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Dwayne Johnson is the Christmas Chicken Man

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Dwayne Johnson is the Christmas Chicken Man

Deadline had the exclusive late yesterday - Benny Safdie’s new film, and his second collaboration with Dwayne Johnson, a film called Lizard Music, will be released on December 25, 2027. So they’re aiming for next year’s holiday box office with a movie that has classic holiday themes. A

By Lainey • Oct 20, 2026 04:04 pm

Intro for October 20, 2026

Intro for October 20, 2026

Dear Gossips, I am a locked-down biohazard right now, laid out by the flu before the flu shot is even available but I’m only telling you this because something helped with the cough and congestion yesterday. It was the most fun I’ve had since this thing came

By Lainey • Oct 20, 2026 09:31 am

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Olivia’s Second Wind

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MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Olivia’s Second Wind

Olivia Rodrigo is giving her third album the kind of love and attention that pop music fans dream for their favourite artist to do. In the age of streaming, most cycles die out relatively quickly once the album has been released. But we are now four months into the release

By MC • Oct 20, 2026 02:30 pm

Hair by JLaw

Jennifer Lawrence

Hair by JLaw

Jennifer Lawrence is launching her own haircare line. But I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t brag about it first, LOL. Really, though, it’s a compliment about her hair, because back in February 2024 I was already talking about how she’s the only blonde in Hollywood

By Lainey • Oct 20, 2026 12:15 pm

Andrew Scott is your co-leader

Award Season Campaigning

Andrew Scott is your co-leader

As an award season nerd, I am living right now for all the Oscar conversations that are happening online. It’s October, we still have five months to go, maybe it’s too much too soon and the fatigue will set in even sooner but right now, it’s fun.

By Lainey • Oct 20, 2026 11:10 am

MBJ in NYC

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MBJ in NYC

Michael B Jordan was in New York City this weekend, right on schedule. Last week Miami Vice ’85 was in production in New Jersey, at a strip mall set up to look like Miami in the 80s. It was always expected that filming would continue in NYC this week and

By Lainey • Oct 19, 2026 04:05 pm

Men would really rather struggle in the belly of a whale than go to therapy

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Men would really rather struggle in the belly of a whale than go to therapy

Whalefall, adapted from Daniel Kraus’s novel of the same name by Brian Duffield and Kraus himself, and directed by Duffield, is about a sperm whale minding its whale business in its whale home when a RUDE HUMAN commits home invasion and ends up wrestling a squid inside its stomach.

By Sarah • Oct 19, 2026 01:08 pm

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Taylor woos the Academy

Taylor woos the Academy

As Sarah just wrote in today’s site intro, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything opened big at the box office this weekend, strengthening its case for the Oscars. A24 is campaigning this film to become the first documentary ever to receive a Best Picture nomination;

By Lainey • Oct 19, 2026 10:55 am

Damson Idris on set as Miles Davis

Damson Idris on set as Miles Davis

Let’s check in with Damson Idris, who is in Paris filming Miles & Juliette, in which Idris stars as legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. That is a really great piece of casting. Idris is on set with Romanian-born French actress Anamaria Vartolomei, who stars as French actress and

By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 04:05 pm

Jenna, but no Twigs

Jenna, but no Twigs

Following the photocall in which Twigs Ortega stole the show, Jenna Ortega, sans Twigs, glammed up for the BFI London Film Festival’s gala premiere of Klara and the Sun. Ortega looks stunning, the dress is so good I don’t even mind the unnecessary hat. The dress is custom

By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 10:00 am

Rick and Evie O’Connell are back in action

Rick and Evie O’Connell are back in action

Wake up, losers, there’s a new Mummy movie filming and Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser are back on set! While I am deeply skeptical that we need another Mummy movie—the 1999 The Mummy is nearly perfect and every sequel was a case of diminishing returns—thanks to Brendan

By Sarah • Oct 15, 2026 09:46 am

All adventurous women do

All adventurous women do

Whether you consider Lena Dunham the voice of a generation, or just “a voice” of “a generation”, or just a hack, it can’t be denied: she has pop culture power. Since Girls premiered, Lena Dunham has been the topic of endless conversation, a one-woman think-piece cottage industry.

By Maria • Oct 14, 2026 11:26 am

Intro for October 13, 2026

Intro for October 13, 2026

Dear Gossips, In addition to the unfunny, lazy, and offensively bad jokes that the audience had to endure on Saturday Night Live this weekend, delivered by a host who Lorne Michaels obstinately insists on inviting back (because he’s the ultimate instigating troll), one of the other downsides is that

By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 09:36 am

Crazy Rich Chinamaxxing

Crazy Rich Chinamaxxing

It was announced yesterday that the Crazy Rich Asians sequel has been greenlit as a series on HBO. The film came out in 2018, becoming the highest-grossing rom-com of its decade, opening at #1 at the box office with around $30 million domestically, and ending up at almost

By Lainey • Oct 09, 2026 12:47 pm

A Tribute to Jennifer Lawrence

A Tribute to Jennifer Lawrence

It’s wild to me that the original tribute is being tributed but, sure, I guess that much time has passed since Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute and now she’s the one who people are styling themselves after. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens

By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 12:17 pm

Here comes Artificial

Here comes Artificial

Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, about Meta and Mark Zuckerberg and whistle blowing, opens this Friday. Reviews are embargoed until tomorrow but from the early reactions that I’ve seen so far, the most common description is that it’s “solid”. Solid is good, but it is not spectacular,

By Lainey • Oct 06, 2026 02:06 pm

Kylie Jenner’s Bachelorette Weekend

Kylie Jenner’s Bachelorette Weekend

This was inevitable. Six months ago when Kylie Jenner covered Vanity Fair, basically a press release announcing her acting ambitions pegged to her appearance in Charli XCX’s The Moment, for their spring issue that dropped right before the Oscars, it was only a matter of time. That time is

By Lainey • Oct 06, 2026 11:47 am

Men would really rather struggle in the belly of a whale than go to therapy

Movie Reviews and Previews

Men would really rather struggle in the belly of a whale than go to therapy

Whalefall, adapted from Daniel Kraus’s novel of the same name by Brian Duffield and Kraus himself, and directed by Duffield, is about a sperm whale minding its whale business in its whale home when a RUDE HUMAN commits home invasion and ends up wrestling a squid inside its stomach.

By Sarah • Oct 19, 2026 01:08 pm

Bravo style comes to Dancing with the Stars

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Bravo style comes to Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars pro Val Chmerkovskiy received a one-week suspension from the show after making recent remarks aimed at judge Carrie Ann Inaba. Val’s comments followed Carrie Ann’s feedback to his wife, Jenna Johnson, who also appears on this season of the show. During her routine,

By Stephanie • Oct 19, 2026 11:50 am

Taylor woos the Academy

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Taylor woos the Academy

As Sarah just wrote in today’s site intro, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything opened big at the box office this weekend, strengthening its case for the Oscars. A24 is campaigning this film to become the first documentary ever to receive a Best Picture nomination;

By Lainey • Oct 19, 2026 10:55 am

Intro for October 19, 2026

Nathan Fielder

Intro for October 19, 2026

Dear Gossips, The Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything opened this past weekend, and it did gangbusters business. It opened with $15 million, doubling expectations and doing so in only 855 theaters. It was enough to open at #2, and for contrast, the number one film was Street Fighter,

By Sarah • Oct 19, 2026 09:06 am

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Damson Idris on set as Miles Davis

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Damson Idris on set as Miles Davis

Let’s check in with Damson Idris, who is in Paris filming Miles & Juliette, in which Idris stars as legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. That is a really great piece of casting. Idris is on set with Romanian-born French actress Anamaria Vartolomei, who stars as French actress and

By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 04:05 pm

The Beekeeper tends to his own hive

Movie Reviews and Previews

The Beekeeper tends to his own hive

Jason Statham releases a steady diet of B-grade action flicks, but every once in a while, he stars in a movie that’s a cut above his usual fare (see also: Wrath of Man). A couple years ago, one such film emerged, The Beekeeper, which is just the right

By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 03:09 pm

Truth is perspective in You Can See Everything

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Truth is perspective in You Can See Everything

Imagine you walk into a mirrored room, and every mirror shows you a completely accurate reflection of yourself, so accurate that, in fact, you begin to doubt which one of you is the real you. Is it enough to feel your physical body in space or is every reflection just

By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 01:17 pm

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