The Fifty Shades franchise marches onward, with the next installment due out Valentine’s Day 2017, and in fact here is the trailer for Fifty Shades Darker. Which is not to be confused with the teaser for the trailer, which debuted yesterday to whet appetites. It’s got Miguel doing a cover of “Crazy in Love” a la…
Serious question: Why are celebrities still doing Twitter Q&As? Especially controversial celebrities? Well, you can hop on #AskELJames and ask her, but she probably won’t answer, because she’s busy ignoring all the other questions she got today.
Because here in America we use every part of every franchise, like a frontierswoman slaughtering a hog, come June 18 E.L. James is planning to release Grey, which is Fifty Shades rewritten from Christian’s perspective. (June 18 is, of course, Christian’s birthday, but I’m sure you knew that already.) However, British…
This morning, the esoteric “writer’s writer” E.L. James announced via her Instagram that she’ll be publishing Grey, a much-needed 50 Shades of Grey retelling from the perspective of self-made billionaire entrepreneur Christian Grey.
Fifty Shades of Grey made a godalmighty fortune this weekend, hoovering up $81.7 million at the box office. That makes it the biggest President's Day weekend opener ever, beating 2010's Valentine's Day.
Gleefully shitting on Fifty Shades of Grey became its own pastime as soon as the books started climbing up bestseller lists. But as easy as it is to lambast a trilogy of books written from the standpoint of a sexual idiot savant with a fifth-grade reading level, there's something smarmy and inauthentic about knocking…
Employees at a chain of British DIY stores are being encouraged to flip through Fifty Shades of Grey and get ready to field relevant questions from curious customers, and managers "need to be aware of the implications that the film may have on stock levels." This is probably the most exciting thing to hit hardware…
I honestly thought this thing might flop and yet here we are: preorders for Fifty Shades of Grey tickets are downright bananas.
When filmmaker Rik Swartwelder decided he was going to make a movie that would resurrect the idea of chivalry in love, he knew he had some tough competition—namely the adaptation to the fastest selling paperback book of all time, Fifty Shades of Grey. But Swartwelder is up for the challenge, comparing his film to the…
Okay, I know what you're thinking. The last thing you want to see is a bunch of older folks talking about that naughty novel/movie Fifty Shades of Grey. Well let me tell you right now, I think this may be the only way to consume the E. L. James novel. Seriously, these folks are the bomb.
The big fancy apartment building given as the home of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey has become an unlikely tourist attraction. Because what's more fun than lurking outside a luxury tower, taking pictures and waiting for the doorman to run you off?
If you were worried that the theatrical release of Fifty Shades of Grey couldn't possibly do the source material (lol) justice, some good news: the film's producer hinted today that there may be two versions of the film released — a regular-ass R-rated version to which you can take your father-in-law or precocious…
If only Christoph Waltz really had auditioned for and been cast as Christian Grey, we’d have all the proof we needed to know that the universe is lorded over by an omnipotent being (probably a platypus) that takes a special interest in casting decisions on movies made about erotica bestsellers. Waltz would be so…
You're staring into the bright, beautiful faces of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Dakota Johnson (of Social Network semi-renown) and Charlie Hunnam (of robot vs. giant lizards fame) have been cast as the leads in movie adaptation of EL James's extremely popular Fifty Shades of Grey.
Smutty doodles, nudie pixxx, and elaborately-staged sex shows were important way before the Internet, but the Internet greatly facilitates the dissemination (te-he-he) of porn, so it only makes sense that academics have decided that the world can no longer do without an academic journal (that no one will ever read)…
Not only was E.L. James' cult sadomasochistic masterwork Fifty Shades of Grey far and above the bestselling Random House title this year, it single-handedly helped keep Random House parent company Bertelsmann maintain overall group profit levels despite stagnant conditions in its TV, magazine, and music publishing…
In her ongoing effort to scrub the adorable residue precocious witch Hermione Granger left all over her acting career, Emma Watson may end up portraying Anastasia Steele, the heroine of a contemporary classic in the annals (heh) of erotic fiction, on the big screen. Or so says the reinvigorated Fifty Shades of…
The soon-to-be major motion picture event Fifty Shades of Grey just got a screenwriter and her name, according to an announcement from Universal Pictures and its subsidiary Focus Features, is Kelly Marcel.
Everyone, meet Niall Leonard. Niall Leonard, meet everyone. You've probably never heard of Niall before, but chances are that you know his wife, Fifty Shades of Grey poetess E.L. James. A fellow writer, Leonard has acted as James' proof reader throughout the early developments of the Fifty Shades series and has also…
