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Natalie Portman wore a sparkly Celine to the ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ premiere

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Last night was the big world premiere for Thor: Love and Thunder in LA. All of the stars came out and it was a big Marvel outing. Natalie Portman is back in the MCU as Mighty Thor/Jane, and she’s been enjoying the early promotion. At the premiere (and at Jimmy Kimmel Live), she wore a really cute Celine dress which looks great on her. I have no notes on the fashion, but I do think her makeup artist did her dirty.

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Tessa Thompson wore a custom Armani. This looks so cool! Like she’s wearing liquid metal.

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky. The vibe is off and that’s all I’ll say.

Christian Bale’s big debut in the MCU. I’m shocked that he even came out for the premiere! It’s also funny to me that Bale was not part of all of the Thorshambles stories from the production in Australia. Bale was in Oz, working and minding his business.

Jaimie Alexander wore a blanket.

Chris Pratt came out too. Blah.

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‘Batman v. Superman’ opens with $424 million worldwide: sad or awesome?

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DC Comics apologists aside, most critics and audience members thought Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was a terrible movie. But that didn’t stop anyone and everyone from going to see it on Easter weekend. On Friday, the film was already been tracked for a $180 million opening weekend domestically, and by Sunday, it had pretty much met that, opening with $170.1 million domestic, and $424 million worldwide.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice shattered box office records, opening to an estimated $170.1 million domestically over Easter weekend. Not only did Zack Snyder’s superhero epic set a new record for the all-time biggest March opening, obliterating The Hunger Games’ $152.5 million, but Batman v Superman now stands as the sixth biggest opening of all time. It also squeaked by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($169.2 million) to earn Warner Bros.’ biggest opening ever.

Internationally, it added another $254 million for a worldwide total of $424 million — the fourth-biggest global opening of all time. Domestically, Batman v Superman didn’t manage to surpass its Marvel counterparts like The Avengers or Iron Man 3, but it did beat both globally, becoming only the fourth movie in history to cross $400 million worldwide in one weekend.

Ben Affleck’s Batman also dethroned Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises ($160.9 million) and The Dark Knight ($158.4 million) as the biggest Batman and DC Comics openings ever.

Batman v Superman’s runaway success spells good news for Warner Bros. after a lackluster 2015, and the studio had several pricy flops last year, including Jupiter Ascending, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and Pan.

[From EW]

Well… good for Warner Bros… I guess. The good news is that there won’t be mass layoffs at Warner Bros because everyone over there decided to spend money like drunken sailors on shore leave. The bad news is that some people will start to believe that this (unsustainable) business model has legs. And while it shows that the Batman and Superman names are enough to get people in seats, that doesn’t mean that the film will stand the test of time, you know? But it does show that people are excited for the Wonder Woman movie, and that the Justice League movie is going to continue happening unabated. The next big test for this core audience of teen and 20-something men who love dark-as-hell superheroes and sh-tty scripts? The Suicide Squad, which comes out in August. Sad Batfleck is in that too.

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Comic-Con: Ben Affleck is a ‘burn out’ in new ‘Batfleck v. Superman’ trailer

Your regularly scheduled Gatfleck drama will continue with CB tomorrow, I’m sure. For today, I’m trying to do some of the big highlights from the past three days of Comic-Con, which sounds surprisingly good. I read one preview that made it sound like this year’s Comic-Con was going to be crap because Marvel wasn’t doing anything, but in Marvel’s absence, Warner Brothers and Disney really brought the dramz.

On Saturday, Warner Brothers did a big panel for all of their upcoming properties, like The Man From UNCLE, Pan, Suicide Squad and of course, Batman v. Superman. This was Ben Affleck’s first scheduled/work appearance since he and Jennifer Garner announced their split two weeks ago. Ben made sure to wear his wedding ring, because obviously that kind of BS matters (not really), and he was part of a panel that included Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg and director Zack Snyder. They introduced the newest trailer, which I’ll discuss in a moment. Ben was asked why he decided to become The Batfleck and he told an obviously pre-rehearsed story about meeting Christian Bale and getting his blessing:

“If I thought too hard about the actors who played the part before, I couldn’t take the job. George Clooney did great, Christian Bale … I talked to Zack and I was like are you sure, you know? And he said I have this vision, I have this idea for the guy and you’re perfect for it. What do you mean? [He’s at] the end of his rope, he’s a burn out [laughs] … The truth was that he took me through he process of creating this character that I quite almost didn’t see and at the end of it I was astonished … That was exactly what you pitched me and I wasn’t sure I was doing it. Before I started the movie I was getting my kid’s Halloween costume and my son is really into Batman and we went to a costume store in Los Angeles and it was pretty empty and I was in the aisle and I hear this ‘Oi.’ I turned around, it’s Christian Bale who’s the sweetest guy ever and there he and I are standing in the Batman [aisle]. I said look man you’re the best, what do you think? [He said] ‘Make sure you could piss in that suit.’ Christian Bale was also buying his son the suit. He doesn’t just hang out [in the Batman aisle].”

[From People]

“He’s at the end of his rope, he’s a burn out…” Yep. What is it about directors instinctively knowing the truth of Ben Affleck’s character these days? First David Fincher and now Zack Snyder.

As for the trailer… God, it’s SO DARK. I mean, DC Comics insists on having the darkest, most morose superheroes ever. Everything has to be about Christ-figures and violent anarchy and NO ONE CAN EVER SMILE. I will say this – Ben as Bruce Wayne is actually fine. I believe Ben as Bruce Wayne. But no, I will never really be on board with The Batfleck. And do we really need to see Bruce Wayne’s parents get killed in yet another movie? Also: this is our first real glimpse of Holly Hunter’s senator (YAAYYYY Holly Hunter I love her), Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor with hair and Amy Adams playing Lois-with-great-hair again. We also get a glimpse of Gal Gadot as Diana Prince and Wonder Woman.

   
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Amy Adams on the ‘Today’ debacle: ‘I was confused & definitely frustrated’

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I really think the Today Show producers made TWO huge mistakes with this whole Amy Adams mess. Their first mistake was kicking her off the show after she told them she didn’t want to discuss the Sony Hack. The second mistake was trying to make Amy sound like some kind of deranged diva and blaming her for the entire incident. I’m sorry, but no one is buying it. Amy has the reputation as one of the nicest, most polite and most hard-working people in Hollywood. She is very definition of “no drama.” And no one will take the word of Today’s producers that Amy is some kind of unhinged, tantrum-prone jackass.

Last we heard, Harvey Weinstein – the producer of Amy’s current film, Big Eyes – was on the warpath. He’s Twihard Proof-ing the Today Show, trying to break down their claims that Amy pitched a fit and made a staffer cry. Harvey wants an investigation. Harvey wants Matt Lauer on his knees, apologizing to Amy in person. Well, Page Six says that Weinstein Company people were in “tense negotiations” with Today Show people late into Christmas Eve (merry Christmas, NBC employees!). And Harvey sent Amy out to say something about the situation directly:

Amy Adams says she is still “really confused” about having her live interview on The Today Show dramatically pulled minutes before it was due to take place Monday morning. Adams told USA TODAY on Tuesday night that she was “surprised” that the segment was unceremoniously canceled after she expressed misgivings over discussing aspects of the Sony hacking scandal on live television.

Speaking at a Los Angeles screening for her new film Big Eyes, Adams says she was supposed to be discussing her movie on The Today Show. But the show producers made a point of telling her team that the Sony hacking fallout would be added to the four-minute TV interview.

“I expressed that I was uncomfortable. I said I would rather not add my voice to this conversation,” Adams said. “But it was clear they were drawing a hard line. That this would be part of the conversation.”

Adams said she assumed the interview would still go on even after her discussion with the producers.

“I walked away from the conversation and went up to the room to do the interview,” Adams said. “I assumed they were going to ask me about (Sony hacking). And I was prepared for that, to whatever degree I was prepared.”

Minutes later Adams was told that the interview was not going to air.

“I was informed that they had decided to pull the interview,” said Adams. “I was confused and definitely frustrated. I still don’t understand.”

The New York Daily News cited unnamed sources saying that Adams “got aggressive” in the discussions.

Adams said she did the unusual step of speaking to the producers rather than media representatives.

“I feel like I don’t have trouble standing up for myself. This was situation I chose to speak for myself,” Adams said.

The Daily Beast reported Dec. 12 that leaked e-mails from Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Amy Pascal revealed that American Hustle stars Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence received salaries 2% lower than their male co-stars, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale. Even on Tuesday night, Adams declined to discuss the topic when asked by USA TODAY.

“I am not going to add my voice to that conversation. Even in this room,” said Adams. “You can add that to your story. And that’s fair.”

[From USA Today]

See, that’s what I said at the beginning – Amy is a professional, and she wasn’t “demanding” to not be asked any questions about the Sony Hack, she stated her preference and she was told that she would still get the questions. And she was prepared to answer the questions in a noncommittal, ambivalent way because she really didn’t want to talk about it. After hearing her side of it, it sounds more like Today producers were “punishing” her for simply not wanting to talk about the Sony Hack and for being prepared to say “I don’t want to comment on that” on live television.

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Sony Hack: Jennifer Lawrence was paid less than her male ‘Hustle’ co-stars

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Kaiser covered the embarrassing Sony Hack news for much of the past week. This scandal isn’t even close to finished, and it’s making for some very revealing gossip. Many new details have surfaced about Jennifer Lawrence in leaked emails. To summarize: (1) Her email handle (as Lorde recently hinted) contains the word “peanutbutt”; (2) JLaw and Amy Adams were compensated less than Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle; (3) Makers of the Cleopatra biopic considered replacing Angelina Jolie with JLaw. What?

The first detail isn’t surprising. The second is maddening because (as these emails freely admit) JLaw was the biggest name in the Hustle cast. Jennifer was paid less than her male co-stars because she’s a woman. The third detail confuses me. Can you see JLaw playing Cleopatra? Let’s jump into this cluster:

Email correspondences from the Sony hack reveal that Jennifer Lawrence was compensated less than her male co-stars, compounding the studio’s gender pay gap problems.

One of the most prominent A-list presences in the emails ripped from Sony’s servers by the hacking collective Guardians of Peace is none other than Jennifer Lawrence (who is, sadly, no stranger to hacking herself).

Lawrence and her fabulous email handle (peanutbutt) make several cameos in the leak, including numerous pleasant exchanges with Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, over her dazzling turn in American Hustle, which was co-financed by Sony arm Columbia Pictures. There’s also an interesting email exchange between Pascal and Brian Helgeland, screenwriter of the planned Cleopatra biopic, with Pascal suggesting that Helgeland dump Angelina Jolie in favor of Lawrence–an idea Helgeland says he’s given some thought to.

[T]he most troubling reveal concerning Lawrence is in regard to her financial compensation with hacked emails revealing that the Hunger Games star was compensated less than her male co-stars on American Hustle.

In an email dated December 5, 2013, Andrew Gumpert, President of Business Affairs and Administration for Columbia Pictures, wrote to Pascal and Doug Belgrad, President of SPE Motion Picture Group, about the “points”–or back-end compensation–that each actor was to receive on Hustle. (“Megan” is Megan Ellison, head of Annapurna Pictures, which co-financed Hustle.)

“Got a steve warren/gretchen rush call that it’s unfair the male actors get 9% in the pool and jennifer is only at 7pts,” the email reads. “You may recall Jennifer was at 5 (amy was and is at 7) and WE anted in 2 extra points for Jennifer to get her up to 7. If anyone needs to top jennifer up it’s megan. BUT I think amy and Jennifer are tied so upping JL, ups AA.”

Gumpert added, “The current talent deals are: O’Russell: 9%; Cooper: 9%; Bale: 9%; Renner: 9%; Lawrence: 7%; Adams: 7%.”

Pascal’s email response to the news of Lawrence making less than her male colleagues–despite the fact that she’s far and away the biggest star of the picture, since Hustle was green-lit after The Hunger Games–was: “there is truth here.”

[From The Daily Beast]

The Beast goes on to reveal how the gender disparity of these A-lister salaries is reflective of Sony staffers in general. One example: the two co-presidents (one male, one female) of production at Columbia Pictures do the same exact job. The man rakes in $2.4 million salary; the female draws $1.5 million in comparison. And so on down the corporate ladder.

There’s one last JLaw detail (so far) from the Sony hack. Amy Pascal and director/producer Ivan Reitman sent several back and forth emails about casting the all-female Ghostbusters III. Jennifer’s name popped up on the list, along with Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, and Lizzy Caplan. Oh, rly?

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Scott Rudin’s emails: Angelina Jolie is ‘a minimally talented spoiled brat’

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This is a surprisingly complicated story, but it has an interesting payoff in the end. You know how they’re making another Steve Jobs bio-pic? Christian Bale was attached to the project for a while, but he ended up leaving and now the rumor is that Michael Fassbender will play Jobs and Natalie Portman might play some important character. The script was written by Aaron Sorkin, and director David Fincher was pretty interested in it, although now Danny Boyle is attached as director.

So, the film has already gone through a giant clusterwhoops of drama. Sony had the property for a while, but the project ended up going over to Universal just a few months ago. It was supposed to be a big, prestigious award-bait film for Sony, especially with mega-producer Scott Rudin attached to produce. Well, in the massive hack of Sony’s online database, the hackers got their hands on and published emails between Scott Rudin and Sony co-chairperson Amy Pascal. You can see the whole email chain here at Gawker.

The drama itself is fascinating. This is very much a “this is how we make the sausage” type of story, complete with middle-school-esque name-calling, backstabbing, bitchy Mean Girling behind people’s backs and power plays. Most of the email chain is Scott Rudin bitching out Amy Pascal because she won’t free up director David Fincher for the Jobs film. Fincher was apparently sort of interested in directing Angelina Jolie in the adaptation of Cleopatra that she’s been attached to for years. Angelina was hoping that Cleo’s script would be ready soon, and she wanted Fincher to direct her, and Pascal was using that as an excuse to NOT hire Fincher for the Jobs film.

In the emails, Rudin insults Angelina several times, writing to Pascal:

“YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS.”

“There is no movie to be made (and how that is a bad thing given the insanity and rampaging spoiled ego of this woman and the cost of the movie is beyond me) and if you won’t tell her that you do not like the script…”

“I’m not destroying my career over a minimally talented spoiled brat who thought nothing of shoving this off her plate for eighteen months so she could go direct a movie. I have no desire to be making a movie with her, or anybody, that she runs and that we don’t. She’s a camp event and a celebrity and that’s all and the last thing anybody needs is to make a giant bomb with her that any fool could see coming. We will end up being the laughing stock of our industry and we will deserve it, which is so clearly where this is headed that I cannot believe we are still wasting our time with it…”

“I’m also happy to say all of this to Angie directly as I have no need to keep her happy and what I DO have is the right to determine for myself a) what I want to do with my own time and work, and b) what I want to do with material I incepted…”

[From Defamer]

I love that he “incepted” something. I need to start saying I “incept” things. As for the insults Rudin hurls at Angelina… I have mixed feelings. Obviously, it’s really rude, stupid, unprofessional and it will probably end up hurting Rudin more than anyone else. But on the other hand, I do sort of understand why he was mad. Jobs was ready to go and Cleopatra doesn’t have a script. Plus, I’m not entirely convinced that they should make Cleopatra, and it sounds like Rudin isn’t convinced either.

Happy ending: when Bale left the Jobs film, all of the executives at Sony watched Michael Fassbender’s filmography and they now love him.

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Christian Bale ‘stared into nothing for 30 minutes’ about the Batfleck news

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These are photos of Christian Bale with his wife, Sibi, at the Madrid premiere and photocall for Exodus: Gods and Kings. I was going to include last night’s NYC photos too, but they’re exactly the same (except Sibi is wearing black instead of blue). Bale is in a furry phase, which is nice if you like him that way. I prefer him shaved.

Bale’s been getting into some trouble while promoting this movie, which didn’t need any help trashing itself. Ridley Scott already made controversial remarks about race and the casting process, and Rupert Murdoch backed up Ridley. When Rupert agrees with someone, that’s usually not a good sign. Opponents organized a #BoycottExodusMovie hashhag. This certainly isn’t the first movie to cast in a culturally insensitive manner, and it won’t be the last. That sucks.

Bale’s been doing his part to distract with his own alienating quotes. Oh, who am I kidding? He’d be doing this no matter what. Kaiser already talked about how Bale called Moses “troubled, schizophrenic, and barbaric.” Last week, religious scholars called Bale out again.

Anyway. Bale calmed down a little bit to talk about losing the Batman role. He famously decided not to play Batman again after Christopher Nolan’s last turn at directing the neurotic superhero. When it comes to Bale, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Bale held a secret torch for Batman, and he grew a little melodramatic when Ben Affleck’s casting was announced:

Why Bale left Batman: “[Batman is] a character that could have kept on going and going and going. It was right for Nolan to finish it where he did and ours doesn’t belong in any other version at all. It was appropriate to leave at the right time.”

When Bale heard that Batfleck was cast:: “When I heard there was someone else doing it, there was a moment where I just stopped and stared into nothing for half an hour.”

[From Empire via Screenrant]

I laughed for far too long at the vision of Bale dropping his whole life to stare into the distance for 30 minutes over Batfleck. He doesn’t say anything bad about Ben Affleck as Batman, but you can tell Bale was crushed. I’m enjoying this Batman-on-Batman gossip cycle, by the way. Outlets want to make it seem like Michael Keaton threw shade at Batfleck when he really didn’t. Bale did effectively shade George Clooney, but I’m not sure that counts as Bat-on-Bat drama. Does it? Clooney was the worst Batman. He shouldn’t count.

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