Sorry about our radio silence these past few days. But let's catch up with some of movie news that we missed.
• The MTV Movie & TV Awards were held with WandaVision emerging as the big winner taking home Best Show, Best Performance, Best Fight, and Best Villain. Sacha Baron Cohen, Chadwick Boseman, and Scarlett Johansson among others were also honored.
More after the jump including Dune, Disenchanted, and Lord of the Rings for TV news...
WandaVision's wins at the MTV Awards aren't surprising given that they are voted on by the public but how will the show fare at the Emmys given that it's a hybrid of multiple forms (half hour sitcom, character drama, superhero movie split up into tv parts). The nomination post has been updated with all winners.
• You may have heard that Bong Joon Ho is working on an animated feature (involving deep sea creatures and people). It's two movies away though as first he's directing an English language feature.
• In an interesting interview Ben Platt weighs in on being an Oscar short of an EGOT (at just 27 years of age!) and the debate about whether only gay actors should play gay roles.
• There are awards for everything including Male Nudity. The 7th Annual "Manatomy" Awards were announced last week with Industry winning Best TV Show, Paul Mescal "Best Nudecomer" for Normal People, and Mark Ruffalo getting a lifetime achievement prize.
• People were strangely writing Amy Adams career obituary after her second consecutive flop (Woman in the Window)... although what is a flop when it comes to streaming? It's so impossible to know. But next up is Disenchanted a sure to be popular sequel to her big fairy tale comedy hit and it's now begun production.
• Do you listen to audiobooks? I personally do not (prefer the page and no specific voices) but if you do you might want to know that Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is getting both a novelization and a celebrity read audiobook. Jennifer Jason Leigh will do the honors.
• Amazon is spending an enormous fortune (nearly half a billion) on their Lord of the Rings tv series. And that's just for the first season (sort of)! That's a big bet for something that's already been fully explored in movie form. Not that more of the same is a bad Hollywood bet these days.
• It's not unusual for stars in forthcoming movies to act like their upcoming movie will be the greatest thing ever made (remember Vin Diesel boasting that one of the Fast & Furious installments was going to win the Best Picture Oscar or some such nonsense?). This time it's Dave Bautista talking about Dune.
• And finally, RIP Norman Lloyd, the actor / producer / director lived to an astonishing 106 years of age and his filmography as an actor though sparse (given the multi-hyphenate career) was quite good stretching from thrillers like Saboteur (1942) and Spellbound (1945) through Oscar-nominated dramas like Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Age Of Innocence (1993) and wrapped up with the Amy Schumer comic blockbuster Trainwreck (2014). Our favourite trivia about him is that he was introduced as an actor via Hitchcock and 20 years later was forging a young career as a director/producer on TV via Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.