Maple Leaf Rachel & Jamie on the move It’s been a while since we’ve seen Rachel McAdams. Here she is at LAX yesterday. Not pictured but present, Jamie Linden, her boyfriend. Since she and Jamie started dating, it feels to me like she’s been spending more time in Los Angeles. Before, if she didn’t By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman in love As CinemaCon rolls on, it was Wonder Woman’s turn on center stage, with new footage debuted with Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins on hand to promote the film (Gal Gadot just had a baby and was not there). The footage showed Diana and Steve Trevor (Pine) getting to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 11:14 am
Music JT at the race Yesterday in Smutty Social Media Maria featured this photo that Pharrell posted on Instagram: ... A post shared by Pharrell Williams (@pharrell) onMar 28, 2017 at 7:46pm PDT Justin Timberlake has collaborated with Pharrell and Timbaland many times. And it’s no secret that the three have been working for By Lainey • Mar 30, 2017 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F8: Beefcakes beefing Remember when The Rock was throwing Insta-shade at an “unnamed castmate” while making F8 of the Furious, and it turned out to be about Vin Diesel? Well, F8 had its CinemaCon presentation yesterday, and guess who wasn’t part of it? Dwayne Johnson (even though he was on hand to By Sarah • Mar 30, 2017 10:12 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Clooneys in London and Vegas Amal Clooney stepped out in London today to give a speech on war crimes in Syria and Iraq at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, telling the room that: “Not one ISIS militant has faced trial for international crimes anywhere in the world… Why is it that nothing By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 03:20 pm
Thinnification Countdown to Young Johnny Less than two months to go now to the release of the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie: Johnny Depp needs money. They screened it at CinemaCon in Vegas yesterday and, according to Variety, the movie was well-received by theatre owners – in particular Johnny Depp’s return as Captain Jack By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Good Jupiter Ascending When the first trailer for Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets debuted, I said it remained to be seen whether or not it’s more Guardians of the Galaxy or Jupiter Ascending. Well, a new trailer premiered at CinemaCon, and this one gives us more of a sense of the By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Love CinemaCon continues in Vegas, and it was Paramount’s turn to give the ol’ razzle-dazzle yesterday. The best they could come up with was Transformers: The Last Knight and I don’t even have a joke for that. There to present a fifteen-minute sneak peek were Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews They found Nick According to The Hollywood Reporter, they found Nick! Henry Golding has been cast as Nick Young in the Crazy Rich Asians movie. Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh were already attached to the project as Rachel Chu and Eleanor Young (Nick’s ma). So now they’ve got their two leads, By Lainey • Mar 29, 2017 10:37 am
Maple Leaf Exclusive: Look out for Ethan Hawke & Sally Hawkins in Maudie According to Ethan Hawke, working with Sally Hawkins in Maudie - a film about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, who had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - was a "match made in cinema heaven." Maudie is set in Nova Scotia and shot in Newfoundland and it meant so much that By Joanna • Mar 29, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos On The Shill Last week Ryan Gosling popped up at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, and this week he’s back in Vegas, shilling for Blade Runner 2049 at CinemaCon. After Sony boss Tom Rothman sniped, “Netflix my ass,” when debuting an extended look at the film, Gosling got up to hype By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 12:55 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Oscar’s having a baby …at work and IRL? Should we start with work first? Oscar Isaac has been in New York shooting Life Itself. Life Itself is “an ensemble multi-generational love story that weaves together several characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back”. The By Lainey • Mar 28, 2017 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Homecoming bringing back your faves (Lainey: OMG …and Gwyneth too???) A new trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming debuted yesterday at CinemaCon, the annual film industry show-and-tell, and today it’s online, bringing us more of the absolutely adorable Tom Holland as Peter Parker. And lots and LOTS of Iron Man. Anyone who’s tired of seeing By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League steps down Last summer at Comic-Con Warner Brothers/DC unveiled the first look at Justice League, and it wasn’t completely awful. But in case you were feeling cautiously optimistic that Warners/DC could fix their sh*t and turn out a good Justice League movie—don’t. The first official trailer By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer of Charlize Can you believe it’s the last weekend of March? We are a quarter of the way through 2017. OMG we are three years from 2020. Anyyyyyway, winter is officially over. So it’s blockbuster season. Beauty And The Beast already broke the March opening weekend box office record with By Lainey • Mar 24, 2017 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is not Barbie In December we learned that Amy Schumer would star in a live-action Barbie movie, which seemed like kind of a bad idea because Barbie, as a toy and cultural landmark, is already loaded with so many issues. Do we even need a Barbie movie, let alone an Amy Schumer Barbie By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 11:56 am
