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Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 5:00PM • AV Club Steve Martin and Schitt's Creek cast pay tribute to Eugene Levy
• MNPP Josh O'Connor six times
• Variety uh oh trouble on the new live action adaptation of Avatar The Last Airbender. The original creators are leaving. That's a pity because the last adaptation was widely considered to be horrendous and the animated show is so fun.
After the jump The Go-Gos, Madonna and Diablo Cody, AMC reopening, the musical Diana and more...
• MovieMaker Madonna and Diablo Cody are collaborating on a screenplay. It's about music and film but is it about Madonna herself?
• Kenneth in the (212) is a Go-Gos expert and he says the new Showtime documentary about them gets a couple of things wrong
• ...TFE Glenn's review of that doc icymi
• Towleroad icymi Antonio Banderas has contracted the coronavirus. Get well soon Antonio!
• Variety Congratulations to Clayton Davis of Awards Circuit who has joined Variety as an awards editor
• Variety AMC Theaters will charge 15 cents a ticket (1920 prices for a single day) when they reopen on August 20th at 100 locations
• Theater Mania "Miscast" one of the funnest annual nights in NYC theater has announced partial casting. Beanie Feldstein, Joshua Henry, Philippa Soo and more will sing songs for roles in which they would never be cast
• Variety Mireille Enos, long cast in depressive roles, would love to do a comedy. And also still wants a World War Z sequel
• Boy Culture remembers the rumors about Charles "Buddy" Rogers and that kiss in Wings (1927)
Finally...
• CNN the Broadway musical Diana, one of the many victims of the shutdown is going to premiere on Netflix before it goes to Broadway in 2021. May this finally kill Broadway's strange belief that filmed or movie versions of their shows will hurt the box office (which is why they've waited so long on Wicked) when the reality says quite the opposite. We don't know why people like to pay big bucks for things they've already seen but that's the way it is in the actual world as the never-ending (until, well, the shutdown) runs of Chicago and Phantom and others can attest.
Reader Comments (3)
Listen up, Broadway! In six months we will all be like Fantine so streaming must be an option.
Banderas turned 60, got Corona and cancelled A Chorus Line. Not his best week.
As long as Madonna makes one more great album before the film i'm in.
I like Clayton Davis, and have read his site from back when it was called The Oscar Igloo. He always tries to make things interesting and put a new and lively slant on things.
Variety lost ground to The Hollywood Reporter when HR was so early and savvy about online use, including having no pay wall.
One thing I hope for Clayton Davis at Variety though is I hope they hire a good proofreader for him. He seems to be someone whose communication is more with the spoken word than the written word. So he spells a word the way it sounds or uses a sound-alike word. It can be very puzzling. He’s still saying interesting stuff, though.