Nicole Sperling
6,188 posts
Nicole Sperling
@nicsperling
Media reporter for @NYTimes, covering Hollywood and streaming. Formerly @VanityFairHWD @EW @latimes. Just trying to keep it all together.
Los Angeles
Joined November 2009
- Wowee. Never seen an audience rebel against an emcee so quickly. One prominent director just couldn’t keep his opinion quiet. “They all showed up. They are all here and this is what they give us? This is a disaster.” #GoldenGlobes2024
- The Palestinian protest is delaying arrivals for many including a lot of the big stars. Numbering in the 100s, they have shut down the cross street of Highland and Fountain, a main thoroughfare, according to one spectator. The Academy is sending golf carts to retrieve them.
- Overheard: “Weve got one more to lose and then we can go drink”—Chris Nolan.
- Shocker: Just learned that Elizabeth Gabler and her Fox 2000 unit, the film division behind such films as #HiddenFigures, #LoveSimon and #TheHateUGive, will not be making the move to Disney. Reversal of Disney's original plan announced in October. Wowza. What a loss.
- That was insane. Chris Rock insulted Jada Pinkett-Smith about her bald head with a joke about "G.I.Jane." (She has a hair loss condition.) Will Smith ran on stage, slapped Rock, then screamed twice loudly, "Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth." #Oscar
- Welp @TheAcademy you've just been handed your opening number for #Oscars2020. I hope you do it justice.This year's Oscar nominee theme: 🎶 White Male Rage 🎶 #SNL
00:00 - "Bye-bye, it's my first Oscars," says @JanelleMonae before ascending the staircase into the ballroom. #oscars
- If you watch one thing on @netflix this summer, might I suggest it be @ava's 4-part mini-series on #TheCentralParkFive. Here's my piece on her effort to tell their stories in #WhenTheySeeUs vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019…
- Excited @johngreen #turtlesallthewaydown is being turned into a film. Book is terrific and if they get it right, the light the movie will shed on OCD will be profound. Bravo.
- "Dune" is the next domino to fall. Two sources tell me WB will delay the release until Oct. 1, 2021.
- Emma Thompson's film #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande is now eligible for consideration by @TheAcademy and others after Searchlight, which acquired the movie out of Sundance but never released it in U.S. theaters, appealed. The film opened in theaters abroad.
- Will Smith just resigned from the Academy.
