Sports Ben Foster IS Lance Armstrong Holy. Sh-t. This is NOT Lance Armstrong. This is Ben Foster PLAYING Lance Armstrong. Amazing, right? They just started shooting the biopic last week with Stephen Frears directing. I was going to see this movie anyway because, well, I followed Armstrong for a long time. I naively/stupidly/blindly believed By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Winter Soldier is coming Everyone is sweating bullets about Thor: The Dark World’s box office, but really, they ought to be worried about Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Captain America is, as the joke goes, nobody’s favorite. He’s one of the oldest characters in Marvel’s cannon (the oldest? Help me By Sarah • Oct 24, 2013 01:19 pm
BFFs Will Leo be going back there? There was an article on PEOPLE yesterday about how Leonardo DiCaprio was at the same restaurant in New York three times in the last week. It’s called Merchants River House and they had his order down to specific detail: warm spinach and artichoke dip all the time, steamed chicken By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg will take care of it Check out Mark Wahlberg in Hong Kong today working on Transformers 4 with Michael Bay who wants you to see how hot he is and that’s why Victoria’s Secret models will date him. Last week Bay was attacked by an air conditioner – click here for Sarah’s report By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 11:27 am
Amazingness Nicolas Cage is “open to the world” I’ve been waiting a while for new photos to post of Nicolas Cage. Like 3 months, actually. That’s how long it’s been since his awesome interview with The Guardian in July. I mean, this is what you want in a Movie Star. They water them down too By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds’s birthday wax It was Ryan Reynolds’s 37th birthday yesterday. He celebrated in New Orleans with his brand new wax figure at Madame Tussaud’s. He also spent part of the day in a Lamborghini on the set of his new film Selfless. And, because she’s the true heir to Martha By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Dornan replaces Robert Pattinson’s replacement Fifty Shades Of Grey was initially written as Twilight fan fiction. As I’ve said before, it was the author, with her hand between her legs, transferring that onto the page. Anyone who plays Christian Grey then is simply a replacement for Robert Pattinson. Would it be reasonable to ask By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 08:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews First Annual Hiddlemas Parade Continuing the (newly minted) holiday celebrating all things goofy and long-legged, Hiddlemas marked its second week by having a festive parade on a carpet that happened to be red. The parade was overseen by Grand Marshall Chris Hemsworth, with a tie knot tied so tiny-ly that it made his head By Sarah • Oct 23, 2013 11:00 am
Media Manipulation George is delayed The LA Times broke the news yesterday that George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, originally expected to be an award season contender, will now be pushed to early 2014. According to Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov, they don’t have enough time to complete the special effects. Here’ By Lainey • Oct 23, 2013 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for 23, 2013 Dear Gossips, So they’re all ready to go with the Entourage movie. But Mark Wahlberg is pissed because some of the cast members are holding out for money. “Salary standoff” is the story. But…is it? Maybe the story – or the question – should be: who actually wants to see By Lainey • Oct 23, 2013 09:56 am
Media Manipulation I won’t take my shirt off if you vote for me Matthew McConaughey can smell it. Last night he was honoured with the Hollywood Actor Award at the Hollywood Film Awards. As you know, McConaughey’s work in Killer Joe and Mud, followed by his performance in Dallas Buyers Club, is being called the best of his career, considered, by some, By Lainey • Oct 22, 2013 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spotlight on Michael B Jordan Michael B Jordan was one of three recipients of the Hollywood Spotlight Awards last night in recognition for his work in Fruitvale. Are you tired of me talking about him so much? Too bad! He’s the best. There are a few experts who think that Jordan still has a By Lainey • Oct 22, 2013 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor, Alexander, Katie Taylor Swift, Alexander Skarsgard, and Katie Holmes are all in South Africa to shoot The Giver. And they all went out for dinner the other night with other cast members. Click here to see the photos. How badly do you want that to happen? What? Well, we have two options By Lainey • Oct 22, 2013 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp goes blonde I don’t know if this is so much blonde as it is…orange? It’s sun-in. Do you know sun-in? Sun-in was a product we used back in the day to lighten our hair. You’d spray the sun-in on and then go in the sun. Most of us By Lainey • Oct 21, 2013 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict’s box office boo-boo So we’ve already discussed today how box office tracking is usually full of sh*t (click here for a refresher), but there is a threshold where it simply doesn’t matter how wonky the numbers are—you can’t deny when a movie sh*ts the bed. And The By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Place Your Bets: Thor 2 Edition Predicting a movie’s opening weekend box office is a blood sport in Los Angeles. I’ve got a friend who is a brilliant mathematician, who has dual PhDs and if you met him, you would think he worked for NASA. But no, he works for a firm that specializes By Sarah • Oct 21, 2013 10:58 am
