/Film Donald Glover will be the voice of Simba and James Earl Jones the voice of Mufasa in the forthcoming remake of The Lion King... I notice it's being lumped in with all the other Disney 'live action remakes of animated pictures' in articles but this one is not live action, but CG and mo-cap like The Jungle Book.
E! News Malin Akerman recalls her nude modelling shoot with Jamie Dornan
AnOther interviews John Waters. Multiple Maniacs is getting a rerelease overseas... hence the interview. What I want to know is where in the box set of his complete filmography?
TV Line Darren Criss is Andrew Cunanan and Edgar Ramirez Gianni Versace in the next American Crime Story
Awards Daily TV Best Actress in a Limited Series is already crazy competitive for the next Emmys via Feud, Big Little Lies, and more...
Links after the jump including more Viola, plus Arrival, The Lion King, Night of the Iguana, Boyd Holbrook and more...
LA Times Samuel L Jackson talks I Am Not Your Negro and sounds off on the Oscar race -- he's voting for Denzel but thinks Viola is a lead
Coming Soon has a list of the 50 best movie fist fights. I didn't read the whole thing but I approve of Ripley in her exoskeleton and Viggo in the altogether being among them.
D-Listed good stuff on Scarlett Johansson's recent statement about monogamy not being natural
My New Plaid Pants Boyd Holbrook seven times
Cinema Blend Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) will star in the TV miniseries adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock. If you've never seen Peter Weir's movie version in 1975 you really should. It's quite haunting
Coming Soon Michelle Rodriguez joins Elizabeth Debicki and Tony winners Viola Davis (Fences) and Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple) as the fourth female lead of Steve McQueen's Widows. I'm assuming that's all of the principles now since the original series and the first remake in 2002 all starred four women.
/Film this is a cool bit of info -- Arrival is a better movie because it had to change its ending to be less like Interstellar
Variety Berlinale's 10 Europeans to Watch Luncheon
Variety character actor Warren Frost (Twin Peaks, As the World Turns, Matlock) has died at 91.
NYT Why do stars continue campaigning when they know they'll lose the Oscar? This one is focused on the supporting actresses (I can think of another reason that's not touched on here. It's actually good for your Oscar future, if nominated, to try. Momentum means a lot to careers. If Viola Davis hadn't fought to win for The Help and gotten close, do we really think she would be such an easy lock this time around?)
Harvard Gazette Tennessee William's undervalued play The Night of the Iguana (we've discussed the movie version here before) is coming to the A.R.T. with an all star cast that includes James Earl Jones, Dana Delany, Amanda Plummer and Bill Heck
Politics
The Daily Beast a must read -- FADA, a bill full or rhetorical BS about "freedom of religion" which currently has the support of the new President and Congress will undoubtedly make life very difficult and less safe for whole swaths of people in the USA including unmarried women, unmarried straight couples, and especially LGBT people, married or otherwise. It's one of the most vile pro-discriminations laws ever proposed and its probably going to pass. RESIST.
NYT The Syrian subjects of two documentary shorts will be attending the Oscar despite the recent problems with T****'s travel ban
Boy Culture "tiny T****" is a new meme. Good photoshopping skills here whoever made these
Medium has the first semi-believable positive take (much needed even if its best possible case scenario) on what might happen to the world following the T**** debacle
The Daily Beast remember when Out magazine got a ton of shit for normalizing racist / transphobic / nazi gay Milo Yiannopoulos? Now Bill Maher has done it too, coddling him on Real Time as he spewed more vile shit about the LGBT community and liberals. When will the media ever learn? Here's the best possible tweet about that show...
Hopefully quicksand. pic.twitter.com/QiS24ERdJ6
— Tom Reagan's Hat (@andymannion777) February 18, 2017