• MovieMaker Bruce Willis retires from acting after Aphasia diagnosis. Our heart goes out to him and his loved ones.
• World of Reel polled 150 critics (including me) on the best films of the 1970s. No surprise to see The Godfather top it even though it wasn't on my list (we could only choose 10-15 films each). Four of my selections made the top ten (Nashville, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and Network)
• Pajiba great piece on Ryan Reynolds turning himself into a brand while becoming blander as an actor
More after the jump including Essie Davis, Chang Chen, Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, and the aftermath of The Slap at the Oscars...
• MNPP Chang Chen six times
• Awards Daily discusses the buzzy Australian film Nitram with the great actress Essie Davis
• /Film in the latest attempt to revive 90s franchise The Crow, Bill Skarsgård has signed on for the leading role
Off-Cinema
• NYT fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier (famously name dropped in Devil Wears Prada) has died at 76
• Guardian Taron Egerton withdraws from the play Cock for personal reasons. First he fainted onstage, then he tested positive for COVID and now this. Tough year for Egerton thus far.
• Playbill The Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga production of Macbeth has been shutdown temporarily on Broadway due to COVID infections in the company
• TheaterMania Hugh Jackman does a Wolverine pose for a fan at Music Man on Broadway
Oscar leftovers
• THR Will Smith has resigned from the Academy after the slap incident
• Guardian Will Smith facing career troubles now due to Oscar night as well with some of his films on hold
• Gr8ter Days points out which stars we lost last year were not cited during Oscar's "In Memoriam", including inexcusable omissions like Monica Vitti, Sally Ann Howes, and Oscar nominated Cara Williams. They didn't even include Spanish actress Pilar Bardem even though her globally famous son was right there in the audience as a nominee!