Movie Reviews and Previews Directors take aim at Netflix After the Academy waffled earlier this year - led by Steven Spielberg - over whether or not to tighten eligibility rules to target streaming services, the Directors Guild of America actually did the thing, and tightened their eligibility rules. Under their new guidelines, day-and-date releases, in which a film premieres By Sarah • Jun 27, 2019 11:09 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscars: Chaos ahead of schedule Last year the Oscars had one of the most chaotic seasons ever. Kevin Hart was the host, then Kevin Hart was not the host. There was the announcement of a new “popular film” category, which was quickly cancelled. Then, they announced there would only be two Best Song nominees performing By Sarah • Jun 12, 2019 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert & Nicholas: the acting duel We had a lot of fun here a couple of weeks ago and then again last week over the casting drama for The Batman. In the end, as we know, Robert Pattinson was confirmed to be the next Bruce Wayne. But there was a curious back and forth between him By Lainey • Jun 05, 2019 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz is not a lock A couple weeks ago we learned that Robert Pattinson is up to be the new Batman, taking over the role from Ben Affleck. Lainey dubbed him the “Millennial Batman”, I think we should call him “RBatz” if he gets the gig. And it is an IF, as a report yesterday By Sarah • May 31, 2019 09:55 am
Business of Hollywood Talk more about money! Award season roundtables are a cottage industry now, and with Emmy nominations looming, The Hollywood Reporter is back on their bullsh-t with a comedy ladies’ roundtable of hopeful nominees. The group includes Jane Fonda, Regina Hall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Borstein, Tiffany Haddish, Maya Rudolph, and Natasha Lyonne. It’ By Sarah • May 30, 2019 03:38 pm
TV Updates Constance Wu breaks character Duana and I will be unpacking the Constance Wu (bad) work situation on Show Your Work this week. I get it though that it was a big story all weekend so here are some thoughts before we get into a more robust discussion about her on the podcast. Much of By Lainey • May 13, 2019 10:10 am
Business of Hollywood College Admissions Scandal: Prison Update The college admissions scandal has entered its next phase—trial and sentencing. The first round of defendants, including Felicity Huffman, have plead guilty and await sentencing. Huffman faces up to twenty years in jail, but because she accepted a plea deal, the prosecutors will recommend her sentencing fall on the By Sarah • Apr 10, 2019 10:43 am
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 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 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 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 By Lainey • Jan 30, 2019 04:07 pm
