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Regina King Brings Back the Buzz

regina king wears a red dress on the cover of vanity fair

Regina King graces the October cover of Vanity Fair. I feel like she got robbed of lots of Oscar buzz last year because the awards circuit was so quiet, so I’m hoping she gets to make up for it with The Harder They Fall. (“It won’t be like One Night in Miami….” She pauses, and I hear tears in her voice. “We never got the opportunity to see our film with an audience. I’m grateful to be healthy. I’m grateful that all of our crew and cast are healthy. We got to be in so many different festivals…but we didn’t get a chance to share that, except through this,” she says, indicating the virtual realm. “That was disappointing. But everything is for a reason. I try not to question God’s will.”) Also, this photoshoot is awesome. That gold skirt!!

-In THR’s new cover storyBenedict Cumberbatch discusses staying in character as a meanie while shooting Netflix’s The Power of the Dog. “[Director Jane Campion] introduced me to the crew as Phil and said, ‘You’ll meet Benedict at the end. Benedict’s really nice. Phil is Phil.’ And it just gave me carte blanche to say, ‘No.’ To be Phil, really. To stand in his shoes.”

-Congrats to Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney, who are expecting their first child.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have arrived in Venice for the premiere of his new movie.

Jessica Chastain laughed off the hysteria surrounding Oscar Isaac‘s arm kiss. “We have all been locked in our houses for so long. When this video went viral, I was like, people just need to see people touch and hold each other.”

-Gossip Girl got renewed for season two, which is genuinely surprising to me. I felt like the buzz (and any critical admiration) fell off a cliff after the first few episodes.

-The Met Gala is Monday night and there’s still rumours about the guest list. One star who won’t be attending: Zendaya.

-Netflix will be bringing a Bridgerton fan experience to select cities next year. I want it!

-The is an interesting look at how the depiction of suicide on TV is changing.

-I think I would actually love this outfit on pretty much anyone else but Katie Holmes. It’s just not her.

Rebel Wilson and some of her Pitch Perfect costars reunited to celebrate her birthday.

-TIFF starts today! Here are my picks for the 10 buzziest films, most of which are hitting theatres or streaming very soon.

Keira Knightley’s dark holiday film, which I’m seeing next week, has already sold at the festival.

-I’m not going to be able to watch any TV for the next week, but it feels like everything is debuting, including Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac‘s HBO show Scenes from a Marriage, FX’s long-awaited Y: The Last Man, and the VMAs.

-Speaking of the VMAs, Nicky Minaj just pulled out.

-Aw man. Phoebe Waller-Bridge has left the Mr & Mrs Smith project she was going to do with Donald Glover for Amazon.

-Netflix must have been more impressed with Addison Rae’s performance in He’s All That than critics were; they just signed her to a multi-movie deal.

-Watch Demi Lovato and friends search for UFOs in the trailer for Peacocks’ Unidentified.

-The Princess Diana content keeps flooding in. Netflix released the first trailer for Diana: The Musical, which will premiere in October ahead of the show’s return to Broadway.

Jason Sudeikis is doing a Ted Lasso-y accent in the South of Heaven trailer while playing a very non-Ted Lasso character, and it’s breaking my brain.

-The Matrix Resurrections dropped its first trailer early Thursday morning. I have no idea what’s happening in it but I’m in!

Shailene Woodley Talks Engagement to Aaron Rodgers

 

 

Shailene Woodley covers THR,

Shailene Woodley covers THR, and says she and Aaron Rodgers were engaged a while before announcing it. “When we announced that we were engaged, we wanted to do that only because we didn’t want someone else to do it before we did,” Woodley says. “And we didn’t do it for months and months after we had become engaged, but the reaction to it was really a lot, and so we were like, ‘Let’s just politely decline [to talk about the relationship] for a little while and live in our little bubble.'” I’m not sure why she’d want to reintroduce speculation about their relationship timeline when it had finally died down, but here we are again.

-The Brampton-born star of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, is on the cover of EW to talk about the new season.

Megan Fox says she made a pro/con list before agreeing to date Machine Gun Kelly. What could possibly have been on the pro list?

-The filmmaker behind the Anthony Bourdain documentary Roadrunner sounds like he made some odd choices. There’s a surprise AI recreation of Bourdain’s  voice. He also decided not to pursue an interview with his girlfriend at the time of his death, Asia Argento.

Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa claim that HBO once gave their Sopranos costar James Gandolfini $3 million to turn down an offer to replace Steve Carell on The Office — even though the Sopranos had ended.

Jason Sudeikis keeps Ted Lasso-ing. He showed support for England footballers Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford, and Bukayo Saka at the show’s premiere.

Courtney Stodden is praising the way Jason Biggs apologized to her.

-I love that a Variety reporter tried to tell Tatum O’Neal that her Twitter had been hacked, and her agent responded that “she doesn’t have time for this right now.”

Normani and Cardi B’s “Wild Side” is here, and Normani’s choro remains impressive.

Johnny Rotten is trying to stop other members of The Sex Pistols from allowing their music to be used in Danny Boyle’s new FX series Pistol.

-I have very hard to get into Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave because everyone finds it so funny, but it is decidedly Not For Me. Still, this piece about how they did the coffin flops is good.

-Loki season 1 director Kate Herron is moving on from the series.

Addison Rae introduced herself to Trump at UFC 264, and her fans aren’t happy.

-Ruh roh. A script leaked for the Sex and the City reboot. I only care how they’re writing Samantha out.

Dan Harmon is making noise again about a possible Community movie.

Amber Heard showed off a new photo of her daughter Oonagh, writing “I’m just the mom and the dad. She’s the boss.”

Jason Momoa vows to protect his daughter after his wife dies in the Sweet Girl trailer.

Seth Rogen Hits New Highs

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-In his British GQ cover story, Seth Rogen talks about his new weed business and confirms reports that Emma Watson stormed off the set of This Is The End — but he understood why she was uncomfortable over the super edgy scene. “I mean, I don’t look back on that and think, ‘How dare she do that?’ You know? I think sometimes when you read something, when it comes to life it doesn’t seem to be what you thought it was. But it was not some terrible ending to our relationship. She came back the next day to say goodbye. She helped promote the film. No hard feelings and I couldn’t be happier with how the film turned out in the end.”

Lil Nax X‘s new music video is giving “WAP” a run for its money when it comes to horniness levels. That lap dance with the devil? Whooo boy!

-Speaking of eyebrow-raising music videos, Demi Lovato is set to recreate her overdose in her upcoming video for “Dancing with the Devil.”

-Congrats to Emma Stone, who welcomed her first child with SNL director Dave McCary.

Bindi Irwin is also a new mom. She gave birth to a baby girl on her first wedding anniversary.

Bryce Hall says he ‘didn’t cheat’ on Addison Rae. I refuse to care about any of these people.

Serena Williams praised her friend Meghan Markle in a new interview, calling her “a great person and I think the epitome of strength.”

-Meanwhile, Prince Albert called out Harry and Meghan for their Oprah interview, saying it “”wasn’t the appropriate forum to be able to have these kinds of discussions.”

-I liked this piece on the Oscars, the movie business, and how the last year was much more than just a blip in the history of Hollywood.

-So basically everyone who’s ever been on Grey’s Anatomy is coming back this season, huh?

-I know I keep complaining that Hollywood has no new ideas, but I legit squealed when I read that an Ally McBeal revival is in the works, with Calista Flockhart possibly reprising her role.

Maya Rudolph played the mimic challenge on the Tonight Show and crushed it.

-She’s also hosting SNL this weekend.

-There’s lots of talk about whether Meghan McCain should leave The View. I can’t imagine they want her to; she generates headlines for them almost every week.

-Here’s the first trailer for Amazon’s Frank of Ireland, starring Domhnall and Brian Gleeson.

-I don’t know if it’s because I find Margot Robbie so charming as Harley Quinn, or if the CW has worn me down when it comes to King Shark, or if it’s the Idris Elba of it all, or if it’s just John Cena’s arms, but I really dig the trailer for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. I don’t even know who I am anymore.