Business of Hollywood Deadpool trolls the Disney-Fox merger Yesterday it was announced that Disney and 20th Century Fox are merging, after a month of speculation and on/off talks. The deal comes as Fox spins off its movie and TV divisions, handing Disney their studio and television package which includes the FX networks, National Geographic channel, stakes in By Sarah • Dec 15, 2017 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The DC holiday shuffle It was inevitable, and like clockwork, it arrived just before the holidays, when Warner Brothers likes to do their firing: an executive shuffle at DC Films. Jon Berg, who was co-president of production and oversaw DC, is exiting his executive role to become an on-the-lot producer. Apparently, he started talking By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The 100 Club That’s what they’re called now, it is known. They are the three women directing $100 million-plus movies for Disney: Ava DuVernay, Niki Caro, and Anna Boden. DuVernay, of course, is directing A Wrinkle In Time, due in the spring. Niki Caro is tackling the live-action Mulan, and Boden By Sarah • Dec 07, 2017 12:57 pm
Business of Hollywood An agency takes action It’s what we’ve been waiting for, right? For someone to do something, ANYTHING, as the Hollywood sex scandal rolls on. There have been some high profile firings, yes. But real, systemic change? Hasn’t happened yet. In fact, there are signs it might not happen at all. (This By Sarah • Dec 06, 2017 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Singer got fired Following his vanishing act from the set of Bohemian Rhapsody, and to the surprise of no one, Fox has fired Bryan Singer as director of the film. A replacement is expected to be named within days, and that person will then finish the film—with about two weeks left on By Sarah • Dec 05, 2017 12:37 pm
Business of Hollywood Someone got a pass In the immediate wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Terry Crews shared a story about being groped at a party by a “high level Hollywood executive”. That executive turned out to be WME power broker Adam Venit, who was subsequently suspended from work. Well guess what? After a thirty-day suspension, By Sarah • Nov 28, 2017 11:57 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 22, 2017 Dear Gossips, John Lasseter is a big f-cking deal. John Lasseter is the head of Pixar. Pixar is a big f-cking deal. John Lasseter and Pixar make a lot of money for a lot of people. Think of all those movies – Toy Story, Frozen, Cars, Dory, etc etc etc. And By Lainey • Nov 22, 2017 09:02 am
Top Reads Harvey’s list, Jeffrey quits, and Terry’s receipts As if we could go a single weekend without adding to the Hollywood Predator population. Let’s start, though, with the first perp, Harvey Weinstein. The Guardian this weekend reported that Harvey had a “secret hitlist” of names that he and his investigators were targeting in an attempt to kill By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 03:04 pm
Gross Everyone quits Louis C.K. In a pattern now recognizable thanks to Kevin Spacey, everyone has quit Louis C.K. The List of Abandonment includes FX, with whom C.K. had a production deal; APA, the agency that represented his comedy tours; longtime publicist Lewis Kay; and 3 Arts Entertainment, home of his manager, Dave By Sarah • Nov 13, 2017 09:15 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 10, 2017 Dear Gossips, The Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar opened up a new door yesterday and spat out Louis CK. Exactly five weeks ago yesterday, The New York Times broke open the story about Harvey Weinstein. It was a Thursday. Yesterday, also a Thursday, they confirmed what the whisper network (Gawker and By Lainey • Nov 10, 2017 08:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deleting Kevin Spacey As the allegations against Kevin Spacey have mounted, companies affiliated with him have started cutting ties. Netflix is moving forward without him in what is now House of Cards' final season, and they dumped a biopic of Gore Vidal in which he was set to star. And now, in By Sarah • Nov 09, 2017 11:30 am
Dumbass Disney’s dumb power play Disney has had quite the week. On the one hand, Thor: Ragnarok is champagne-toasting success, but on the other hand, they stumbled into an incredibly stupid and ill-timed power play with the LA Times. As Lainey mentioned briefly yesterday, it all started with an investigative report about Disney’s dealings By Sarah • Nov 08, 2017 08:58 am
Douchebags Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, and more shady connections I briefly considered titling this post “The Daily Sexual Harassment Roundup”. But I worried that that would seem insensitive. And I don’t want to be insensitive. I want to make a point that this is what’s happening now: that the list of sexual harassers and predators in Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 01:20 pm
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
