• Variety intereesting news about Disney's alternate compensation plan for TV creatives (the television landscape is changing but pay structures haven't and are essentially still based on the old and outdated 22 episodes per season model)
• Vulture HBO has denied the IndieWire charges of what went down on Big Little Lies season 2 in terms of Andrea Arnold and the final edit
• The New Yorker another piece on Big Little Lies and its prescient season 1 finale and season 2 as a metaphor for the Hollywood fallout from #MeToo
After the jump Jennifer Lawrence, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, motion smoothing, Lord of the Rings casting, and more...
• MUBI inspired by Once upon a Tim in Hollywood, The Daily Notebook investigates that time in Tinseltown history when fading stars were lured to Italy
• Deadline Mike Moh stops by "New Hollywood Podcast" to talk Bruce Lee and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• AV Club Jennifer Lawrence to play a mob informant in Mob Girl (good god, how many movies have there been in my lifetime about mob informants. So many!)
• /Film Greig Fraser, one of the best cinematographers working, will be lensing the next live-action Batman movie
• Vulture the ongoing problems with TV settings and "motion smoothing" and why our brains don't like to see movies this way
• Deadline Catherine Hardwicke to direct Heathen, a feminist viking movie
• AV Club apparently James Marsden was supposed to play Burt Reynolds for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but his scene got cut. Argh!
• Cinematic Corner 10 best scenes in Stranger Things 3 - heavy on the Hopper because she has a thing for David Harbour, don'cha know.
• Heat Vision more details about Black Widow which will co-star David Harbour
• THR Lord of the Rings, Amazon's forthcoming series set before the events of the famous books (and movie trilogy), has announced its first casting, Australian actress Markella Kavenagh (who played Myrtle in the recent miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock)
• Broadway World two stage stars Jessie Mueller and Megan Hilty are playing Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline respectively in a new tv movie for Lifetime
• Heat Vision goes long on the forgotten controversies surrounding The Lion King (1994) and how it was heavily influenced by Kimba the White Lion (1965-1967) without ever acknowledging it