• Theater Mania the Tony Awards to be replaced by... a Grease sing-a-long? Broadway fans are not happy about it. There are so many ways CBS could have filled the air time that were still about current or classic theater
• The Guardian In career trajectories we totally dont understand Luca Guadagnino who started off so masterfully with fresh filmmaking in I Am Love and Call Me By Your Name is signed on for his THIRD remake, this time its Scarface (1983) which was itself a remake of course
• New York Times a must-read oral history of the making of Mad Max: Fury Road
What We Do in the Shadows, new Criterion BluRays, a remake of "10", a new project for Michael B Jordan, more celebrity deaths (sniffle) and other topics after the jump...
• Vulture amazing chat with Michael Mann about directors in quarantine
• Deadline Blake Edwards "10" (1979) is being 'reimagined for contemporary audiences with Julie Andrews executive producing
• Variety interesting take on the problem of Tom Hardy's increasingly non-verbal performances... very good article except for the fallacy promoted yet again that Brando singlehandedly changed acting. Uff. Brando wasn't acting in a vacuum. He didn't invent the method or naturalism. He just became its most popular practitioner... especially in retrospect.
• MNPP have any of you watched The Great yet? For Nicholas Hoult's bum or other reasons?
• Out there's a new streaming service that will offer lots of Asian LGBT content
• Vanity Fair 5 new costumes dramas to watch in quarantine
• IndieWire Danny Boyle to direct Michael B Jordan in Methusaleh, a project originally based on the 900+ year old biblical characcter but apparently the project has changed quite a bit over its development
• Cinematic Corner are you watching What We Do in the Shadows? You really should be. It's quite hilarious and I would be comfortable with it being showered in Emmy nominations (all of which seem, alas, highly unlikely)
• Deadline CBS has renewed 18 shows for next season (we expect to hear a lot more of this since networks and production companies will obviously be cramming to rush things into production and its easier if there's already a production in place)
• /Film "How did this get made" --a look back at Cool World (1992) - remember that? My biggest memory of it is thinking that the James Bond people probably felt healous about the female lead's name "Holly Would"
• MNPP Criterion's new releases - love the cover for Comfort of Strangers (which i've somehow ever seen despite a Rupert Everett obsession in that time frame
• Cartoon Brew very niche post for Hanna-Barbera lovers. A looks at all the moments in Scoob! that pay tribute to the old animation company
• Variety movie theaters are slowly beginning to reopen, but it's drive-ins that are making the dollars right now - which makes sense because that would be the safest way to see a movie on a big screen right now
• Mettel Ray do you love beards? If so here are 10 beards from TV and film you might have lusted after at some point
RIP
• Variety director Lynn Shelton (Humpday, Little Fires Everywhere) has passed away. She was only 54.
• Rolling Stone comic actor Fred Willard (Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap) has died at 86. Sadly...
• Fred Willard ...he was just tweeting about the loss of another comic, great Jerry Stiller
EXIT VIDEO
Neon released a beautiful video celebrating one year of Parasite's existence. Isn't it wonderful that before the world ended this movie won Best Picture? It's still hard to believe on some days, isn't it?