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
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Johnny 5, I mean Chappie South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp broke out with District 9 and then whiffed with last year’s Elysium, and now he’s back with Chappie, the story of a robotic artificial intelligence learning how to be a real boy, made for the “low” budget of $60 million and starring Dev By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s been a long time Since we’ve seen much of Alexander Skarsgard. He was practically invisible during promotion for the final season of True Blood. Work scheduling, of course, of course, of course. But probably not at all disappointed since he’s done with television and in a hurry to become a movie star. By Lainey • Nov 05, 2014 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shark-Man to play Computer Jesus(?) Didn’t we just agree on this? Didn’t we just make a deal that if a project blows two casting rumors that we can stop paying attention to it until it gets it sh*t together? I’m pretty sure we just went over this. And yet, here we By Sarah • Nov 05, 2014 10:08 am
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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson loses one but not the girl A smiling Robert Pattinson was photographed in Toronto yesterday just as news broke that production on Idol’s Eye, his new film (with Robert De Niro, scheduled to start shooting this month), had been shut down because they couldn’t get the funding together. Pattinson will be fine. But it’ By Lainey • Nov 04, 2014 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Most Violent Year is straight Oscar porn Writer/director JC Chandor is on a roll. First Margin Call, for which he was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and then the exceptional All Is Lost last year, and now he’s entering this year’s Oscar race with A Most Violent Year starring Oscar Isaac and By Sarah • Nov 04, 2014 10:36 am
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
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Dormer’s “resting bitch face” Natalie Dormer covers the December issue of FLARE. Dormer plays Cressida in Mockingjay: Part 1. You also know her as Margaery in Game Of Thrones. And you may have met her as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors. Or maybe you just love her look – she buzzed half her head for By Lainey • Nov 04, 2014 09:21 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Eva Mendes: back to work This is the first shot of Eva Mendes since she gave birth to daughter Esmeralda on September 12. She looks exactly the same. And since we never saw her pregnant – not even one undeniable gratuitous pregnancy shot – it’s almost like it never happened, only TMZ found and released the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2014 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whoa, Marco Polo—what’s up? I’m in a TV rut. My DVR went kaput over the summer and when I got a new box, faced with reprogramming dozens of hours of TV, I found that I didn’t like hardly anything I’d been watching. So I ditched a bunch of shows and even By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 03:24 pm
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
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba just blew one of the Avengers best secrets There are a lot of cameos in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I don’t want to get yelled at for spoilers, so I’m not enumerating them here, but if you peruse nerd sites you can easily find out which ones have already been spoiled, and now you can add By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 01:57 pm
BFFs Half capes and squeaky voices Cara Delevingne and Selena Gomez were at LACMA together this weekend. Cara’s in a one shoulder cape with darker hair, likely for her upcoming role in Paper Towns which starts shooting right now. She might also be speaking in an American accent because of it. You can hear it By Lainey • Nov 03, 2014 01:25 pm
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 By Sarah • Nov 03, 2014 10:49 am
