Movie Reviews and Previews Barbillion In its third week of release, Barbie has powered past $1 billion at the global box office. Greta Gerwig is now the highest-grossing female director, and the only woman to solo direct a billion-dollar film (Captain Marvel director Anna Boden, along with co-director Ryan Fleck, is also By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 09:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson’s little bike Robert Pattinson was photographed in New York City today riding around on a little bike. The pap agency is calling it a foldable bike and that’s new to me because I didn’t know that was a thing but I guess in a place like NYC where space is By Lainey • Aug 02, 2023 12:07 pm
Douchebags Brad Pitt in (delayed) solidarity For a couple of weeks now, since SAG-AFTRA officially decided to go on strike alongside the WGA, eyebrows have been raised over Brad Pitt’s F1 film, Apex, because they initially claimed that they’d be shutting down production in support of the writers and actors only to show By Lainey • Jul 31, 2023 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Barbie continued to do big business at the box office this weekend with another $93 million domestically and $122 million from 70 markets outside North America which means it is fast approaching the billion dollar mark and will likely get there in a couple of weeks, if that. By Lainey • Jul 31, 2023 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Allen White: Guns and The Iron Claw I posted photos of Jeremy Allen White looking ripped last Friday, might as well do it again this Friday and go two-for-two. Here he is yesterday out in LA for brunch with friends in a white tank with his guns out. And conveniently on the same day it By Lainey • Jul 28, 2023 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prepare for the Barbification of movies Barbenheimer smashed the box office—as I thought, the actual opening weekend box office for both Barbie and Oppenheimer was higher than the estimates—which means we are now in for a nightmare of toy movies hoping to catch Barbie’s lightning in a bottle. (Funny how off the back By Sarah • Jul 27, 2023 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbenheimer blew up the box office After weeks of disappointing box office, summer 2023 finally staged a comeback thanks to Barbenheimer, the grassroots movement to make Barbie and Oppenheimer a double feature for the ages, and it worked. Barbie opened with an estimated $155 million domestic (with $182 million internationally), and Oppenheimer scooped up $80 million By Sarah • Jul 24, 2023 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh yeah, Gran Turismo As studios consider delaying films—particularly the kind of high-profile films that rely on star-studded press tours to drum up audience interest—one movie that is for sure coming out is Gran Turismo, due next month. The film stars Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, and Orlando Bloom, and is By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels’ not-Comic Con trailer Undoubtedly taking advantage of Barbenheimer weekend—and hinting at what a Marvel Comic Con appearance could have been—Marvel dropped a new trailer for The Marvels just in time to stick it in front of at least one of the two big new movies this weekend. Building on the good By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian Murphy and half of Hollywood in Oppenheimer Films about Great Men are usually acts of hagiography, and in many ways, Oppenheimer is no different. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, is invested in Oppenheimer as a once-in-a-generation genius, a Great Man who literally moved the earth, By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie Every possible question you could have about Barbieland is answerable with an enthusiastic “yes!”. Barbieland is a feminine utopia where women occupy all jobs from construction worker to president, everyone is aggressively positive and supportive, and everything is violently pink. Barbie—all Barbie, every Barbie, everyone is Barbie, you are By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie is my Lego Movie I still remember being so confused when The Lego Movie was announced. How could they possibly make a movie about interlocking blocks? But by the time the movie was released, my Lego-obsessed husband and I had a 4-year-old son who loved putting together sets with his dad… By Violeta • Jul 20, 2023 12:20 pm
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
TV Updates Dork Storm Strikes (Back) San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow and it’s gonna be a weird one. With actors and writers on strike—and most of the studios already skipping this year even before the double strike started—there is not a whole lot going on, at least in Hall H, where most By Sarah • Jul 19, 2023 12:15 pm
Style Margot Robbie: The Barbie Leftovers Hollywood is now on strike, which means no promotion, no appearances. For the Barbie movie, which opens on Friday, they managed to get in most of their major events but had there not been a work stoppage, they’d still be out there doing interviews and getting in as much By Lainey • Jul 19, 2023 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dead Reckoning’s plan backfired It has been a bad box office summer so far (lots of pressure on Barbie and Oppenheimer to turn things around!). Sure, a couple big movies are doing well—Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is sitting at $842 million, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is at $663 By Sarah • Jul 17, 2023 11:35 am
