Business of Hollywood Intro for September 19, 2018 Dear Gossips, For the last two years, The Hollywood Reporter has been following the “largest corruption case in US history” and its connection to Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s my favourite. I wonder if, every time a new story comes out, Leo’s like, keep my f-cking name out of it! By Lainey • Sep 19, 2018 09:14 am
Dumbass Oscar walks it back Last month the Academy announced upcoming changes to the Oscars telecast, to combat the ratings slide which is affecting everything on broadcast TV including football, and for the Oscars is mostly down to the fragmentation of entertainment and a little bit the popularity of the host which statistics show is By Sarah • Sep 07, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No Gunn, No Guardians Marvel has not been in this state of upheaval since Edgar Wright bailed on Ant-Man just weeks before it was set to begin production. Ironically, it is how well Marvel handled that director drama that had everyone, including me, assuming they would not miss a beat in replacing James Gunn By Sarah • Aug 27, 2018 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney confirms James Gunn is done With them, at least. Despite cast support and widespread public support, Disney will not be rehiring James Gunn. According to Variety, studio chairman Alan Horn met with Gunn as a “courtesy” to “clear the air” which sounds like corporate-speak for reiterating his ass is grass and no amount of pressure By Sarah • Aug 16, 2018 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Chrises Walk The gears have been grinding slowly but surely on a fourth Star Trek movie, which was to star Top Chrises Pine and Hemsworth as a father-son Captain Kirk duo in, presumably, some kind of timey-wimey scenario that would resurrect Hemsworth as Captain Kirk the Senior. And it would be directed By Sarah • Aug 13, 2018 09:00 am
Dumbass The James Gunn Saga This f-ckin’ mess. On July 20, the shocking news broke that James Gunn was fired by Disney, to be immediately removed from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which he was writing/directing. It’s an exhausting story that involves the alt-right and America’s ongoing culture war—here’s By Sarah • Aug 02, 2018 09:59 am
Top Reads Michelle Williams and the new Wolf Pack When it comes to celebrities and the term “Wolf Pack”, Leonardo DiCaprio comes to mind. Men come to mind. Women weren’t considered wolves. Are we sure about that? As I mentioned yesterday in my post about Michelle Williams’s marriage revelation in Vanity Fair, there is so much more By Lainey • Jul 27, 2018 01:22 pm
Relationship Assumption Jennifer honours Darren Darren Aronofsky was honoured last night at BAM’s 2018 Gala. Jennifer Lawrence presented and they even posed together for a photo and allowed themselves to be photographed while they were talking, presumably catching up. I don’t think anyone is thinking here that there’s been a reconciliation. But, By Lainey • May 31, 2018 12:17 pm
TV Updates “Abhorrent” Roseanne got Roseanne Cancelled Mark the date down. Today is an anomaly in the entertainment business – or maybe in business overall. Today is the day that, when confronted with egregious behaviour on the part of one of its employees, Roseanne Barr, ABC did exactly the right thing. Mere hours after Roseanne tweeted something so By Duana • May 29, 2018 04:57 pm
TV Updates What happened to Donald Glover’s Deadpool series? Donald Glover is already producing one hit show for FX, Atlanta, and last year he and his brother, Stephen Glover, signed on to expand their television empire by producing an animated Deadpool series for FX’s comedy wing, FXX. It was to be something like Archer but for Marvel, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Deadpool 2 A new trailer for Deadpool 2—the official title, though I kinda wish they had stuck with “Untitled Deadpool Sequel”—has been released, and goddamn does the marketing for this movie remain on point. This trailer is GREAT, except for the increased screen time for TJ Miller, and actually gives By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 12:49 pm
Business of Hollywood Matt and Ben join the inclusion club I guess better late than never. The first person to publicly respond to Frances McDormand’s call for the inclusion rider was Michael B. Jordan. Next to the party are Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, through their Pearl Street production shingle. Okay. Fine. If they want to be productive allies By Sarah • Mar 13, 2018 03:14 pm
Top Reads Barbra Streisand and the wrong headline Duana and I won’t be able to record a new episode of Show Your Work on Friday because we are travelling. If we were able to do it though, I’m pretty sure we’d be talking about Barbra Streisand’s new interview with Variety, published just ahead of By Lainey • Feb 28, 2018 11:51 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 27, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last year’s Oscar envelope f-ckup – do you care about it anymore? It was amazing the night of. But then, after all that’s happened this year, I don’t know that I still care all that much about what went down and who messed up and why. By Lainey • Feb 27, 2018 09:28 am
Business of Hollywood Mark Wahlberg on the “marketplace” A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg made $1.5 million for reshoots on All The Money In The World while Michelle Williams got per diem. His initial salary for the film was $5 million and she was paid $650K. Eventually he and WME, the talent agency By Lainey • Feb 26, 2018 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Annihilation? Despite a couple good-looking trailers, there have been warning signs that things are not all well with the upcoming Natalie Portman-fronted sci-fi flick Annihilation. The film is due to be released on February 23 in North America and China, but its studio, Paramount, has sold all other international distribution rights By Sarah • Feb 06, 2018 03:01 pm
