News, Bits, and Bobs
Trying to keep up with things we haven't mentioned of late
• The Hashtag Show on what the casting of Ben Mendelsohn and Jude Law in Captain Marvel probably means in terms of villain/story
• EW Ridley Scott on his last minute revamp of All the Money in the World
• The Guardian Fun interview with Michael Haneke who meets the man who created that parody twitter account of the master auteur
More after the jump including Lady Bird, Mulan, and the beginning of top ten lists...
• Film School Rejects film editing series
• W Magazine profiles Lady Bird's wonderful Beanie Feldstein (who is, yes, the younger sister of Jonah Hill)
• Tracking Board 1972's Super Fly is getting a reboot and rumor is that O'Shea Jackson Jr is the guy they want
• Vanity Fair Disney has cast their live-action Mulan, the Chinese star Liu Yifei (who also goes by Crystal Liu) and who is nicknamed "Fairy Sister" supposedly for her delicate persona. Niki Caro (Whale Rider) will direct
• Vimeo a video essay on Spielberg's fondness for reflecting or looking at his characters through class or mirrors
• Pajiba Creators/showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green are both leaving American Gods after only one scene Uh oh
• My New Plaid Pants Tom Hardy in the gym training for Venom
• This is Not Porn Bruce Lee and kitty cat on the set of Way of the Dragon
• AV Club Bunheads, Agent Carter and Cougar Town coming to Hulu (who have really been on a tear)
• i09 Daisy Ridley doesn't want to play "Rey" past those three contractual Star Wars movies. (In other words, she wants more money - nothing wrong with that but I hope she bows out as she clearly has other opportunities and actors should play a range of characters)
• Playbill Lin-Manuel Miranda sings "Sonya Alone" in honor of The Great Comet of 1812 composers
List-Mania
Yes, the annual wrap-ups have begun. Forgive TFE that we wait until late December/early January to start but we like to include December as part of each year...
• Time Top ten TV shows: The Deuce, Big Little Lies, Mindhunter, etc
• Time top ten TV episodes: Girls, RuPauls Drag Race, Jimmy Kimmel Live, etc
• New York Times Top ten books
• Instagram year in review including top posts (Beyoncé) most followed celebrities (Selena Gomez) and most followed pets (Jiffpom) and most instagrammed cities (NYC)
• Empire Top ten films: Get Out, Blade Runner 2049, and more. It's worth noting that because UK schedules are different this list covers movies which are 2016-2018 for us (La La Land on the earliest and The Death of Stalin on the latest release for us, now due in 2018 in the US theaters)