Media Manipulation Ben’s next climb Ben Affleck stepped out yesterday. Some photo agencies are saying he was leaving the therapist’s. Gives me a great excuse to write about how he’s going to heal his latest cycle of shame. Sarah posted in the previous article about Warner Bros’ plans and that there’s been By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 03:49 pm
Media Manipulation And so the Warner Bros. shuffle begins After the antipathetic public reaction to Superhero Face Punch, it seemed inevitable that Warner Brothers would have to make some changes to their plans for the DC Extended Universe, which is what they’re calling their cinematic universe. But they stuck with Zack Snyder as the director of The Justice By Sarah • Apr 06, 2016 03:06 pm
Xenu Tom’s Mummy Tom Cruise has started working on The Mummy reboot. Check him out on set in London last night with Annabelle Wallis. He looks intense, as usual. Question: are you getting a Kelly McGillis vibe from her here? I ask this because you could have seen it once, right? Maybe you By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano and DanRad’s farting corpse Swiss Army Man screened at Sundance to mixed reviews. It stars Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe as two guys stranded on an island, except one of them is dead. People who love it, really love it; people who hate it can’t seem to get past the fart jokes. The By Sarah • Apr 05, 2016 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alec & Scott It was reported yesterday that Alec Baldwin and Scott Eastwood will be starring together in an independent film called Crown Vic. They’ll play cops in LA dealing with sh-t in their personal lives while investigating a couple of cop killers. Lethal Weapon 3? Right. So Scott Eastwood. Is he By Lainey • Apr 05, 2016 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Marky or Jakey? Who would you rather watch on the big screen: Mark Wahlberg or Jake Gyllenhaal? It does not need to be a mutually exclusive choice, but it's worth noting the two are both shooting separate movies relating to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings in Massachusetts. Mark's movie By Joanna • Apr 05, 2016 10:40 am
Amazingness Melissa’s moves Melissa McCarthy is currently promoting The Boss. The movie opens this weekend. I’ve attached the restricted trailer below. Did you see Spy last summer? I hope so. Spy is a great comedy. It gets funnier every time you watch it. And the reason it works so well is on By Lainey • Apr 05, 2016 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange Back in December we got our first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in costume as Stephen Strange for Doctor Strange. It was a really good look. And now, thanks to outdoors, on location filming in New York City over the weekend, we can see Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor in full costume, By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch is crashing Batman v Superman is still making a ton of dough, crossing $680 million worldwide, but at the rate it’s dropping, it really might not break the much-needed $1 billion. Superhero Face Punch was expected to suffer a big drop in its second week in release, and it landed on By Sarah • Apr 04, 2016 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Huntsman people stand next to magnificent owl Look at this gorgeous and magnificent snowy owl, so wise, so still. It sits peaceably, suffering the presence of these peasanty humans who dare stand near it. It even bears the hand of Chris Hemsworth, human peasant, who reaches toward its majesty and splendor with his dull human hand. No By Sarah • Mar 31, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Still a knucklehead? Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen wrote a great piece about How Jennifer Garner Went Full MiniVan Majority tracking her career from Alias to Miracles From Heaven. Thank you, Anne, for the LaineyGossip mentions in the article. I came up with that expression almost 10 years ago and, at the time, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Five Seconds with Brad and Marion Brange has been living in London lately because Brad Pitt is shooting a film there with Marion Cotillard. Seems they’ve finally decided on a title: Five Seconds Of Silence which is, um, exactly the same letters as Five Seconds Of Summer – 5SOS. You know, the boy band. Oh, sorry, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 09:59 am
Media Manipulation Reese Witherspoon bails, Kristen Wiig jumps in Before she was a lifestyle guru—or whatever the hell she’s doing with Draper James—before she was a Minivan maven, and before she was Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon was Tracy Flick. For some, despite the popularity of Elle and the romance of Annette in Cruel Intentions, this is By Sarah • Mar 30, 2016 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie is off (again) One of the more beleaguered superhero projects in development is Channing Tatum’s solo Gambit movie, a Deadpool-like spin-off of Fox’s X-Men universe. I’m on the record thinking this is a terrible idea because Gambit is a dumb f*cking superhero, and it would seem somebody somewhere agrees By Sarah • Mar 30, 2016 09:45 am
Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston making the rounds Tom Hiddleston’s new movie, I Saw the Light, opened last weekend but hardly anyone noticed amidst the bat-noise of Superhero Face Punch. But Hiddleston did his duty and promoted the movie, making several talk show appearances and being visible. As I noted before, this is not the same Tom By Sarah • Mar 29, 2016 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beefcake Ezra Miller Ezra Miller is about to get to work on The Justice League Part One, in which he stars as The Flash. If you saw Superhero Face Punch over the weekend, you saw him in a cameo as out-of-costume Barry Allen, as well as a super-confusing dream sequence in costume as By Sarah • Mar 28, 2016 10:32 am
