We haven't done a link roundup in too long. Not all of these are "new" but they might be to you:
• Vanity Fair Edge of Tomorrow (2014) may finally get that sequel that's been hoped for by fans
• Billboard "Shallow" has gone to #1 following that Oscar performance by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It had previously peaked at #5 on the Hot 100 and it's Gaga's first number one in 8 years!
• People former teen idol and current Riverdale co-star Luke Perry has died at 52
• AV Club Director Joe Wright and star Tom Hanks going back to World War II with a new film In the Garden of the Beasts...
• Tommy Dickie a spoof of the Oscars and film year in which Dickie obviously invested a loooot of time and money (wig budget alert!)
• Broadway World Get well soon to theater and tv funny lady Andrea Martin. She broke ribs rehearsing the new Broadway show Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus so she has to bow out of the production. Kristine Nielsen is taking her role so Julie White is taking Nielsen's role. So many talented women playing musical chairs!
• Rotten Tomatoes Penny Dreadful getting some US set spinoff series called City of Angels with Natalie Dormer in the lead as a shapeshifting demon
• /Film Will Smith to star as the father of Venus & Serena Williams in a movie called King Richard
• THR Josh Gad and Cynthia Erivo to costar in an original screen musical based on the Rip Van Winkle story
• Cartoon Brew corporations sure are corrupt these days. Did you know that post-production companies can launch subsidiaries and those subsidiaries can go under but the parent company doesn't have to pay their bills? Freelancers who did visual fx for Bohemian Rhapsody still haven't been paid! Meanwhile the movie has earned a billion dollars at the global box office.
•/Film Sherlock Holmes 3 pushed back another year to 2021. (We had forgotten they were even doing a third)
• Captain Marvel Goose (the cat) got his own livestream. There's a lot of sleeping which we respect
• Los Angeles Times Emma Thompson resigned from a voice over role in protest of John Lasseter's involvement
• MNPP I can't watch the trailer to Ari Aster's Midsommar because Jason has warned us that they show a lot
• Advocate strange tidbit from a Q&A with Angela Lansbury and Rob Marshall to promote Mary Poppins Returns on DVD. Marshall says their couldn't be a remake of Bedknobs and Broomsticks because you can't replace Angela... she's iconic. Um... but you just replace Julie F***ing Andrews! Think about your words, Mr Marshall. Choose them more carefully!
Stage Door
Oooh, look who got Olivier Award nominations over in the UK.
The British equivalent of the Tonys (though the Tonys precede them by about 30 years) is often exciting in comparison because their time table is so different, sometimes getting shows before us and sometimes after us. For instance this year Fun Home (Tony winner 2015) and Come From Away (which would'a been a Tony winner in 2017 if not for Dear Evan Hansen's dominance) are competing for Best New Musical with two shows we haven't had (yet) here on Broadway Six and Tina - The Tina Turner Musical. Meanwhile the wildly acclaimd gender-flipped production of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Company hasn't seen Broadway stages (yet) but the Oliviers gave it 9 nominations. The Inheritance sounds like a potential Broadway transfer, too. The Matthew Lopez play, directed by Stephen Daldry, transposes E.M. Forster's classic "Howards End" to modern day New York within the gay community during the peak of the AIDS crisis.