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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.

Kendall Jenner Drinks In-N-Out on i-D

Kendall Jenner wears a pink bathing suit on the cover of i-D

-In a new interview with i-D, Kendall Jenner says she turns to books to improve her mental health. “I was having a panic attack two nights ago and I was just like, ‘Oh, but you know what? I’m just going to pick up this book and try to forget’…I just love having things that are for me and no one else, you know? I feel like reading is one of those things.”

-Are Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley not actually broken up? They were spotted out together in Los Angeles earlier this week.

–Amanda Seyfried says she first turned down the opportunity to play Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout. “Listen, I was having a f*cking moment, OK? I had COVID. I was isolating in the basement of a gross townhouse in Savannah, Georgia, because my husband was working on a movie there. And now an L.A. shoot? Pass!”

-Euphoria star Chloe Cherry told Variety about how she’s handling her newfound fame – and the comments that come with it. “It’s crazy how many people talk about my lips being so big. The amount of headlines that I have seen and the amount of people posting and commenting about my lips has been surreal. It’s nuts because you have to realize that I got those lips at some point in my life and nobody reacted that way — at least not to my face.”

-In new court papers filed this week, Kim Kardashian pleaded with a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to sign off on her divorce from Kanye West.

-I keep forgetting Kim Kardashian has an app, even though I know someone who worked on it. The game has removed its latest level after it was accused of cashing in on a storyline which mimicked that of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s exit from the UK.

–Billie Eilish told Seth Meyers that she was nervous to meet Daniel Craig when she worked on the No Time to Die theme song. “It’s James Bond. He’s a DILF.” She said when they first met, she was mesmerized by his blue eyes. “You literally would not believe them. They look crazy. When I met him I was like, ‘Whoa.'”

-I know Robert Pattinson’s oversized suit is very trendy but he looks like a kid playing in his father’s closet.

-Also, it’s very refreshing for RPattz to admit he’s gonna stalk Twitter for The Batman reactions.

–Benedict Cumberbatch spent months preparing to play a cowboy in The Power of the Dog, and said it paid off when he rescued a family from a herd of cows. “I came back from shooting the film in August and we were off to the beach. To get there we had to cross a field and in the field was a petrified family who just couldn’t move, they were frozen because of a herd of cows with calves. I thought, ‘I can do this,’ and I just sort of parted the waves of cattle. The family was like, ‘That was incredible. Hey, aren’t you Sherlock?'”

–Dave Grohl is the latest celeb to appear on Hot Ones, and he barely flinched at the heat levels of the various hot sauces. “I have this sh-t at home. Sometimes I come home from rehearsal, I drink a couple beers, I eat a teaspoon of this shit. So, you know what, Hot Ones? I got your ass.”

–Grohl also appeared on James Corden’s show and played a heated game with Hilary Duff.

-I love that Fefe Dobson is making a comeback! Here’s her new single ‘Fckn in Love.’

-Speaking of comebacks, Superchunk has a new album.

-This is an interesting look at actors who demanded changes to their characters’ romantic relationships. It’s presented as positive, but on the flip side I recently read a Twitter thread from a TV writer about the abuse they take from fans when a show kills a ship even though often it’s because the stars demanded it (they found religion and refuse to do sex scenes, or they hate each other and don’t want to be in the same room, or one is anti-mask and no one wants to kiss them, etc.).

-The parents of actor Alicia Witt who were found dead in their Massachusetts home in December died of exposure to the cold.

-Nearly $200,000 worth of antiques were stolen from the set of Netflix’s The Crown.

–Lily Collins and Jesse Plemons‘ vacation is ruined when a robber intrudes in the trailer for Windfall.

Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue Made Some Choices

vanity fair hollywood issue - 8 covers

-The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue came out today and everyone’s dunking on Nicole Kidman’s cover, but I dunno. It’s overly photoshopped but if I look like anything even remotely that when I’m 54 I’ll weep with joy. Personally, I have more questions about Benedict Cumberbatch‘s milk bath with swans.

-There’s also a cute video in which the 8 cover subjects answer 8 questions about their careers.

-Also in the issue, Kristen Stewart talks about working on a TV show with her screenwriter fiancée Dylan Meyer: “We discovered a superbrain.”

-In the new issue of Interview, Alexander Skarsgård talks to Kirsten Dunst about his role in the new viking saga The Northman.

-Oh, this is rich. When asked about Taylor Swift‘s new version of “Red” in his Esquire profile, Jake Gyllenhaal said he hasn’t listened to it but added, “That begs for a deeper philosophical question. Not about any individual, per se, but a conversation that allows us to examine how we can—or should, even—take responsibility for what we put into the world, our contributions into the world. How do we provoke a conversation? We see that in politics. There’s anger and divisiveness, and it’s literally life-threatening in the extreme.” Sir, she wrote about her dad comforting her when you skipped her birthday party. If you want to talk about taking responsibility for what we put out in the world, let’s chat about the nightmares I had after watching Nightcrawler, mmm-ok?

–Joe Rogan‘s deal with Spotify may be worth even more than the rumoured $200 million. Swell.

–Ioan Gruffudd filed for a domestic violence restraining order against estranged wife Alice Evans.

-Even airing opposite the Super Bowl, Euphoria’s latest episode was able to attract a series-high 5.1 million viewers within a few hours of its premiere.

–Zendaya and Tom Holland were spotted enjoying a date night in New York and they were as super cute as always.

-Oh god, here we go. Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has forged a partnership with NFT collective World of Women (WoW) to make feature films, scripted and unscripted TV series based on NFTs.

–Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are rumoured to be expecting another kid, judging by various rounds of paparazzi pics.

–Keri Russell will star in and exec produce Netflix’s The Diplomat, an 8-ep political thriller where she’ll play a career diplomat who lands a high-profile job she’s unsuited for in the midst of an international crisis. Yes, please!

-Stranger Things is gearing up for it’s fourth season (with will be broken into two parts — one dropping in May and the other in July) with “super-sized episodes“. They also just announced that the fifth season will be their last.

-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has been renewed for its fifth and final season, which is already underway in New York.

-FX has renewed Dave for a third season. I love that little weirdo of a show.

–This interview with HBO/Max’s Casey Bloys is good, mostly because he says he’s not just interested in doing reboots (despite there being talk of Six Feet Under and True Blood revivals). “I just want to point out that if you look at the last year, between Mare of Easttown, The White Lotus and Succession and Insecure and now Euphoria and Gilded Age and going into Winning Time, there’s no reboots. In most those cases, they weren’t based on existing IP. I do want to take a moment to make clear that we don’t spend our days thinking about what to reboot because it’s a tricky business bringing a show back.”

-Here’s the trailer for Lizzo’s dance competition series, which looks delightful!

–Austin Butler plays Elvis in the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll.

-Watch Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Gillian Anderson transform into Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt in Showtime’s The First Lady trailer.