• US Dish is hosting a viewing party contest for romcom lovers. You can enter until the 26th and the winner has to be wiling to host an online viewing party with their friends and vlog about it afterwards. The prize is $2000
• MCN Gurus of Gold weigh in on the Best Picture and Best Director races
• Guardian excellent and rare interview with Sacha Baron Cohen as himself rather than in character about Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Trial of the Chicago 7, and his activism
• Slate really interesting piece about the way Hallmark has tried to avoid politics and their babysteps towards the modern world via their very popular Christmas movies
More after the jump including Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Zhao, Sound of Metal, new biopics, and new adaptations of old best-sellers...
• Town and Country "Michelle Pfeiffer is Playing the Long Game"
• Next Best Picture a personal ode to Minari as a beautiful film for immigrants
• Coming Soon Justin Theroux leads the Apple TV series Mosquito Coast, based on the same book as the Harrison Ford / Helen Mirren / River Phoenix 1986 movie about an inventor taking his family off the grid
• Vanity Fair inside the sound design of Sound of Metal
• Deadline Mark Wahlberg's company is producing a doc about MoviePass
• EW Judy Blume's bestselling coming of age novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is finally getting a film adaptation 50+ years after its publication. Kelly Fremon Craig (Exge of Seventeen) is directing with Rachel McAdams and Abby Ryder Fortson playing the mother and daughter
• /Film Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington cast as headmistresses in the Netflix series adaptation of School for Good and Evil - those were fun witty books riffing on fairytales but it'll be difficult to translate them to screen so good luck to Paul Feig.
• Vulture ranking all* of Jodie Foster's movies (*but they skipped her childhood movies so not really all)
• Awards Daily talks to Daisy Edgar Jones about her Globe nominated work in Normal People
• The Wrap talks with Chloe Zhao about feeling 'emotionally drained' after making Nomadland
• /Film There's a biopic about Shirley Chisholm coming. There was a previous one in the works with Viola Davis and then Danai Gurira but this is a Regina King project. Either the project has changed hands or there are competing biopics (which wouldn't even remotely be the first time. Hollywood loves to do that for some reason - Capote, Alexander, etcetera) even though there are thousands of fascinating historical figures who've never had a biopic. Uzo Aduba recently won an Emmy playing Chisholm on the miniseries Mrs America.