Media Manipulation Nominate her because she’s ugly Two week ago, it was announced that Jennifer Aniston’s Cake, despite screening at TIFF not securing a distributor, would be released in limited run for Oscar qualification by a new company formed by the producers and rumoured to be backed by Aniston herself. She really wants recognition for this By Lainey • Nov 07, 2014 09:26 am
Media Manipulation Jessica Chastain’s Oscar fight Jessica Chastain has two Oscar-buzzy movies coming out—Interstellar this weekend and A Most Violent Year at the end of December. She’s already got good odds on a Supporting Actress nomination with Interstellar, but some Oscar prognosticators think she’s better and more worthy in Violent Year. Also, Interstellar By Sarah • Nov 06, 2014 10:12 am
Weddings Oscar elopement? New cover of US Weekly features Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, an elopement story: Engaged for two years, they still haven’t set a date. Now Aniston’s pushing for an intimate tropical getaway. On the one hand, she’s campaigning for awards consideration for her performance in Cake. Most By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 03:26 pm
Media Manipulation Matthew McConaughey’s 10 Moments and not the SMA On Monday I wrote about PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2014. Click here for a refresher. In short, I thought it would probably be either Matthew McConaughey or Chris Pratt, given the year that both have had. PEOPLE just released its cover for this week. It’s Matthew McConaughey’ By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 11:19 am
Weddings Benedict Cumberbatch is engaged Oh noes… How are you over there Cumber-crazies? You OK with this wakeup call? A notice of engagement appeared in The Times today. Very subtle. Very classy. Very Cumberbatchy. Very fitting of someone called Benedict Cumberbatch. This might be my favourite thing about Benedict Cumberbatch – the way he announced that By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 09:36 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyonce: re-bobbed, GOOP Halloween, and coverage? Beyonce and JayZ (with Ty Ty tagging along) were courtside at Barclay’s last night to watch the Nets. As you can see, she re-bobbed. We’ll come back to these shots in a minute but first… It was reported yesterday that there may be a new secret album drop By Lainey • Nov 04, 2014 04:03 pm
Media Manipulation Carey Mulligan, the “muse” Carey Mulligan covers the December issue of UK Harper’s Bazaar in support of her upcoming role in Suffragette. The part was written specifically with her in mind. She’s a muse. Like so many of the greats, people create for her. Because she can – and does – deliver the most By Lainey • Nov 04, 2014 03:12 pm
Media Manipulation Bale quits Jobs Christian Bale has cut ties with the Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and being directed by Danny Boyle—I refuse to make any Bale/bails puns. This is the same project that potentially has Seth Rogen in to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (a really nice piece of By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 02:29 pm
Quiveration The Jake G charm offensive is going strong Though Nightcrawler opened over the weekend, earning a respectable $10.4 million, Jake Gyllenhaal is still out promoting the movie. Partially because Nightcrawler is the kind of movie that benefits from word of mouth, but also in no small part in service of an Oscar campaign. Jake G’s never By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 12:58 pm
Media Manipulation Jolie Governor? Angelina Jolie. Vanity Fair. God. Those eyes. THAT FACE. The Jolie was photographed for the December issue by Mario Testino. This, of course, is for Unbroken, opening at Christmas and expected to contend for Oscar. They’ve been expecting it to contend for Oscar for a year now. Or, at By Lainey • Nov 04, 2014 09:37 am
Media Manipulation Reese Witherspoon and the McConaughey model First a reminder: Reese Witherspoon’s husband, Jim Toth, is Matthew McConaughey’s agent. Together, he and McConaughey engineered what’s now known as the McConaissance. Perhaps the same game plan is now in place for Reese. Like McConaughey, what Reese is offering is supposed to be a lot more By Lainey • Nov 03, 2014 03:10 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyonce’s second surprise? There’s a rumour going around about a new “surprise” album which… wouldn’t be a surprise anymore if it’s true. Billboard is pointing to a “Release Confirmation” that seems to suggest that Beyonce: Volume 2 is on the way on November 14 (online release) featuring collaborations with Nicki By Lainey • Nov 03, 2014 11:34 am
Media Manipulation Hopeless hustle On Saturday Deadline held “The Contenders” at the Directors Guild of America, a day-long symposium in which every distributor with Oscar hopes presented their award season wares, and many actors and filmmakers showed up to hustle. Most of the actors who showed up have outside chances at best, like newly-minted By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 10:49 am
Media Manipulation Eternal Bennifer Part of it is our fault, why we can’t get over Bennifer – that is, the precious Gossip Artifact that was Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Part of it is their fault. They can’t stop talking about it. JLO’s book True Love comes out tomorrow. You can’t By Lainey • Nov 03, 2014 09:21 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Dr Banner and Tony Stark are honoured Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr were honoured last night at the Britannia Awards in LA. Mark was presented with the Humanitarian Award for his work in advocating for clean water. Because, yes, he’s the best. Always. Even Dame Judi Dench thinks so. RDJ received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia By Lainey • Oct 31, 2014 10:12 am
BFFs Girlfriends & Beer Gwyneth Paltrow has had a great week. Taylor Swift has had an amazing week. She’s been out there hard, pushing 1989. And I’m curious to find out what the first week sales figures are going to be. Because RED was a big number. This one will be a By Lainey • Oct 30, 2014 01:21 pm
