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Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 4:00PM So much news and other things to link up. Okay, here we go...
Polygon <-- I wrote this piece for them on The Dark Knight and the Oscar quake that followed. Have a look won't you?
The Ringer LOLZ. The forthcoming Downton Abbey movie ...with zombies
Variety Weinstein Company's library of hundreds of Oscary films and TV shows like Project Runway now owned by a new company Lantern Entertainment.
MNPP Tab Hunter marathon on TMC this Friday!
/Film Batwoman series in development at CW. It's another one of those Berlanti superhero shows. I enjoyed The Flash for a time but I really wish if we're going to have this many shows that there would be some differentiation of producing teams so that there wouldn't be so much homogeny with point of view.
More after the jump including MoviePass trouble and new projects for Halle Berry, Taraji P Henson, Rose Byrne, and Kate Winslet...
The Wrap Best of Enemies, the Sam Rockwell/Taraji P Henson true story/KKK drama has sold to STX. No word yet on distribution plans. Will they release this year or next?
Coming Soon Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish will star in a comedy called Limited Partners about a friendship tested by a multi-million dollar offer to their shared company. Byrne and Haddish? We will hurt from laughing. Hopefully.
Variety Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska to star in a remake of the Danish film Silent heart about a mother (Keaton) who gathers her children together one last time before her death
Film School Rejects "the tiny genius of Ant-Man and the Wasp"
Gothamist a huge naked bodypainting event in Washington Square Park
/Film MoviePass stock plummets. It seems that service is always in trouble and we wish they'd stop changing their rules but how can we now live without them if they end?
The New Yorker ... speaking of. A satirical list of new MoviePass features
Variety Johnny Depp has settled his feud with his managers that was such a big story a few weeks ago with that widely read Rolling Stone profile.
Coming Soon first Shazam photo and an EW cover
Variety Halle Berry planning to star in a remake of Glenn Close 80s thriller Jagged Edge
TIFF pays tribute to Bollywood superstar Sridevi who died last week at only 54. Interesting piece about the struggle to convey her importance to international audiences who don't have the context for it -- and the difficulty of trying to explain it through comparable Hollywood stars. (Note: I fundamentally disagree with the characterization that Meryl Streep wasn't mainstream popular until 2006. Meryl Streep was in massive hits in the first decade of her career. It was only the 20 years between Out of Africa (her last "blockbuster" success from the early part of her career) and Devil Wears Prada (the blockbuster that won her a whole new legion of fans) that convinced her that she was previously only "the most acclaimed actress" rather than a "movie star" proper.
Oh and here's the new teaser poster to Aquaman in case you missed it.
Reader Comments (27)
What the hell is a teaser poster?
I mean, I can see all of it
Unless this is like 1/5 of an entire poster then I’ll shut my mouth.
Migs -- haha. well, that's what people were calling it, but good point.
Byrne and Haddish sound like a winning combo.
Shazam & Aquaman and seriously who cares.
Diane Keaton already made The Family Stone, so I'm not quite sure the reason for the retread of sorts.
Halle, no. Just no. Fire your agent and start over.
Reminder we need the Q&A answers :-) yay!
Movies should have unique titles. There was an excellent documentary called Best of Enemies just 3 years ago!
I can't deal with an Aquaman poster that desn't have Kidman front and centre,infact call it Aquaman's mother and have Kidman crying inside a pearl shell..
mark -- oooh, this movie i wanna see.
I'll give it a chance but Diane Keaton doesn't look like Winslet and Wasikowska's mom at all.
True. Meryl was already at the same level as Jane Fonda or Keaton when I saw Out of Africa in theatres (I know, everything hurts already) and that was less than a decade after her film debut!
Has anybody wasted their Oscar win more than Halle Berry?
Jaragon
Nicolas Cage?
"Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska to star in a remake of the Danish film Silent heart about a mother (Keaton) who gathers her children together one last time before her death"
Why no one is excited to see a Danish director working with three goddess?
Did you all figure out that could be Diane Keaton nomination of this decade?
Or that this story has potencial to be so good as
CRIES AND WHISPERS
AUTUMN SONATA
45 YEARS
AWAY FROM HER
VOLVER
FESTEN
AMOUR
???????
Did you all figure out that we could have Kate, Mia, Diane, Julianne Moore as Oscar nominees in 2020?
I know you all are fighting the ORANGE SHIT in White House, but let's all have a little hope!
"Has anybody wasted their Oscar win more than Halle Berry?"
JENNIFER HUDSON
NICOLAS CAGE
MO'NIQUE
RENÉE ZELLWEGGER
ZETA-JONES
JENNIFER CONNELY
KIM BASINGER
MARLEE MATLIN
BRENDA FRICKER
NICOLAS CAGE
ROBERTO BENIGNI
FORREST WHITAKER
JEAN DUJARDIN
JOEL GRAY
CUBA GOODING JUNIOR
TIM ROBBINS
J.Hud doesn't seem to be focused on a film career tho, Jon. She's got her music one! Everyone else on your list I agree with. Esp. Connely!
thans, @Chris
In my heart, I think the same about J HUD but I can't forgive the award season for honoring her work that year and not the work of Abigail Breslin or Emily Blunt.
Black Lighting feels somewhat different from the rest of the CW superhero shows because it was developed for Fox and still has that creative team. They need to hire someone outside of the CW to run Batwoman if they don't want it to feel like more of the same.
Nathaniel, you asking "Have a look won't you?" is second only to Mr. Rogers asking "Won't you Be My Neighbor?" in terms of a resounding yes.
Sam Rockwell/Taraji P. Henson in a drama is a high 'maybe' for me, as is Byrne/Haddish in a comedy.
I'm unsold on a Winslet/Keaton/Wasikowska project, but while wait for the trailer.
But if they re-make "Jagged Edge", who will play Robert Loggia's part?
Who will deliver his famous final line?
I also love Robert Loggia for his revenge against tailgaters in David Lynch's "Lost Highway".
I think I'd like a little gold Robert Loggia medallion as the patron saint of drivers.
Robert Loggia - forgot about him. So great - thanks @adri!
@ Jon - Marlee Matlin is deaf-mute, mate. How many roles do you think came her way past her Oscar win? I think it is pretty remarkable that she managed to have a somewhat mainstream career, despite her disability, in a marketplace so extremely merciless as Hollywood.
Also, some of the novelty wins in your list (Benigni, Dujardin, Fricker, etc) were just that, novelties, and big Hollywood careers were not to be expected to follow their Oscars anyway.
Connely and Cage, though. Couldn't agree more. Cage is to the point that one has to wonder if he doesn't actually prefers sh*t movies, as a matter of personal taste, really.
Forrest Whitaker was probably close to a nod for The Butler and has been in a number of well-regarded hit films like Arrival and Black Panther.
It's hard to argue with most of the names on that list, though.
Marlee Matlin robbed the greatest of the great so she can eat shit.
Dear @CarmenSandiego (I love your nickname *-*)
Hurts me put the name of Marlee Matlin on the list, because of all the things you say and I agree, but I decided to put not on offense in her work, but to remember that Hollywood do not only create great roles for female actors and no-white actors,but especially to disable people and that hurts me a lot because (like with female and no-white) IT IS FUCKING EASY TO RIGHT A GOOD ROLE FOR DISABLE PEOPLE. WHY THEY DON'T DO? Because they don't wanna.
But it's that thing: do we all realize that the world we live is project only to accommodate male-cis-white-no-disable-people? Pay atention to architecture (and see that working with the society), and you all will agree with me.
The case of Benigni, Dujardin, Fricker, etc: the question was "Has anybody wasted their Oscar win more than Halle Berry?" and to answer it I had consider the carrier on Hollywood spotplight and off-Hollywood spotlight.
Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton only made a few 'big' Hollywood movies sincer their Oscars wins, but didi you all look on the independent and not english work they did?
Dujardin, Benigni, etc did not do anything so good even independent or in non-English language. That is the reason why I consider them to put on the list.
Dear @Suzanne
The same thing to explain why I put Forest Whitaker on the list.
Arrival is a masterpiece. Black Punther was a hit. But... The rest?
Beautiful and talented and popular as she is, Berry is still a woman of color in a system that doesn't know what to do with that in their female stars. Instead of saying how she's wasted her Oscar, we should be thrilled she's still headlining movies in her 50's. Are you going to say the same thing about Lupita in a few years?
I like Jason Momoa a lot, and would love for him to have his Wonder Woman moment with Aquaman. Here's hoping the movie is good.
@Sawyer - hear, hear. It's not like Berry is going to be offered Still Alice, The Iron Lady, Blue Jasmine, Arrival, 20th Century Women, etc. And she's not the same type as either Viola Davis or Octavia Spencer so she's not exactly competing with them for their parts, either.
Can we stop this myth that certain people "waste their Oscar wins"?
No one wastes anything. They don't control what job offers or auditions come their way post-win. And honestly, for many, nothing changes. It's just an award. It doesn't demand that people send them more opportunities. That happens for some people, and for others it doesn't. Actors want to work. If there were great roles coming their way, I'm sure they'd take them. It's not like all of them just look at amazing opportunities every day and say "meh..." An Oscar can help, but at the end of the day, Hollywood is a money game. We live in a capitalist society. Oscar or no Oscar, if no one is checking for you, you're not as likely to get a job. That's just the way it goes.
It's especially annoying to hear this when you're dealing with someone like Halle Berry, or another minority in the industry. How many leading roles in films are there for black women? Not many at all. And then add in quality of the project, add in her type and if she fits it. Then factor in her having to be offered or audition and get the part, and Halle Berry is a star but not what she once was. Once you calculate all of that, it's not surprising that she hasn't done much.
Yeah, you have people like Nicolas Cage who you can make a solid argument for, but it's hard to simply say some others are "wasting" anything--why would they want to be in shitty projects, or not working often?