda brags Shonda Rhimes is great at bragging. Shonda brags like she writes: confidently, bravely and exceptionally well. When Shonda brags, I cheer. I love when she declares that her “pen has power” and proudly accepts her role as the woman who owns Thursday nights. She’s a black woman who became By Kathleen • Oct 16, 2018 04:05 pm
