Douchebags New year, new bad man New year, new day, new bad man alert! On December 21, 2023, Asta Jonasson filed a lawsuit in California against Vin Diesel alleging, in part, sexual battery and wrongful termination. In 2010, Ms. Jonasson was hired to work as an assistant to Diesel, who was in Atlanta filming Fast Five. By Sarah • Jan 02, 2024 01:29 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! I had a moment of disbelief just now as I created a new file on my laptop labelled “2024”. Really?! How are we already 24 years past the year 2000?! It just keeps speeding by, and there’s no time to waste, because we’re By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 09:13 am
Business of Hollywood Another ill-advised merger Today in Thanks, I Hate It news, David Zaslav and Bob Bakish reportedly met (over lunch) earlier this week to discuss a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global. Zaslav you know as the guy who gets booed everywhere he goes, and Bakish was named CEO of Viacom in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 09:46 am
Business of Hollywood Charmed competition Holly Marie Combs is shedding light on the drama that unfolded behind the scenes during her time on Charmed. This week, she appeared on former castmate Shannen Doherty’s podcast, Let’s Be Clear, for the second part of a discussion about their experience doing the show. During the episode, By Stephanie • Dec 19, 2023 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron’s should-be nomination The Iron Claw is one of the hundred movies premiering in the next week—December is always a clusterf-ck but it feels extra bad this year and I can’t decide if it’s because there IS a glut of films premiering late due to the strikes, or I’m By Sarah • Dec 12, 2023 11:18 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, Let’s check in on the world of VFX where everything is always terrible. Guess what? Still terrible! Despite some positive progress toward creating a more equitable, less toxic work environment for VFX artists—at least in the US, the situation remains very dire for many non-US workers— By Sarah • Nov 30, 2023 09:00 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, In the ongoing “state of cinema” conversation, which has mostly been reduced to Marvel nerds yelling at Martin Scorsese for not liking cape sh-t, Christopher Nolan has entered the chat with a very measured response and sensible perspective. What! Someone being sensible about a topic we love yelling By Sarah • Nov 27, 2023 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Last week in Friday’s What Else, I mentioned that Warner Bros. Discovery was going to shelve another completed film for a tax write-off, the victim being live action/animation hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme for all its faulty products which By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended, there are two things left to do: 1) an all-out awards season bonanza, and 2) figure out what the f-ck the 2024 film slate is going to be. Let’s talk about the latter. Some films, like Dune: Part Two, have By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 9, 2023 Dear Gossips, The second strike is over! The SAG-AFTRA strike officially ended at 12:01 AM today, Thursday, November 9, 2023. The SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical committee voted unanimously to approve the deal on Wednesday, the work stoppage ends today, and tomorrow, the deal goes to the union’s national board By Sarah • Nov 09, 2023 09:10 am
Business of Hollywood Strike end in sight? Over the weekend, AMPTP launched their “last, best, and final” offer to SAG-AFTRA, but the actors’ side was quick to clarify one of the major hurdles after weeks of negotiating between the guild and the AMPTP. Unsurprisingly, it’s coming down to AI protections for actors. In that “last, best, By Sarah • Nov 08, 2023 10:41 am
Business of Hollywood Timmy Chalamet from New York to LA Timothee Chalamet is having a busy week. He was just in New York at the WSJ’s Innovator Awards, ostensibly to present to honoree Martin Scorsese—and kinda-sorta scab while doing it—but he was also there with his girlfriend, another honoree, Kylie Jenner (someone please clarify what Kylie has By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, I was going to use this intro to make jokes about Joe Biden reportedly getting serious about AI concerns after seeing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One—not “Chubb Insurance” funny, but close—but then more things happened this week. For one thing, HBO honcho Casey Bloys copped By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 08:53 am
Dumbass Bradley Cooper said hold my beer I have been annoyed at Glen Powell since the weekend for dressing as Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights for the Casamigos Halloween party. Talladega Nights is owned by Sony, an AMPTP member company and thus, a struck company. The SAG-AFTRA leadership specifically asked members NOT to dress as characters from By Sarah • Nov 01, 2023 09:32 am
Business of Hollywood The post-Halloween strike situation As we saw over the weekend, some SAG-AFTRA members did not heed the guideline about dressing as characters from struck work for the spookiest Halloween (still so disappointed in Glen Powell). Megan Fox actually went as far as tagging SAG-AFTRA in an Insta post of her Kill Bill look. You By Sarah • Oct 31, 2023 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio: Halloween’s Laziest On the plus side, Leonardo DiCaprio was not a Halloween scab. On the downside, Leonardo DiCaprio did as he always does for Halloween: hit up every single party and put in the least amount of effort on his costume. Every year he shows up in a hoodie and jeans and By Lainey • Oct 30, 2023 10:42 am
