I Put A Link On You... and now you're mine 🎵

• The Reveal you may have heard that NEON is planning an unusual release for Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria in that it will only play in one movie theater at a time for one week and continually move to new cities and never come to streaming. The internet was furious about the 'elitism' of this but Scott Tobias has a different take that's well worth reading
• Coming Soon Trailer to season 2 of Locke & Key. Not half enough Connor Jessup in this teaser!
• Vulture Bayard Rustin is FINALLY getting a biopic and Colman Domingo will be playing the gay Civil rights hero of yore. Now we can begin dreaming that Domingo will finally become an Oscar nominee a year or two from now. It usually takes a biopic (sigh)

First movie shot in space, Hocus Pocus-themed concert, Andrew Lloyd Weber on various stage-to-film adaptations, Théodore Pellerin rumors, and more after the jump...

• Deadline Ramin Karimloo, Jared Grimes, and Jane Lynch join the Beanie Feldstein led Broadway revival of Funny Girl
• Variety interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the failure of Cats and Broadway's reopening. He also mentions that Sunset Boulevard the Movie won't be happening after all. (Sorry, Glenn!)
• THR  Hollywood is having trouble with sets descending into chaos and losing money because of anti-vaxxers and production delays. Time for a vaccine mandate; if you dont care to protect your fellow humans you do not deserve to work/live/socialize among them.
• IndieWire Magnolia is considering selling its large arthouse movie library
• Euronews Russian director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild will be the first people to shoot an entire movie  in space. Filming runs for the next week on The Challenge aboard the International Space Station. 
• MNPP French-Canadian star Theodore Pellerin (Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Boy Erased) takes a Saint Laurent style pic to promote his new play
• Out first look at the Netflix gay romcom Single All the Way
• Deadline Rome Film Festival will honor Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton and close with Marvel's Eternals
• Cartoon Brew Some Pixar vets are developing a fantasy series for Fox called Hawkmaster
• Playboy gets their first gay male cover star with social media influencer Bretman Rock donning the bunny suit

Streamable Halloween concert alert!
Stage star Jay Armstong Johnson (On the Town, Scotland PA) returs as Winifred Sanderson in another edition of his Hocus Pocus themed Halloween concert party "I Put a Spell On You: The Sanderson Variant".

You can get tickets for $20 for the streaming October 28th show at Broadway Cares. Guest stars this year include (amongst others) Tony nominee Will Swenson (one of our favs who also happens to be Mr Audra McDonald), Tony winner Gavin Creel (Hello Dolly!, Hair), Tony nominee Eva Noblezada (Miss Saigon, Hadestown), and femuline pop star Todrick Hall.

Comments

[Ryan T.]

I feel like all rom-coms over the holidays should be exclusively gay. Can't wait to see SINGLE ALL THE WAY.

Still holding out hope Colman gets some awards attention this year for ZOLA.

[thevoid99]

Playboy magazine. Didn't that magazine die years ago? Honestly, it should just be extinct as I stopped reading it years ago as the women became less interesting and the articles became more pretentious. "I read Playboy for the articles". Bullshit. Those articles were dull as fuck.

I did read about what happened to Andrew Lloyd Webber as I am glad that dog gives him comfort and I hope the moment he sees Tom Hooper in the street. He stabs that motherfucker for ruining his musical. I ain't fucking with Webber as I heard he's a tough motherfucker and I wouldn't rob him either as like wrestling legend Arn Anderson last week. Old men aren't meant to be fucked with because they will be calling an ambulance but... not for them.

[Edwin]

I swear, anything in cinema that isn’t widely accessible in the most blatantly mainstream, populist way automatically gets labeled “elitist” nowadays. It’s like there’s no longer any middle ground or overlap between broad populism and stark elitism. Like so many things in the world of Film Twitter and other similar forums of movie discourse, everything is spun into a reductive binary that does nothing but perpetuate the self-righteous tribalism that dominates too much of modern movie discussion.

[Lucky]

I'd be all in for a Colman Domingo nomination. Hope the boys club in Best Actor won't mind one of us hanging with them.

On that topic, will Kristen Stewart be the first openly gay female actor nominated for an Oscar?

[NATHANIEL R]

Lucky -- she will, yes! JODIE and LILY weren't out at the time of their nominations.

[Clement Paris]

Audra McDonald is also starring in the Rustin movie : i truly hope her part is meaty enough so she can finalllllly EGOT !!!