• /Film The Color Purple musical is getting a film version. It will be directed by Black is King helmer Blitz Bazawule. No word on casting yet but I think we can all agree that Cynthia Erivo should reprise her Tony-winning role!
• Broadway World meanwhile Erivo has launched her own production company
WHEW we have a lot to get through still. More after the jump including the business of movie theaters, Tenet's opening plans, Polanski's losing request, Netflix cancellations, Tiger King's spinoffs, and LGBTQ icons in comic books and on HBO...
• Variety Tenet is not going to most drive-ins, even though they're currently the safest way to go out to the movies. Strange. Dumb.
• Vulture Places in the world Tenet will be showing starting August 26th (see, some countries have handled the Covid crisis well. Alas not here in the US with our grifter clown president). And the US states where you can see Tenet starting September 3rd if you wanna risk your life
• Variety icymi Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are both returning as Batman in The Flash (2022) which will introduce the multiverse to the DC Extended Universe
• Vulture remembers Gone Baby Gone's (2007) use of its own title
• Deadline talks to Cineworld boss about theaters reopening and how it's going
• /Film Netflix they've now cancelled two series, The Society and I Am Not Okay With This, that they'd previously renewed. I suspect we'll see a lot more of this given the lenght of this pandemic.
• Out HBO Max is debuting an LGBTQ miniseries called Equal in October about historical icons.
• Gay Comic Geek Major gay first? Hulkling and Wiccan are now married in Marvel Comics
• Cartoon Brew the Annies are the latest awards ceremony to be delayed. They'll now be held on April 16th, 2021
• MNPP celebrates the beauty of Avan Jogia. What's he been up to since his series Now Apocalypse was cancelled?
• Variety Roman Polanski has lost his legal bid to be reinstated to the Academy
• Variety Broadway on Demand will be streaming a tribute concert to Tony nominated star Nick Cordero (who died of COVID-19) on Labor Day weekend
• Deadline Kate McKinnon will star in Joe Exotic, a scripted miniseries based on the Tiger King doc series. This is not the version that will star Nicolas Cage so yes, there's two Tiger King series coming up.