• NYT Fun Avatar Way of the Water discussion with James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldaña, and Sam Worthington
• Mashable a list of family-safe horror movies if you like spooky but hate gore (this describes me!)
• IndieWire first gushing reactions to Black Panther Wakanda Forever
• Parade Comprehensive Jessica Chastain interview. She wants to remake Death Becomes Her which... sorry, why not just a legacy sequel with new character? Streep & Hawn are still with us
More after the jump including Paul Mescal, Lupita Nyong'o, James Gunn, Jennifer Lawrence and Everything Everywhere All At Once Oscar campaigning...
• Playbill Here's a surprise. Take Me Out, the very naked baseball play, which ended its Broadway revival run in June is already back. It reopens today and runs through January 29th. Same cast but for the wonderful Bill Heck (Locke & Key, Pit Stop, The Old Man) replacing Patrick J Adams (Suits)
• Guardian all of Jennifer Lawrence's feature performances ranked. Bizarre ranking.... like.. did they see the same X-Men movies? Yikes but she was not good in those, particularly towards the end when she was very obviously over it.
• Tom & Lorenzo Lupita Nyong'o at the Black Panther Wakanda Forever premiere
• Deadline The Legend of Maula Jatt just became the highest grossing Pakistani movie ever
• ET Theo James talks about his naked role on The White Lotus season 2
• NYT Paul Mescal profile for Aftersun
• Out 24 LGBTQ+ current "titans of media and entertainment"
• THR James Gunn, of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, is moving to the other side exclusively (once his Guardians of the Galaxy promotional tour concludes that is) for at least four years. He'll be co-chair and co-CEO of DC Studios, overseeing most of their superhero films.
• MNPP "13 toilets of Halloween" Always love these holiday mini-series from Jason
• Variety Musician Jerry Lee Lewis is alive despite erroneous reports to the contrary
• NYT Everything Everywhere All At Once embarks on its month-long awards campaign.
Finally, Cartoon Brew reports that BAFTA has resumed their "Children and Young People Awards" after shutting it down in 2020 due to the pandemic. The twist is that all the films eligible during that hiatus are now eligible so the dates are a massive window from summer 2019 through summer 2022. Even weirder, 75% of the nominees comes from Netflix. Perhaps BAFTA needs to rethink their system...
- Klaus (2019) -Netflix
- The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) -Netflix
- Over the Moon (2020) -Netflix
- Wolfwalkers (2020)- Apple TV+