Parent Pimps Look familiar? And where’s Blake? Chloe Moretz stopped by Letterman yesterday before the Hick screening last night in New York. Some of these expressions, and that turn of her body, does it remind you of someone? I swear in a couple of these thumbnails I thought it was Lindsay Lohan 2006. The style experts are By Lainey • May 04, 2012 01:47 pm
Quiveration Colin in pyjamas Here's Colin Farrell in pyjamas on the set of his new film Dead Man Down in Philadelphia. He looks good, doesn't he? He's been looking for a while. Couple weeks ago in LA I was talking about him, just a general update, with an By Lainey • May 04, 2012 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker, middle child I’ve been worried for The Amazing Spider-Man for several months now. Ever since I heard the marketing was being held up in order to recalibrate the approach in the face of underwhelming reaction to the first trailer and marketing push late last year, I’ve wondered if Spider- By Sarah • May 04, 2012 11:57 am
Media Manipulation Here comes the Will Smith publicity machine Already? That really seemed to come fast. It’s May. We’re 3 weeks out (May 25) from the release of Men In Black 3. Which means it’s officially Will Smith selling season. He was joined by Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin today at a photo call for By Lainey • May 03, 2012 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond will be funnier Daniel Craig, new Bond Girls Naomie Harrie, Berenice Marlohe, and the rest of the Bond team including director Sam Mendes attended a photo call in Istanbul yesterday where many previous Bonds have filmed before; it’s apparently Ian Fleming’s “favourite city”. As expected they’ve kept the story for By Lainey • May 01, 2012 04:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JGL, Julianne, and The Dark Knight Rises Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore went for a walk in New York yesterday. Apparently he’s directing her in a new movie. Scarlett Johansson will also star. JGL worked on the script, a romantic comedy about a player who is trying to commit: "I wrote myself a helluva By Lainey • May 01, 2012 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun Jr will fly! The Hollywood Reporter interviewed the head of Paramount Adam Goodman. Click here to read the full article. Among the many topics he addressed, including Transformers 4 without Shia Labeouf etc, was the Top Gun sequel. It’s happening. Tom Cruise wants to do it. Bruckheimer is on board (of course By Lainey • Apr 27, 2012 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo the villain Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx as a slave liberated by Christoph Waltz and their efforts to free Foxx’s wife, Kerry Washington, who’s held at a plantation owned by a sadistic f-ck played by Leonardo DiCaprio. By Lainey • Apr 26, 2012 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Budgets & Box office (Lainey: this is a question that came in recently from a reader called Issie. Sarah’s response is below.) I was on Box Office Mojo today, looking at the numbers for The Hunger Games. They've passed 1/2 billion worldwide and it looks like it'll be By Sarah • Apr 26, 2012 11:21 am
Dumbass Gypsy Husband will not be Pipped It’s relief and fury at the same time. As I reported exclusively last month, click here for a refresher, Justin Timberlake was being considered to play Gypsy Husband aka Colin Farrell in the film adaptation of Emma Forrest’s Your Voice In My Head. My sources tell me he By Lainey • Apr 25, 2012 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Girls Like Us...now Three years ago I was obsessed with a book by Sheila Weller called Girls Like Us, a triple biography intersecting the histories of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Click here for my review from December 17, 2008. Their lives were, obviously, fascinating. But for me, as a child By Lainey • Apr 24, 2012 03:50 pm
Girly Throw Downs Avengers Assemble with The Dark Knight I don’t know if you’ve heard but a lot of critics are talking about The Avengers like it’s the rapture. Best super hero movie ever? Click here for a collection of analyses. I’m not nerd enough - at all - to be able to make any sort of By Lainey • Apr 23, 2012 05:15 pm
Dumbass Bridget & Daniel Cleaver rise again...soon, maybe I guess my head was really far up my ass, more so than usual, in February because I completely missed this story. I’m sorry. Another Bridget Jones movie is actually happening. Sort of. Click here for the last time I posted about the project about a year ago. The By Lainey • Apr 23, 2012 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Straining neck muscles Looks like Annie’s going hard for that nomination. Here’s the first look at Anne Hathaway in costume as Fantine for Les Miserables, on location in London yesterday with Hugh Jackman. I assume that they’re sing-acting here, both putting a full thrust of emotion into the performance, By Lainey • Apr 19, 2012 05:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum is always Channing Tatum Admit it – if you replace Channing Tatum with anyone else in the Magic Mike trailer your reaction would be that this movie looks like sh-t and you know, men still win when men are objectified, right? The thing about this trailer though is that it isn’t anyone else, By Lainey • Apr 19, 2012 12:35 pm
Quiveration Jessica Biel & the real Colin Farrell Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, and director Len Wiseman were in Mexico yesterday for Summer of Sony to promote Total Recall opening in August which is interesting to me because, as I’ve been reporting Jessica’s fiancé, Justin Timberlake, is being seriously considered to play the part of By Lainey • Apr 18, 2012 01:13 pm