Link roundup starting with NEWS articles...
• NYT The great Swedish actress Bibi Andersson, a Bergman regular (Persona, Wild Strawberries) dies at 83
• Cartoon Brew Rich Moore, who delivered the Wreck It Ralph movies for Disney leaves to run Sony Animation
• Deadline Gabriel Basso (The Kings of Summer, Super 8) nabs lead in Ron Howard's movie adaptation of bestseller Hillbilly Elegy. Amy Adams and Glenn Close co-star.
• The Wrap talks to Ryan O'Connell, the creator and star of the gay & disabled sitcom Special on Netflix
Lots more after the jump including In the Heights, Bond 25, the influence of Big, new albums, declining sex in the cinema, and two must-reads online this past week in case you missed them...
• Coming Soon first photo of the completed principal cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights movie (due in 2020)
• IndieWire Phoebe Waller-Bridge reportedly polishing the script of Bond 25 at Daniel Craig's request
• The Guardian RIP Seymour Cassel, Oscar nominated for Faces (1968)
• Playbill because Laurie Metcalf is the only actress available ever for Broadway productions (kidding but she sure does hog the roles!) she'll know play the classic Martha part in yet another revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Eddie Izzard will be her punching bag, George.
• Vanity Fair details on season 9 of American Horror Story, the title being 1984
• AV/News funny piece on Taylor Swift announcing new music on Avengers Endgame day
MOVIE-OBSESSING
• The Guardian on the death of sex in cinema as fewer and fewer movies contain sex scenes
• Gr8ter Days looks back at Madame X (1966), 'the mother of all Lana Turner movies'
• Film School Rejects the influence of Big (1988)
• Cinematic Corner visual parallels between A Simple Favor and Gone Girl
ICYMI
Two of our favorite reads of the past week...
• The New Yorker has a must-read essay on Shelley Winters going rogue in Debbie Reynolds 1983 exercise video
• AV/Film on Captain America's 'cage match' in Winter Soldier being the best fight scene in the MCU
Oh and Madonna announced a new album "Madame X," her first since 2015...
No word yet on whether this new persona is inspired by that aforementioned Lana Turner film