let's catch up on news stories...
• Tracking Board ABC developing a live-action sitcom remake of The Jetsons
• Vulture a tribute to the bungled non-release of Tulip Fever
• Criterion a Joan Crawford double feature Daisy Kenyon and Sudden Fear on filmstruck
• Cinema Enthusiast polled cinephiles on the best films of 1969. Lots of opinions though it's beyond troubling that They Shoot Horses, Don't They? which runs laps around almost everything produced in 1969, just barely squeezes into the top ten
more after the jump including but not limited to Wonder Woman 2, Obi Wan Kenobi, mother!, Frozen, and The Conjuring.
• Awards Daily the Art Directors guild will add an animated feature production design category this year for the first time
• Tracking Board Patty Jenkins in talks for a record-setting payday (rumor is $10 million) for Wonder Woman 2
• The New Yorker Richard Brody tries to get into The Terminator... which is an awesome movie but Brody doesn't think so. Still, I like the asides to Twin Peaks: The Return and Pumping Iron
• This is Not Porn annoying gif of Steven Spielberg messing around with cobras on the set of Raider of the Lost Ark. But I'd never seen this footage before of my fav Spielberg so I'm sharing.
• Remezcla 10 gifs for anyone who is thirsty for Gael García Bernal
• The Guardian the Star Wars universe will add a Obi Wan Kenobi stand-alone film. No word on the star but Stephen Daldry may script/direct
• Cinematic Corner Sati says that the Rosemary's Baby iteration of the multiple mother! posters is confirmed as real. I honestly thought it was fan art. Why would they do this? If it's meant as an homage aren't they giving the game away and saying this is a thinly veiled Rosemary's Baby remake? Boo! (Or maybe this is a red herring... but still)
• Towleroad a porn site offers to produce another season of Sense8 if the Wachowski sisters will have them
• Coming Soon New Line's franchise The Conjuring (which incudes those Annabelle movies) has now passed the $1 billion mark at the box office. Can we get Patrick Wilson & Vera Farmiga back for round 3 then? Why isn't that filming yet?
• The Guardian Geoffrey Rush is starring in a Giacometti biopic directed by Stanley Tucci. Step away from the biopics, Rush. How many is this now?
• Tracking Board Octavia Spencer to play beauty entrepeneur Madam CJ Walker, the first of her family to be free-born on a cotton plantation, for a new limited series
the stage version of "Frozen" opens to much fan fever
Off Screen
• /Film early reviews from the out of town try out of Disney's Broadway bound Frozen
• Kenneth in the (212) I had so forgotten about this -- perhaps purposefully -- but in the 90s a man murdered his male friend after finding out on the talk show Jenny Jones that the friend had a crush on him. He's now going to be released from prison early after already getting a way with a reduced crime (second degree murder though he planned the whole murder!). This is enraging. Hate crimes against gays are so rarely taken seriously
• Theater Mania Hamilton has landed in Los Angeles and lives up to the hype
• Broadway Blog the Tony winning show Indecent will be broadcast on PBS this November. I urge you to watch it. Stunning if imperfect show about a fascinating lesbian-themed moment in Jewish theater history -- and I'm glad it won the Best Direction Tony.
• Playbill T***p will not attend the Kennedy Center Honors this year honoring Gloria Estefan (and more). This article does not go into it but I wish people would stop saying he's the first president to ever shirk this duty. There's mountains of accurate shit to blame on him without false reporting - a few other presidents have bowed out in the past though it's not common.