What Else Friday Funday with Jack and Paul Programming note: We will be dark beginning Monday, December 22, and will return on Monday, January 5, 2026, with our coverage of the Critics Choice Awards. In between, daily chats at The Squawk will be open for holiday hangs. Off to the liminal space! To wrap up LG’s 2025 By Sarah • Dec 19, 2025 04:00 pm
What Else Jack Black is theme dressing too Not exactly the celebrity who’d come to mind first if you’re thinking about the stars theme dressing for appearances during a movie press tour but it does make sense that Jack Black would do it, because he’s never been against a stunt, and there’s not that By Lainey • Dec 18, 2025 04:03 pm
What Else Sabrina Carpenter has a great laugh It’s not that I hadn’t heard Sabrina Carpenter’s laugh before, but I just watched over 16 minutes of her laughing and I’m kind of in love with it. Hers is a laugh-giggle, and it’s a laugh you’d describe as “bubbly”, like it gurgles and By Lainey • Dec 17, 2025 04:30 pm
What Else Simu’s Easter egg? Simu Liu was in New York yesterday for, among others, an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during which he talked about Avengers: Doomsday and how mortified he was about what he was wearing when he met Robert Downey Jr. View this post on Instagram A post shared By Lainey • Dec 16, 2025 04:38 pm
What Else The Pitt crew at Actors Night (whatever it is) There are so many year-end events, and last night, it was The Actors Night Hosted by The Actor Awards & Elle. Okay. I am just bringing this up because much of the younger cast of The Pitt was there. I am patiently waiting for that season two trailer! Part of By Sarah • Dec 12, 2025 04:04 pm
What Else Matthew McConaughey can talk Matthew McConaughey is currently promoting his new book, Poems & Prayers. He’s been writing here and there in a journal since he was 18 and he pulled out a lot of what he jotted down over the years and put it into a collection. As part of the press By Lainey • Dec 11, 2025 04:11 pm
Music Kylie in tartan Remember when Kylie Jenner tried to trademark “Kylie” and Kylie Minogue was like, no, I’m the #1 Kylie and you can sit down? As MC wrote in his weekly music column yesterday, Kylie has never not been relevant, the gays have loved her music for three decades and she’ By Lainey • Dec 10, 2025 04:06 pm
Legal issues Holiday Blake and a trial delay There was an update in the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni case today. Judge Liman is pushing back the start of the trial – it was originally supposed to begin in March and is now rescheduled to May because he has two criminal trials to preside over, explaining that "as By Lainey • Dec 09, 2025 04:35 pm
What Else The K-pop Girls on the awards circuit Let’s catch up with the girls of Kpop Demon Hunters because they’ve been booked and busy the last few days. Last week EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami performed at the Jingle Ball in red and white and it was holiday and style inspiration because I am definitely By Lainey • Dec 08, 2025 04:21 pm
Business of Hollywood What about HBO? With the Warner Bros. Discovery/Netflix merger now on, there are a lot of questions, including what happens to Warner Brothers’ actually successful theatrical distribution model—which, why is everyone so hellbent on destroying Warners’ theatrical model? First it was Jason Kilar and his day-and-date scheme, now it’s Netflix, By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 04:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë in Paris with some guy Lainey has been giving Zoë Saldaña her flowers recently for pioneering high fashion on press tours. She’s currently on the Avatar: Fire & Ash press tour, which stopped in Paris today. Following a strong start at the LA premiere earlier this week, Zoë showed up in futuristic leather in By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 04:08 pm
Style Amanda + Sydney, round 2 Last night, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney stepped out together for the premiere of The Housemaid, today, they’re making press rounds together, stopping by The Today Show. Once again, I do not hate Sydney’s outfit, a belted black dress, though I assume she’s cold. I think being By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 04:04 pm
Style Zoë Saldaña: A one-side party Last week at The Squawk, I posted a piece about press tour wardrobes, how they’ve evolved from the 90s and 2000s to now, as entire lookbooks are built around the release of a single movie. The main point of the article, though, is that Zoë Saldaña doesn’t get By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 04:41 pm
Style Where’s the matcha? Here’s Loni Love out in LA the other night and the first thing I noticed about these photos was… of course… the quarter-zip, LOL. If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, especially TikTok, I’m sure you’ve heard about the quarter-zip movement. I’m actually By Lainey • Nov 28, 2025 04:04 pm
What Else Huntr/x Thanksgiving EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami performed as Huntr/x at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade today in New York City and given how popular Kpop Demon Hunters has been with kids, you can imagine the excitement. Also the Derpy Tiger balloon! And… Bobby (aka Ken Jeong) was there By Lainey • Nov 27, 2025 03:55 pm
Douchebags Are Dax and Kristen trolling? Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are a controversial couple. As much as their publicist wants to yell at me over email or the phone about this, it’s an undeniable fact. Duana tells me there are corners of the internet, specifically on TikTok, dedicated to theories about this relationship. And By Lainey • Nov 26, 2025 04:14 pm
