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
Business of Hollywood Kevin Feige’s big day Comic Con started yesterday, but before heading to San Diego, almost everyone affiliated with Marvel was at Kevin Feige’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in Los Angeles. His ubiquitous baseball cap and general mien of unshakeable pleasantness makes it easy to forget he’s arguably the most powerful producer By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 11:20 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for July 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Time for a creative industry labor relations update—SAG-AFTRA is striking against video game publishers. The strike went into effect at 12:01 AM this morning and comes after over EIGHTEEN MONTHS of negotiations (and as the World of Warcraft team voted to unionize on the development side By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2024: Infinity Dork It’s that time of year again, when dorks unite in San Diego to celebrate everything geek culture. That’s right, it’s Comic Con. Though it feels different now than it used to, in large part because the sheer dominance of Hall H, where movie studios and TV networks By Sarah • Jul 25, 2024 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool’s final push Deadpool & Wolverine opens at the end of the week, and since I just nailed a box office prediction with Twisters, I’ll try again with this one. Deadpool is tracking for a $160 million opening weekend, but once again I think that’s low, and it will go upwards By Sarah • Jul 23, 2024 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Twisters blew away the box office I said it! Did I not say it?! I did! I said Twisters would beat expectations! Very specifically I said it would make $80 million: “…the $50 million estimate for Twisters feels low, I won’t be surprised if that movie hits around $80 million.” Twisters blew away its opening By Sarah • Jul 22, 2024 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Russo Brothers are returning to Marvel Today in No Duh News, it’s been reported that sibling filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo are returning to Marvel to direct Avengers 5 and 6. This after Shawn Levy, director of Deadpool & Wolverine, was being considered—maybe even offered?—the job, but honestly, the Russos returning makes all By Sarah • Jul 18, 2024 12:51 pm
