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Monday, November 12, 2018 at 5:00PM • /Film Michelle Yeoh may be headlining a Star Trek spin-off series
• Towleroad Greg Berlanti (Love Simon) plans to direct a Rock Hudson biopic
• Variety This is so cool. The animation studio Aardman (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, etcetera) is transferring its ownership to its employees. Peter Lord will stay on as creative director
• MNPP Raúl Castillo joins the already amazing cast of Rian Johnson's Knives Out
• Awards Daily Adam McKay promoting Vice says something he might regret about the difference between Cheney and Trump
• Playbill Did you hear they're releasing another album for The Greatest Showman? This one is all covers. Kelly Clarkson is doing "Never Enough"
• Kinja great deal if you're a Potter person. All 8 Harry Potter films on bluray for just $40
• Cinema Eye Honors, which honors documentary films (we guess it's the week for that?), release their nominations for the year with Bing Liu's Minding the Gap leading with 7 nominations and Bisbee '17, Hale County This Morning This Evening and Shirkers each receiving 5. All are eligible for the Oscars this year, too.
• Boy Culture what Matt said about this odd quote from Michael C Hall on his sexuality
• The Guardian Controversy! German Playboy has published an interview with Ennio Morricone in which he trashes Quentin Tarantino. Now Morricone says he never gave that interview and will take legal action.
R.I.P.
• Variety Stan Lee, Marvel's figurehead and comic book legend, has died at 95. One assumes we have four final Stan Lee cameos coming up, though. He gets a bit in Into the Spider-Verse (yes, I've seen it but we're not allowed to talk about it yet). And surely he'll be in Captain Marvel, Infinity War Part 2, and Spider-Man: Far From Home , since they're all in post production already.
• The Guardian Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL in 2001 has died at 90.
Exit Video
Here's another cover from The Greatest Showman Reimagined from P!nk and her daughter Willow Sage Hart
P.S. Alarming!
Grammy winner Beck tweeted out that he was recording a score for Roma. Naturally this is upsetting because the movie has screened for months and actually has no score. The soundscape is so unique and immersive and tons of critics have praised the movie for this craftsmanship exactly. Why would they change it now after all the praise? I'm currently having nightmares of what happened to A Star is Born (1954) and The New World (2005) when the studio kept meddling after screenings with something that was already brilliant and perfect to the point where some people never could see the original version and in the case of A Star is Born it was lost for all time.
Reader Comments (12)
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Thank you Stan for giving us amazing stories and characters that we love.
Nat: He might regret the "he has a lower body-count" part, but calling Trump a maniac with a cleaver as opposed to Cheney's guarded and precise assassin? Sounds about right. As for Stan Lee? 6 left. You forgot Dark Phoenix and New Mutants. Still, this is end of an era stuff. The Stan Lee cameo was ALWAYS fun, even in the bad Marvel movies.
Nat: Okay, didn't see the news about Beck. To quickly bring something up: Choosing Beck means it was probably either entirely Cuaron's decision, not Netflix's, or Netflix asked him to provide a score as an option. Beck's too big to be cheap, but not big enough to be a draw. The former is still its own kettle of fish, sure, but that's less like what happened to Fant4stic or The New World and more Star Wars: Special Edition. The latter might somewhat be an accessibility option, trying to create a huge score that approximates the "feel" of the visuals being described for descriptive audio. If it is the latter? Shut up and clap, please.
I would use the profits of the soundtrack to reshoot those horrendous choreographies. Michelle and Hugh running like crazy on the roof, Zendaya emulating Tarzan...
There's nothing odd in Michael C. Hall answer.
Because this no score thing won't work when people see the movie lying on their couches
WHO could play Rock Hudson, though? Maybe Armie Hammer? For the longest time I wanted to see a movie chronicling his friendship with Doris Day starring Channing Tatum and Emma Stone.
Of course casting an openly gay actor is the ideal, but I just thought I'd mention two people that I think have an actual resemblance to the man. People will throw Matt Bomer's name around, but I think he'd be so, so wrong (but very pretty).
I thought the objection to Vice was supposed to be that it would humanize Cheney. Now it's objectionable that the filmmaker thinks he's worse than Trump. Do we really need takes on Adam McKay's view of Cheney before the film's premiere as reported by Maureen Dowd and interpreted by Sasha Stone? Maybe not.
i agree that there's nothing odd in michael c. hall's answer. now we're criticizing an actor for openly admitting that he's straight but sometimes exists on a spectrum where he can have sexual thoughts for another dude? after years of complaining that no famous actor would ever admit that in an interview? it's just a bummer that he's being criticized at all. that full interview shows what an introspective, intelligent, interesting person and actor he is.
Love the Pink video! Man, The greatest showman is gonna age very well, isn't it.
I'm already sick of the media's response to Cheney. People are just looking to be offended. It is so dumb; the reviews will be nausiating.
What a classy move from Aardman. I can't wait for Chicken Run 2!
I inmediately thought of Channing Tatum when hearing about the Rock Hudson biopic. For some reason I keep thinking Jared Leto for Stan Lee, whenever the unavoidable biopic starts being developed...
Stan Lee, I've been saying even before his creations revolutionized film industry in the last decade... he was a visionary, along Kirby and Ditko... probably to the 9th art, what Shakespeare was to literature... revolutionized the media and one of its most important genres.
Tough one, this round, Nat. Michael C. Hall’s take on sexuality is very open-minded and well articulated. It’s becoming clear, on this site, that there is no right answer that can ever come from a straight man’s mouth about playing gay characters. And as for Vice... I think what McKay said is funny, opinionated and topical... pretty on brand. Leave it to Dowd and Stone (who I used to enjoy, but who has leaned WAY too far into her own beliefs and politics in her Oscar coverage lately) to try and create a controversy out of that. You wrote none of this, I know- but posting these rather idiotic links shows them support unless you state explicitly otherwise. You’re better than that.