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Apparently, he was just with Gisele and his family in the Bahamas? So anticlimactic...

I listened to the new Beyoncé album on YouTube, between every 3-4 songs, there were short ads for Beast (and nothing else). So that tracks. A24 sells merch and their movies probably do well enough on digital.

Rue from The Hunger Games vs. New York Times critic Lena Wilson https://www.thewrap.com/amandla-stenberg-bodies-bodies-bodies-new-york-times-critic/ A lot of people also disagreed with the characterization of Bodies Bodies Bodies as a "95-minute advertisement for cleavage."

Movies are all about execution, but the premise of The Whale is a bit yikes honestly, even if done well, it doesn't scream crossover potential.

Up 112% from yesterday, I wonder how much is from the Amandla Stenberg/New York Times critic drama, 2% maybe? I guess Everything Everywhere All At Once used up all of this year's box office luck for A24.

Dancing with the Stars was a joke even in its heyday but still got Hall of Fame-level athletes. Brady's an all-timer, but maybe his kid would be more impressed to see him as a singing goat or something.

And now she won't talk to him for another three weeks... He really didn't have to put it out there that her audition sucked. On the bright side, no one's calling her a nepotism baby...

I guess time will tell if this conspiracy theory is true...

Just pump out more spinoffs of 90 Day Fiancé, it'll be totally fine! /s I get that Warner Discovery has a crushing amount of debt and they probably don't have a lot of good options in reducing it. But is Zaslav really choosing the least bad option? I doubt it.

Pitt's producing Blonde, too? He's just everywhere this season. I see his team already pushing the "She's dredging up the past!" angle, like it was well known years ago that some FBI agents wanted to arrest him and he already took the PR hit back in 2016. Angelina is a polarizing figure but also a long-time A-lister, good at shaping her image (last week, all the coverage of Angie dropping off Zahara at college while Brad was...at a Bullet Train premiere?). But it does seem that with Hollywood, Pitt "won" the divorce and everyone there simply liked him more than Angelina, and that goes a long way. We will see...

So, three movies this year have to deal with their Brad Pitt baggage... Maybe his team will try to spin it that he wanted atone for his own misdeeds and work through his regrets by producing stories like She Said and Women Talking. That doesn't seem to be the leaning of his PR people at the moment, however. And Team Babylon might want to soft launch the Diego Calva push any second now...

Even before #MeToo, the sex scenes had largely migrated to American TV shows and away from the big studio movies. I remember hearing that about A Star Is Born, and there was a glimpse of a love scene in one of the trailers that's not in the movie. OTOH, with it being an anticipated title starring Gaga, the fake rumors were flying* and the description of that allegedly "sexy" test screening cut sounded OTT for mainstream Warner Bros awards bait. Still, it ended up being a pretty F-word heavy movie for the sort of story it is, so I wouldn't be totally surprised if even more adult content got left on the cutting room floor. * Can't wait to see the crazy speculation that stems from the convergence of Gaga, DC, and musical fans!

Yeah, every few weeks someone goes viral on Twitter arguing that love/sex scenes in movies and TV are bad and someone comments that there shouldn't even be kissing scenes. "You can watch porn to see that!" You go to the profile and it's not some One Million Moms type, but some 20 year old mad that there's romance in their CBM. Not to say that there aren't ever issues with those scenes (onscreen or off), but it feels like some people are desperate to go back to the olden days of film censorship: married couples in twin beds, fading to black as the man and woman's lips touch, all bad behavior punished onscreen.

"I Ain't Worried" is a Top 20 hit: #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. It has a sample/interpolation of "Young Folks", so may not be eligible for Best Original Song. But the rules can be flexible, the Bond songs have contained the notes of the original theme and still win.

Then they should just move Amsterdam to early next year a la Monuments Men, reframing the busted awards bait as a decent enough movie for grown-ups.

All that exposure to pretty hardcore adult content as tweens or younger ended up making some people very uncomfortable with the reality of sex? Especially when you're young, it can all seem a bit terrifying. So, it's just easier for them to make up broad "rules" about why all age gaps are bad no matter what, that way, neither person will have more "experience" than the other and no one will get hurt. Of course, life doesn't actually work this way. Predatory situations are bad obviously, but their deep aversion to age gaps isn't necessarily about that. It feels like people projecting a teenage concept of age differences (where 2-3 years can be a big deal) onto the rest of society.

A lot of Oscar hopefuls have been wide releases the first weekend of October: The Social Network, The Ides of March, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Blade Runner 2049, A Star Is Born, Joker, not to mention prestige actioners like Gravity and The Martian. Varying degrees of awards success and acclaim among those titles, granted, but an early October release alone doesn't really say much. For Amsterdam, the trailer and limited buzz with little sign so far of how the studio plans to deal with the David O Russell questions, all that seems like a bigger red flag...

Not really, with the books establishing Harry Potter being set in our world, I guess JKR felt the need to explain why European wizards didn't stop the Holocaust. She doesn't cone out and say, "They had their hands full with Wizard Hitler," but the parallels seem pretty intentional, even the prison Grindelwald ended up in has a name not far off from Nuremberg. The first rise of Voldemort roughly coincides with The Troubles, etc. Sure, the movies could have done their own thing, but with JKR writing the scripts you were only ever going to get pretty unsubtle allegories to world events.

It wasn't a secret, it was all over their social media and people online had a lot to say about the age difference. She would get mad and say people were infantilizing her. Gen Z really hates age gaps of any sort it seems, like, there is Twitter discourse right now about David Lynch's wife being in her 40s. The younglings learned about power dynamics and just ran with it. I guess Twitter will ship Pugh with Chalamet now... * Bad Pitt:

Bryce Dallas Howard on reports of pay disparities with Chris Pratt:

A triple nominee, if the Crawdads song happens, too (probably not though).

Maybe the Live Action Short category will be spared tape delay this time... TIL... Tay Tay's gonna win an Oscar before Jake, and for a video to the breakup song she wrote about him! J/k, I think a lot of rank and file AMPAS members will say it belongs at the VMAs and go for other things. And the Academy decided Good Luck To You, Leo Grande is Oscar eligible after all:

This could be complete BS, yet it oddly matches this movie's chaotic energy, so maybe it's true? If Glenn finally gets her Oscar for playing Harley Quinn's mom in the musical Joker sequel directed by Todd Phillips...Awards Twitter would be sooo conflicted!

R-rated movies with $3 million budgets get released all the time, in theaters and to streaming. Are reshoots really required to dub over some swear words? You can manage that with looping and actors have done that from home, with the pandemic. For some TV edits of yore, they clearly pulled randos off the street who didn't sound anything like the original actors (i.e. Mister Falcon). But I guess they wanted the mouth movements to match the updated dialogue, though "freak" vs f*** don't look that different when reading lips. The director is also a CEO of that AI company touted in the article-it seems like he funneled some business his own way and probably got the studio to pay for it. Props to the hustle, in that case...