• Scandinavia and the World makes a little joke about Denmark's Oscar winner Another Round
• Welp Magazine lists the 20 best Film podcasts of 2021. So sweet (and a surprise) that they included us.
• Variety Timothée Chalamet to play the young Willy Wonka in yet another origin movie/prequel to a popular film. (Sigh. we're so tired of fan-fiction as mainstream fiction. Mystery and using your own imagination is what makes so many classic characters great!)
More after the jump including new projects for Debra Messing, Lindsay Lohan, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sara Ramirez, and a win for Michelle Pfeiffer...
• Deadline Debra Messing to star in film version of 13: The Musical. Unfortunately that is not a musical version of 13 starring Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter but something else and it's actually about a young boy. Messing plays the mom.
• AV Club Lindsay Lohan returning to acting with a Netflix Christmas movie
• Cartoon Brew Boss Baby: Family Business will stream and play in theaters at the same time. This Warner Bros/HBOMax thing lookslike its going to catch on... only in this case it's Universal/Peacock
• IndieWire Yorgos Lanthimos probably could have gotten any actor he wanted after The Favourite. For his next film, a gender-swapped reimagining of Frankenstein called Poor Things, the announced cast bears this out
• Theater Mania Actor Samuel E Wright, who voiced Sebastian in The Little Mermaid and also originated the role of Mufasa in Broadway's The Lion King has died at 74
• AV Club John Cena gets in trouble for referring to Taiwan as a country. Strangely this article suggests he should and that its Western ignorance. But the politics are very complex and Taiwan does view itself as a country... so unilaterally suggesting that they aren't because China doesn't think they are is also problematic.
• MNPP celebrates Tyrone Power in the airforce for Memorial Day and in Nightmare Alley
• Out Sara Ramirez has joined the cast of HBO's Sex and the City sequelish And Just Like That... which brings the original cast back (well, except Kim Cattral)
• Film School Rejects lists the best action sequence from each Marvel show. It's a list so naturally I have a gazillion quibbles especially that Captain America: Winter Soldier (which has the best action sequences from start to finish) picks a weird least interesting action moment
• Cartoon Brew has been doing a series on which corporations own which animated characters for those who are curious about such things
FINALLY...
Michelle Pfeiffer pfinally gets a win for her performance in French Exit (pfinally also available on VOD). She's won Best Actress at the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly known as the Genies). The big winners at the event held a few days ago were Schitt's Creek (for TV), and Beans and Blood Quantum (for movies). We've updated the nomination post with the winners list.