• A24 virtual two week engagment of Minari starts 2/12. Tickets now on sale!
• Vanity Fair's awesome annual Oscar special -- you'll remember I wrote a piece on Parasite last year for it! -- is arriving for subscribers. The cover story on Chadwick Boseman is available now even if you don't subscribe
• HuffPost on Michelle Pfeiffer's underrated skill as a comic actress
• AV Club a review of Mark Harris' new film biography book Mike Nichols A Life
More after the jump including Britney Spears, Pleasure, Olivia Newton-John, Borderlands, and still more showbiz obituaries (what is happening lately?)
• Variety Sam Neill talks about his long career, Jurassic World Dominion and his new picture Rams, an adaptation of the popular Icelandic film of the same name.
• Awards Daily Kirk Baxter on editing Mank
• Hollywood Reporter Olivia Newton-John is recording an album of duets. The first song released is a duet with her daughter
• Deadline A24 has picked up the buzzy Sundance porn-industry drama Pleasure and plans a release in two formats (the Sundance cut as well as an R rated version)
• Empire the cast for Borderlands, a movie adaptation of the popular video game, keeps growing with A listers and now includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jamie Lee Curtis
• Cartoon Brew Shout! Factor now has the home distribution rights to Laika's features.
• IndieWire Kristen Lopez talks about Framing Britney Spears and how the "conservatorship" argument in the film never broaches the topic of disability
• The Ringer ... and the best review I've read on that doc.
RIP
• Jean-Claude Carriere Oscar wininng screenwriter (Discreet Charm of..., Tin Drum) has died at 89... we did a two part tribute to him a handful of years ago right here at TFE
• Haya Harareet Israeli actress of Ben-Hur and Siren of Atlantis fame has died at 89
• Giuseppe Rottuno, Oscar nominated Italian cinematographer (All That Jazz, Amarcord, Rocco and His Brothers) has died at 97
• Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes has died at 76.
• Roy Christopher, 10-time Emmy winning production designer/art director of sitcoms, tv specials, and most of the big awards shows like Oscar, Tony, and Emmy has died at 85
• Moufida Tlatli, the first Arab woman to direct a feature film (1994's The Silences of the Palace), has died at 73