The Link and I
Monday, October 16, 2017 at 10:15AM Link time. Here we go...
Screen
/Film Deadpool 2 and X-Men Dark Phoenix have both wrapped, both due in 2018
/Film Turns out Beyoncé was offered Plumette before Gugu in the recent Beauty & The Beast movie. Insane that they offered Beyoncé a teensy part when Belle was right there. WTF, Bill Condon?
Coming Soon Gong Li will lead Martin Campbell's next thriller Ana -- the tone is said to be similar to La Femme Nikita. We'd be super excited because Gong Li is always welcome in leading roles but Campbell's new one The Foreigner with Jackie Chan isn't exactly winning raves
Film Society Helen Mirren named as the honoree at next spring's Chaplin Award Gala in NYC. Robert De Niro was the honoree earlier this year
Into Todd Haynes talks about Wonderstruck and about meeting with Barbra Streisand to talk Gypsy !!!
Variety it's official The Current War has moved to 2018 as the Weinstein Company sorts itself out
Tracking Board Sandra Bullock's Netflix thriller Bird Box casts Patti Cake$' breakout Danielle Macdonald
Variety Alfonso Cuarón talks about the Lumière festival, The Shape of Water, his new Mexican film Roma his first since Y Tu Mama Tambien
Coming Soon the young cast of those four Avatar sequels hit Disney World (only one of them is playing a human character).
Page Turners
The Guardian Tom Hanks has written a book of short stories
NPR there's a new book out on the ultimate screen classic Casablanca
Stage
Playbill Sir Ian McKellen will provide the voice of the demon in a new stage adaptation of The Exorcist
Playbill Kelli O'Hara likely to reprise her Tony winning performance in the West End production of The King and I next summer in London
EW Whoopi Goldberg & Maggie Gyllenhaal to star in a Damn Yankees concert, how fun!
More Sexual Harassment Stories
NYT Sarah Polley on the switch she felt moving from actress to director in terms of respect
Variety Eva Green has joined the chorus of women who have awful Weinstein stories to tell
BBC Woody Allen reacts to the Weinstein allegations
TFE Björk's harassment story (in case you missed it)
Boy Culture model/actor Ronnie Kroell speaks about how harassment happens to men in Hollywood, too. There are gay Weinsteins out there
and something a little lighter to end with...
Medium a hack for men (using The Rock as a mental example) who dont want to be accused of sexual harassment
Reader Comments (4)
Haynes: "But I decided I didn’t want to do that project. Mostly because it needed to be on stage, even though I love it. Not everything needs to be a movie. "
HELL YEAH
I really hope that after La La Land we have musicals made for the screen instead of Broadway adaptations. The tone of the two medias are completely different. Good adaptations of Broadway musicals are very rare. I mean it.
...really, Woody? This is the thing you want to publicly weigh in on?
Good interview on Todd Haynes -- an intellectual as well as emotional and visceral filmmaker. The first film I saw of his was his underground undergrad film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story which was available only in the deviant art website. But our prof showed it in class anyway. Haynes spoke in our grad class once to talk about a film he is developing about Bob Dylan which had many of us intrigued but also a bit puzzled. If I am going to rank his top three films, it would be very difficult since many of them occupy top-tier positions, but barring Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, I'd say: Safe, Velvet Goldmine and Far From Heaven are the top three. But everything else is extremely close that on some days I'm Not There will be in it.
Glad to know Kelli O'Hara is reprising her role as Anna in The King and I. Saw the original run at the Lincoln Center and I thought the singing was top-notch. Wasn't as taken by Ruthie Ann Miles as Lady Thiang although she gave an unforgettable performance as Imelda Marcos in Here Lies Love at the Public Theater. I still think O'Hara should have won for The Bridges of Madison County where is more memorable than Anna.
Excited for Alfonso Cuaron's latest Mexican film. He is surprisingly quiet about it in the interview. I wish wish wish Maribel Verdú is cast in this film. I had a huge crush on her since Y Tu Mamá También.
"...really, Woody? This is the thing you want to publicly weigh in on?"
Not defending him or his statements, but I'm pretty sure EVERY reporter is asking for his comments since the HW news came out. A "no comment" from him would likely be met with anger and derision.