In the Linked Heights
Monday, June 7, 2021 at 11:00PM • /Film Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan will be starring as the key journalists in Universal's She Said a dramatization of the NYT exposé on Harvey Weinstein in 2017 which shook Hollywood.
• IndieWire Christian Petzold (Undine, Phoenix) offers 7 tips for a successful career
• Illuminerdi Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta rumored to be playing Namor the Submariner in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which means the plot will probably be an Atlantis vs Wakanda situation
More after the jump including the first 8 minutes of In the Heights and a video game based on... Vertigo?
• AV Club Jean Yoon and Simu Liu are both speaking out about their frustrations with Kim's Convenience now that it's been cancelled
• Deadline Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival (what a long cumbersom name for a festival!) is a wrap with awards to the Turkish film Love, Spells, and All That and the British dramedy Sweetheart
• IndieWire naturally (in a financial sense) Cruella 2 has already been greenlit. Good luck to all involved (in a creative sense) given the plot trajectory of the first movie since they'll need it
• People Clarence Williams III (Mod Squad, Purple Rain) has died at 81
• /Film Christina Ricci has joined the cast of The Matrix 4. Yay!
• Deadline 22 minutes of Black Widow will be in expanded aspect ratio on Imax screens
• Theater Mania very sad news. Stage and screen actress Lisa Banes (Gone Girl, Cocktail, Arcadia and Present Laughter on Broadway) is in critical condition after a car struck here near Lincoln Center here in NYC. Police are still searching for the driver who fled the scene.
Happy Pride month!
• MNPP wishes James Ivory happy 93rd birthday with a scene from Maurice (1987)
• Broadway World has a Spotify playlist of gay show tunes from shows like Hedwig, Rent, Fun Home, Falsettos, The Wild Party, and more...
Finally
Warner Bros released the first 8 minutes of In the Heights. Personally trying not to watch it before Friday as we prefer to go in "cold" to movies. But it's difficult. You know how we are about musicals.
P.S. And here's something really strange as a takeaway. There's going to be a narrative adventure video game based on Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). Here's the commercial for that.
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Reader Comments (9)
I did not like those first 8 minutes of In the Heights. What is it with all the third wall breaking?
Video game based on "Vertigo" looks fascinating!
I don't remember a car driving off a bridge when I saw VERTIGO. Maybe I didn't see the expanded director's cut, though....
Am I the only one imagining the Carey Mulligan/Zoe Kazan movie to be like the Dunst/Williams movie, Dick?
Is it just my TL or In the Heights is really getting a massive publicity campaign in the US?
"My god, this place literally smells like feces."
It feels so bizarre that major movies are being pumped out when our city is currently in lockdown.
But then last summer, our theatres were open and others weren't so the tides turn.
I didn't even know a Matrix 4 was happening, or that I missed Christina Ricci so much.
Isn’t the Weinstein scandal more based on lawsuit than article? How making movie on the reporters will work?