• /Film Exciting project alert: Viola Davis will headline 19th century drama The Woman King from Old Guard director Gina Prince Blythewood
• Deadline Paul Thomas Anderson's 1970s high school drama is shifting studios from Focus to MGM
More after the jump including Hamilton, Nine Perfect Strangers, a streaming stage recommendation, a reboot of the Chevy Chase franchise Fletch, and that 10 most watched Netflix list
• IndieWire Pedro & Tilda have started shooting their short film. Cute photo
• Coming Soon Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans will star in The Gray Man. Netflix is investing a whopping $200 million in the thriller about two rival spies
• /Film they're rebooting the 80s comedy franchise Fletch and Jon Hamm is taking the lead
• Coming Soon Hollywood slowly getting back to work. Tom Holland's next franchise Uncharted has begun production now
• Coming Soon Nine Perfect Strangers, a new Hulu miniseries (from the writer behind the bestseller Big Little Lies) has six of its nine stars: Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Samara Weaving, Luke Evans, Manny Jacinto, and Melvin Gregg
• Variety Owen Gleiberman takes the words right out of our mouths (seriously, co-sign) when reacting to the publication of Netflix's "most viewed" movie list.
- Extraction
- Bird Box
- Spenser Confidential
- 6 Underground
- Murder Mystery
- The Irishman
- Triple Frontier
- The Wrong Missy
- The Platform
- The Perfect Date
The biggest takeaway I had when we first glanced at the list is "what's that?" as most of the titles were unfamiliar. I've only seen three of these (Bird Box, The Irishman, and The Platform... the latter two are good) and had only vaguely heard of a couple of the others.
We miss Broadway so much!
• Billboard Hamilton just rose to #2 on the album charts, it's the first cast album to chart that high since Hair in 1969 (Book of Mormon came close in 2011)
• Broadway Blog reviews Bright Colors Bold Pattern which is now streaming on Broadway HD. We saw this one man show live and Drew Droege is just hilarious in it - Recommended!
• Playbill Mandy Gonzalez, who was co-starring in Hamilton before Broadway's shut down penned a YA novel that features the ghost of Ethel Merman! Haha