Links: Eternals, First Ladies, and new Broadway Shows

• EW first photos from the miniseries The First Lady with Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt
• Awards Daily Kristen Stewart getting the Spotlight Best Actress treatment at Palm Springs this year
• Deadline Leonardo DiCaprio in final talks to play cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones in a movie about the 1970s cult leader
• Variety Squid Game is getting a second season. Nobody will let any stories be!

Steve McQueen, Sutton Foster, Eternals and Spencer stuff, guns on set, and more after the jump...

• MovieMaker what kind of screenplays are selling right now?
• Slate What's fact and what's fiction in Spencer?
• AV Club Kim Cattral joining the third version of Queer as Folk heading to Peacock
• Deadline Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years a Slave) returning to cinema with a movie called Blitz. They're mum on details so far though
• Playbill Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman already promoting Music Man on Broadway which will be the big ticket in early 2022
• Theater Mania Tony Yazbeck, one of our favourite Broadway performers, interviewed about his new show Flying Over Sunset which had a troubled production due to COVID (so many shows did but not all of them survived to live again)
• IndieWire there's a Danish company that makes safe faux-guns for movie sets. With the growing movement to stop real gun usage in movies, they're already right there!

It's Marvel's World. We're Just Living In It
• The Hollywood Reporter talks to Nicholas Hammond about his time as the 1970s Spider-Man
• Business Insider Eternals received the worst CinemaScore of any Marvel movie suggesting next weeked will be a big box office drop
• /Film how Marvel's Eternals compare to their comic book counterparts

Comments

[Pam]

How big is that Music Man marquee on the theater? Jeez. I love the leads but ugh, The Music Man? Snooze. Harkens back to my high school days doing an over-the-top Irish accent for Mrs. Paroo.