Movie Reviews and Previews Another rom-com bites the streaming dust There was a time when Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon starring in a rom-com would be a major release, a film you could pretty well set your watch to, as it were, counting on it to make $100 million on name recognition alone. But these days? No one has a By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:47 am
BFFs Will & Harper rediscover friendship and America Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s friendship goes back 30 years, to their mutual starts at Saturday Night Live in 1995. Over the next 13 years, Harper would rise to be the Emmy-winning head writer of SNL, while Will would go on to become one of the biggest comedy stars By Sarah • Sep 25, 2024 11:59 am
TV Updates Amazon’s traffic jam upfront I used to think the biannual television upfronts, in which TV networks hawk their wares for advertisers, were a relic of a bygone era, but then every streaming service started introducing user tiers that include ads, so now I guess the upfronts are more relevant than ever. To that end, By Sarah • May 15, 2024 11:46 am
BFFs Intro for January 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, During the Golden Globes Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig did a bit using a piece of royalty free music popular with the youths on TikTok. During our live chat, I said that Will Ferrell has done an excellent job, as he has become one of the eminent men By Sarah • Jan 23, 2024 08:58 am
Golden Globes 2024 Intro for January 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, So the “new” Golden Globes were…a mess. Which is how we like our Golden Globes! Unfortunately for Jo Koy, in most of the post mortem coverage of the show, his performance as host is included in that mess. In his defence, he had no time. We all By Lainey • Jan 08, 2024 07:55 am
Helen Mirren A lot of women in entertainment As previously mentioned, The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event brought out a lot of people, as every red carpet has since the end of the actors’ strike. Besides Lily Gladstone and Adele, the event brought out members of Team Barbie including Alexandra Shipp, Dua Lipa wearing a belt By Sarah • Dec 08, 2023 11:27 am
Break Ups Middle-Aged Man Beef Lainey emailed me yesterday about Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly popping in on Snoop Dogg’s set at Will Ferrell’s Best Night Of Your Life 2 benefit event for Cancer For College, which helps cancer survivors pursue higher education (because treatment costs often wipe out college funds, we’ By Sarah • Oct 24, 2023 11:11 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot, Ryan, and Will: More Barbie Rollerblading Yesterday I posted photos of Margot Robbie and America Ferrera rollerblading on the set of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. I guess everyone in the movie rollerblades because now we have shots of Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell also rollerblading and …what is this movie?! Not getting an answer to By Lainey • Jun 28, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell get Scrooged Three years ago, before Apple TV+ even launched, we heard about one of their first big deals, to make a new, musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. At the time, I wasn’t into it, largely because A Muppets Christmas Carol already exists and By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 11:00 am
BFFs Will Ferrell and Adam McKay aren’t friends anymore Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s creative partnership is one of the driving forces of contemporary comedy. They first worked together on SNL, McKay as a writer and Ferrell as a cast member, and over the years they’ve made some of the best and/or most quotable comedies of By Sarah • Dec 01, 2021 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan and Will swap Ryan Reynolds is promoting Red Notice, out today on Netflix (my review is posting later today), and Will Ferrell is promoting The Shrink Next Door, dropping on Apple TV+ today, too. They did a jokey thing where they “swapped” late night appearances, with Will Ferrell appearing in place of Reynolds By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 09:29 am
TV Updates Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd enter dysfunctional therapy Podcast platform Wondery has cornered the market on long-form, true crime documentary podcasts that then become splashy TV series. First it was Dirty John, next it’s Dr. Death, and in November comes perhaps the splashiest of them all based purely on star power: The Shrink Next Door. Anchorman chums By Sarah • Jun 18, 2021 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eurovision Song Contest is the dumb summer fun we need Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga—a title that never gets easier to deal with—is the dopamine hit we need this summer. If you’re missing the Eurovision Song Contest this year, Fire Saga has you covered with a series of Eurovision All-Star cameos and original songs By Sarah • Jun 29, 2020 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Just release the Eurovision movie now We need the laughs! A full trailer for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, the tortuously named Netflix film starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams is here, and it is a bright spot on my otherwise horrific Twitter feed right now. JK Rowling is ruining Harry Potter, people By Sarah • Jun 11, 2020 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pitch Perfect but for Eurovision Eurovision, the delightful annual summit that pits (mostly) European countries against each other in a bonkers singing competition, was cancelled earlier this year, along with basically everything else, due to the pandemic. I love anything that is countries competing against each other, and I firmly believe all geopolitical issues should By Sarah • May 19, 2020 11:53 am
