Oooh look at this beautiful actress roundtable cover for The Hollywood Reporter. Can't wait to see the full video.
Okay on to the link roundup since we haven't done this in some time the news is a mix of brand new to 'oops, already shoulda shared that!'
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/Film early numbers on the success of Disney+ though you'll have to take it with a grain of salt as the numbers are provided solely by Disney (just like Netflix who is free to brag on the rare occassions when they do share numbers but there's no way to know if the numbers are accurate)
Coming Soon Juliette Lewis and Mia Goth are co-starring in a female action flick called Mayday
After the jump The Little Mermaid, new projects for Paul Thomas Anderson and Damien Chazelle, Kristen Bell singing, and much much more...
Guardian to celebrate Burning Cane on Netflix directed by a 19 year old, a look back at other very very young directors who made history
AV Club The last piece of the Little Mermaid casting puzzle. Jonah Hauer-King will play Prince Eric
/Film What it's like to watch Watchmen without knowledge of the source material
You might have already heard...
Collider Damien Chazelle's next movie will be called Babylon and stars Emma Stone and Brad Pitt. It's about Hollywood in the late 1920s early 1930s. Release date Christmas 2021 so forget we mentioned it. That's a long ways away!
Variety Disney+ has put warnings on their service for "outdated cultural depictions" given the sensitivity of today's viewers and undoubtedly because the internet loves the word "problematic" so much. But honestly this seems kinda cowardly if they also are going to continue to pretend that Song of the South (1946) doesn't exist. Burying history and pretending it didn't happen is not the same as learning from the past or reckoning with it. Song of the South received two Oscar nominations and won for Best Song AND received an Honorary Oscar but at this point its a "lost" film since Disney won't acknowledge it.
THR Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, shooting in 2020, is a high school ensemble film set in the 1970s. No one is cast yet but we hope he's looking at Noah Jupe!
Guardian Woody Allen and Amazon have settled their lawsuits against each other
The Week there’s a new book on Elaine Stritch’s life - love this review of it.
Pride Source Elizabeth Banks and Kristen Stewart were all in on making the new Charlie’s Angels queer
The New Yorker profiles Todd Haynes before Dark Waters emerges. (We are always rooting for Haynes so we hope the deadly trailer isn’t accurate to the film’s quality)
Screen Daily protests and violence have flared up around Sweden’s gay Oscar submission And Then We Danced at its premiere in Georgia (which is considered one of the most homophobic countries on earth) but the screenings sold out in minutes.
Broadway Direct there’s a new book on Brando too called “The Contender”
Today's Video
Watch Kristen Bell do multiple tunes from the Disney songbook in this talk show appearance/Frozen 2 promo
Older news we forgot to share but better later than never.
The New York Times Jane Fonda still political and fiery at 81, going to jail for climate change
Salon HBO has killed the Game of Thrones prequel series which was supposed to star Naomi Watts and be focused on the women of Westeros
THR The Academy has launched a streaming service for their members to view the Oscar contending films. Pain & Glory and Judy were two of the very first films available so we'll see if that helps them once nominations are announced. This could be the way of the future, eliminating those thousands upon thousands of FYC mailings each year
Playbill Katharine McPhee will be the last Waitress on Broadway as the show will close in January
And did you see this a couple weeks back?
Four different Evan Hansens harmonize on a new arrangement of "For Forever" from Dear Evan Hansen