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Robin Wright

Is Beyonce Pregnant Or Just Messing With Us?

Beyonce‘s belly bump watch just kicked into high gear thanks to this video from her new tour, in which she appears to cup her stomach. I dunno; she just had twins a year ago and she posed with a Corona just last week.

-In news that should surprise no one, Johnny Depp is being sued for allegedly punching a location manager on the City of Lies set. The lawsuit claims the actor screamed obscenities at the crew member and punched him twice in the ribs, then offered him $100,000 to punch back.

Robin Wright broke her silence about costar Kevin Spacey, making it clear she didn’t have a friendship with him beyond the House of Cards set. In her Today Show interview, she says “Kevin and I knew each other between action and cut, and in between setups, where we would giggle. I didn’t really …I didn’t know the man. I knew the incredible craftsman that he is.”

-Also, costar Patricia Clarkson credits her for saving the show after the scandal. “Robin led all of this charge so that people would save their livelihoods, because when the show goes away, some people don’t get paid. I think it’s going to be a stunning, stunning new season and I’m thankful for it.”

-Is 24 the new age for celebrities to get engaged? And cripes, is that another pear-shaped diamond?!

Gal Gadot stopped by a children’s hospital in Virginia dressed like Wonder Woman and the photos are lovely.

-I really like Dwayne Johnson‘s response to those tough Baywatch reviews: “It’s not that critics didn’t like it. They … hated it. But to clarify, it’s not audience first, critics never. Critics love movies, and we’re all in this business together.”

-Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams wants a new trial to lower his $50K monthly child support bill.

-I don’t love the olive green Ralph Lauren dress that Meghan Markle wore to Prince Louis‘ christening today, but Princess Charlotte was always going to steal the show anyway.

Harvey Weinstein appeared in court and  pled not guilty to new sexual assault charges, and won’t face home confinement. Also, he’s apparently working as a paralegal on his own case.

-The new chief of Warner laid out his vision for HBO — and he basically wants to turn it into Netflix. This is so weird and misguided. HBO has an established and respected brand and tone; Netflix’s original content strategy just seems to be throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks without worrying about bloat or quality.

Drake‘s Scorpion is now the first album to reach 1 billion streams in a week. I’m happy for him; I just wish it was a better album.

-Also, Drake‘s new freestyle “Behind Barz” seems to be about Kanye West.

-I’m both impressed and not at all surprised that Lin-Manuel Miranda deals with mean people by being unfailingly cheerful until they feel so bad they end up apologizing.

Stan Lee has dropped his $1 billion lawsuit against his former company.

-Lawrence is nowhere to be seen and Issa looks like she’s still living with Daniel in the new Insecure promo.

-The ladies of Litchfield try to adjust to life in maximum security in the season 6 trailer for Orange Is The New Black.

-Gross. Jerry O’Connell  is hosting a show called Real Men Watch Bravo this fall, because god forbid we don’t coddle masculine fragility. Straight white dudes exhaust me.

Sacha Baron Cohen released a short preview of his new Showtime show Who Is America, which he says he’s been undercover secretly filming it for a year. In the clip, he gets Dick Cheney to autograph his “waterboarding kit.”

Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy are currently shooting the IT sequel in Toronto, and her IG stories make it seem like they’re having a great time. They dined at Kasa Moto on Saturday (so close to my house!) and then she got him to demonstrate proper hand washing technique.

Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz star in the first trailer for The Favourite. (I love that they’re using the British spelling.) It’s from the director of The Lobster, a movie I still haven’t quite wrapped my head around.

Twitter Tears Ivanka’s Us Weekly Cover Apart

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-The terrible new Us Weekly cover featuring Ivanka Trump is getting slammed all over the internet (deservedly so).

Gal Gadot, Patty Jenkins, Robin Wright and Chris Pine surprised a theater filled with Wonder Woman viewers.

Jerry Seinfeld is defending his super awkward Kesha snub: “I don’t hug a total stranger”.

-We might not be getting very many more episodes of Game of Thrones in the last two seasons (and they are going to be way spaced apart), the episodes we do get are going to be supersized, with the season 7 finale clocking it at 81 minutes.

-You know that weird Jay Z commercial that confused everyone? Turns out Tidal’s mysterious 4:44 is a surprise film starring Mahershala Ali, Lupita Nyong’o, and Danny Glover.

-Ohhh…a new interview with the cast of You’re the Worst! I forgot that was coming back soon.

-THR’s comedy roundtable includes Judd Apatow, David Mandel, Kenya Barris, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Scott Silveri. Waller-Bridge talks about ruining her Downton Abbey audition by being inadvertently funny. “I went in thinking, ‘I’m going to give my best, sincere, heartbreaking performance.’ It was a really beautiful scene in a church; there’s a little clue … when I finished, they were like, ‘We had no idea she was so f—ing hilarious!'”

-Critics hate The Mummy and it could very well bomb here, but when you factor in the global box office it might turn out to be the biggest hit of Tom Cruise’s career.

-Fox cancelled 24: Legacy but the network is already talking with the producers of the franchise for a new take.

-The reviews for the latest season of Orange Is the New Black seem tepid at best.

Jennifer Hudson‘s rap battle with James Corden ended in an epic Dreamgirls-inspired finale.

Zoe Saldana and Julianne Moore raise HIV awareness in a powerful new Sia video.

-Fred Armisen, Adam Pally, and Zoe Lister-Jones have a band? Huh.

-What exactly is Brad Pitt doing?!

-The trailers for Rough Night don’t do anything for me (I’m laughed way more at the trailer for Girl Trip), but I still want to support it because it’s the first R-rated studio comedy directed by a woman in 20 years.

-This is a great NYT profile on Aziz Ansari.

Nicole Kidman was EVERYWHERE this week and she served up some looks.

Bruce Willis talks the importance of underwear in a clip from action-comedy Once Upon a Time in Venice.

-Watch Sam Claflin’s flirting game get outmatched by Rachel Weisz in a clip from My Cousin Rachel.

-Here’s the first trailer for Pixar’s Coco, set to hit theaters Nov. 22.

Naomi Watts plays a therapist who crosses all kinds of boundaries in the trailer for Netflix’s sexy new psychological thriller Gypsy.

THR Calls Wonder Woman a “Gamble,” Twitter Claps Back

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-This take is TRASH: the Hollywood Reporter’s cover story says Warner Bros is “gambling $150M” on Wonder Woman’s female director because her only prior big screen credit is the $8M Oscar-nominated, critically acclaimed Monster. Seriously? As Twitter was quick to point out, Hollywood handed the keys to the Jurassic franchise over to Colin Trevorow, who had only done the $750K Safety Not Guaranteed, which wasn’t nominated for shit and no one saw it. Or what about Josh Trank, who jumped from teeny tiny indie Chronicle to Fantastic Four? Same with Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Gareth Edwards, Jon Watts, Alan Taylor, David Yates, James Gunn, etc. Hollywood throws money at white men who barely have a YouTube channel all the time. But this is a gamble that requires hand-wringing? Nah, son.

-Meanwhile, This Wonder Woman featurette is 13 minutes of pure joy.

-Felicity reunion alert! Keri Russell and Scott Speedman appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live together and it made my heart grow three sizes. The part where he talks about how they dated and he was “such a disaster of a boyfriend”? Kill me.

-Oh god, did Robin Wright take Sean Penn back? Why????

– Jennifer Garner is on the cover of People and it confused everyone because it’s kind of a nothing article. It turns out she had no involvement in the story at all. She took to Facebook to say “This isn’t a tragedy by any measure, but it does affect me and my family and so, before my mom’s garden club lights up her phone, I wanted to set the record straight: I did not pose for this cover. I did not participate in or authorize this article. While we are here, for what it’s worth: I have three wonderful kids and my family is complete.” A celebrity calling out People like this? Yikes.

Arcade Fire is going full glam-era Bowie with their new track, which is impossible to link to because it keeps getting pulled from YouTube.

-NBC changed its mind and won’t move This Is Us to Thursday nights after all. Why mess with the only genuine hit of the year?

Kathy Griffin apologized for her Trump decapitation photo, saying “I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong.” CNN has fired her anyway.

Drake scored a huge victory in his sampling lawsuit with a fair use argument about “real music.”

-Less of a victory: JLo just dismissed him as a booty call.

-67 million of Katy Perry‘s followers may be fake.

-Vulture is asking the right questions in this piece wondering how the hell Johnny Depp keeps getting cast in movies.

Ed Westwick has no interest in a Gossip Girl revival. “It’s played out, man. It’s done.”

-This past weekend was the worst Memorial Day weekend at the box office since 1999.

-Wow, this seems like a big career misstep for Hailee Steinfeld.

-The CW was the only network this season to boast a majority of female showrunners at 67%, followed by ABC (33%), Fox & NBC (20%), CBS (11%).

-Watch Pretty Little Liars’ Troian Bellisario and Harry Potter’s Tom Felton play twins in the first trailer for Feed (which was written by Bellisario).

-You get two James Francos for the price of one in this trailer for David Simon‘s new show The Deuce.

Idris Elba and Kate Winslet are strangers trying to survive after a plane crash leaves them stranded in The Mountain Between Us trailer.