-Their Netflix show may be getting terrible reviews but it’s not all bad news for Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup — they’re reportedly dating. I sometimes mix him up with her ex, Liev Schreiber, so this is going to be super confusing.
-Meanwhile, Naomi says that she was almost in Big Little Lieswith her bestie Nicole Kidman.
-Like a true Gryffindor, Daniel Radcliffe came to the aid of London mugging victim.
–Mariah Carey is going to co-executive produce a Starz scripted dramawith Brett Ratner about her rise to fame — and I am going to watch the crap out of it.
-This is a good pieceabout Girls Trip and the wonky, wild path of the raunchy female friendship comedy.
-It tickles me that Drake still gets royalty cheques from Degrassi.
-British papers celebrated the news of Jodie Whittaker being named the new Doctor Who by publishing stills from her past nude scenesbecause the world sucks.
-Ohhh…SyFy is developing a series with Catherine Hardwickebased on The Raven Boys. I loved those books!
-Learn about Wonder Woman’s S&M beginnings in the trailer for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, starring Luke Evans, Connie Britton and Rebecca Hall.
-I’m not sure I’ve ever managed to get through a full screening of The Room, the most infamously bad movie ever made. But the trailer for James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, based on the making of that movie, looks kind of amazing.
-Jeepers von creepers, Mindy Kaling is reportedly pregnant! A source tells E! News that the future arrival for the 38-year-old actress was “an unexpected surprise.” Part of me is super curious about the dad, part of me hopes she January Joneses it and reveals nothing, and all of me is super happy for her. She’s talked a lot in the past about wanting kids, so mazel.
–Mindy had a busy weekend. Before this news broke, she joined Oprah and Reese Witherspoon at the D23Expo to unveil the first trailer for A Wrinkle In Time, which looks amazing!
-Everyone at D23 lost their poo over the Avengers: Infinity War footage shown, but a good quality version has yet to leak and we’re not getting the first trailer until November.
-I really like this video of Don Cheadle and Mark Ruffalo at D23. You can see Don trying to pull Mark backfrom bad-talking Universal Studios, and then it just turns into a mutual lovefest.
-If you only read one thing today, read Buzzfeed’s exposé on R. Kelly. The parents of three young girls are claiming he’s holding them at his home against their will in a “cult.” The article is disturbing and certainly sounds like an older man grooming his victims. The craziest thing about this is all the fans who came out to cape for him on Twitter today. How is this still happening?! Do we really care so little about young black women? People have known about him for 20 years now, and if anything, it sounds like instead of facing consequences he’s actually been escalating his behaviours. Everyone involved needs to be held accountable for this: his label, the people who still collaborate with him (looking at you, Gaga and Pitchfork), and everyone who still blindly stans him.
-A statement through his lawyer says he “unequivocally denies such allegations.”
-Look, I’m not sure I believe this story about Taylor Swift being smuggled out of her house in a box, but this has been the Monday-iest of all Mondays and I NEED it!
-Congrats to Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, who got married in a secret ceremony after two years of dating.
-If all goes as planned, the Wonder Woman sequelwill be announced later this week at Comic Con.
-Yikes. Spider-Man: Homecoming suffered Marvel’s worst second-weekend drop ever. In happier box office news, The Big Sick expanded nation-wide this weekendand is doing really well.
-The Aladdin movie continues to make headlines — and not in a good way. After this weekend’s lukewarm response to the cast reveal comes news that Guy Ritchie’s script is being re-written — by a blonde white lady.
-It’s a big week for Attack the Block stars. Jodie Whittaker was announced as the first female doctor on Doctor Who (which of course made all the butthurt fanboys cry), and John Boyega landed on the cover of GQ, where he talked about getting relationship advice from Robert Downey Jr. and Orlando Bloom over waffles.
–Beyonce made sure to lead us into the weekend with a burst of happiness by dropping the first photo of the twins, which she captioned “Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today.” (I’m guessing his name is Sir and not Sir Carter, because that would make him Sir Carter Carter.)
-Everything’s coming up roses for Spider-Man: Homecoming stars Tom Holland and Zendaya. Not only is their movie crushing it, they are reportedly dating.
-The Walking Dead is having a horrible week. After their dirty laundry got aired in the Frank Darabont lawsuit docs, a stuntman died as a result of an onset injury. John Bernecker fell more than 20 feet onto a concrete floor on the show’s Georgia set, leading AMC to temporarily shut down production.
-Speaking of the Walking Dead lawsuit, it also revealed a lot of other scoop about AMC shows, including Mad Men’s $30 million deal with Matthew Weiner. He was paid $2.5 million for signing on to the last two seasons, with the rest of the sum ($27.5 million) resulting from episode fees, royalty fees and writing, directing and producing fees. He would also get $25,000 for each award nomination and $125,000 for each award win.
-Oh, and the makeup artist on The Walking Dead is getting backend profits. So basically, AMC’s deals are insane.
-Wait, so instead of denying Blac Chyna’s allegations this week that Rob physically abused her, the Kardashian’s response was to remind everyone that she signed a non-disclosure agreement? What a terrible rebuttal.
-Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, starring Cate Blanchett, is getting a Mother’s Day release. I adored that book, written by Maria Semple (who used to work on Arrested Development).
-Something that’s becoming increasingly clear to me: I’m not a fan Riverdale’s Cole Sprouse. First he mansplains how Hollywood works on R*ddit, and now there’s video of him harassing a busker in Vancouver who was interrupting their shoot. Clearing streets is the job of the crew.
–Gwyneth Paltrow is NOT getting the reaction she was hoping for after going on the defensive on GOOP and then tweeting “when they go low, we go high.” Twitter was quick to point out that her latest issue was the opposite of high, and now everyone’s talking aboutall the quack doctors GOOP features. It’s literally the Streisand effect.
-Meanwhile, the doctor in her targets spoke to Buzzfeed(“It’s just odd I have to defend myself against a website that passes on the idea that bras cause cancer”) and penned a rebuttal on her blog titled “Dear Gwyneth Paltrow we’re not f**king with you we’re correcting you, XOXO Science”
–Alexander Skarsgard and Alexa Chung have broken up.
–Connie Britton revealed the story behind her ‘stripper dance’ on Friday Night Lights.
–Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are so excited for Game Of Thrones they made a video. Sometimes I have issues with these two (usually when they ‘re begging for privacy while simultaneously shooting commercials about their home life), but most times I really dig these two nerds.
-This is an interesting piece on how Game of Thrones, which returns this wknd, will probably be the last show a large amount of us are watching at the same time.
–Shia LaBeouf proved that sometimes people who say they’re allies actually aren’t when the going gets tough. In new video released of his arrest, he tells a black officer he’s “going to hell” because of his skin colour, adding “you got a president that don’t give a f-ck about you, and you’re stuck in a police force that doesn’t give a f-ck about you. You want to arrest white people who give a f-ck?” Ugh.
–Emma Watson interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid’s Tale in the new issue of EW.
-Buzzfeed wrote about how Jennifer Garner‘s made a business out of not appearing in movies and focusing on her good girl branding. “A relatively boring celebrity, without a major movie project in sight, has reemerged as a gossip fixture: not for her participation in scandal, but for her resistance to it.”
-Brooklyn been placed under martial law by rogue forces after Texas secedes from the union in the trailer for Bushwick, starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow.
