• New York Times Agents, stars, and production companies are pissed at Warner Bros for their HBO Max same day as theatrical plans... which they apparently announced without warning any of their financial partners who will likely lose millions as a result. Ouch
• TFE in case you missed my despondency when the Warner Bros plan was announced
• Daily Beast Steven Soderbergh interview on why he's working with HBOMax and his chemistry with Meryl Streep and his new film Let Them All Talk
More after the jump including Gucci, Spider-Man 3, Oscar Producers, and Top Ten List season...
• /Film Tom Holland's third Spider-Man film is going to have all the major players from the previous Spider-Man films... including Kiki Dunst and Alfred Molina (yes, they're doing the multi-verse)
• Variety Oscar producers announced for April's show including Steven Soderbergh!
• Advocate One Day at a Time officially ended after four seasons. No new home found but the bigger tragedy (four seasons is pretty good) is that it came and went and the Emmys never gave it up for Rita Moreno. WTF?
• IndieWire Tarantino's Star Trek script is Kirk heavy because he's apparently obsessed with Chris Pine
• Coming Soon Michlle Pfeiffer returning for Ant-Man 3. Can they actually give her something to do this time?
• Cartoon Brew how to mount a successful Oscar campaign for an animated short
• Deadline Jeremy Irons is joining the cast of MGM's Ridley Scott's all star project Gucci
Top Ten Season is in swing
I always marvel that people are able to do these lists so early. I HAVE SO MANY MORE FILMS LEFT TO SEE.
• Vulture three beautifully written lists from Alison, Bilge, and Angelica. Only Russia's Beanpole, Italy's Martin Eden, the documentary Time, and Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock show up on multiple lists so there's a lot of variety.
• The New Yorker Richard Brody loves Kajillionaire more than anybody we've heard of but his passions are many as he ranks his top 36 (!)
• NYT a beautiful personal essay from Manohla about how watching movies has changed during quarantine before the top ten list which is topped by Martin Eden and closes out with Beanpole (we're hearing those two titles a lot, aren't we?) A.O. Scott's list is topped by Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and closes out with the still to come Soul from Pixar.
• HuffPost Matt Jacobs supplies a top 17 including recent releases Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and yet to be released Promising Young Woman and Nomadland
• Vanity Fair Richard Lawson really loves The Nest... it's not just him. I remain unimpressed partially because the second half is so strong that it makes the first feel more than a little undercooked or like an album with all filler for the first six songs before the bangers come.
• Artforum Amy Taubin jams way more than 10 movies (and some TV items, too) into her list and sometimes picks just a single scene as is the case with her inclusion of Da 5 Bloods.