Still boggled by the people I know who are going out to bars saying “we can defeat this if we’re not afraid” and I’m like “this isn’t Pennywise it’s a PANDEMIC”
One of my favorite BARBIE details is they actually built these legs, it's not a CGI effect. "They're real — we scaled up Margot’s legs and made them," production designer Sarah Greenwood told me. "They were physically on that set so the little girls could come in and touch them."
Ke Huy Quan told me the wonderful story behind that TEMPLE OF DOOM reunion with Harrison Ford. (This is from an article I’ve got coming later this week but I just couldn’t wait to share.)
Everyone is texting me asking what Spike Lee said that was bleeped... he began his speech by saying “Do not turn that motherfucking clock on!” And they sure didn’t
Chloé Zhao just became the first woman of color to be named Best Director. She is only the second woman ever to win this Oscar, after Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER).
As Spike Lee celebrates his first Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, I'm reminded of the 1989 Oscars, when presenter Kim Basinger went off-book to blast the Academy for snubbing Spike's DO THE RIGHT THING
At the after-parties, many pundits said Lily Gladstone should've gone supporting. But there's more to a film career than winning an Oscar. By going lead, Lily told Hollywood to treat her like a lead. And she just booked another lead, which many supporting winners struggle to do.
Hannah Beachler just became the first African American to ever be Oscar-nominated for Best Production Design. In addition to working on BLACK PANTHER (where she was Marvel’s first female production designer), she also did MOONLIGHT and Beyoncé’s “Lemonade.”
Jennifer Lawrence will no longer star as Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay's BAD BLOOD, she told me. She came to that conclusion after watching Amanda Seyfried play Holmes in "The Dropout": "I thought she was terrific. I was like, 'Yeah, we don't need to redo that.' She did it."
Presenter Denzel Washington rattled off the list of charities Samuel L Jackson has worked with over his career. “That’s what *he’s* been doing… I don’t know what *y’all* been doing…”
With 3 acting wins, plus Best Director and Best Picture, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE has won more above-the-line Oscars than any movie ever in the 95 years they’ve thrown this show.
The best PHANTOM THREAD story I heard is they knew Daniel Day-Lewis probably wouldn’t pose for the poster, so Paul Thomas Anderson wrote a scene into the movie where Woodcock and Alma get their pictures taken to make sure they’d have enough art for the one-sheet
Just talked to Choi Woo Shik from PARASITE at the Governors Ball and asked him what he thought was the most surreal thing about the Best Picture win. He said it was Song Kang Ho crying in reaction to it. “It’s really hard to catch Mr. Song crying.”
The moment where Finn gives Rose a just-friends pat on the shoulder and then ditches her for the whole movie is 100x more brutal than Kylo killing Han Solo
“To the other nominees in the category: “Have fun at the Oscars, losers!” says WGA original-screenplay winner Bo Burnham, who was snubbed by the Academy. “How is this happening??”
🚨The Oscars just announced their watershed new diversity and inclusion standards for Best Picture.🚨
Starting with the 2024 Oscars, a film must meet 2 of the following 4 standards to be eligible for Oscar’s biggest prize:
“As successful as this film has been, the biggest fear on the other side is ‘What if this is my last chance?’” EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE star Stephanie Hsu told me, while recounting a story where she was called “Lana Condor” on the red carpet:
POOR THINGS is like the bizarro-world version of BARBIE, sending childlike Emma Stone on an R-rated journey to the real world, featuring incredible art design and even more fish-eye lens than a Hype Williams music video. Sure it’s a lot, but most movies aren’t enough!
The actors playing Moore and Melton's kids in MAY DECEMBER are so good. You can tell *exactly* what they think of their family situation in just their glances and attitudes
“The Idol,” or 50 SHADES OF TESFAYE: A Pornhub-homepage odyssey starring Lily Rose Depp’s areolas and The Weeknd’s greasy rat tail. Love that this will help launch the HBO Max rebrand, should slot nicely next to House Hunters!
Is the ending of CHALLENGERS ambiguous or open and shut? Listen in as Zendaya, Luca, Josh and Mike debate the film’s final shots with me. (SPOILERS, obvi)
Studios will literally push big films to 2024, fritter away the momentum from Barbenheimer, imperil theaters still recovering from the pandemic, and take on countless millions in delay-related costs instead of just reopening negotiations to end the strike.
I wrote a mammoth, no-holds-barred oral history of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.
Tom! Charlize! All the Wives, War Boys, and even the Doof Warrior!
They’re all here, and candid as hell about the difficult making of an against-all-odds masterpiece:
Brad Pitt can’t be here to collect his best actor BAFTA so Margot Robbie reads his speech. “Hey Britain, I heard you recently became single,” it begins. “Join the club.”
Two of the women in this photo just won Oscars. The other, Rachel Morrison, was the first female cinematographer nominated for an Oscar. Directors? Hire like Ryan Coogler.
I had lunch with him in 2014, right after he was cast in Black Panther. It was still secret. But you could tell. He glowed like a guy who had finally been given the chance to start realizing his biggest dreams. Some of those came true. But there were so many more to come.
I can confirm Anthony Hopkins offered to Zoom into the ceremony and Oscar producers turned him down... but another rumor said Olivia Colman was ready to accept for him, which as near as I can determine isn't true. She's busy shooting a movie and only showed up for her category.
Watching CATS is like stumbling upon an unholy and heretofore unknown genre of porn. Every time these horny fur demons tongue a milk bowl and start moaning I was certain the FBI would raid the theater
Paul Dano, asked about the WGA strike: “My wife is currently picketing with our 6-month-old strapped to her chest. And I will go picket with them when I’m done here.”