• Coming Soon Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, starring Lesley Manville will be opening March 2022
• NME the first images of Lily James & Sebastian Stan as Pam & Tommy in a new limited series about the romance of rocker Tommy Lee and actress/model Pamela Anderson
• Vulture an oral history of Madonna's groundbreaking Truth or Dare, thirty years later
More after the jump including The Mitchells vs Machine popularity, new projects for Lewis Tan, Jamie Bell, Hilary Swank, and a book about uber depressing animated classic Grave of the Fireflies...
• /Film Jamie Bell to play a time travelling serial killer in the Apple series The Shining Girl opposite Elisabeth Moss
• Towleroad Ryan Reynolds wants Deadpool's queer identity explored in future films. Good luck with that.
• Vanity Fair Halston family complaining about Ryan Murphy's upcoming series for being "fictional". I hope everyone recognizing that all biopics are basically fiction (but they don't seem to). I'm not a fan of Ryan Murphy's work but also acknowledge that family members of famous people whose lives are dramatized are not infallible sources of "the truth" themselves. Everyone's got an agenda!
• AV Club Donald Glover thinks TV shows and films are afraid to take risks now for fear of being cancelled.
• Deadline Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat) signed for romantic comedy with Emma Roberts
• Cartoon Brew The Mitchells vs the Machines has logged a record run of days at #1 for an animated feature though we dont know what the Netflix charts really mean
• Cartoon Brew there's a new book about Grave of the Fireflies out and the author talks about what he learned by studying the anime classic for the book
• Women and Hollywood Hilary Swank to star in a biopic called Speed Girl about the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500
• THR Hollywood's top exec saw a pay rise during the pandemic (which just goes to show you how f***ed up capitalism is given all the layoffs from these companies)
Tweet of the Week
We always forget to celebrate Star Wars Day "May the Fourth be with you" but this one edit cracked us up.
Star Wars but the lightsabers sound like Alexis Rose saying EW #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/ElysPhBudD
— no context schitt’s creek (@nocontxtSC) May 4, 2021