• Deadline Master and Commander (2003) is finally getting a sequel... or rather a prequel based on an earlier book so new actors will be in the Crowe/Bettany roles
• Vanity Fair an interview with screenwriter Michael Waldron who is helping to shape Marvel's Phase 4
• The Guardian profiles After Love director Aleem Khan. We really want to see this film. The mother role sounds like a great part for undervalued and excellent Joanna Scanlon
More after the jump including Billy Magnussen, Borderlands, Cruella, Dick Van Dyke, The Conjuring franchise, and rumors about The Color Purple movie musical...
• Coming Soon a new silhouette photo from Borderlands revealed by Jamie Lee Curtis
• Washington Post A profile of Dick Van Dyke as the Kennedy Center Honor looms
• That Hashtag Show Black Cat, an origin movie for a character who is essentially to Spider-Man what Catwoman is to Batman, might be in developent again at Sony
• The Atlantic takes Cruella to task for its cowardice at removing all of the iconic villain's delicious evil
• MNPP will Jonathan Majors co-starring be enough to get you interested in Creed III?
• /Film posits that the central romance is why The Conjuring series has been so successful. We'll take it because we love Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson
• Playbill Bedknobs and Broomsticks has become a stage musical. Casting is complete for its UK run
• Bonhams is hosting an auction of a ton of movie-stills. Lots of monster movies and 30s and 40s films
• Deadline an interview with the production designer of the great comedy series Pen15 which is set in the early Aughts
• Boy Culture Barbra Streisand has a new album coming out, her first in 3 years
• MNPP Billy Magnussen 15 times - now with more beard
• Kenneth in the (212) on the internet rediscovering those Lily Tomlin & David O. Russell videos from the set of I ♥ Huckabees yet again (seriously it happens like clockwork but more often than Pennywise's resurgence)
• AV Club Issa Rae to voice Spider-Woman in Into the Spider-Verse 2
• NBC News Gavin MacLeod, the captain on The Love Boat and a co-star on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died at age 90
• AV Club Action star Donnie Yen is joining Keanu in John Wick 4
Finally, at Queerty Michael Musto revealed the gossip that producers want an unknown for The Color Purple movie musical and not Cynthia Erivo. Ugh! Normally we're against automatically giving a stage performer a movie role (stage and screen are different beasts and actors are often better at one than the other) but after Erivo's Tony-winning breakout she more than proved that she has considerable screen charisma, too. It feels like a wasted opportunity to go elsewhere when the original star is right there and has those amazing pipes.