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The thing where each Cruise wife was 11 years younger than the previous one was an odd bit of trivia: that would put him with somebody born in 1989. Imagine Tom and Taylor, ha ha. But seriously, it's been over a decade since his last divorce. A lot of people tap out of the marriage market for good after three failed attempts. . In his shoes, I think the best move would be to stay single and work on himself, but being poorly advised seems to be a hallmark of public image lately so... People Magazine is also reporting it, alas. She was married to a preacher/studio exec until last year. It's quite the change uo for both of them...

The distributor is "Ketchup Entertainment" and it was the Regal Mystery Movie last week. I saw a lot of comments from that calling it a Dollar Store Inception.

Speaking of TV in the aughts, there was a stretch when the American Idol season finale would weaken the weekday box office once a year. The finale of the most watched season (2006) pulled 36 million viewers. That was a live event, so more akin to sports than something that can be consumed at any point in the weekend. We've seen movies have a strong first week, then not hold well in the second weekend, without a big video game release to blame. We never really know the reason unless Variety/Deadline/etc publishes polling about it, like they did with the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight.

Well, thank goodness... Gotta be an ego blow for Tom, even if he wasn't interested... He's had rumored relationships with other famous women since his last divorce but not in a splashy celebrity couple way since TomKat.

That's always a factor, the loss of power. Weinstein was toppled when his studio wasn't as successful as it had been in the past, so there was less fear of retaliation for speaking out. And without money it's harder to be litigious. But I won't discount how poorly Tom's CoS evangelism played at the time, especially with women. Probably another reason he sticks to action movies now--which play the strongest with male audiences--when he used to dabble across genres much more. He's also lucky he went off the rails pre-Twitter and that Brooke Shields forgave him.

His image/box office tanked after that summer of proselytizing, so eventually he shut up about it and turned that energy into only doing movies with insane stunts. He does the mildest of interviews and promotes his movies with even crazier stunts, so the public thinks of him as an intense guy, but hey, he just wants to entertain the masses! With all the oversharing social media personalities around, an old school star being guarded about his personal life has its appeal to normies. You're not going to get Vanity Fair grilling him about the last time he saw Shelley Miscavige or Suri.

Maybe she's just doing a song for the Mission: Impossible movie? Maybe???

The Good Doctor comes on after The Bachelor/Bachelorette (Clare Crawley lives in Sacramento!) and I've only seen promos/the first few minutes of whatever Dr. Shaun is up to. Everything everyone is saying, it's totally true, bonkers show. Even the premise felt out of date from the beginning. When I saw Finding Neverland, I thought, "That kid could win an Oscar someday." Ah well, he's still in the biz and getting paid in the meantime: better than nothing...

Greta Gerwig erasure! And the city was just so pumped up to make the NBA playoffs. Also I randomly follow a reporter from Sacramento on Instagram. She works in Philly now but was just out west for a wedding last weekend, huge ceremony in front of the state capitol. The bride went down the aisle to The Avengers theme. Anyway, from the other side of the country I totally disagree with that last tweet. . Well, if he physically had the baby himself, that's a much bigger story than his age...

From that article, it says the Oppenheimer script is written in first person. I hope it gets released during the awards campaign, just to see how that would work.

Also MMA, wrestling (if it' counts as a sport) or basketball. NBA Twitter would have endless "Is Taylor Swift the LeBron of pop music?" arguments. Blackface is out but maybe he could play ScarJo's dad in something, if she ever gets around to playing a tree... His son is super obnoxious on Twitter, good to know where he gets it from.

Wonder if a narrative of Ramos being a flop and not having "it" will start around him... People are harder on women about that sort of thing, but he's not the highest on the hierarchy and Hollywood will only try so hard to make him happen. . They're using "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman for Wegovy ads! Can't wait to hear "Peaches" shilling pharmaceuticals in 3-4 years...

Taylor dating a top athlete would have been fun from the pop culture angle of watching the fandoms collide. I'm wondering which major sport and Swifties would have the least overlap... Maybe there's an argument about employers collecting some of the inclusion standards information, but they won't really change art that much. The new standards are so lax that even a movie like 1917 easily qualifies. People just want to be mad.

Peters is too old to play a Menendez brother when the murders happened: they were 19-21 or so, and Evan is 36. I know it's Ryan Murphy and maybe they're covering the later years, too, but give someone else a chance. Who are we kidding, he'll find a way to cast Sarah Paulson somehow... IIRC there was criticism about the character's accent and stereotyping... Hong Chau says she drew from people she'd grown up around in refugee camps. By 2017 there was a lot of sensitivity about Hollywood's history of finding "comedy" at the expense of Asians for how they spoke English, and making Asian-American actors speak in a more "ethnic" way because it's so "hilarious". So, I think some people reflexively had a bad reaction and ascribed the worst intentions to the character, the movie and Alexander Payne. A Million Little Things just had its series finale. The little This Is Us copycat who could, can't believe it got to 5 seasons!

The love life dish is the kind of stuff most Best Actress winners would save for memoirs when they're in their 70s, and like, not when one of your kids is still in high school... Also, do her exes appreciate her candor? But she gives pop culture watchers something to talk about: "technically excellent" means what, exactly? There was a "free the Menendez Brothers" movement on TikTok a while back, a Netflix series will make it so much bigger. Hadn't thought about casting, but Gwyneth would make sense if she really wants to do some serious acting again. The Swiftis are skeptical, not just because they aren't fans of the pairing (or The Sun). The breakup from Joe was less than a month ago and different sources (including Deuxmoi blinds lol) have already linked her to Dylan O'Brien, Fernando Alonso and Bradley Cooper.

GOOP stays messy... I always wonder about the assistant/social media manager who has to gently break the news to a star about why they're trending today....

Hmmmm, unusual decision from an American ratings board. I bet the "graphic" element is due to a painting/statue, or possibly a nonhuman? I mean, the under-13s and the strait-laced types aren't a big part of the Wes Anderson demo. The rating wouldn't hurt the box office here, so to bother appealing, the studio had to think the MPA was being ridiculous.

I mean, just because they're against the rules doesn't mean that people still won't participate in them. The outlets will just disguise who's participating a bit better, or make them up (which is already a suspicion about them anyway). They also do Anonymous Ballots for other shows like the SAG Awards, which has more voters and aren't under the Academy's rules. I would be surprised by a real change on that front. I think those stories are good reminder not to take the Oscars that seriously, if that's what some voters are really like.

RIP Brutally Honest Ballots... There's an email hotline that even non-members can use to report suspected Oscar campaign violations. I'm sure there won't be misused or abused by anyone, especially not the stans of rival actors...

Maybe the movie could have benefited from summer weekdays (well, some summer that won't be crowded like this one), but financially, Margaret IMO simply missed its window for peak popularity. It should have come out in 1993 starring Anna Chlumsky or Gaby Hoffmann.

This came up when The King's Speech was out: the short story is that the MPAA/NATO rules did not allow the movie to be released simultaneously with different ratings. Here's an article from the time: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/harvey-weinstein-king-s-speech-86079/#! The rule (back then anyway, maybe it's changed since) was that a movie playing in (US) theaters could have one MPA rating at a time, while it was in release. To release another version with a different rating, you had to pull the original version from theaters and wait 90 days to release the lower/higher rated version, unless the MPA/NATO heads signed a waiver on the waiting period. But even then, it had to be one version or the other (PG or PG-13, R or PG-13, etc). This is different than a director's cut, singalong version, etc. with a different length or open captions, but still within the same rating otherwise. I get it, the MPA/NATO want to prevent the headaches/confusion/complaints from moviegoers seeing content that's more (or less) edgy than they expected. That happens often enough even when the rating is totally clear.

It feels like this missed its window in 2021 when there was still barely anything in theaters, if it wasn't just going straight to streaming. I looked up what's next for Josh Lucas after this knockoff of The Meg. Another action movie in the can but also an Apple TV+ comedy with quite a cast... MainEdit Kristen Wiig as Maxime Simmons Laura Dern as Linda Allison Janney as Evelyn Leslie Bibb as Dinah Ricky Martin as Robert Josh Lucas as Douglas Carol Burnett as Norma Amber Chardae Robinson as Virginia

Right, McAdams is 44, there's nothing outrageous about her playing the mother of an 11 year old, and the movie's based on an esteemed classic. I think some longtime fans still wish Rachel's career had gone differently and felt there was still time for her to get the high profile she "deserves". But if she's doing secondary mom roles, maybe it's never going to happen for her that way. . Love it when random movies you've never heard of show up at your local theater. From the director of "Get the Gringo" and "Rambo: Last Blood"...

Oh wow, a 90s movie with, IDK, Natalie Portman or Anna Chlumsky as Margaret would've been amazing! I don't know if it ever would have been a blockbuster--it's still a grounded story about tween girls dealing with puberty--but coming of age movies cleaned up on VHS/cable 30 years ago. I've seen a few sort of snide comments about Rachel McAdams being "relegated" to playing Margaret's mother. I wonder if that's just internet cattiness or if it really blunts the nostalgia angle with 30-40 something women somehow, like...they don't want to see Regina George or Allie from The Notebook in Supportive Mom Roles just yet. . Wasn't Sisu the Regal Mystery Movie? Not sure if the previews include the totals from last Monday.

Finally! That first image was posted to Leo's socials on May 10, 2021. It really has been that one photo for nearly two years.