• IndieWire did you see SNL's sketch lampooning Ammonite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire as "Lesbian Period Drama"
• Towleroad Tom Holland to play Billy Milligan the first person to successfully use Dissassociative Identity Disorder as a criminal defense in the series The Crowded Room
• The Guardian asks a very real and interesting question: which films have missed their moment given the pandemic. Lots of films benefit from feeling 'of the moment' and not all of the films coming out in 2021 and 2022 will.
More after the jump including trouble for film production in Georgia, Bowen Yang's Titanic hilarity, and the Art Directors Guild Awards...
• Deadline another guild has announced. They have four budget-related Best Music Supervision categories and the winners were: Soul (over 25 million), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (under 25 million), Promising Young Woman (under 10 million), and The Cuban (under 5 million)
• Variety The Art Directors Guild awards were held this weekend with Mank (Period), Tenet (fantasy), Da 5 Bloods (contemporary) and Soul (animated) emerging as the winners. I never quite understand Production Design awards for mostly outdoors films like Da 5 Bloods. There's a lot of walking around on hills and in forests. Promising Young Woman was RIGHT there.
• IndieWire Will Smith's pricey slavery drama Emancipation is the first big production to leave the state of Georgia after their heinous voting restrictions law designed to disenfranchise voters of color.
• The Guardian Andra Day is enjoying dressing up for the virtual awards ceremonies
• Deadline For the final stretch of Oscar campaigning, drive-ins are being booked to remind people of the communal moviegoing experience
• AV Club Justin Timberlake is going to play Chuck Barris for Apple TV. You might remember this story from the George Clooney Sam Rockwell collaboration Confessions of a Dangerous Minds in the Aughts
• Coming Soon DC's Black Adam starring Dwayne Johnson has begun filming
Exit Videos
You surely caught this bit from Saturday Night Live but we're compelled to share just in case. Just stupid hilarious. We've watched it five times already (no joke). Give it 11 Emmys to match Titanic's 11 Oscars. Bowen Yang is a national treasure.
And just for some musical pleasure today, here's Tony winner Ali Stroker (Oklahoma) performing "Be a Lion" for "The Seth Concert Series". She's been such a history-making stage and TV performer, hopefully paving the way for other disabled performers to be recognized for their gifts. Hers are considerable -- that voice! Hopefullly some film director gives her a shot, too.
P.S. On a less happy note, Bill Maher is being dumb about the Oscars again. To claim that Hollywood doesn't make escapist movies is like claiming that this blog hates actresses. Hollywood practically only makes escapist movies. Though yes the Oscars do tend to stick with the tiny serious slice of Hollywood's big pie.
I don't have to leave the theater whistling, but would it kill Hollywood to once in a while make a movie that doesn't make me want to take a bath with the toaster? We all had a rough year, a little escapism would have been appreciated. #Oscars21 #OscarNoms pic.twitter.com/UkA3zCOkbl
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 10, 2021