• Screen Daily what can we expect to see at Cannes this year?
• Variety Taika Waititi will be back in front of cameras soon, not just behind them. He'll play the pirate Blackbeard for an HBO comedy series
• Deadline Florence Pugh to star in Sebastian Lelio's next film called The Wonder
• /Film Cate Blanchett, Cheyenne Jackson, Haley Bennett, Gina Gershon and more signed on for videogame adaptation Borderlands (Blanchett is the lead)
Pixar artist worries, Cronenberg & Viggo reuniting, HBO's Green Lantern and more...
• Insider artists at Pixar are worried about their jobs with Disney deciding Pixar is just a Disney+ thing now
• MNPP Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are making another movie together -- yay! -- it might be a remake of one of Cronenberg's early works
• AV Club Justin Theroux on starring in the new adaptation of his uncle's book Mosquito Coast
• Cartoon Brew Sony, the last remaining major studio without a streaming platform, has made deals with Netflix and Disney for their post-theatrical streaming
• Theater Mania Apple TV will premiere a musical comedy series this summer called Schmigadoon (yes, it's a riff of sorts on Brigadoon but more about the golden age of musicals in general). Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong star
• Coming Soon Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah) in negotiations for leading role in the next Transformers movie. Yes, apparently they're coming back.
• Towleroad Anne Heche talks about her relationship to Ellen DeGeneres and how the studios treated her after the coming out
• Cartoon Brew an editorial about Oscar's careless voting in the Animated Feature category. We also don't understand why Oscar voters aren't expected to see the nominees before being allowed to vote in that category.
Finally...
• Coming Soon Finn Wittrock has landed one of the main Green Lantern roles in HBO's attempt to serialize that superhero after the flop movie version starring Ryan Reynolds. I always thought that would work better as an outerspace political drama leaning series looking more at the Lantern Corps than earth's Green Lantern... like a Battlestar Galactica or Expanse or something ... to combat the utterly camp sci-fi of the source material. Like go the opposite direction with it. But since this is produced by superhero TV factory Greg Berlanti expect more of the usual though probably with a bigger budget given HBO rather than the CW.