Movie Reviews and Previews Is Rogue One in trouble? A report on Page Six came out last night that Disney is in a “panic” over Stars Wars: Rogue One not testing well, and has ordered four weeks of reshoots to tweak the movie. Four weeks of reshoots would be expensive and quite extensive, and it wouldn’t be unprecedented. By Sarah • May 31, 2016 12:16 pm
Business of Hollywood Working with auteurs made Chloe Sevigny hate directors Chloe Sevigny is doing the rounds for her new movie, Love & Friendship, and while promoting it she gave an interview to The Guardian in which she says that working with auteurs has given her “a total disdain for directors” that is “very strong, very deep”. “Auteur” is one of By Sarah • May 17, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Being asked about Woody As Sarah wrote in her post about Woody Allen earlier today, Ronan Farrow aimed to criticise the media for not raising the Woody Allen issue in a situation involving Woody Allen, for not addressing the allegations against him so as not to compromise celebrity access and future coverage around other By Lainey • May 12, 2016 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woody Allen Problem A reader named Regina emailed me and asked, “Why are we not ready for Mel Gibson to come back but we’ll still embrace Woody Allen’s films?” Turns out Regina has something in common with Ronan Farrow, because he’s asking the same question. The Hollywood Reporter provided Farrow By Sarah • May 12, 2016 10:14 am
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda: the answer? Yesterday I posted about Justin Timberlake, Trolls, and Can’t Stop The Feeling, whether or not the song would be his Oscar. And then a reader called Stefanie wrote to remind me that Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the music for Disney’s Moana, opening in November, just a couple of By Lainey • May 11, 2016 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoe Saldana’s 1st appearance since Nina controversy Zoe Saldana made her first big public appearance at Monday’s MET Gala since the controversy surrounding her role as Nina Simone and the release of the film Nina. When I first saw her gown, I thought “damnnn girl.” It’s STUNNING. I simultaneously want to wear it and have By Kathleen • May 04, 2016 04:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o Defends Broadway For most of yesterday morning, we were obsessing over Lupita Nyong’o’s hair at the Met Gala. I’m still not over it. Here’s what she just Instagrammed this morning about her inspiration: Hair Inspiration. Check. @vernonfrancois @voguemagazine #metball2016 A video posted by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) By Kathleen • May 04, 2016 11:31 am
Girly Throw Downs Drama at Live! I’m sure you’ve heard about what’s happening at Live! with Kelly and Michael. Kelly Ripa apparently found out after the show on Tuesday that Michael Strahan would be leaving their show to be on Good Morning America, and supposedly she’s so pissed about not being told By Lainey • Apr 21, 2016 12:56 pm
Media Manipulation And so the Warner Bros. shuffle begins After the antipathetic public reaction to Superhero Face Punch, it seemed inevitable that Warner Brothers would have to make some changes to their plans for the DC Extended Universe, which is what they’re calling their cinematic universe. But they stuck with Zack Snyder as the director of The Justice By Sarah • Apr 06, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde was “too old” Olivia Wilde was on Howard Stern this week. She’s promoting Vinyl, which I haven’t started watching yet, and I should, but again – there is SO MUCH GOOD TV! Anyway, she starts talking about working with Martin Scorsese (he’s producing Vinyl) and reveals that she auditioned for Wolf By Lainey • Mar 16, 2016 04:12 pm
Business of Hollywood Mindy Kaling: artist and activist Ahead of the Oscars, the New York Times has just published a piece called What It’s Really Like To Work In Hollywood (if you’re not a straight white man) featuring commentary from 27 industry players sharing their experiences in their own words. Queen Latifah is there. Julia Roberts By Lainey • Feb 24, 2016 01:48 pm
Business of Hollywood Rooney Mara is wishy-washy on whitewashing It is not my preference to go after actors in the ongoing #OscarsSoWhite and the Hollywood diversity crisis. (Want to be depressed? Read this super sad and regressive study of diversity within industry ranks from the studio C-suites on down.) But actors are usually the most visible people connecting a By Sarah • Feb 23, 2016 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool restores Ryan Reynolds Deadpool had a crazy weekend at the box office, destroying every record for February no matter which way you slice it—opening day, single day, Thursday preview, R-rated debut, the four-day President’s Day weekend frame. For the three-day weekend it’s pulled an estimated $135 million, with $150-160 million By Sarah • Feb 15, 2016 10:04 am
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
