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Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 8:00AM Playlist Adam McKay (The Big Short) planning a Dick Cheney biopic which may star Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carell
LA Times comedian Don Rickles has died at 90
Vulture Interesting observations: blockbuster filmmakers are making the same single parent family drama inbetween their visual fx movies
Movie City News on the tired false notion that 'movie stars don't matter anymore' in terms of box office which we're seeing a lot of post Ghost in the Shell opening and which we see every time a star driven movie fails essentially. Movie stars obviously do still matter but the economics of movies are always changing.
/Film in this week's strangest news: Actor/Hunk Joe Mangianello has written a Dungeons & Dragons movie
Washington Post another 'Nicole Kidman is awesome and always has been' essay. Glad we're getting a wave of these but kind of annoyed that people haven't taken our word for it all these years ;)
Billboard Adele's "21" album from 2011 just broke a record long held by Carole King's "Tapestry"
IndieWire ranks the top 14 female action stars. The top three are unassailably major (Jolie, Johansson, Theron) but the list gets weird and debatable thereafter even including Cara Delevigne who's not yet headlined an action film at #14
Yahoo American Crime Story's Versace murder cast keeps growing and it's always celebrities. Ricky Martin has signed on as Versace's longtime partner Antonio D'Amico
Telegraph Stage star and sometime screen actor Tim Pigott-Smith has died at 70. Screen credits include V For Vendetta, Downton Abbey, and The Jewel in the Crown (BAFTA award)
Variety Angelina Jolie rumored to be buying a $25 million estate (less than two miles from Brad Pitt's home) that used to belong to Cecil B DeMille
EW Alexander Skarsgård worries he won't get work after Big Little Lies because Perry was such a monster
P.S. A follow up yesterday's "on this day" post. VOTE!
For his birthday, What's Francis Ford Coppola's greatest creation
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) April 7, 2017
P.P.S. Have you begun thinking of the Emmy race yet?
We're still in the eligibility period and the nominating doesn't begin until early June but the campaigning has already begun in force for many shows, both Emmy darlings and other.
It must be frustrating to be on great TV shows that the television Academy ignores. History has shown that they don't change course unless they're basically forced to which they will be this year at least in one category: Best Drama Series has a single new opening since Game of Thrones isn't eligible for the very first time. The Emmys would be so much more exciting, and frankly mean a lot more, if the nominations were done by special committees forced to watch a bunch of things. Imagine if the nominations actually shifted per season depending on quality. All series have ups and downs!
Reader Comments (9)
I voted Sofia Coppola because, well... GODFATHER PART 2 is the best of Coppola's film's that are mentioned, but part 3 loses that trilogy *some* cache. I'm not into APOCALYPSE NOW all that much, and THE CONVERSATION is great, but I need to rewatch it (preferably on a big scene). Plus, my actual favourite Coppola film, and one I am not at all ashamed of admitting, is ONE FROM THE HEART.
Sofia is talented but she still has not a made a movie that matches her father...will Joe be naked in this D&D movie?
As a person who doesn't watch much TV and finds the Oscars endlessly more interesting than the Emmys, which is to say, a person who can't really speak to whether most Emmy nominees "deserve" to be nominated, I maintain that the one that makes them kind of interesting compared to other awards is the way that each category can be looked at in terms of "openings"...
Like, how no Game of Thrones and no Downton Abbey means that there are 4 openings in best supporting actress this year.
It doesn't make the Emmys better (it probably makes them worse), but it makes the awards geeking on them unique.
Yes, I wish the Emmys were more judgemental of their favourites. I don't necessarily mind Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, or Veep receiving nominations for later seasons, but if only their nomination records over time tallied with the actual quality of these shows. In theory, it would be nice to see weak seasons of shows receive fewer nominations and, if they improve, be allowed to re-enter the club. But once you're out, you're out, which is often not reflective of the peaks and troughs of a lot of comedy of serialised drama. Peak TV has only exacerbated this problem, meaning that unless you have a lot of buzz behind you then you're going to struggle to break in because voters either aren't invested enough to watch widely, or feel over-faced. That's why low-rated shows that don't have a lot of conversation - Fresh Off The Boat, Happy Valley, The Girlfriend Experience, Fleabag, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin, Underground, American Crime - struggled to make it in last year, but Mr. Robot had a relatively easy ride.
I was about to say that Rachel Bloom is more likely to get nominated for the song she wrote for THE FLASH than anything she does on CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, but lo and behold, she did get a nomination last year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Original_Music_and_Lyrics
Worth a look. Lot of unexpected names there.
Stop trying to make Cara Delevigne happen!
Two opening. Game of Thrones is ineligible because it's not releasing a season on time and Downton Abbey is over so another slot opens up.
Re. end of movie stars article: what is IP?
Travis - IP means "intellectual property" so it's in movie parlance it's basically short for "brand" or "franchise"