• Vulture perceptive piece on how Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal has amplified his worst tendencies
• THR The Gotenborg Film Festival -- which we've always wanted to go to -- is conducting a bizarre experiment in social isolation and cinephilia
• No Film School Hollywood is shutting down production again
more after the jump including the confusing reporting on the death of Tanya Roberts...
• Variety Grammy Awards postponed. No new date annnounced
• MovieMaker for filmmaker a handy list of what particular film festivals are looking for in terms of submissions
• Forbes Wonder Woman 3 is already announced. But is that just to control the narrative about WW84's success (or lack thereof in this confusing time)?
• Slate Movie Club 2020... we always love these
• MNPP good morning via Harry Shum Jr
• Out Actor Jannik Schümann (Monster Hunter, Tribes of Europa) comes out
List-Mania
• BFI the best video essays of the year -- a ton of variety in film topics
• Pajiba the team at Pajiba picks a collective top ten of the year
• /Film The 15 best horror movies of 2020
RIP
• AV Club Tanya Roberts star of Sheena, A View to a Kill, and Charlie's Angels has died suddenly at 65
• The Cut ...but the reporting on that death was a bizarre story in and of itself.
• BBC Barbara Shelley, Hammer Horror and EastEnders actress has died at 88
• AV Club Tanya Roberts star of Sheena, A View to a Kill, and Charlie's Angels has died suddenly at 65
• Variety Dawn Wells of Gilligan's Island fame has died of COVID at 82
• Vogue Iconic model Stella Tennant has died at 50
Offscreen
• The Undefeated Great piece on the history of the New Deal's Federal Theatre Project and why we need a new version of it
• Vulture "Who Did JK Rowling Become?" a fascinating nearly forensic piece on the author's changing place (and identity) culturally