• Variety RIP Piero Tosi one of the great costume designers. His film credits include Death in Venice, La Traviata, La Cage Aux Folles and The Night Porter so he's the one responsible for Charlotte Rampling at her most sexually provocative
• BuzzFeed good piece on Brad Pitt's talent and why he shines in weirder sideline roles as opposed to leads... though we object to any notion that he isn't a leading man in Once Upon a Time... but this battle is already lost since critics keep calling him supporting even before the Oscar campaign does. (sigh)
more after the jump including The Hunt, a fun conversation on Hobbs & Shaw, Tarantino and Almodóvar...
• Awards Circuit Joaquin Phoenix and Meryl Streep will received TIFF's inaugural Actor Tributes next month
• Gold Derby ranking Viola Davis's 12 best films
• Coming Soon Universal cancels the release of violent satire The Hunt in which wealthy types hunt "deplorables"... We don't understand the plot, to be honest. Why would the wealthy hunt deplorables when deplorables are the ones stupid enough to keep voting against their own interest which keeps the billionaire class unchecked?
• Forbes ...has some feelings about this "morally indefensible and financially unavoidable" decision
• Film School Rejects fun conversation between two female critics on the Fast & Furious franchise and Hobbs & Shaw; one loves it, the other doesn't
• Brian Koppelmann reshares an old Grantlant piece from 2014 about a plane trip with Quentin Tarantino and Tarantino's feelings about his own scripts
• Deadline Turns out Gilda Radner wrote a screenplay before her death. Somebody make this into a movie now!
• IndieWire Highlights of the Television Critics Association tour of new shows
• Cartoon Brew Nezha has become the biggest animated film of all time in China. Will it have any export potential?
• The New Beverly Kim Morgan (who is always worth a read) goes long and wistful on Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Los Angeles Time yet more trouble with the Disney Fox merger (monopolies are bad, people -- there used to be laws against them!)... seems 20th Century Fox's vast library will no longer be able for theatrical screenings which is really bad news for people who like to see old movies in movie theaters at specialty houses.
• The Guardian Pedro Almodovar "can no longer hide" how personal Pain & Glory is to him