Douchebags Intro for October 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sometimes my folks ask me about movies to decide if they want to bother finding and watching them, such as asking if I’ve heard of “Concave”, aka papal thriller Conclave. So when they asked me about a new Clint Eastwood movie, for which they had seen a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 08:35 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for October 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, Once again I wanted to make dumb jokes about something stupid—specifically, the Hallmark cruise, which is a compendium of personal nightmares, from cruises to hyper-formulaic films—but once again, we have to talk about f-cking TikTok! This time it’s The Wrap publishing a feature titled “Who By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 08:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker’s pratfall The writing was on the wall as the box office tracking went into freefall a couple weeks before the film even opened, but Joker: Folie à Deux tanked over the weekend, opening with just $40 million. For comparison, The Marvels, last year’s widely derided superhero bomb, opened with $46 By Sarah • Oct 07, 2024 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Stephen King saved Salem’s Lot Spooky season, pumpkin spice season, sweater weather time, autumn, fall, whatever your preferred terminology, we’re almost there, and that means it’s time to start looking at trailers for all the scary movies coming in October. Salem’s Lot would be notable at any time, as it is one By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 11:07 am
Douchebags Joaquin is asked The press conference for Joker: Folie à Deux happened today in Venice ahead of its world premiere with director Todd Phillips, Lady Gaga, and Joaquin Phoenix in attendance. This is the role for which Joaquin won his Best Actor Oscar and anticipation is high for the sequel, especially with Gaga’ By Lainey • Sep 04, 2024 12:30 pm
Business of Hollywood Sebastian Stan’s Trump movie got a deal Over the weekend, The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s Donald Trump biopic starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Reviews for the film are (so far) mixed-positive, with many noting its reception depends on one’s personal tolerance for Trump, and whether By Sarah • Sep 03, 2024 10:45 am
Business of Hollywood A New Deal for New Heights Let me do that annoying thing where I quote myself and it’ll be especially irritating because I’m doing it off the top of a post. Back in early July, after Travis Kelce joined Taylor Swift on stage at Wembley and he talked about it later on the New By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 11:44 am
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday this space was dedicated to the DNC production team’s Show Your Work in how they put together a political event that was also a four-day television miniseries. We’re sticking with that today because Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, aka the showrunner and director, did an By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 09:16 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, I WANTED to waste this opening making dumb jokes about Chick-fil-A’s streaming service—a few name suggestions: Chick-Film-A, Hatchling, Nugget—but then a conversation started amongst film critics that deserves a little attention. One year ago, I wrote about the New York Times’ bonkers article about “MovieTok” By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are the publicists okay Today in Has Anyone Checked On The Publicists Lately, Somebody Probably Should news, Lionsgate pulled the latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis because they got caught using fabricated quotes attributed to famous film critics in the trailer. Here’s what happened: Yesterday morning, Lionsgate, the US distributor for By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 01:32 pm
Douchebags Hold Joaquin Phoenix accountable On Friday, news broke that Joaquin Phoenix left the set of Todd Haynes’ upcoming, untitled film. The film, which was five days away from starting production, was the brainchild of Phoenix, who brought his original idea to Todd Haynes and his producers. Haynes then co-wrote the script with writer Jonathan By Sarah • Aug 12, 2024 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George & Amal & Wolfs George Clooney’s latest film, Wolfs, will premiere in a few weeks during the Venice Film Festival. George is already in Italy with Amal and her mother, Baria Alamuddin (the photos are no longer available to us, but you can see them here). Presumably, he’ll be staying in Italy By Sarah • Aug 09, 2024 12:28 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, Get ready for another round of doom and gloom headlines, because movie studios are reporting their second-quarter financials and it’s bad news. The worst news is from Warner Bros. Discovery, which reported a $9.1 billion write down mostly stemming from value lost on traditional linear television By Sarah • Aug 09, 2024 09:09 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, Variety released their “young Hollywood impact report” this week, naming up-and-comers like Iain Armitage, Hunter Schafer—who has horror-thriller Cuckoo opening this month—Kaia Gerber, Merrily We Roll Along star Maya Boyd, Heartstopper stars Joe Locke and Kit Connor, NewJeans, Dominic Sessa, and Cailee Spaeny of the upcoming By Sarah • Aug 08, 2024 09:41 am
Top Reads Jimmy and John say “No” to the Oscars Matthew Belloni at Puck broke the story yesterday that Jimmy Kimmel will not be returning to host the Oscars. But first a note on Matthew and Puck as Sarah and I posted about Puck’s place in the celebrity media ecosystem back in February at The Squawk. Puck has quickly By Lainey • Jul 30, 2024 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s much-needed big weekend Ha! I am right once again! After correctly predicting Twisters would beat its box office expectations, I said Deadpool & Wolverine would beat expectations, too, defying the $160 million opening weekend projection to come in around $200 million. Indeed, Deadpool & Wolverine opened with a monster $205 million (domestically), which By Sarah • Jul 29, 2024 11:20 am
