Business of Hollywood Intro for January 12, 2022 Dear Gossips, At the end of 2021, James Franco peeped out of his hidey-hole and gave an interview to Jess Cagle in which he discussed his failures and “blind spot” for power dynamics, highlighted by a class-action lawsuit brought by former students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, who alleged that By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 09:03 am
James Franco James Franco is “blind about power dynamics” On December 22, SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Podcast aired an exclusive hour-long interview with James Franco. It was just before the holidays, as everyone was wrapping up ahead of the Christmas break, and here’s James Franco explaining himself, with all kinds of rationalisations ranging from sex addiction to By Lainey • Dec 28, 2021 10:02 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Oscar host, Megan Fox, and Oh Happy Day At post time, the Academy has still not yet announced a replacement for Kevin Hart as the host of the Oscars. There are rumours that they may decide to go with no host for the Oscars. This is, apparently, not a job that anyone wants. Or is it that no By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 12:14 pm
Douchebags Busy Philipps and the expendability of women Busy Philipps has a book coming out later this month called This Will Only Hurt a Little. In a leaked excerpt she details a Freaks and Geeks on-set confrontation with James Franco in which he shoved her so forcefully she fell and had the wind knocked out of her. As By Sarah • Oct 09, 2018 03:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning No James Franco James Franco was not nominated for Best Actor Oscar this morning. And it’s not like he had an outside chance. Many experts, up to two weeks ago (and even still yesterday), had James on their prediction lists believing that most Academy members had voted before James’s sexual harassment By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 12:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, James Franco was on Seth Meyers last night, one night after Stephen Colbert asked him about the allegations of sexual harassment that have come up again after his win at the Golden Globes. Seth also asked him about the accusations which, again, is certainly not the experience that By Lainey • Jan 11, 2018 09:19 am
Douchebags James Franco has no idea James and Dave Franco were supposed to be featured in a New York TimesTalk event that was scheduled for today which has now been cancelled because of the recent allegations that have come up about James following the Golden Globes. As mentioned the other day, James won the Best Actor By Lainey • Jan 10, 2018 03:48 pm
Golden Globes 2018 James Franco’s Golden Globe stiff-arm James Franco won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy last night for his performance in The Disaster Artist. He pulled his brother, Dave, up on stage with him and also called up Tommy Wiseau. And here’s what happened: Tommy Wiseau trying to give James Franco’s By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 04:37 am
Style Is James Franco hot again? Maybe you never thought he lost his hot. Maybe he was never hot to you to begin with. I had a thing for James Franco around the time of Spider-Man and Pineapple Express. But then James Franco became James Franco, The Artist. The Artist James Franco was intolerable. The Artist By Lainey • Sep 28, 2017 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Franco and the real Disaster Artist The Room is the most popular cult film of the last twenty years, frequently described as the “best worst movie ever made”, and subject of The Disaster Artist, a half-memoir, half-procedural about the making of the movie and the friendship at its center, both on and off screen, between Tommy By Sarah • Sep 13, 2017 12:15 pm
Amazingness Enter The Room I’ll never forget the first time I saw The Room, arguably the worst movie ever made. (It’s up against Manos: The Hands of Fate, a spectacularly bad movie.) I was in college and a friend was talking about this terrible movie playing at a theater in Fairfax, going By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alien: Covenant working for our trust Following the first trailer in December, Alien: Covenant has now released a “prologue film” that’s nearly five minutes long and introduces the crew of the Covenant, particularly Katherine Waterston as Daniels. I really love the look of this, especially how Michael Fassbender is kept outside the festivities. Without making By Sarah • Feb 23, 2017 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston and James Franco in Why Him? Why Him? is more than just a Christmas comedy, and more than a fish-out-of-water, meet-the-family tale. It’s a deep philosophical exploration of the inescapable loneliness that haunts us all, which is inevitably exacerbated by the tide of false cheer and forced goodwill that is the holiday season. Why Him? By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston vs James Franco I watched the new red-band trailer for Why Him? starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco the other day. It’s the first footage I’ve seen of the movie ever. Why Him? opens at Christmas, when you might need to get out of the house, away from your family, and By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nick Jonas is good in Goat One of the approximately one million projects James Franco is producing this year is Goat, an adaptation of Brad Land’s memoir of the same name, recounting his experience with hazing in a fraternity at Clemson University. (The school’s name has been changed in the film, undoubtedly to avoid By Sarah • Sep 30, 2016 01:42 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, August 22, 2016 Katie Holmes confirms that she was in the Hamptons for Jamie Foxx, but also included a #friendship tag. Usually I would find this extremely annoying celebrity behaviour, but considering how she had to ninja her way out of her last marriage, I don’t blame her. I think public declarations By Maria • Aug 22, 2016 01:14 pm
