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
Hollywood Strike 2023 Keanu three times We have been seeing so much of Keanu lately! He was out with friends on Halloweekend, and then at the LACMA Art + Film Gala with his partner, Alexandra Grant. Yesterday, he grabbed coffee with friends in LA. Three times in a week! And just as the SAG-AFTRA strike might really By Sarah • Nov 08, 2023 12:18 pm
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
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
Dumbass Glen Powell is a Halloween scab Everyone was making fun of the SAG-AFTRA leadership for issuing guidelines about not dressing as movie characters from struck work for Halloween, but they knew what they were doing, because the Casamigos Halloween party was held over the weekend and guess what? A bunch of people dressed like movie characters By Sarah • Oct 30, 2023 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is still waiting for his turn The full trailer for Maestro is here, showing off Bradley Cooper’s passion project about composer Leonard Bernstein. Casting misgivings aside, this movie does look really good, and I am so curious to see it because reviews from fall festivals have been strong, but a couple people whose taste I By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 11:30 am
Business of Hollywood The A-listers are on notice On Friday, I mentioned a meeting between some A-list actors and the leadership of the SAG-AFTRA union. The purpose of this meeting was to, among other things, put forward a proposal to restructure residual payments and remove the dues cap for high-earning actors, in the hopes of “closing the gap” By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 09:33 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, As Lainey mentioned in What Else? yesterday, SAG-AFTRA has issued guidelines for Halloween costumes during the strike, which basically amount to “don’t dress up as a movie or TV character”. It sounds sort of killjoy-ish, but I wonder if they did so because they’re getting questions By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 09:08 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Chris Evans on Marriage and Dodger Chris Evans was among the many stars in New York this weekend for New York Comic-Con. It’s a tricky time for actors to be appearing at events like this. SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, and talks have broken off between the guild and the AMPTP, with union president Fran By Lainey • Oct 16, 2023 11:57 am
Business of Hollywood Strike setback After nearly two weeks of negotiations, and rising hope that the SAG-AFTRA strike would end sooner rather than later—a setback. Last night, AMPTP announced the negotiations are “suspended”. Now, take this with a grain of salt, because it is all coming from the management side, and as of this By Sarah • Oct 12, 2023 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels countdown is on The Marvels opens in one month. While I am still reeling from the sudden end of summer, the fall movie season is barreling down on us. It’s going to be a light one, as some big movies, notably Dune: Part Two, moved out of 2023 to fill gaps in By Sarah • Oct 11, 2023 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors finally figured it out As we learned after a summer of strikes, actors are not supposed to promote struck work, which is any project, film or television, produced and/or distributed by one of the 32 companies belonging to AMPTP. But as we saw earlier this week when Bradley Cooper attended a New York By Sarah • Oct 05, 2023 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The actors are getting on with it Behold! A rare strike-era movie premiere appears. Not a festival premiere, but an actual, honest to goddess red carpet for a new film. Rebecca Miller’s new film, She Came To Me, has an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA, so the cast was able to attend the screening in New York By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:55 am
