Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Ballerina The box office is dog sh-t right now, and five years post-COVID (the start of it, I know it’s still around, a part of life now), movie-going still hasn’t recovered. Live sporting and music events are booming, Broadway is 95% back to pre-pandemic business, but movies are still By Sarah • Mar 20, 2025 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, Today in What is Going On With David Zaslav’s Weird Anti-Toon Agenda, there is an update regarding Coyote vs. Acme and it is actually GOOD. Per Deadline, hilariously named distributor Ketchup Entertainment is negotiating a deal to buy Coyote vs. Acme for an estimated $50 million from By Sarah • Mar 20, 2025 08:58 am
TV Updates Intro for March 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, A thing I find myself saying a LOT lately is “may they never know peace”. I try not to wish ill on anyone directly, because I believe in the threefold rule, which says that whatever energy you put out into the universe will be returned upon you three By Sarah • Mar 17, 2025 09:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, Lainey wrote about Ne Zha 2, the animated Chinese film breaking box office records and “shocking the movie industry”. Well, the industry shocks continue as Ne Zha 2 has crossed $2 billion at the box office, becoming the first non-Hollywood film to break By Sarah • Mar 14, 2025 09:12 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, In 2012, Kathleen Kennedy was named co-chair of LucasFilm alongside George Lucas. Then, when Lucas sold his company to Disney, Kennedy was promoted to sole president of LucasFilm. Ever since then, Kathleen Kennedy has been the top dog at LucasFilm. Now, though, her reign is rumored to be By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 09:11 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big news in Bond yesterday as it was announced that Amazon MGM has taken over creative control of the 007 franchise. This comes a couple months after The Wall Street Journal ran an article about how Bond is “trapped in an ugly stalemate” between producers Barbara Broccoli and By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 09:18 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 7, 2025 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Marvel debuted the teaser for its much anticipated film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps. In its first twenty-four hours, the teaser racked up 202 million views, the best trailer debut for a non-sequel Marvel film ever. That’s great news for Marvel, but three days By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 08:58 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, It was a week ago today that the Palisades fire broke out and it remains largely uncontained. High winds over the next few days are challenging the progress that firefighters have made as another fire, the Auto fire had burned through 56 acres as of this morning. As By Lainey • Jan 14, 2025 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Violet reunite Normally, I would not have much to say about Ben Affleck standing around outside, but, well, due to the ongoing and very serious wildfires around LA interrupting publicity schedules, it’s this or pictures of B-list celebrities at the farmer’s market, so…here is Ben Affleck with Violet Affleck, By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 12:04 pm
Business of Hollywood Blake Lively’s December Surprise Trigger warning for sexual harassment, bullying, and emotional abuse. This post was co-written by Lainey and Sarah One of the biggest stories in entertainment this year happened back in the summer around the release of the movie It Ends With Us, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s book of the same By Lainey • Dec 23, 2024 08:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, During the summer, critics heaped praise on JT Mollner’s serial killer horror flick Strange Darling, but that did not translate into box office, as the film made only $3.7 million, slightly less than its reported budget of $4 million. Films fail to find their audience all By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the heels of the Critics Choice Awards kinda-sorta accidentally excluding Last Week Tonight from the talk show category, we have another awards show “controversy”, this time involving Dune: Part II and the Golden Globes. The “controversy” is that Dune 2 was not nominated for the Cinematic and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 09:43 am
Award Season Campaigning The farcical Golden Globes Awards season is in full swing with the Golden Globes nominations just announced, but before we dive into these nominations, there are two points of order to address. Point the first – why are we still doing this? The Golden Globes and their voting body, once called the Hollywood Foreign Press By Sarah • Dec 09, 2024 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Moana + the Witches = Big Holiday Box Office Hello, it is I, the box office doom fairy, back once again to talk about The State Of Things! Which right now is Not Terrible, thanks to the double whammy of family-friendly fare playing during the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend—and perhaps a desire to escape the house and unpleasant By Sarah • Dec 02, 2024 09:38 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Back in 2021, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, host of the Golden Globes, was rocked by controversy, which very nearly was the end of the Globes. But while the HFPA was ultimately dissolved, the Golden Globes bounced back as a for-profit organization owned by billionaire Todd Boehly, who By Sarah • Nov 22, 2024 09:28 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, At the end of October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences laid off 16 employees, all from the AMPAS archive and the Margaret Herrick Library, which houses millions of film artifacts. Now, filmmakers from the indie space are sounding the alarm about the potential harm to By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 09:36 am
