Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sort of showed up The New York Film Festival kicked off over the weekend, and one of the marquee films featured at the fest is Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, the biopic of Leonard Bernstein which he directs, stars in, and co-wrote (with Josh Singer). Though the directors and now writers have new deals with By Sarah • Oct 03, 2023 11:43 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 29, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oh no, the worst possible unintentional outcome occurred—the studios/streamers banded together to form a lobbying group. Far from AMPTP splitting up—damn, I was hoping for that, honestly—Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and other studios with streaming interests have formed the Streaming Innovation Alliance (SIA) By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 09:17 am
Business of Hollywood It’s the actors’ turn The writers’ strike officially ended at midnight, as the WGA West and East leadership voted to recommend the tentative agreement reached with AMPTP over the weekend. Next comes ratification by the guild membership, which will occur from October 2-9. The new mutual bargaining agreement is effective from September 25, 2023, By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 09:15 am
TV Updates Strike cleanup As we wait for the WGA to ratify their tentative new mutual bargaining agreement, here are some housekeeping notes as the writers’ strike winds down. First, while scripted shows, and films, will be slower to come back, with production delays likely to continue for at least another month as the By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 01:49 pm
Top Reads Half the strike is over After five days of negotiations, following 146 days of striking, the WGA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year mutual bargaining agreement between screenwriters and the studios. The deal is still “subject to drafting final contract language”, per a statement WGA leadership sent to their By Sarah • Sep 25, 2023 09:34 am
Business of Hollywood Schrödinger's strike As Lainey mentioned, the latest word on the strikes is “encouraging yet suspicious”. Suspicious because the only reports are from unnamed sources undoubtedly coming from the AMPTP side—because it’s the same three trades owned by Penske Media, which also owns Dick Clark Productions, an AMPTP member company, publishing By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 01:01 pm
Music So much *NSYNC Another day, another *NSYNC headline. Yesterday everyone jumped on the story about them recreating a photo from back in the early days. PEOPLE covered it, EW covered it, it was in Rolling Stone, you get the point. Today, it’s Hot Ones. The Hot Ones episode featuring all five members By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 10:15 am
Hollywood Strike 2023 Intro for September 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, The WGA and the AMPTP met yesterday and then issued a joint statement: Joint Statement from WGA and AMPTP: The WGA and AMPTP met for bargaining today and will meet again tomorrow. #WGAStrike — Writers Guild of America West (@WGAWest) September 21, 2023 This is, no doubt, encouraging. The By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 09:50 am
TV Updates Vanna secured her bag (for now) Just two months after securing a lawyer amid her fight for fair compensation for her long-standing role on Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White has officially inked a deal to remain on the show through the summer of 2026. Last week, the show returned for its latest season as Vanna demanded By Stephanie • Sep 20, 2023 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, As Sarah has been saying for several months now, and as we approach the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, we are at the start of Lily Gladstone season. To be clear, Lily Gladstone won’t just be around for a season, of course, because she is By Lainey • Sep 20, 2023 10:02 am
TV Updates Drew Barrymore got on the right side What a week it’s been for Drew Barrymore. Last weekend, she announced she would be resuming tapings of her daytime talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show. This was not met well, to say the least. Then, on Friday, she posted an apology on Instagram—it was a bad week By Sarah • Sep 18, 2023 10:02 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 15, 2023 Dear Gossips, The writers’ strike is entering its 20th week, and things are happening, none of it particularly good. Drew Barrymore is resuming her daytime talk show, with The Talk and The Jennifer Hudson Show following suit. Bill Maher is also resuming Real Time without writers. Bill Maher sucks so By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 08:54 am
Top Reads Margot on the picket line SAG-AFTRA organised a rally yesterday from Netflix Studios to Paramount Studios and it looked like a strong turnout. The reason they did it yesterday is because it marked exactly two months since the union issued the strike on July 13. Since then SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have not met a By Lainey • Sep 14, 2023 09:30 am
TV Updates Drew Barrymore chose a (wrong) side It looks like the fallout from Drew Barrymore’s decision to resume production on her talk show is not easing up anytime soon. There’s been a flurry of activity since she made the announcement in an Instagram post over the weekend that her show would be picking back up By Stephanie • Sep 13, 2023 12:44 pm
BFFs Chris Evans and Alba Baptista are married Page Six broke the news yesterday – Chris Evans and Alba Baptista got married in Boston over the weekend. Per Page Six, “an insider tells us the nuptials were “locked down tight,” as guests signed NDAs and phones were forfeited.” Well how tight could it have been locked down if was By Lainey • Sep 11, 2023 10:37 am
Business of Hollywood The CEOs are squabbling again Fall film festival season is underway, with Venice ongoing, Telluride occurring over the weekend, and TIFF kicking off this Thursday. In the midst of what should be cinema’s most glamorous fortnight, the double strike continues unabated. If anything, we’re going backwards after a series of recent false starts By Sarah • Sep 05, 2023 11:06 am
