Award Season Campaigning Ken Kampaigns at Kristmas I hope the team behind the Barbie market campaign this past summer, ahead of the release of the movie and also now, during award season, is getting a holiday bonus. Because the work they produced delivered measurable results (a massive box office) and made a huge cultural impact. Barbie was By Lainey • Dec 21, 2023 10:35 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
Quiveration Predicting the Sexiest Man Alive 2023 PEOPLE Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2023 will be revealed tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Playing the Sexiest Man Alive prediction game is a regular feature here at LaineyGossip, we’ve been doing it every year since we started. A few weeks ago at The Squawk we were talking about By Lainey • Nov 07, 2023 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos is The Fall Guy I forgot that Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a remake of the Eighties TV show, The Fall Guy, but a trailer dropped yesterday, and now I am SUPER into this movie. Gosling stars as Colt, a stunt man working on a film directed by his ex, played by By Sarah • Nov 03, 2023 01:52 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
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
Coincidence or conspiracy Barbie’s Last Carpet The European premiere of Barbie happened last night in London followed by a photo call at the London Eye – and this just may be one of the last promotional events we’ll be seeing in a while, because SAG-AFTRA is about to vote on a strike and that’s looking By Lainey • Jul 13, 2023 10:24 am
Style Kenadians and More Barbies in the Spotlight Of course it wasn’t just Margot Robbie holding it down for Barbie at the Hollywood premiere last night. Margot and director Greta Gerwig were joined by other Barbies and some Kens and as you would expect, there was a lot of pink. America Ferrera went for a lighter pink By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 11:25 am
Maple Leaf Margot’s Stripes and Strawberries As Sarah just noted in her Afterparty post, tomorrow is the deadline – we could know by tomorrow if a new deal is not reached whether or not the actors will be on strike alongside the writers. And if that really is the case, one of the most anticipated red carpets By Lainey • Jun 29, 2023 12:45 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ryan Gosling is So Unserious Ryan Gosling covers GQ’s new Summer Issue ahead of the release of what could very well be the movie of the summer. That’s Barbie, of course. And he’s Ken or, rather, a Ken, so the pink coat on the cover is a nice touch. Before last year’ By Lainey • May 31, 2023 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie’s existential crisis We have been hyped for Barbie for months, and with the arrival of the full trailer, well, the hype is reaching new, “bespoke song” levels. After a couple of stellar teasers, Barbie allows us into Barbieland, where Margot Robbie’s Barbie is having an existential crisis and suddenly flat feet By Sarah • May 26, 2023 11:05 am
Style Barbie and Ken go to Vegas What’s the most anticipated summer blockbuster of the year? The answer to this question is usually a superhero movie, or a movie with explosions. This year, however, at least in my feed, the one we’re most looking forward to is Barbie, right? It’s a movie that will By Lainey • Apr 26, 2023 10:21 am
Style He’s Just Ken Start your weekend right with Ryan “He’s Just Ken” Gosling in a patterned suit and pink shirt. He’s also still rocking the hot Fall Guy hair that Lainey likes so much. The Gos attended a TAG Heuer party marking the 60th anniversary of their Carrera timepiece. TAG was By Sarah • Apr 21, 2023 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hello, Barbie As if we weren’t already obsessed with Barbie—just the idea of it, a Barbie movie with THAT collection of talent in front of and behind the camera—yesterday Barbie released FANTASTIC character posters (you can make your own, too!) and a bomb-ass trailer and now we are EVEN By Sarah • Apr 05, 2023 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbies, Kens, and Humans Barbie, the movie, is coming for our Tuesday. Warner Bros just dropped over a dozen character posters for their expected summer blockbuster and it’s perhaps our best indication of what the story might be…sort of. Margot Robbie is Barbie. “Barbie is everything” is how her poster is described. By Lainey • Apr 04, 2023 11:27 am
Quiveration Ryan Gosling: Fall Guy Hot Ryan Gosling has been filming The Fall Guy in Australia for the last several months and looking very hot while doing so. Guess what? He’s still at it! Here’s The Gos in Sydney filming overnight on a boat. This appears to be some kind of escape/chase sequence, By Sarah • Mar 01, 2023 10:08 am
