• AV Club as if the Gilded Age didn't have enough Broadway stars already, Robert Sean Leonard and Laura Benanti are joining the cast for Season 2
• IndieWire It's Batman vs Spider-Man on PVOD charts (but the iTunes chart is fairly interesting for its older titles like Easter hits like Ten Commandments and Passion of the Christ)
• Cartoon Brew Across the Spider-Verse has been pushed back until summer 2023 so yes...
• TFE... we've already had to update the Oscar charts for Best Animated Feature
• AV Club Andy Serkis is going to direct an animated Animal Farm
More after the jump including honors for Lily Tomlin, Liza Minnelli's feelings about her Oscar apperance, Danny Elfman at Coachella, The Northman and more...
• Salon Lily Tomlin immortalized in hand and footprint ceremony in Hollywood
• / Film attends the launch of director David Leitch's (Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train) new Hoillywood Stunt Training Facility (he started as a stuntman
• Jezebel Reports on the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard libel trial (we haven't been following but if you're interested here's an update)
• The Wrap there's trouble at Netflix Animation including a round of firings and projects being cancelled
• LA Times Janelle Monae has come out as nonbinary and is releasing a new book called "The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer" the book explores some of the album's themes
• Guardian Liza Minnelli upset about her Oscar night appearance... apparently she had requested not to be in a wheelchair
Vikings!
• Daily Beast "unpacks" the big Nicole Kidman scene in The Northman but you shouldn't read this unless you've already seen the movie
• Vulture how the Northman is also a Björk music video
• The Film Doctor five notes on The Northman
Music & Stage
• Playbill Matt Doyle interviewed about his performance in Broadway's Company
• Vulture Tonys push back their nomination announcment date a week
• Broadway World all the dates for Tony Award Season (yes, there are precursors just as there are with the Oscars)
• Playbill a South Korean stage production of Phantom (not the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical but the Maury Yeston version) starring a KPop singer will screen in several US cities this summer
• Variety Danny Elfman talks about his web-breaking Coachella set. He went shirtless. He played the Batman score, his Oingo Boingo hits and more. (Now can we please get him his long overdue Oscar?)