This Week's Must Read: Everyone has been talking about the cast changes at Funny Girl on Broadway and it's been very messy. Daily Beast has the gorey details in an inside scoop on how things have played out as Beanie Feldstein announced an early departure and Lea Michele prepares for the iconic titular role.
More after the jump including new projects for Jonathan Bailey, Chris Hemsworth, a second season for The Bear, an Amy Winehouse biopic, and appreciations of Nicole Kidman, the Three Colors trilogy, and the year's best action films...
• THR Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer to costar as lovers in a new limited series *fans self* called Fellow Travelers. We only request that there be at least one explicit sex scene per episode.
• Pajiba Has Netflix's algorithm finally eaten itself? For example "if most of what you feed the algorithm is true crime, and subscribers watch a lot of true crime because it’s what’s most available, then won’t the algorithm tell you to create more true crime?"
• Out What We Do in The Shadows fourth season, which just premiered, is its gayest yet
• IndieWire David Ehrlich thinks Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy is as relevant as its ever been right now (and we're always shocked/excited when IndieWire actually discusses independent films instead of blockbusters since they lost that thread so many years ago!)
• / Film The Bear is getting a second season. Some details on Hulu's word of mouth hit
• FSR 40 things we learned from Sam Raimi's Blu-ray commentary on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• /Film Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct an Amy Winehouse biopic. No word on casting yet but they're thinking of going the unknown route
• Time "Nicole Kidman gives the people what they want"
• Film School Rejects names the 10 best action films of 2022 (thus far) including Bollywood's RRR and (surprisingly) Hulu's The Princess
• Instagram Florence Pugh, looking absolutely gorg' in a see through Valentino gown, has words for those judging her body
• Gawker Have you heard about that Thor Love and Thunder premiere where the cast called the movie 'gay'? Co-sign this headline: "none of this shit is gay"
• MNPP "Everything you ever need to know about life..." Summertime (1955) edition
• / Film A League of Their Own's most memorable line was almost a throwaway
• Daily Mail Chris Hemsworth spotted on set of Furiosa with a red beard and prosthetic nose
Exit Video
Today's video find is a rare behind the scenes into the making of the short Rollercoaster Rabbit (1990). It hasn't been online in ages but recently resurfaced so see it while you can...
Even before we knew anything about the inside-workings of the movie industry, we were puzzled (still are in fact!) that Disney didn't try harder to capitalize on the succcess of the ahead-of-its-time Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was 1988's biggest global grosser (second only to Rain Man within the US). Nowadays any movie that's even marginally successful gets a sequel or a prequel or a reboot or a tv show spin-off. But in the 34 years since Roger Rabbit made big bucks the only thing that's ever happened is three short films from 1989-1993.