| | | | | | | | | | | | "What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do."
- RuPaul
To sign up for this newsletter click here. "What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do.""
- RuPaul
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | |  | | | |  | | Hmmm, apparently people who enjoyed four movies about battling car robots didn’t think a fifth one was warranted. Transformers: The Last Night opened in previews on Tuesday and only took in $69.1 million since then (and just $45.3 over the weekend). That’s the lowest opening ever for the Michael Bay-helmed franchise. Though, don’t be surprised if we still get more of these. The film made $123.4 million over in China, the franchise’s best showing ever there. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman continues its amazing run, overtaking the total take of Man of Steel and becoming the highest grossing live-action film ever directed by a woman, as expected. The real box office story to keep an eye on this weekend thought was The Big Sick. The Sundance smash only opened in five theaters, but earned $87,000 per screen, the highest per screen average of any movie this year (even besting Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, which opened in four theaters this weekend as well). Expect to hear more about the flick as it rolls out across the country. It might be the sleeper hit of the summer. | | | | | | Netflix’s Cancellation Hammer | The buzz was that Netflix was always shy about cancelling shows because they didn’t want to broadcast any failure. Well, now that the streaming service can reliably churn out zeitgeist-dominating hits one after another, it has no trepidation about cutting the underperformers loose. The latest to get struck by the cancellation hammer: Girlboss. Loosely based on Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso and an apparent attempt to fill a void left by HBO’s Girls, the show never caught on with critics or its intended audience. Amoruso herself conveyed the news. “So that Netflix series about my life got canceled,” she wrote on Instagram stories of all places. Maybe Netflix is still a little shy about broadcasting its failures. Few will miss the show, but it at least deserved a press release or official studio comment. | | Conventionally Pretty Shoes | “Ugly” shoes are having a moment. Prada has been inspired by Teva and even Crocs have been shown on the runways in London. Apparently Birkenstock got jealous of those other brand’s fashion flings, because during Paris men’s week the go-to hippie sandals threw a big shindig of their own. “We have been in the fashion industry for so many years already! Go around and ask every top photographer and stylist, they are all wearing Birkenstock…” the company’s CEO told Vogue. They also released a special collaboration with French boutique Colette-a pair of the brand’s signature sandals spotted in Colette’s trademark blue. What’s next? A $850 Balenciaga reworking of the humble Chinese slipper? A Dr. Scholl’s show in Milan? We're on pins and needles. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ladies and gentlemen, your latest winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Sasha Velour. Expect to see her in one front roe or another come next fashion week, assuming she’s not too busy touring the world. | | | | | | | | | | Ariana Grande, 24 (Pint-sized Wonder) Iman Shumpert, 27 (Mr. Teyana Taylor) Nick Offerman, 47 (Mr. Megan Mullally)
Paul Thomas Anderson, 47 (Mr. Common Law Maya Rudolph)
Chris O’Donnell, 47 (Last Known Big Screen Robin)
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