–Scott Eastwood covers the new issue of GQ Australia, in which he talks about losing a girlfriend to a car accident, and how his dad once punched him in the face when he was 16. And now I feel bad for Scott Eastwood. This is new.
–Sarah Paulsonis joining Feud, Ryan Murphy‘s new show based on the conflict between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. This cast is INSANE. Jessica Lange is Crawford, Susan Sarandon is Davis, Paulson is Oscar-winner Geraldine Page, Catherine Zeta-Jones is Olivia de Havilland, and Judy Davis is gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. I mean, jesus.
-Unfortunately, Paulson‘s career winning streak continues to not translate into fashion wins.
-The Anne of Green Gables TV adaptation has been picked up by Netflix. This is awesome! Someone I know is working on the production in Toronto.
-In his new interview with the Guardian, Miles Teller tries to do some serious damage control following that douchey Esquire interview. “If I read this and you call me an asshole, I’m going to be so pissed off.”
–Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy are topping Forbes 2016 list of highest-paid actresses again.
-Speaking of shows straight out of my dreams, Idris Elba is making a docuseries where he attempts to become a professional kickboxer.
–Joseph Fiennes has been cast as the male lead opposite Elisabeth Moss in Hulu’s take on The Handmaids Tale. Man, this summer is all about Atwood adaptation news, huh? I’m not complaining.
-I liked this defense of Mr Robot season 2. The show definitely zigged when I expected it to zag, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
-I have a very limited amount of gala tickets at TIFF this year and I didn’t want to waste them on films that will premiere at other festivals first, but this new trailer for La La Landmeans I no longer care about that. Gorgeous!
-Meanwhile, Jackson (and his sexy beard) are back to filming The Affair.
–Vin Diesel praised Dwayne Johnson‘s Fast8 performance; The Rock responded by thanking everyone in the cast but Vin. God, I’m living for this!
–Idris Elba posted a photo of him working out in just a pair of boxers. Happy Monday!
–Eddie Murphylives quite the life. “I haven’t read a newspaper in 20 years, or read a corporate magazine, I don’t read corporate magazines or stuff, I don’t read stuff about me…I don’t have a computer, I don’t have email, I don’t have any of that shit.”
-He also says he turned down drugs from Robin Williams and John Belushi.
–Rosario Dawson has the weirdest contract I’ve ever heard of. Marvel is so scared that she’ll reveal spoilers that all she knows every year is that she’ll be in four episodes of a Netflix show at some point — but she doesn’t know when or which shows.
-Out of all the Hip tributes I read this weekend, this one and this one got me right in the feels.
-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Vincent Rodriguez III is posting photos from his Disneyland trip with his husband and it’s all kinds of cute.
–Courteney Coxate rotting sheepon while filming Running Wild With Bear Grylls; did not enjoy it.
-Is Tom Cruise holding up the new Mission Impossible movie with his money demands?
-One of my favourite people I’ve ever interviewed is Nick Offerman, because you could throw the silliest question at that guy and he’d respond with the most thoughtful, lovely answer. I was reminded of that by this AV Club interview, whether he’s talking about fans over-simplifying Ron Swanson as a breakfast-loving, Scotch-drinking libertarian (“He was much more complex than that. He was a very outspoken feminist. He was a man of few words and people mistook that for a man of few colors”), or his sex life with Megan Mullaly (“Look, I’m 46, Megan’s 57, and we have a happy marriage. We get it on with each other and we feel very celebratory about that.”)
-THR published an article about how TV production is exploding in Vancouver: “If you’re a paparazzo, you should go to Vancouver because it’s where every television star is going to be running around and misbehaving.” Oh, THR. They already are. The CW casts seem to be single-handedly powering blind item sites these days.
– Netflix has a new comedy series called Friends from College and the cast is stellar: Cobie Smulders, Keegan Michael-Key, Nat Faxon and Fred Savage.
–Aaron Paul is getting into the producer gam;. he’s sold a one-hour drama script called Blackmail to NBC.
-Sorry, nerds. Ian McKellanwill not officiate your LOTR-themed nuptials.
-Speaking of GOT, that awesome shot of Jon Snow being crowded in battle last season was actually Kit Harington’s idea.
–Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are shooting a new movie together? TAKE MY MONEY NOW!
-Hmmm. Days after THR’s scathing article about Leonardo DiCaprio‘s charitable foundation, he abruptly dropped out of hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his Hollywood Hills home. It’ll now be held at the nearby residence of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.
–Kevin Spacey has never been happier than this moment.
-Speaking of great reads, this is a good one on the struggle for small shows to be seenin the times of peak TV.
-In case you ever doubt how powerful Barbra Streisand is, she got Apple to change the way Siri pronounces her name. “She pronounces my name wrong. With a soft S, like sand on the beach. And so what did I do? I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook.”
-The Ben-Hur remake belly-flopped at the box office this weekend. Let’s all see if that gets as much press as the Ghostbusters receipts did, shall we?
-Whoa. Sleigh Bell (love them!) are suing Demi Lovato (love her!) for unlawfully sampling their music.
-Lindsay Lohan will do a Russian TV interview — but only if she gets to meet Putin. Bless her heart.
-Congrats to Chris Hardwick, who married Lydia Hearst this weekend. Everyone shits on him now because he’s so ubiquitous, but I still kind of love him.
-This is boss: Katie Couric took a $1 million pay cutto save other people’s jobs.
–Halle Berry proves she’s the wrong mom to mess with in this Kidnap trailer.
-Holy crap. Amber Heard said she was going to donate her $7M divorce settlement to charity — but I didn’t think she meant all of it. But she donated ALL OF IT. Of course, Twitter was immediately overrun by idiots claiming it’s not that big of a deal because she’ll get it all back in taxes (except, yeah, that’s not how taxes work), or that she’s doing it to seem like a martyr. What? Whatever you think of her personality, their joint statement basically confirmed that she’s a survivor of domestic violence. That doesn’t change, whether or not she donates a dime, or passes your vague likability test. And if you ask me, the fact that she’s giving it all away makes her a goddamn boss.
-People I keep forgetting are no longer pregnant, weekend edition: Emily Blunt.
–Nina Dobrev and Julianna Hough showed off their bare butts on Instagram. I just don’t know how photos like this happen. Like, how much alcohol must first be consumed before everyone thinks this is a swell idea?
-The girl who plays Eleven on Stranger Things taught Winona Ryderhow to use Snapchat.
-I’m always ready to call out sexism in Hollywood, but I agree with Kristen Bell here — it doesn’t really apply to Bad Moms (which, btw, was my surprise movie of the summer. Kathyrn Hahn does a monologue about uncircumcised penises that should win an Oscar).
-Fun fact: Jonah Hill was hospitalized for snorting too much fake coke while filming Wolf of Wall Street.
–Zendaya may have been cast as Mary Jane Watsonin Spider-Man: Homecoming and comic f**kboys went predictable crazy at the rumours. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn wrote an excellent rebuttal on Facebook. “For me, if a character’s primary attribute – the thing that makes them iconic – is the color of their skin, or their hair color, frankly, that character is shallow and sucks. For me, what makes MJ MJ is her alpha female playfulness, and if the actress captures that, then she’ll work.” Church!
-Pretty much anything Roxanne Gay writes is an automatic must-read for me. Her thoughtful essay on Nate Parker and the limits of empathy doesn’t disappoint.
-The Lost Boys is being adapted as a TV series, and the fact that Rob Thomas of Veronica Mars/iZombie is behind it leaves me hopeful.
–Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley get flirty on a college campus in this new clip from Snowden. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get over what he’s doing with his voice in this film.
-Here’s the trailer for Hands of Stone, starring Usher and Robert De Niro.
