BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Doomsday is upon us Avengers: Doomsday, slated for May 1, 2026, is now in production, and we know that because Marvel did something they’re very good at, which is stunt on the internet to make an announcement. (Funny to watch this happen in real time right after finishing The Studio and all I By Sarah • Mar 27, 2025 09:52 am
Top Reads The Most Exhausting Supporting Actor Competition The show’s overall pace was good, especially toward the beginning. And Robert Downey, Jr.’s introduction of the five nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category was incredibly skillful, in a move that nobody else was able to replicate quite as well. True, it necessitated RDJ acting like he By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 10:19 am
Top Reads Avengers Assemble for Kamala Lainey emailed me last night and the subject was I’m a corny asshole and it was to share a video of various Avengers uniting to support Harris-Walz in the last days of the US election, and before election day next Tuesday. We're back. Let's #AssembleForDemocracy. By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s much-needed big weekend Ha! I am right once again! After correctly predicting Twisters would beat its box office expectations, I said Deadpool & Wolverine would beat expectations, too, defying the $160 million opening weekend projection to come in around $200 million. Indeed, Deadpool & Wolverine opened with a monster $205 million (domestically), which By Sarah • Jul 29, 2024 11:20 am
Robert Downey-Jr Tony Stark and Fake Tony Stark The 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony was held over the weekend and brought out a truly random list of celebrities and billionaires. The Breakthrough Prize was established by billionaire Yuri Milner, a self-described “disappoint[ing] physicist” who hit the first tech wave at just the right moment in the 1990s to By Sarah • Apr 15, 2024 10:08 am
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Sympathizer premiere happened in Hollywood yesterday with Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh as the most high-profile cast members in attendance. This series is a major priority for HBO, an ambitious project, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. And the By Lainey • Apr 10, 2024 10:02 am
Oscars 2024 Congrats to Robert Downey Jr … I suppose? So this is one of those wins that wasn’t a surprise, but that everyone was generally on board for, right? Robert Downey, Jr. has won all the awards leading up to this one, he’s universally acknowledged to have been excellent in the role, so this win should have By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 05:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Oppenheimer on Kimmel The SAG Awards are tomorrow night, streaming for the first time on Netflix. It’s the first major award show, I think, that we’re seeing on the platform, and I’m so curious about how it’s going to play out. For those of us who are television broadcast By Lainey • Feb 23, 2024 12:05 pm
Award Season Campaigning It’s about OppenPoor now The BAFTAs were last night in London, and forget Barbenheimer, it’s all about OppenPoor now. Barbie was, once again, shut out at an awards show, and we should now expect a similar result at the Oscars for Team Barbie, including Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Ryan Gosling (America Ferrera By Sarah • Feb 19, 2024 10:50 am
Robert Downey-Jr Intro for January 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sundance has begun! Yesterday were the first premieres and the opening night gala of the Sundance Film Festival, which brought out a lot of stars. Kristen Stewart was there, as she received the Visionary Award, as was Christopher Nolan, who received the inaugural Sundance Institute Trailblazer Award. Nolan By Sarah • Jan 19, 2024 09:38 am
Award Season Campaigning Most of the movie men The Critics Choice Awards were last night, and Oscar nominations close tomorrow, and between these two points in time, we’re getting a clearer picture of the Oscar race. Robert Downey, Jr., for instance, widens his lead in the Best Supporting Actor category, while taking potshots at critics in his By Sarah • Jan 15, 2024 12:14 pm
Award Season Campaigning A Campaign of Actors So far we’ve only talked about the actresses who showed up to campaign at the Governors Awards last night, but so many of the actors in contention were out there hustling ahead of the Oscar nominations. In the best actor race, the two Golden Globe winners, Paul Giamatti and By Lainey • Jan 10, 2024 12:25 pm
Golden Globes 2024 Barbenheimer Showdown at the Globes Barbenheimer emerged because Barbie and Oppenheimer had the same release date of July 21, 2023. There was an attempt by some media outlets to frame this as a showdown, but the culture collectively rose up, rejected the competition narrative, and turned Barbenheimer into a phenomenon that benefitted both films. However, By Sarah • Jan 08, 2024 09:55 am
BFFs The Best Actors showed up The Palm Springs Film Festival opened last night, and it brought all the Oscar contenders out of the post-holiday woodwork. As proof that he does care about these things, Leonardo DiCaprio ditched Cabo earlier in the day, his p-ssy posse mates Tobey Maguire and Lucas Haas and current girlfriend, Vittoria By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:40 am
Style Barbenheimer Part Two: Award Season It was one of the biggest entertainment stories of the year: Barbenheimer, two huge movies going head to head at the box office, ostensibly a counterprogramming heavyweight bout, and what ended up happening was great for everyone – both films were winners, the battle resulted in what culturally can be seen By Lainey • Dec 04, 2023 09:48 am
