Media Manipulation The Huntsman, but no Snow White In the wake of the Kristen Stewart/Rupert Sanders scandal of 2012, a lot of people wondered what would happen to the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel. Would Sanders be back, would Stewart be back, would neither return? Would Universal decide to skip a proper sequel entirely and just By Sarah • Jun 27, 2014 12:59 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Marky Mark talks about his children Mark Wahlberg stars in the new Transformers, out this weekend, directed by Michael Bay. So, basically, the highest concentration of DUDE in a movie you’ll ever see. To promote the movie, Mark is doing press, talking about his kids. He has four of them. Of his sons, he says: By Lainey • Jun 27, 2014 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Franco & Rogen’s act of war It’s amazing how tolerable James Franco becomes when he’s working with Seth Rogen. It might be Rogen’s ability to bring out the best in anyone, or maybe it’s seeing their real friendship bleed into their performances together, but when Franco is working opposite Rogen, I almost By Sarah • Jun 26, 2014 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aging entertainment Yesterday I wrote about the issues arising on Star Wars Episode VII because Harrison Ford was injured on set and snarking on the surprise that he was badly hurt. The fact is, he IS 71, and he’s making an action movie playing a character we met almost 40 years By Sarah • Jun 26, 2014 10:43 am
Music Keira sings I really, really want to see Begin Again. Love Keira Knightley. LOVE Mark Ruffalo. Have you seen him in the poster? Check out the poster. How his legs are arranged, how rumpled and adorable his hair is. You know why I’m afraid to see Begin Again? Um. Adam Levine. By Lainey • Jun 25, 2014 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s Fury The first full trailer for Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Michael Pena, Logan Lerman, and Shia LaBeouf was released today. I can rarely sit through a war movie – and I suppose that’s how you’re supposed to feel. But…not to sound like an insensitive c-nt… Brad Pitt’s character’ By Lainey • Jun 25, 2014 01:03 pm
Media Manipulation Elderly person breaks leg, internet melts A couple weeks ago, Harrison Ford, who is seventy-one, broke his ankle when a door on the Millennium Falcon set fell on him. At first it was made to sound like no big deal, but over the last couple weeks, rumors have swirled as to the true extent of his By Sarah • Jun 25, 2014 11:00 am
Style Angelina off-the-shoulder As mentioned yesterday, Maleficent is now Angelina Jolie’s highest grossing film…and there are still territories yet to open. Like Japan. Where she’s been with Elle Fanning for a few days – yesterday at the premiere and today for a press conference. As usual, Elle’s doing the princess By Lainey • Jun 24, 2014 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Women are not invited to the franchise table On Friday news broke that writer/director Rian Johnson, who previously made the most excellent Looper and Brick, would be writing and directing Star Wars Episode VIII and writing the treatment for Episode IX. He won’t actually direct IX — he probably won’t even write the final script—but By Sarah • Jun 24, 2014 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s panties It’s the one of the biggest issues surrounding Wonder Woman—her costume. In the annals of comic book exploitation of women (boobsploitation), Wonder Woman’s panties-and-corset get-up is among the worst offenders. Her costume is utterly nonsensical for what she is—a fighter—and even as a little girl By Sarah • Jun 23, 2014 12:02 pm
Gorgessity Jolie groom Check out Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning at the Maleficent premiere in Japan today. They’ve done this often on the press tour – dress to their characters. Fanning’s in princess dresses while the Jolie goes dark faerie. This time though, it’s like a wedding. Angelina’s the groom By Lainey • Jun 23, 2014 11:16 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jolie + 4 Angelina Jolie arrived in Tokyo on Saturday ahead of today’s Japanese premiere of Maleficent – those shots are coming up in the next post. She had four of the six with her, I guess because Maddox and Miss Zahara accompanied her and Brad Pitt to London a couple of weeks By Lainey • Jun 23, 2014 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews American Citizen saves the day If there’s one story people can’t get enough of, it’s white people saving stuff. Man, people really love that story. Show us a problem and a white person to solve it, and you’re on your way to box office—and maybe even Oscar—gold. And since By Sarah • Jun 20, 2014 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The friendliest travel partners The two most approachable actors in Hollywood arrived together at LAX yesterday. That was probably a warm flight, non? Having said that, Sean Penn has kinda softened the last few months…I guess? It’s amazing the standard we have when it comes to him. That just because he’s By Lainey • Jun 20, 2014 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lighting RDJ The first trailer for Robert Downey Jr’s next film, The Judge, was released yesterday. My first thought after watching it was… Holy sh-t they lit the f-ck out of this movie. Then I texted Dylan who’s been lighting the f-ck out of our shoots for almost 15 years By Lainey • Jun 20, 2014 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson emotes After Twilight wrapped up in 2012, Robert Pattinson took a year off, releasing no movies in 2013. This year, he’s back in front of the public with two new movies, The Rover and Maps to the Stars, from well-respected directors in which he plays a supporting role (he might By Sarah • Jun 19, 2014 11:15 am
