Business of Hollywood A Paramount merger is back on (probably) This is starting to feel like Wayne and Garth shouting “game off” and “game on” as cars interrupt their street hockey. I know I am dating myself with this reference, but it feels the most apt for the start-stop nature of whatever the f-ck is happening at Paramount. By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 12:59 pm
Royals TNT: The London Invasion Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour stop in London for three days, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, was always circled in red on the pop culture calendar. London is a major hub, and there’s the celebrity factor, but also London is where she lived during her relationship with Joe Alwyn, By Lainey • Jun 24, 2024 11:33 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise didn’t need a coffin I’m so grateful to Tom Cruise for getting papped while arriving on his helicopter – probably the only non-active duty person on the planet who is photographed travelling more via helicopter than by car! – in London because I read a story about him that amused me so much I By Lainey • Jun 17, 2024 01:46 pm
BFFs Tom Cruise’s party trick Tom Cruise was photographed taking his preferred mode of travel – by helicopter! – in London today so it gave me an opportunity to post about what I didn’t get around to yesterday: his attendance at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party this past weekend. Katie got Suri in the divorce By Lainey • Apr 23, 2024 12:27 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Katie on her 18th Birthday Today is Suri Cruise’s 18th birthday so I’m posting these pictures of her mother, Katie Holmes, in New York yesterday in a really great shirt over an equally great pair of trousers, plus brand new shots of her from today. But, like, can you believe it’s been By Lainey • Apr 18, 2024 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu are teaming up Once upon a time, Tom Cruise worked with auteur filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, and Michael Mann, pretty regularly, but somewhere in the 2000s he shifted his focus to action blockbusters, and it’s been a long time since he’s made a film that has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 11:14 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 10, 2024 I’m working on theory here, stay with me: Ben Affleck is the happiest man in Hollywood. And you know how I know that? He rarely looks happy at award shows. It’s like social media: the person who brags about being happy is miserable, the person who posts about By Maria • Jan 10, 2024 03:33 pm
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise saves the day…sort of Since David Zaslav took over the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate and started shelving films for tax write offs and bragged about the labor strikes saving his studio money, I have asked one question—who wants to work for this guy? Well, we have the answer, and it’s By Sarah • Jan 10, 2024 01:08 pm
Relationship Assumption Does Tom Cruise have a girlfriend? It has been a minute since Tom Cruise has been in a relationship, at least that we know of. There was a time when Tom loved very, very publicly. Through most of his fame, that’s how it was always was: Tom loved out in the open. Until, of course, By Lainey • Dec 13, 2023 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom back at work One of the most cursed productions recently is Mission: Impossible 7 and 8. The films were supposed to be shot back-to-back, but COVID happened and shut M:I 7 down for months in 2020, then it was finally released this past summer as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Sometimes important things happen in the world, and sometimes you find out there’s an insurance company called Chubb. This is the latter instance. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was one of the better movies of the summer, but it struggled at the box office, barely eking By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 08:59 am
Douchebags Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and The Rock: Battle of the Striking Stars Today in Strike Watch! it’s a battle of the A-listers as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made a seven-figure donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, while everyone wonders if Brad Pitt is a scab. Courtney B. Vance, president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and its executive By Sarah • Jul 25, 2023 10:31 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One The Mission: Impossible movies have never been about much beyond impossible missions and Tom Cruise’s devotion to increasingly life-threatening stunts, but ever since filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie took over directing duties—he also co-writes the films—with 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, there has been a halfhearted By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Impossible Mission I was in New York last Thursday and Friday for the Oppenheimer junket. More on that in the coming days because I can’t actually remember if there’s an embargo; I can tell you, however, that Cillian Murphy will probably be nominated for an Oscar for his performance, he’ By Lainey • Jul 11, 2023 12:41 pm
Style Intro for June 30, 2023 Dear Gossips, As we wait to see if the actors go on strike—as I am writing this, the final hours of negotiations are ticking down—the Barbie press tour continues. Margot Robbie is in Australia with Greta Gerwig, Issa Rae, and America Ferrera. We’ve already seen Robbie’s By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 09:31 am
