BFFs Emily Blunt breaks Tom Cruise Sometimes we judge people by the people they hang out with, right? If they’re friends with a cool crowd, we might think better of them. If they roll with a group of pricks, well, that’s doesn’t reflect well, does it? So I love Emily Blunt. I.Love. By Lainey • May 15, 2014 04:40 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Reynolds kicks off Cannes Canadian invasion There are a lot of Canadians representing at Cannes this year. Ryan Reynolds arrived in Cannes today in advance of the premiere of The Captive, directed by another Canadian, Atom Egoyan. As you know, Reynolds’s wife, Blake Lively, has already been at the festival for a couple of days By Lainey • May 15, 2014 11:48 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Maleficent covers PEOPLE Today is the one year anniversary of Angelina Jolie’s op-ed in The New York Times in which she revealed that she’d had a preventative double mastectomy. May 14, 2013. Click here to re-read it. This year she’s appearing in a different kind of publication. It’ By Lainey • May 14, 2014 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel shorter Daniel Craig was wearing his hair slightly longer for a while when he was on Broadway last year for Betrayal. Last night he stepped out in New York for an event at the Museum of Modern Art with a much shorter style. You like it? Word is he’s starting By Lainey • May 14, 2014 11:47 am
Smutty Surgery Grace’s terrible reviews Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will open the Cannes Film Festival. The photo call happened today at the Palais. We’re going to come back to that in a minute. Let’s start with the reviews. They’re terrible. The BBC reports that people were laughing during the screening By Lainey • May 14, 2014 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews GOOP gets a job They’re going to try to make a deal in Cannes this week for a film called The Secret In Their Eyes, adapted from the Oscar winning Argentine film of the same name. Production will begin in Boston in the fall. Fresh off his first nomination, Chiwetel Ejiofor will play By Lainey • May 14, 2014 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet your new Batman Principal photography is getting underway on Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman: Justice League .5, or whatever they’re going to call this movie. They insist the title is not locked in, which means my dream of it being called Superhero Face Punch is still alive. Currently they’re shooting By Sarah • May 13, 2014 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gong Li comes home Cannes has always been good to Gong Li. You could even call it adoration. I was once in an elevator with Gong Li in Cannes at the Carleton Hotel. As a Chinese person, growing up influenced by Chinese pop culture, it was an awesome moment. She was the face of By Lainey • May 13, 2014 11:50 am
BFFs Brange’s Normal Heart Plan B produced The Normal Heart. So Brange showed up last night at the NY premiere of the film. (I desperately want a screener for this. Is anyone listening?) As you can imagine, it was a major win for HBO that the two decided to attend. HBO President Richard Pepler By Lainey • May 13, 2014 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes Preview 2014 As summer movie season kicks off so does the biggest, glitziest film festival in the world, and this year Cannes is delivering early as we already have a smutty situation brewing around French director Olivier Dahan’s awful-looking Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco, which will open the festival. By Sarah • May 12, 2014 03:21 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 12, 2014 Dear Gossips, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 could not hold on to the top spot at the box office this weekend. Instead it was Neighbours and a big win for Zac Efron. Just weeks ago he was getting his ass beat under a bridge in Los Angeles, a sketchy incident By Lainey • May 12, 2014 08:31 am
Gorgessity My Blockbuster Obsession My Obsession! They were on the red carpet last night in LA for the premiere of Godzilla which opens next week, one weekend before X-Men, with plenty of distance after Spider-Man 2. Variety reported a couple of weeks ago that they’re optimistic about how the movie will By Lainey • May 09, 2014 09:48 am
BFFs X-Men and Don Draper There were a lot of studs on Good Morning America today. From the X-Men franchise: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, and can we call Ellen Page a stud for being a straight-up badass? As you can see, Hugh and James have great chemistry. At one point James was massaging By Lainey • May 08, 2014 04:09 pm
Gorgessity Brange in black How to give me a gossip boner: Brange. Any Brange. But Brange in black on a red carpet. Brad looking at the Jolie all wanty and smug. Just a hint of the possibility of Pitt Porn. But not yet. Don’t reach for the ass yet. There are two more By Lainey • May 08, 2014 03:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession The Chosen One laughed in her mother’s face Angelina Jolie covers the new ELLE. God. Seriously. This face. Natalie, the head makeup artist for The Social, and I are sitting backstage right now looking at these photos. Flawless is overused. But never when it comes to the Jolie. It’s a face that transcends beauty trends. A thousand By Lainey • May 07, 2014 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews He’s not coming back The last time we talked about the (totally unnecessary) Point Break remake, Gerard Butler was signing on to play Bodhi. This movie is an abomination—the remake, not Point Break, which is holy relic of Bad Action Cinema— and I’m halfway convinced that “Point Break remake” is some kind By Sarah • May 07, 2014 11:38 am