Link Runner 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 4:46PM Gurus of Gold pundits make some quick assessments as the new awards season begins
Paste Magazine why isn't Billy Eichner a sex symbol yet?
THR the new version of It is already causing real clowns to lose work
Advocate offers up 17 LGBT tropes that need to be retired from entertainment. This list is so wide-ranging they'll be no queer characters left on TV if they follow it!
/Film cool stuff: scratch off poster to track your viewing of 100 classic movies
The Daily collects obituaries and tributes to the acclaimed horror director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
IndieWire Dunkirk arranges a special screening at Toronto to celebrate IMAX. Consider that Oscar campaign already ignited
Awards Daily new stills for Call Me By Your Name. These are more likely it. The first few were so underwhelming
Towleroad Heathers is getting a TV adaptation. Leslye Headland directs the pilot which has updates for the Heathers for themselves (one of them is genderqueer)
Off Cinema
• The Cut good deep dive into Kathy Griffin's life post that T***p photo that got her into so much trouble
• Vox winners and losers of MTV Video Music Awards
• ET literal winners of the MTV Video Music Awards (though, like the Gramys, it's not an awards show that's actually about awards)
• AV Club Jason Segel is having a tall person small door problem. Cute
• Playbill the 29 biggest grossing Broadway shows of all time from the Cabaret revival with Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming ($119 million) to Disney's The Lion King $1.3 billion). Hamilton is already at #18 ($242 million) and it's only been open two years! (It should be noted that these are just their Broadway grosses, not touring companies and the like.
Exit Video
Seems like there's going to be a few short films about the Blade Runner world before Blade Runner 2049 opens. Here's the first one...
Reader Comments (10)
Who watches MTV?
The original Hello, Dolly! didn't make the list? Or Life with Father? Come on!! I lost interest in the Playbill list as soon as I saw that grosses weren't adjusted for inflation which means that it's not of all time just when theatre tickets went sky high.
I dunno how I feel about Kathy Griffin. I used to like her but now she seems emotionally and intellectually unintelligent. Off topic but has mother! screened? It opens in two weeks and seems to have no promotion.
Blade Runner 2049 Coat Saw the part one of the movie in which Harrison Ford shows his acting skills; really impressed with his works. Also Ryan Gosling is one of our favorite actor and will follow the part 2 definitely in year 2049. Cant Wait To See It!.
joel6, I go back and forth on the adjusted for inflation thing. On one hand, it's frustrating when people talk about movies like Wonder Woman and Avengers as being so far ahead of classic films, but on the other hand they somehow convinced $400mil worth of people to see Wonder Woman and that's pretty damn impressive in this day and age.
That Advocate list is so silly. Yes, they're cliches, but often for a reason and a film like Handsome Devil can cleverly take the "closeted jock" trope and make it feel fresh. And then, like, "Coming out" is apparently a trope that should be retired? "The Promiscious Queer"? And how many movies about murderous bisexuals are there, really? And then it ends with "everyone is straight", which, well, how are we to know if characters are gay since any sort of 'trope' is bad. Gah. I know the list is just being silly for the most part, but its part of a bigger complex idea. I have long since given up being able to know what the people who write those sort of articles actually want in their art. The sort of people who hated Looking because they were boring and struggle with relationships and then turn around and want better representation of gay people that aren't just based around coming out narratives or tragedy or straight people.
Those Blade Runner "short films" are basically just prologues, yes? They're not actual short films with a beginning, middle and end independent of the new movie?
Glenn, from my understanding the blade runner shorts all take place between the first movie and the new one so they're prologues of a kind, yes. but i cant imagine you need to see them to know what's up. because that would be a stupid marketing move.
Joel6 - that's a good point. I think about that all the time with movie lists but somehow it didn't cross my mind with the Broadway list. but yes, obviously Hello Dolly and A Chorus Line and other longrunnning shows would probably qualify if adjusted.
Kathy Griffin does seem rather unintelligent, but then again, the whole controversy over that photo was ridiculous.
That short film above with Jared Leto is terrible. I never liked him. Bad actor.
@ Nat - Just out of curiosity, why is Trump getting the Voldemort treatment?
Re Kathy Griffin: to me she was always funniest when she was doing ghetto gigs and telling funny stories about her run-ins with lower-end celebrities. Her first special (The D List) is still my favorite, especially the bit about Hollywood Squares, with Little Richard, Anna Nicole Smith and Triumph, the insult comic dog.
Carmen - i just dont like acknowledging his existence. He's a stain on the world.