Business of Hollywood Intro for May 29, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, I wrote about the (many) ills plaguing theatrical exhibition of films at home, on their nice big TVs with their nice sound systems. I get it! Especially when you add in overall comfort, lower cost, optimal snack options, and lack of rude people. Watching movies at home By Sarah • May 29, 2024 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The dismal holiday box office It was Memorial Day weekend in the US, a three-day weekend that often signals the start of summer. For film fans, though, Memorial Day is usually a big movie weekend, dominated by a blockbuster release. Well, not this year. 2024 is the worst Memorial Day box office in almost 30 By Sarah • May 28, 2024 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell kicks off his big summer Hit Man drops on Netflix on June 7, and while I am deep in my “I am mad about Hit Man selling to Netflix even though it was Glen Powell and Richard Linklater who decided to sell it to Netflix and yet I am not mad at THEM” feelings, I By Sarah • May 16, 2024 11:19 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, Everything old is new again, as yesterday Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced they’re partnering for a new streaming bundle that will combine Disney+, Hulu, and Max. This is in addition to a sports bundle coming from Disney/ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox Corp (the part By Sarah • May 09, 2024 09:03 am
TV Updates Intro for April 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s time to talk about AI again! This is going to be an ongoing and ever-evolving conversation, but this week a couple things happened that clearly illustrate the pitfalls of engaging with AI in the entertainment space. First, beloved indie studio A24 used AI to generate some By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinemacon 4-11 CinemaCon drags on, or is it just this week? Yesterday, Paramount held their panel, which is a little weird given that that the studio is currently for sale and several board members are stepping down as the company is engaged in talks with David Ellison’s Skydance for a sale By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 09:50 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for April 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, The billionaire business daddies ended their fight this week, as Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s father got his ass handed to him in the proxy fight for seats on Disney’s board. I originally covered the proxy fight here, basically the whole thing boiled down to former Marvel CEO and By Sarah • Apr 05, 2024 09:18 am
Business of Hollywood Rebel Wilson vs Sacha Baron Cohen Rebel Wilson’s memoir, Rebel Rising, comes out in a few weeks and on Instagram recently she’s been talking about one chapter of the book that details her experience with a “massive asshole” she worked with and then, just this weekend, named the asshole: Sacha Baron Cohen. They worked By Lainey • Mar 25, 2024 02:59 pm
TV Updates Why You Don’t Want To Watch Quiet On Set (TW for coercion, harassment, sexual/mental abuse, and large doses of gaslighting.) Most people who know me weren’t surprised that I watched Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV - it’s a safe bet that I would, and that I would tell them all about it. By Duana • Mar 25, 2024 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Late Night with the Devil, starring That Guy David Dastmalchian as a 1970s late-night host suffering through personal loss and a ratings slide, opens in theaters today (it will stream on Shudder as of April 19). It’s been trending on social media off and on for the By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu are teaming up Once upon a time, Tom Cruise worked with auteur filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, and Michael Mann, pretty regularly, but somewhere in the 2000s he shifted his focus to action blockbusters, and it’s been a long time since he’s made a film that has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 11:14 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, One thing that came up a lot during the height of pandemic lockdowns, movie-wise, was the theater-going experience and saving it from utter destruction in the face of convenient at-home streaming, especially in a pandemic environment. Four years removed from the strictest lockdowns, theatergoing is climbing its way By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian and Matt before the finale Oppenheimer is one of the biggest movies of 2023, it’s a heavy favorite to win a lot of Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and star Cillian Murphy is in a heated competition with Paul Giamatti for Best Actor. But before all that, Cillian is at the Berlinale, By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, One thing I was not looking for this week was more Road House drama, but here we are, it’s Friday, and there is more Road House drama. The first bit of Road House drama is that the trailer for the remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal came out, and By Sarah • Feb 16, 2024 08:59 am
Douchebags The immoral disappearance of Coyote vs Acme Last November, we learned that Warner Bros. Discovery, under the leadership of David Zaslav, the human equivalent of a lumpy motel pillow, was going to shelve yet another film for a tax write-off, this time tanking Coyote vs. Acme—a completed film about Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation By Sarah • Feb 12, 2024 03:32 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Oscars are a month away, so now is a great time to talk about the 2026 Oscars. Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their first new Academy Award category in more than twenty years—since Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2002 (and By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 09:01 am
