Douchebags Leo is being careful The NY Daily News posted a really interesting article about Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday. Leo was at a Halloween party in New York earlier this week. Here’s how it went down according to the NY Daily News source: Partygoers at a lower Manhattan Halloween bash were left buzzing about the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 10:18 am
Gross Don’t Say “Uncle” One thing I found so illuminating in Lupita Nyong’o’s essay in The New York Times is how she was able to explain something that so many accounts about Harvey Weinstein couldn’t capture: the intimacy of working in a creative field. As she wrote, “Our business is complicated By Maria • Oct 24, 2017 02:32 pm
Gross Intro for October 23, 2017 Dear Gossips, The only time I’ve ever written about James Toback was almost exactly 4 years ago, when he was promoting Seduced & Abandoned, and he decided to claim credit for “inventing” Robert Downey Jr. He also insisted that RDJ was a lot less interesting since getting clean and By Lainey • Oct 23, 2017 08:30 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein isn’t the only As Hollywood continues to process the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations, a few people are now looking ahead, wondering about next steps. Because, of course, Harvey was enabled. And he would not be the only predator operating within and exploiting a system that protects the powerful. In a column By Lainey • Oct 17, 2017 09:38 am
Business of Hollywood Fashion by Force About three weeks ago, the biggest story in entertainment was the drama surrounding the Sex and the City franchise. There were accusations of toxicity and egotistical behaviour. It was a goddamn picnic in the park compared to entertainment headlines these days. This weekend, the New York Times wrote a comprehensive By Maria • Oct 16, 2017 09:32 am
Top Reads The War of the Weinsteins More and more people are coming forward to share their accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s predation. The Academy voted this weekend to cancel his membership and France is taking away his Legion of Honour and police in London and New York are investigating him for sexual abuse. Harvey meanwhile may By Lainey • Oct 16, 2017 09:01 am
Top Reads Rose McGowan goes after the power Rose McGowan was reinstated on Twitter yesterday after being suspended for including a phone number in one of her tweets. Seems the break only strengthened her resolve. Because she came back to Twitter to blast Amazon, appealing directly to Jeff Bezos. In a series of tweets, Rose reveals that she By Lainey • Oct 13, 2017 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rotten Tomatoes isn’t the problem This week in non-Harvey news, Martin Scorsese penned an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter about how Rotten Tomatoes is ruining movies and everyone should stop obsessing over box office and Cinemascore and also he liked mother!. Blaming Rotten Tomatoes for a movie’s failure became a favorite pastime this summer— By Sarah • Oct 12, 2017 10:26 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein and the internal investigation Every five minutes, that’s what it felt like yesterday with new Harvey Weinstein developments. There was, however, no update on that internal investigation. And while major celebrities are taking up most of the headlines, there’s also a lot of gossip that’s worth following up on where the By Lainey • Oct 11, 2017 09:27 am
Top Reads Harvey Weinstein & the Hollywood Hierarchy Harvey Weinstein was fired by The Weinstein Company, his own company, on Sunday. Before his termination, he sent a letter to other powerful Hollywood executives, asking for their support. According to The Hollywood Reporter the recipients of his memo included David Zaslav, Discovery Networks CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, the By Lainey • Oct 10, 2017 10:07 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscar meeting For only the second time in the Academy’s history, there was a members-only meeting held last Thursday. According to Deadline, about 300 people attended, and one of the things they talked about was Netflix, and their potential eligibility in future Oscar races. Netflix has managed success at the Emmys, By Sarah • Oct 03, 2017 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s LucasFilm back in the mess As a reminder that DC Films aren’t the only ones having near constant meltdowns, yesterday LucasFilm announced that Colin Trevorrow—of Jurasssic World fame—is no longer directing Star Wars: Episode IX. This comes less than three months after Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired while making the By Sarah • Sep 06, 2017 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio will never be the Joker The Joker madness continues. The latest development came on Friday just before everyone in the US took off for a long weekend, which is less about burying the lede and more about there being so much crazy DC Films news that it just sprays everywhere like a loose water hose. By Sarah • Sep 05, 2017 11:58 am
Business of Hollywood Marky Mark is #1 Forbes has released its annual list of highest paid actors. Coming in at #1 for the first time in his career: Mark Wahlberg, who made $68 million over the last 12 months. This is mostly due to his earnings from Transformers: The Last Knight and Deepwater Horizon which both underperformed By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Patty Jenkins gets PAID A lingering question in the wake of Wonder Woman’s success— biggest movie of the summer, first film directed by a woman to cross $400 million domestically—is when Patty Jenkins would be announced as the director of Wonder Woman 2. She didn’t have a multi-picture deal with Warner By Sarah • Aug 18, 2017 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Han Solo CATASTROPHE Yesterday it was announced—surprising literally EVERYONE—that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are leaving the young Han Solo movie. Yes, that young Han Solo movie, the one starring Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover. The one that is FIVE MONTHS into production. There’s less than a month left By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 10:10 am
