Oscars 2023 Lainey’s Best Dressed: Lady Gaga It was reported last week that Lady Gaga would not be performing “Hold My Hand”, her Oscar nominated song from Top Gun: Maverick, at the Oscars. No word at the time on whether or not she would attend. Then, curiously, on Saturday, a day before the Oscars, there was word By Lainey • Mar 13, 2023 04:32 pm
Oscars 2023 Top Gunners without Tom Despite being nominated as a producer in the Best Picture category, Tom Cruise was a no-show at the Oscars. I wonder if Jimmy Kimmel knew that, or if it was a late-stage decision, because his intro transitioned from a bit about him ejecting from Maverick’s jet, and it kind By Sarah • Mar 13, 2023 11:29 am
Amazingness Hakuna Matata, Tom Cruise Tom Cruise was celebrated in Hollywood on Saturday night at the Producers Guild of America awards, where he was presented the career achievement David O Selznick Award. Top Gun: Maverick was also nominated for Best Picture. Everything Everywhere All At Once took the prize, which is a solid bellwether for By Lainey • Feb 27, 2023 01:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise: Mr Popular Goes to the Office The Hollywood Reporter published the most LOL article about Tom Cruise yesterday about Tom’s recent day of popularity. It was ten days ago, on February 13, when Tom made his first in-person appearance on the Oscar campaign circuit at the Nominees Luncheon where, in a room full of nominees By Lainey • Feb 23, 2023 12:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Judd Apatow takes on Tom Cruise As Sarah noted yesterday in her coverage of the BAFTAs and the Directors Guild of America awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once was the DGA’s choice for Best Picture, honouring Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for their work on the film. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads at the By Lainey • Feb 21, 2023 10:14 am
Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, My colleagues at etalk are probably super annoyed with me today because they have to deal with my gloat. Months and months ago, at the meeting table, I told them that Top Gun: Maverick would be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. And, well, it happened. TG: By Lainey • Jan 24, 2023 09:45 am
Xenu Smut Where is Tom Cruise’s Best Friend? 2022 was a good year for Tom Cruise, professionally. One of his best years in a long time. Top Gun: Maverick was the biggest movie of the year, and by now we all know the story behind it – that Tom insisted on holding the picture through the pandemic because he By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:48 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise: Rides and Dives Yesterday I posted about Tom Cruise jumping out of an airplane and falling through the sky while delivering a thank you and happy holidays message and promoting Top Gun: Maverick on streaming and on its Oscar campaign. Today I’m back, because he’s back, and instead of jumping out By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 12:06 pm
Amazingness Happy Holidays from Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is ABSURD. Tom Cruise is always, absurdly, Tom Cruise. So what else did we expect a holiday message from him to look like? It is exactly what you would expect – because Tom Cruise is consistently and dependably absurd. Which is why he’s sending us his holiday wishes By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate and Glen talk about Tom Kate Hudson and Glen Powell are paired together for Variety’s Actors on Actors series this award season and one of the reasons is because they’ve known each other for a while as Glen worked with both Kate’s brothers, Oliver Hudson and Wyatt Russell, on previous projects. They’ By Lainey • Dec 14, 2022 12:39 pm
Xenu Smut Intro for December 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, As we move into the middle of December, the awards races are heating up. We’ve talked some about the various acting categories, but let’s turn now to the big kahuna—Best Picture. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is currently the frontrunner, but Top Gun: Maverick just By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Guess what’s opening, or re-opening, in theatres this Friday? Top Gun: Maverick is back for a two-week run. It’s holiday season and Paramount is saying that this film “truly epitomises the magic of the moviegoing experience” and that they’re doing this so that fans can By Lainey • Nov 30, 2022 09:23 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, One of the side-effects of the streaming era is the increasingly combative relationship between movie stars and studios when it comes to salaries. Top-tier talent doesn’t just get paid up front, they get a bite of the back-end ticket sales, and a percentage of home video/sales. By Sarah • Sep 23, 2022 08:59 am
Quiveration Glen Powell’s Big Summer Now that so many of us have seen Top Gun: Maverick, perhaps multiple times, how thirsty are you for Glen Powell? Let’s come back to the thirst in a minute because I don’t think we’ve spent enough time this summer on how Glen Powell even got to By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Top Gun: Maverick has now surpassed Avengers: Infinity War to become the sixth highest grossing domestic film in US history. It’s an impressive achievement considering the lead-up to Infinity War, with all those superheroes coming together over the course of the preceding decade or more to face By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 09:11 am
