screen
• THR details the first attempt to put Black Panther on screen in the 1990s with Wesley Snipes stories about trying to collaborate with John Singleton (ye olde creative differences)
• Coming Soon Jim Caviezel and Mel Gibson reuniting for a sequel to Passion of the Christ about, you guessed it, the Resurrection
• IndieWire you knew that RuPaul was a major film buff, didn't you? Here he is on this year's Oscar race
More after the jump including Andrew Scott, honoring supporting actors, Bollywood stars, Xavier Dolan's next project, and Armie Hammer in a track suit...
• MNPP Joe Alwyn twelve times. Hmmm, Joe Alwyn
• Vanity Fair profiles 80s star Eric Roberts, now a journeyman actor, who recently made 74 films in a single year (Jesus!)
• Film School Rejects Xavier Dolan's next film Matt & Max will reunite him with his original screen mother Anne Dorval and is about two friends falling in love
• Santabanta Bollywood star Ranveer Singh currently in the hit Padmaavat receives a note from megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
• /Film a curious sounding new 'universe' franchise for Paramount built around the "ology" books.
• MNPP a peachy edition of "which is hotter" starring Armie Hammer
stage
• What's on Stage with Andrew Scott winning awards for his Hamlet onstage, and thanking his supporting cast profusely, a look at the rarely understood importance of honoring supporting actors. This piece applies to movies, too, I think. It's why I always rage against category fraud.
• Out the vivacious Peppermint from Drag Race will be the first openly trans woman to originate a role on Broadway. She's in the cast of Head Over Heels a jukebox musical with a score by the Go-Gos
• Broadway World The Greatest Showman (predictably) might be coming to the musical stage
miscellania
• them. investigates 'shadowbanning' on Instagram, a spam filter problem that censors LGBT people for using certain hashtags in their posts
• Slate Chicago Sun Times suspends film critic Richard Roeper due to investigation of fake twitter followers