In the Linked Heights
Monday, June 7, 2021 at 11:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Black Panther, Christian Petzold, In the Heights, James Ivory, LGBT, Namor, Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta, Vertigo, links, musicals, video games

/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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