Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF 2017's Most Anticipated Photo: The Oscar Trinity (Brie, Emma, JLaw) Will Take Toronto In less than two weeks, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence and Brie Larson will all be in Toronto to premiere their new films at TIFF... within 24 hours of each other. They’ve all won Best Actress Oscars and they happen to be close friends who namecheck each other in interviews By Joanna • Aug 30, 2017 10:11 am
Business of Hollywood Marky Mark is #1 Forbes has released its annual list of highest paid actors. Coming in at #1 for the first time in his career: Mark Wahlberg, who made $68 million over the last 12 months. This is mostly due to his earnings from Transformers: The Last Knight and Deepwater Horizon which both underperformed By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma & Andrew? Emma Stone is currently in New York shooting Maniac, a series for Netflix costarring Jonah Hill. They started this week and are expected to wrap in November. Before beginning work on Maniac though… was Emma in London? And was she in London to spend time with Andrew Garfield? According to By Lainey • Aug 17, 2017 10:53 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Ashton Kutcher, the “feminist” & the Hawaii Five-0 salary dispute We begin this week’s podcast with a conversation about work posture which somehow devolves into a discussion about sh-tting posture which is a great lead-in to Ashton Kutcher. Today Ashton hosted a live chat on Facebook about gender equality in the workplace, specifically in the tech industry and a By Lainey • Jul 10, 2017 04:11 pm
BFFs Emma Stone, Diane Keaton, and Patty Jenkins I’m not imagining it when I say that Emma Stone has been compared to Diane Keaton, right? I know that she herself has talked openly many times about her admiration for Diane. But, like, people have called Emma an actress in the mold of Diane Keaton, right? Yes, yes, By Lainey • Jun 09, 2017 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone’s should-have-been Oscar The first trailer is here for Battle of the Sexes, documenting the 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, and to quote Lainey, “What was the rush to give [Emma Stone] an Oscar when she still has performances like this.” Of course there’s no knowing, at By Sarah • May 17, 2017 01:23 pm
Amazingness Leo’s eyebrows Oscar night is a beauty pageant, and not just for the women. The women are just more honest about the process. Sharon-Lee Hamilton is, right now, the preferred eyebrow stylist to the stars. She is based in Sydney. And she was flown to LA for Oscar weekend to make sure By Lainey • Feb 28, 2017 11:26 am
Top Reads Emma Stone Has An Oscar Hands up if you like Emma Stone – as an actress, not just a cute personality. Keep them up if you think she’s one of the best of her ‘class’. That is, if you think she can hold her own against Michelle Williams, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Anna Kendrick? Yeah, By Duana • Feb 27, 2017 04:40 pm
Oscars 2017 The Icon’s losing face Meryl Streep is an icon. But Meryl Streep has 20 Oscar nominations and 3 wins. She loses 85% of the time at the Oscars. Which means she’s also used to losing. Isabelle Huppert… I’m not sure Isabelle has that losing percentage. Isabelle just won the Cesar Award on By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 08:31 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Emma's pre-Oscar genie suit Is it because it's green and sparkly that my mind went to genie? Not that I'm complaining. Emma Stone is the favourite to win Oscar tomorrow night. And I think she'll play if safe styles. This is her way of having some fun with By Lainey • Feb 25, 2017 07:27 pm
Style Emma’s best outfit of the season Emma Stone’s award season choices so far have been…kinda…same-same, right? Similar silhouettes, not that much edge? Duana always says I have an award season fashion theory. It’s a theory with two parts. First that they bank their best dresses for the biggest most high profile shows, By Lainey • Feb 13, 2017 03:51 pm
Style Emma & Ryan won’t perform? Oscar Nominees Luncheon yesterday. As you know, La La Land leads with the most. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling were there as Best Actress and Best Actor nominees respectively. La La Land also has two songs in the Best Song category and I wondered a few weeks ago whether or By Lainey • Feb 07, 2017 09:43 am
Award Season Campaigning Emma did her job La La Land was not nominated for Best Ensemble last night by the Screen Actors Guild. It’s still considered the frontrunner for Oscar, especially after winning Best Picture at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, but there was definitely work to be done at the SAGs – and, as Awards By Lainey • Jan 30, 2017 01:18 pm
Natalie Portman The 2017 Vanity Fair Hollywood Portfolio They used to call this the Hollywood Issue, Vanity Fair’s annual February issue ahead of the Oscars featuring, primarily, the outstanding performers from the year that was. For whatever reason, the magazine has rebranded the name but the spirit is the same. In years past, Vanity Fair has been By Lainey • Jan 26, 2017 11:41 am
Music Will Emma and Ryan sing at the Oscars? La La Land has two songs nominated in the Best Song category, City Of Stars and Audition. Both Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling sing on City Of Stars and Emma is on her own on Audition. As you know, the nominated songs are typically performed at the Oscars, often by By Lainey • Jan 25, 2017 03:59 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Icon and The Ingenue The most competitive category at the Oscars this year is Best Actress. It’s been this way since last fall. For several months, the race was defined as Emma Stone versus Natalie Portman. Back in November I wrote about their competition, and that despite Portman’s excellent work in Jackie, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2017 12:10 pm