Movie Reviews and Previews JK Rowling has poisoned the Fantastic Beasts well Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore opened this past weekend in North America, and in a classic case of diminishing returns, it is the lowest-grossing opening weekend for the Wizarding World spin-off yet. It took in $43 million, with $150 million to date worldwide, for a total gross By Sarah • Apr 18, 2022 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew goes the classy thriller route Kristen Stewart is following up her Best Actress season with a new film, a romantic thriller called Love Lies Bleeding from filmmaker Rose Glass and production company A24. Glass and A24 previously worked together releasing her first feature, Saint Maud (very creepy and centered on an excellent performance by the By Sarah • Apr 14, 2022 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Slap has cursed Hollywood (Thandiwe vs Channing edition) Yesterday afternoon, news broke that Thandiwe Newton was exiting Magic Mike’s Last Dance, filming now in Britain, for “personal reasons” and that Salma Hayek would replace her. The official statement released by Warner Brothers, the studio bankrolling Last Dance, said that Newton “made the difficult decision to step away By Sarah • Apr 14, 2022 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage gets back into comedy As Lainey pointed out yesterday, we’re about to be up to our necks in Nicolas Cage as the press tour for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starts for real. Cage dropped some soundbites with The Hollywood Reporter while at a screening promoting Talent, talking about how director Tom By Sarah • Apr 12, 2022 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is also #Family Fast & Furious 10, alternatively called Fast 10 or Fast10 but not FasTEN, is currently filming and still adding to the cast, as Vin Diesel took to Instagram to announce that Brie Larson is joining the franchise (in an unspecified role), following Jason Momoa’s addition earlier this year (he By Sarah • Apr 11, 2022 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hoyeon and The Governesses Hoyeon Jung is not slowing down. From joining Alfonso Cuaron’s prestige drama series to appearing in The Weeknd’s newest video, Hoyeon stays busy. And she’s adding to her list of upcoming projects with The Governesses, a film adaptation of Anne Serre’s novel of the same name. By Sarah • Apr 08, 2022 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Yeoh (and Michelle Yeoh and Michelle Yeoh) in Everything Everywhere All At Once Michelle Yeoh gets the role(s) of a lifetime in Everything Everywhere All At Once, a genre-bending, mind-bending trip through the multiverse and generational trauma in which she stars as Evelyn, a woman whose life has not panned out the way she planned. After running away with her By Sarah • Apr 08, 2022 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maximum Bayhem in Ambulance Ambulance is at once extremely Michael Bay, and perhaps the first entry into a new phase of the Bay canon, in which Bay, one of the great technical directors of the contemporary era and also one of the most consistently hyper-masculine and patriotic in a way that borders, and By Sarah • Apr 07, 2022 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rowan Blanchard’s super cute Crush Crush is the latest coming-of-age tale to be shunted onto streaming—honestly, I can’t remember the last time I saw a good old-fashioned high school comedy in theaters. Blockers, maybe? Or Love, Simon? Whichever came out first, who can even remember anything that far back, as By Sarah • Apr 07, 2022 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, The #1 movie at the box office this coming weekend will likely be Sonic 2 and I get why. Never saw the first one but every kid I know was and is obsessed with it. And it’s not like I’m all that immersed in kid life By Lainey • Apr 07, 2022 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Returns to 8H Jake Gyllenhaal is currently promoting Ambulance, Michael Bay’s “small movie” - LOL, by Michael Bay standards, I guess that’s true. Jake was at the premiere the other night and this weekend he is returning to Studio 8H, the home of Saturday Night Live. Over the years, he’s made By Lainey • Apr 06, 2022 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whither Thor Love and Thunder Three months from this Friday, Thor Love and Thunder—which is a great title but I’m still sad this isn’t called Th4r—is slated to open in theaters. Marvel used to run on a six-month publicity clock, which meant we’d have a trailer by now, but By Sarah • Apr 05, 2022 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Skarsgard is the latest to tackle The Crow Over the last decade, several movies have escaped development hell, for better or worse. Mad Max: Fury Road leaps to mind in the “better” category, The Dark Tower represents team “worse”. But there is also Uncharted, Alita: Battle Angel, The Man Who Killed Quixote, Deadpool. On a long enough timeline, By Sarah • Apr 04, 2022 02:34 pm
Style Sandra and Channing, Finally! I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Channing Tatum’s been missing from some of the more high-profile promotional events for The Lost City, including the Hollywood premiere. He’s been working on Magic Mike’s Last Dance so the schedule hasn’t allowed for it – but now By Lainey • Apr 01, 2022 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chan and Thandiwe on the Last Dance Filming on the third and final installment of the Magic Mike franchise is now underway in London as Channing Tatum and Thandiwe Newton were seen on set yesterday. Steven Soderbergh is back to direct and the film is called Magic Mike’s Last Dance, not to be confused with The By Lainey • Mar 31, 2022 11:04 am
Top Reads MBJ Directs His Opponent After making his red carpet premiere with Lori Harvey on Oscar night Michael B Jordan was back at work yesterday directing Creed 3. This is his feature directorial debut and it’s an ambitious project considering that, obviously, he’ll be back as Adonis in the third installment of his By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 12:47 pm
