• /Film Tom Hanks to play Elvis Presley's shady manager Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis biopic. Thankfully Baz is looking for a complete unknown for Elvis himself
• Towleroad this is awesome. Gay rights hero Harvey Milk is now on the tail fits of Norwegian Airlines. And to think he can't even get a national holiday in the US. We are so behind sometimes!
• Shadowplay some fun thoughts on John Boorman's Excalibur as "The Ridiculous"
• MNPP "do dump or marry" Matrix anniversary edition
More after the jump including the awesomeness of Eva Green, the fate of X-Men movies, an Alien high school production, and filmmaker interviews...
• AV Excellent piece on Eva Green's contributions to Tim Burton's now much-maligned filmography
• Coming Soon we saw this on coming. Disney/Marvel looking at the in-development X-Men titles at Fox. But nooooo. scrap them all. Fox never knew what they were doing with that mutant-verse. Start from scratch but give Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters a time-out please. Get it right!
• MNPP "do dump or marry" Matrix anniversary edition
• Deadline After a high school stage prodution of Alien went viral, Ridley Scott sent money and a neat letter of support to the students
• /Film Charlies Angels moves back its release date to avoid competing with Terminator: Dark Fate but has moved right into the Thanksgiving thickness that so far includes Ford v Ferrarri, The Good Liar, and Last Christmas
• FSR how the "legacy film" has reinvigorated franchise cinema
• Marie Claire one of the actors from To All the Boys I've Loved Before has been replaced for the sequel. No reason given
• i09 an artist who fuses new pop culture iconography into old paintings
• Jezebel Rich Juzwiak on the suddenly over Jussie Smollet scandal, "cancelled before its finale"
• Filmmaker Kent Jones talks the nitty gritty of indie filmmaking for his first narrative feature Diane (now in theaters) starring Mary Kay Place and other great older actresses
• Mental Floss get paid $1000 to watch all 20 Marvel movies before Avengers Endgame hits
• MovieMaker Cinematographor James Laxton gets tech geeky talking about the lenses on If Beale Street Could Talk (if that's your kinda thing)
• AV Georgia's latest anti-woman anti-choice proposed legislation already stirring up trouble for their many film and TV productions
• Variety Danny Elfman talks about his Dumbo score
• Pajiba mourning Shuri who we didn't know "died" in Avengers Infinity War until very recently