Blind Riddles Reese Witherspoon’s blind riddle As previously mentioned in the Kerry Washington post, Reese Witherspoon is featured in Entertainment Weekly’s Beyond Beautiful article and drops a blind riddle about opportunities for women in Hollywood: “About four years ago I got sent an awful, terrible script. And this male star was starring in it, and By Lainey • Feb 04, 2016 04:27 pm
Media Manipulation Nate Parker is ready Yesterday Nate Parker landed a record-breaking deal for his film, The Birth of a Nation, at Sundance, which also turned out to be the biggest sale of a complete film at any film festival, ever. Now, some details of the bidding war are coming out. It came down to Netflix By Sarah • Jan 27, 2016 03:22 pm
Business of Hollywood Hollywood had a secret meeting about women which is not weird at all An interesting bit of news came out yesterday that back in October film industry insiders held a two-day think tank to brainstorm ways to promote the interests of women in the industry. The think tank was led by a “facilitation team” who has done similar work for companies like Google By Sarah • Dec 02, 2015 02:06 pm
Business of Hollywood Rihanna’s agency It was announced yesterday that Rihanna has launched Fr8me, her own style and beauty agency. Per THR, Fr8me “assists artists in booking commercials, editorial shoots, ad campaigns and red-carpet gigs”. Several hair and makeup and fashion stylists have already signed on, including Rihanna’s own team. On brand? 100% Rihanna By Lainey • Nov 13, 2015 11:43 am
Business of Hollywood The Goop Guide to Trolling It’s been a Gwyneth-heavy week, month, year. There is no going underground for months at a time when there are jumpsuits to sell. This week, Gwyneth attended the Fast Company Innovation Festival (pics here) – Fast Company, a “leading progressive business media brand”, has been supportive of Goop. And it’ By Maria • Nov 12, 2015 11:36 am
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Lawrence’s power Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter released their studio executive roundtable, an hour-long conversation between the heads of five out of six of the Big Six studios, plus Lionsgate’s Rob Friedman. (Why is Warner Brothers not here?) Of the six execs, two are women—Universal’s Donna Langley, and Fox’s By Sarah • Nov 05, 2015 11:44 am
Girlcrushes Effie Brown and Matt Damon are not super best friends The last time we talked about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s HBO revival of Project Greenlight, it was about #mattsplaining and Damon’s dumb remarks about diversity hiring on a film set, which he directed at Effie Brown, an African-American producer. Now, as the show heads toward its finale, By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 01:09 pm
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Lawrence wanted to be liked As mentioned in today’s blog intro, the new Lenny newsletter includes an essay by Jennifer Lawrence called Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars? This is Jennifer Lawrence, the highest paid actress in Hollywood. Oscar winner. Multiple Oscar nominee. Katniss. Mystique. And she’s still not on By Lainey • Oct 13, 2015 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy ain’t got time for primadonna directors Tom Hardy gave an interview, via Skype, to Vulture and in it he sh*ts all over the idea of directors and basically says they contribute nothing to film. I laughed for a solid five minutes, because cinema is a culture that worships directors and also because Tom Hardy basically By Sarah • Sep 24, 2015 02:59 pm
Style Scarjo’s jeans I saw these new photos of Scarlett Johansson. I wanted to post them and just talk about the jeans. But that would take up all of three lines. And she’s been kinda quiet so I don’t really have any work news to write about. I guess I could By Lainey • Sep 24, 2015 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan walking and Marvel divorce 2.0 Here are some photos of Sebastian Stan walking around. Captain America: Civil War has wrapped, but he’s still got his long Winter Soldier hair, which he’ll probably have to keep at least until the scheduled Civil War reshoots are done in a few months. It also looks like By Sarah • Sep 04, 2015 10:26 am
Media Manipulation Jake G hangs out his shingle After helping to get End of Watch and Nightcrawler made, Jake Gyllenhaal is making it official and opening his own production company. The name of his company is not yet known, but he’s just signed a first-look deal with Bold Films, the production company behind Nightcrawler. He’s also By Sarah • Aug 07, 2015 10:57 am
Famewhores Intro for July 8, 2015 Dear Gossips, NY Mag published an interview yesterday with Rob Shuter, who used to be Jennifer Lopez’s publicist at the end of her relationship with Ben Affleck and Jessica Simpson’s publicist at the end of her marriage to Nick Lachey. Do they call the paps, tell them exactly By Lainey • Jul 08, 2015 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Stromos at the premiere SCOTUS has just ruled in favour of same sex marriage. The Hollywood Reporter posted a story yesterday about Hollywood’s “stromos”, identifying a Hollywood trend among straight actors appealing to the gay audience: Today's stromos are the flip side of gay actors who want to read straight for By Lainey • Jun 26, 2015 10:59 am
Business of Hollywood Rose McGowan loses her agent Rose McGowan tweeted the other day about an audition and the suggested wardrobe. casting note that came w/script I got today. For real. name of male star rhymes with Madam Panhandler hahahaha I die pic.twitter.com/lCWGTV537t— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) June 18, 2015 She subsequently told Entertainment Weekly By Lainey • Jun 25, 2015 03:51 pm
Douchebags Thanks, Ben Affleck PBS has decided to suspend the third season of Finding Your Roots as the result of an internal investigation… Whatever. Basically PBS has suspended the third season of Finding Your Roots because of Ben Affleck. You’ll recall, once he learned that some of his ancestors were slave owners, Ben By Lainey • Jun 25, 2015 11:03 am
