• AV Club Sue Mengers superagent biopic in the works with Jennifer Lawrence to star and Paolo Sorrentino behind the camera. You may recall that Sue Mengers got this treatment on Broadway already with the play "I'll Eat You Last" starring Bette Midler
• Collider in unexpected casting news Luiz Guzmán is the new Gomez Addams in a future live-action Netflix series spun off from The Addams Family
• MNPP the first poster for Parallel Mothers is never going to make it to the US
• Celebitchy Looks like Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander had a baby during those couple of years when neither of them were in the press or on the screen
Gemma Chan, Beanie Feldstein, West Side Story's non-reopening on Broadway, South Park forever more, Clue memories, Zola tweets and more after the jump...
• Theater Mania we'll believe this when it comes to pass since Funny Girl has never had a Broadway revival despite numerous attempts (Streisand's shoes being way too daunting to fill) but Beanie Feldstein is rumored to have been cast in a Spring 2022 revival
• Vogue UK Gemma Chan talks about her role in Eternals
• Deadline in rather strange Broadway news, the revival of West Side Story that had the misfortune of opening just before COVID hit is NOT reopening (despite getting a $10 million grant to do just that). Seems odd since the Steven Spielberg remake opens in a few months and WSS will be all the media rage. Contrary to showbiz mythology that says movies dilute the box office earnings for Broadway (see the long long wait for Wicked: The Movie) there's just no proof of this whatsoever since several shows that won't ever close have had film versions come and go and sometimes (as in the case of Chicago) they revive the show's slightly flagging earnings
• The Guardian in something of a surprise, long out of favor Johnny Depp is getting a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian Film Festival
• Cartoon Brew six early contenders for Best Animated Short with the Oscar qualifying deadline just two months away
• Cartoon Brew The creators of South Park sign mega deal with Paramount+. Who knew that South Park was still popular enough to inspire a nearly billion dollar buy of 6 more seasons and 14 (!!!) more movies.
RIP
• / Film early Hollywood child star Jane Withers has died at 95
• Vanity Fair 80s TV star Markie Post (Night Court, Fall Guy) has died at age 70
• The Wrap stuntman Brad Allan (Wonder Woman, The Kingsman, and many more) has died at just 48
older links that we meant to share but didn't get around to...
• Vulture Marvel villains ranked by hotness. Funny!
• People Dave Bautista hypes up Knives Out 2 which is currently filming in an interview
• THR Framing Britney Spears back in the news with Britney Spears addressing it
• Vulture Lesley Ann Warren talks Clue (1985)
• NY Times Excellent profile on Riley Keough's enigmatic class-crossing appeal
• Medium Kyle Turner on the nostaglic tweet sounds in Zola
• The Ringer the '90 songs that explain the 90s' series hits "Vogue". The article is not remotely about Vogue, though, but rather about Madonna's mystique and early days and it's wonderful.