-Chanel and V Magazine teamed up for a new art book that features Lily-Rose Depp, Jennie of Blackpink and Margot Robbie, photographed by duo Inez & Vinoodh.
-Ohhh….Netflix is eyeing a spinoff series to their To All The Boys movies, starring little sister Kitty.
–Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts talked about their first date on Red Table Talk and it’s all kinds of cute. “You weren’t supposed to say that. Damn this red table!”
–Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are said to be planning to take time offand bond as a family of four after what they reportedly hope will be a home birth.
-Did The Rock and Vin Diesel hate each other so much they filmed a Fast 6 scene separately? Who do they think they are, Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi??
–Lil Nas X has addressed the accusation that he copied ideas from FKA twigs for his latest music video: “i want to say thank u to twigs for calling me and informing me about the similarities.” twigs also posted about the video: “thank you @lilnasx for our gentle honest conversations and for acknowledging the inspiration”.
-It can’t be overstated how huge the Netfix deal for the Knives Out is. MRC has the rights to the original, but Rian Johnson and producing partner Ram Bergman were smart enough to retain the sequel rights. They’re rumoured to have total creative control and no budgetary minimums.
–Lauren Graham jokingly complained about having her Parenthood brother Dax Shepardas her real-life neighbor. “Dax has been working on his new house and the way we’re situated, I pass him all the time. It’s a beautiful house, it’s going to be incredible, but he basically took what others might consider to be the front lawn and turned it into a massive driveway for all his cars.”
–Lori Petty, David Cross, Enrico Colantoni and Daniel Zovatto among those who’ve been cast on HBO Max’s Station Eleven. I loved that book but am not in the head space to go back into its post-pandemic world anytime soon.
-A movie superstar turns a musician’s life upside down in the trailer for Finding You.
-Are you watching HBO’s I May Destroy You? I shied away from it at first because the premise sounded so bleak, but I’ve now caught up on all four episodes that have aired so far and it’s remarkable. Yes, it’s about a woman trying to figure out if she was sexually assaulted when her drink was spiked so it’s dark, but it’s also funny and charming and unpredictable. No wonder it’s already ending up on best TV show lists. Series creator and star Michaela Coel talks about the show in the latest issue of British GQ.
–Kylie Bunbury and Mark-Paul Gosselaar shot a new, socially distanced promo to celebrate Pitch being on Hulu. Rumours keep surfacing about execs wanting to bring the show back and I don’t want to get my hopes up again, but why would Disney spend money on shooting a new promo for an old show?!
–Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds continue to step up. They donated $200K to a Nova Scotia Indigenous women’s program.
-The latest round of Actors on Actors videos feature Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman (she told him “[Chris Nolan] doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working. I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing”), and Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley (bless Penn for saying “we can debate about whether or not that even makes sense” of his character being Gossip Girl).
-What the hell is Terry Crewsdoing? Someone change his Twitter password already.
-The first chapter of Quibi’s star-packed Princess Bride remake dropped yesterday. It’s an insanely fun four minutes.
–Mel Gibson has three upcoming movies booked despite those anti-Semitism comments the actor allegedly made to Winona Ryder resurfacing. Tell me more about “cancel culture.”
–Lena Dunhamagreed with that viral tweet that went around earlier this week, saying that she agrees the “Hollywood system is rigged in favor of white people and that my career took off at a young age with relative ease.” Ok, I get that she had an easy ride and benefited from being a white indie movie darling with famous parents. But Girls was good (sometimes great!). How come we’re not calling out white male showrunners who get chance after chance and keep making bad shows? I know Dunham is an easy target but come on.
–Kim Kardashian-West shared photos from daughter North’s 7th birthday, which they celebrated on their $14 million ranch in Wyoming. Is she the only little girl who’s ever asked for a pony and got it?
-“Hi guys I’m in my gym today and yes it is the gym that I burned down, it’s still not fixed yet but I’m getting there” is the best intro everto an Instagram video.
–Alison Brie says she regrets voicing Diane Nguyen on BoJack Horseman: “We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese American community accurately and respectfully.” I mean, ok, but this was a repeated criticism of the show while it was airing and it’s weird to position it like this is something that never occurred to her.
-Family Guy’s Mike Henry will no longer voice Cleveland. He also had a four-season spinoff on which he was an executive producer; is he giving back his royalties from that?
-Speaking of hollow, performative gestures, Hulu pulled a “blackface” episode of Golden Girlsthat featured Blanche and Rose in mud masks. Instead of all this virtual signaling, wouldn’t it be great if the television industry focused on the work that actually has to be done.
–Paul Walker‘s daughter snapped a selfie with all three of Vin Diesel‘s children — including Pauline, who was named after Walker.
-Ozark is coming to an end on Netflix, but it’s doing so with an expanded order for its fourth and final season.
-HBO beat out 16 other bidders to turn Brit Bennett’s novel The Vanishing Half into a limited series. I just finished it and yeah, it’s worth the hype.
-Amazon Prime Video has launched a Watch Party feature which allows for up to 100 people to stream movies and TV together. I can’t believe Netflix hasn’t launched something like this yet.
-In her cover story for Women’s Health, Julianne Hough reveals “I’m not straight” in Women’s Health interview. She’s also not clothed.
-[Note: I’m taking an extra long long weekend. See you mid-next week!]
-Speaking of naked photo shoots, 48-year-old Claudia Schifferstripped down for Vogue to mark 25 years since she posed for her first cover.
-In Billie Eilish‘s Rolling Stone cover story, the 17-year-old talks about how giving up dancing due to a hip injury affected her mental health. “I think that’s when the depression started. It sent me down a hole. I went through a whole self-harming phase — we don’t have to go into it. But the gist of it was, I felt like I deserved to be in pain.”
-This article on the Fast & Furious stars’ complicated demands when it comes to fight scenes because they’re afraid of looking like wimps is AMAZING. Vin Diesel has his sister keep track of the number of punches he gets. Jason Statham negotiated a deal with the studio limiting how badly he can be beaten up onscreen. Dwayne Johnson enlists producers and editors to make sure he doesn’t have more losses than wins. They’re all delicate ego flowers and it tickles me so much.
-13 Reasons Why has been renewed for a fourth and final season. Season 3 is coming in August and it’s killing a major character (because clearly those kids haven’t suffered enough).
-Bull’s showrunner and its leading man Michael Weatherly received “leadership training” ahead of the show’s fourth season. Oh well, OKAY THEN!
-Here’s the latest trailer for Queen And Slim from director Melina Matsoukas and writer Lena Waithe, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith.
-Two British soldiers experience one harrowing day while fighting in World War I in the trailer for 1917, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden.
