Movie Reviews and Previews Julia and Ethan: All these years later Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke were papped yesterday on the set of their new Netflix film, Leave the World Behind. Julia is once again working with Sam Esmail who is directing and adapting the project based on Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed novel by the same name. Mahershala Ali also stars By Lainey • May 18, 2022 10:06 am
Style George Clooney does the Running Man? We’ve been posting about CinemaCon in Vegas all week and yesterday it was Universal’s turn to preview their upcoming titles for theatre owners. Footage that was shown at CinemaCon is exclusive, to make it extra special for the people there getting an advance preview of what they’ll By Lainey • Apr 28, 2022 12:49 pm
Top Reads Julia Roberts: Interview with a Movie Star David Marchese has come up often both on this site and on the Show Your Work podcast because he belongs to the Top Gun class of interviewers – every David Marchese interview is a banger. And this latest with Julia Roberts for the New York Times is no exception. Julia is By Lainey • Apr 19, 2022 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney: On Ben, Brad, and Julia When George Clooney returned to LA a couple of weeks ago after the COVID situation in Australia shut down production on his latest film, Ticket to Paradise, I wrote that it could be an opportunity to campaign behind the scenes for Ben Affleck’s performance in The Tender Bar. Indeed By Lainey • Jan 31, 2022 01:23 pm
Julia Roberts George and Julia work on Paradise George Clooney and Julia Roberts and their families are spending the holidays in Australia, as the two have been at work for over a month now working on Ticket to Paradise. And it looks like there’s no break in the production schedule for Christmas – the two were seen on By Lainey • Dec 29, 2021 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews How Tall is Julia Roberts in Ocean’s 11? Oceans 11 came out 20 years ago this week. Read my post from yesterday on the film and its influence here. And now, it is I, Real Science Person Doing Real Science, back to answer a singular question plaguing our land for far too long: How tall IS Julia Roberts By Sarah • Dec 08, 2021 03:34 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Ocean’s 11 at 20 Heist movies never go out of style because people LOVE heists. And in 2001, Ocean’s 11 combined everyone’s natural interest in heists with superstar glamor in a moment shadowed by tragedy—Ocean’s 11 premiered three months after September 11th—but not yet touched by post-recession distaste for By Sarah • Dec 07, 2021 02:03 pm
Gorgessity Julia at 54 Today is Julia Roberts’s 54th birthday. She is spending it in Sydney, Australia where she’ll be filming Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney. Here she is in her pyjamas with friends and crew a couple of days ago, the day after her arrival. They’re all in quarantine By Lainey • Oct 28, 2021 09:49 am
Gossip Nostalgia Julia and Danny’s New York walk Julia Roberts and Danny Moder were seen in New York yesterday holding hands. Their outfits make it seem like this is fall weather – but we are not here to talk about temperatures. Julia and Danny are seldom papped together, so these are pretty rare photos. And even though she’s By Lainey • Aug 03, 2021 09:07 am
Cannes 2021 The Essence of Julia Roberts in Cannes Sean Penn is in Cannes with his film Flag Day. He directs and stars with his daughter, Dylan, in her feature film debut, which is why he was emotional the other night at the premiere during the four minute ovation. Danny Moder is the cinematographer on this film, taking a By Lainey • Jul 14, 2021 12:07 pm
Business of Hollywood You had me at “Clooney-Roberts rom-com” Have you re-watched Ocean’s 11 recently? It TOTALLY holds up. Ocean’s 12 holds up, too. As far as I am concerned, there are only three Ocean’s movies, 8, 11, and 12, and I have re-watched them all (they were on Netflix, now they’re on HBO Max) By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:16 am
Gossip Nostalgia Brad and Jen: Fast Times and Flirty So the Fast Times at Ridgemont High celebrity table-read for charity was streamed last night. Let’s not pretend that people were interested in anything other than Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reuniting, sort of. The roles that the stars would be reading was not released ahead of time. As By Lainey • Sep 18, 2020 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, When was the last time you watched The Pelican Brief? For all you babies out there too young to know what I’m talking about, The Pelican Brief is a political thriller adapted from John Grisham’s book starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts. I don’t remember By Lainey • Jul 21, 2020 09:03 am
Julia Roberts Julia’s Masked Message The last time we checked in on Julia Roberts she was “passing the mic” to Dr Anthony Fauci on her Instagram about COVID-19, using her platform to help educate and inform. Today she’s using her platform in allyship: Julia Roberts has been America’s Sweetheart for 30 years. Think By Lainey • May 29, 2020 01:47 pm
Top Reads Julia Roberts, the Dr Fauci Fangirl #PassTheMic is a campaign where celebrities “pass the mic” aka their social media accounts and expose their followers to experts and frontline workers so that they can share ACCURATE information about COVID-19 since, um, certain leaders aren’t. Some of the big names participating are Hugh Jackman, Danai Gurira, David By Lainey • May 21, 2020 02:01 pm
BFFs Julia’s Met Gala Flashback As we know, yesterday was supposed to be the Met Gala. So last night, all kinds of celebrities and civilians were sharing their Met Gala memories or giving us some insight into what they might have worn if there was a Met Gala this year. Maria covered some of that By Lainey • May 05, 2020 03:57 pm
