Advertising Age how Twitter made us care about stupid awards shows again.
Boston Wesley Morris on Oscar snubs and the problem of comedy. It's not serious enough for gold.
Orlando Sentinel really interesting piece about Matt Damon not wanting Steven Soderbegh to retire. Damon still wants to make Liberace with Michael Douglas.
“I’ve talked at length with Steven about it. He is going away for a while, I think. He genuinely wants to paint... But I see it as a waste of this incredible depth of knowledge of filmmaking. But his thing is ‘form. I’m only interested in what I can do with form. I’ve made almost every movie I want to,’ he says. ‘And if I see another over-the-shoulder shot, I’m going to kill myself.’"
Awards Tracker I hadn't read this but Anne Hathaway credits Penélope Cruz's filmography with helping her deal with doing nudity on film. Interesting... though if only she and Jake had lent those magnificent bods to a better movie than Love and Other Drugs.
LA Times Magnolia Pictures bought Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Yay. They did a great job pushing I Am Love last year. Hopefully this will fare better than Antichrist (which IFC bought) which got a ton of press but didn't even crack half a million at the US box office.
Boston Wesley Morris again (sorry, I've become obsessed. I blame Nick.) with a terrific piece on Whoopi Goldberg's reaction to the lack of black talent in the Oscar race and her career since The Color Purple.
BBC British actress Maxine Peake claims class snobbery is at work for Brit actresses. It's something I'd never considered but maybe this will be more clear to British readers? She says
I remember feeling, at drama school, that if you were male and working class you were a bit of a poet, a working class hero. But if you were female, you were just a bit gobby and a bit brassy and common.
Finally, The Hollywood Reporter let's us know that Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby will go before the cameras in August in Sydney. Be careful what you wish for people. I am always begging Baz to work again and he chooses an adaptation of my favorite novel that I don't think should be a movie AND he casts three people that I like but that I am not really excited for in these roles AND he shoots it in 3D. Sigh.