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Robert Pattinson Gets Raves for The Batman

-The embargo for The Batman lifted today and the reviews are mostly positive (though “overlong” and “oppressively dark” come up repeatedly). But critics seem unanimous in their praise for Robert Pattinson.

-The film is targeting a heroic $100 million-plus box office debut.

–Benedict Cumberbatch received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, and J.J. Abrams was one of the people to pay tribute at the ceremony. “Beyond being one of our finest actors, he’s thoroughly decent… He’s annoying. Why? Because he’s also great looking, has a brilliant mind. He’s from esteemed lineage, or some shit.”

-Andrew Garfield and girlfriend Alyssa Miller made their red carpet debut at the SAG Awards.

-Last night, Squid Game took home three SAG awards, leading all series and becoming the first non-English language series to take home acting prizes. On the film side, CODA did well.

-I really liked Squid Game star HoYeon Jung‘s SAG Awards dress and traditional hair ribbon.

–Michael Keaton, who won for Dopesick, gave the night’s best speech — rolling onto the stage after running in from the bathroom, voicing his support for Ukraine, and paying tribute to his nephew, who he lost to drugs.

–Brad Pitt‘s company Plan B has reportedly come aboard to produce Beetlejuice 2 with original stars Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder reprising their roles.

–Rihanna and A$AP Rocky attended the Gucci fashion show in Milan — and looked amazing.

–Javon Walton, who plays Ash on Euphoria, talked to Esquire about last night’s season finale.

-I know people are upset by the fact that the finale didn’t answer any questions that the season had set up, but I was more disappointed by how chaotic these last few episodes ended up being. They threw the kitchen sink at us, despite the finale’s most affecting scenes being the quiet ones (Elliot singing Rue a song, Lexi and Rue reconnecting, etc.)  This review nails it: “Euphoria perhaps has always needed a little bit of restraint, and the finale proved how exhausting it can feel when it refuses to hold back at all when it probably should.”

–Timothy Hutton is suing Leverage for dropping him from the revival.

-Ukrainian-born former ‘Dancing With the Stars’ pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy was arrested and released in his home country during the ongoing Russian invasion, and is now making plans to leave Kyiv.

–Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are matching donations up to $1M for Ukrainian refugees.

–Eddie Vedder says he’s recovering from a brutal bout of covid. “I got the COVID right before we were supposed to start practicing, probably five, six weeks ago, and literally saw my life flash in front of my eyes…It was, it felt pretty serious.”

-Canadian comedian Russell Peters got married in Laguna Beach in a ceremony presided by Cedric The Entertainer. Deborah Cox performed.

-HBO confirmed that Jennifer Coolidge is officially the lead in season 2 of The White Lotus. Yessss!!!

–Chris Pine plays a disgraced ex-solider who joins a private underground military force in The Contractor trailer.

Lizzo Talks Rihanna and Reality TV

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–Lizzo is on the cover of Variety and she’s never more relatable than when she talks about being friends with Rihanna: “If she f—s with you, she f—s with you. By the grace of the goddamn stars, she f—s with me. I’m so happy for her being pregnant. I’m like, ‘S–t. I’m about to get pregnant.'”

-A new book details Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy’s hatred of each other on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. It sounds like Charlize was professional and on time, and Tom was a Method actor who was consistently late, maybe even to piss her off. When he showed up three hours late and she yelled at him, his response made her scared enough that she says she “didn’t feel safe” and a producer was assigned to be with her. It sounds like he chilled out by the end of the shoot, though. Both Theron and Hardy talk about it in this excerpt.

-In an interview with the Today Show, Matt Hutchins, the husband of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was killed on the set of Rust, said he watched Alec Baldwin‘s interview about the accident and was “so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly in such a detailed way and then not accept any responsiblity after having described killing her.”

–Lindsay Lohan joined TikTok and everyone is surprised that she pronounces her last name “Lo-wen” instead of “Lo-HAN” like she has in the past. I get it. The pronunciation of my last name changes based on where in the country I am, and I just kind of roll with it.

-A pop culture blog posted that the Queen had died and got the internet in a tizzy, and then took it back. (If she had, Kate Middleton wouldn’t still be in Denmark.) The CEO of the site is still standing by the report — but it might actually be a misunderstanding related to the death of Queens of the Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan.

–Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were spotted on a double date with Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in Santa Barbara

-Once again, the Academy is trying to “fix” the Oscars and once again, they’ve just made everyone angry. They’ve just moved 8 rather significant categories (editing! original score!) to the off-air portion.

-This piece on how movie scores get made is eye-opening and depressing, with big names farming their scores out to uncredited, underpaid minions who do most of the work, and now streamers aren’t even paying out royalties.

–Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham quietly eloped last year. While promoting Inventing Anna, Edwards told Esquire, “We’re too old to throw weddings. She’s just spectacular. She’s an amazing singer and she’s a wonderful actress and she’s an incredible person.”

–Abigail Breslin is engaged to longtime boyfriend Ira Kunyansky. She will always be Little Miss Sunshine to me, but she’s actually 25.

-The guy whose tweet sparked a slew of negative stories about Ellen Degeneres is back and this time he’s set his sights on … Jason Sudeikis? It’s comforting that there doesn’t seem to be anyone collaborating his take in the replies, though.

-Country star Sam Hunt‘s pregnant wife filed for divorce, citing adultery — and then she withdrew the petition hours later.

-The Hating Game movie is apparently doing very well on streaming and I can only take credit for 30% of those views. Ok, 40 tops.

-Disney+ in Canada will now have all the Netflix Marvel shows. This just makes sense and I’m guessing the US will follow suit as soon as the hash out a deal with Netflix.

–Euphoria’s Season 2 finale is this Sunday and I swear to god, Fez better make it out unharmed.

-Arrow’s Juliana Harkavy has been cast in the lead in ABC’s L.A. Law revival.

-Here’s the trailer for the new season of Upload, starring Robbie Amell. I really liked the first season.

–Tom Holland says it was Andrew Garfield’s idea to recreate the Spider-Man pointing meme in a newly released pic.

-Here’s the trailer for Hulu FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven, starring Andrew Garfield and inspired by the true crime bestseller by Jon Krakauer.

Rihanna Is Pregnant

-There is no other news today that matters more than Rihanna‘s pregnancy. I adore the way she announced it too, with a DIY snow-themed photoshoot. Though I’m a little surprised she didn’t release the images on her own social media, or do a mag exclusive with proceeds going to charity. Instead, she used a paparazzo and the pics are on a photo agency’s site for $1,500 a pop.

–Nick Cannon sparked rumors that he is expecting his eighth child after he hosted pregnant Bre Tiesi’s baby shower.

-Is Cara Delevingne now dating Sienna Miller? Colour me intrigued.

–Andrew Garfield and Rachel Zegler are today’s Actors on Actors pairing, and she couldn’t handle his gushing about her performance in West Side Story: “I cannot even believe those words just came out of your face towards my face.”

-Party Down’s revival added some new cast members: Jennifer Garner, Zoë Chao, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and James Marsden. I assumed they’d all be playing versions of themselves who hire the catering crew for their parties, but Garner is playing Adam Scott’s love interest! She’s no Lizzy Caplan but I’ll take it.

-Aw man, I knew the purity of Wordle couldn’t last. The NYT just bought it for seven figures. (I do love that the guy who invented it is getting paid so much, and that part of his agreement to sell was that they must keep it free.)

–Eric Dane sat down with THR to discuss “the absolute dumpster fire of a meltdown that is Cal Jacobs” in Euphoria season two. Despite episodes three and four giving viewers more insight into who Cal Jacobs is, Dane insists it doesn’t justify who he is — or the things he’s done. “You’re not going to walk away from this thinking, ‘Oh, Cal, what a great guy.”

-Netflix’s latest South Korean zombie drama All Of Us Are Dead has dethroned Euphoria from the top spot in this week’s Twitter TV buzz rankings.

-Hollywood’s obsession with making movies about toys has gone overboard.

-Vulture did a hilarious deep-dive into what Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers may have “agreed to disagree” on. “It’s my belief that the men who punched Miles Teller in the face while on vacation with Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers were sent back in time from the future, à la 12 Monkeys, to save the world.”

–Tessa Thompson says the new Thor movie will include a romance for her character. “It’s totally exciting. We talk so much about representation and obviously, in terms of the LGBTQIA community, there’s still so much work to be done. But if you look at the comics in the canon, there are so many queer characters! It’s hard because Taika [Waititi] and I would’ve even liked to go further, but in the context of the movies, there’s only so much we can do.”

-Spotify said that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the pandemic (which doesn’t solve the problem at all). Meanwhile, Joe Rogan defended himself on IG, and promised to “try harder to get people with differing opinions on” and “do my best to make sure I’ve researched these topics.” Yes, because the “doing my own research” thing seems to be panning out so well for everybody who says it…

-Meanwhile, I wonder if Brené Brown removing her podcasts from the platform will hurt Spotify even more than the musician exodus?

–Drake asking his son a simple question about how big he’ll grow up to be, and his son getting all existential about how his dad is going to die and his body will wither back into the universe is quality content.

-This is interesting: new viewer data suggests that Netflix shows often start strong but fizzle out super quickly.

-Poor Zac Efron sounded like he had a crappy time on the set of 17 again.

–Quentin Tarantino is not only selling Pulp Fiction NFTs, he’s been accused of using stolen artwork to do so.

-Leatherface returns in the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer.

–Jim Sturgess plays a man with an eye condition who suddenly starts seeing the true motives of those around him in The Other Me trailer.