Links: Paul Sorvino's passing, BAFTA rule tweaks, and Nope's famous film strip
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 5:00PM • NYT Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas, The Rocketeer, Nixon), beloved character actor and father of Oscar winner Mira Sorvino, has died at 83
• Guardian Sad news: Shonka Dukureh, who sang "Hound Dog" in her feature debut in Elvis as Big Mama Thornton has died at just 44
Much Happier links after the jump involving "Horse in Motion" from Nope, 'All the Way' Mae from A League of Their Own, Jessica Chastain's new film, and more...
• THR Destin Daniel Cretton, who wowed critics with Short Term 12 before winning audiences with Shang-Chi, just got a Marvel promotion. He'll be directing Avengers: Kang Dynasty (2025)
• Vulture VFX houses on what it's like working with Marvel Studios (the situation is pretty dire as it always is with anything approaching monopolies)
• Deadline BAFTA tinkers with its rules yet again. To make a very long story short they're leaning into a 50/50 plit for general voters and special committees to determine the nominees instead of special committees getting more nominees like before
• NYT fascinating piece on the famed 'Horse in Motion' photography mythologized in Nope
• Cartoon Brew Lightyear will probably end its run as the lowest grossing Pixar film of the 21st century (yes even below The Good Dinosaur). Will it find new fans streaming on Disney+?
• Advocate Maybelle Blair, known as "all the way Mae" from A League of Their Own, has been doing interviews for the new series version of the beloved women's baseball movie. She says that 2/3rds of the femalle ballplayers were gay
• /Film as if its American remake weren't enough the classic Swedish horror film Let the Right One In has now spawned an entire American series so here's the trailer
• Pajiba Interesting comparison between Amazon's The Boys is Zach Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen (2009) and why The Boys is plainly superior despite similar goals
• /Film Everything we know about the Jessica Chastain / Eddie Redmayne true crime picture The Good Nurse
Off Screen
• Playbill Broadway's Claybourne Elder (Company, The Gilded Age) paying it forward due to a 15 year old act of kindness
• Out Ricky Martin and his Swedish husband Yosef are moving on now that the allegations against Martin by his own nephew (which would have definitely ended his career, had they been true) have been dropped
Reader Comments (3)
If that whole thing about Ricky Martin was true, my mother would've had a heart attack. Thank goodness it was false.
God is creating a hell of a crew. Ray Liotta, Tony Siricio, James Caan, and now Paul Sorvino. I ain't fucking with those guys. I would like to state that other than his legendary performance in Goodfellas in which he taught a generation of aspiring chefs how to cut garlic to seek out his performances in Romeo & Juliet, The Cooler, and The Rocketeer as he had one of the best lines in that film. "It matters to me. I may not make a honest buck but I'm 100% American"
Regarding the Ricky Martin case, nothing was declared false or true. The charges were merely dropped by the nephew. That doesn’t mean Martin is innocent and the allegations are false.
Watchman was always bound to disappoint as a feature film. It begged for a miniseries, as evidenced by the wildly successful miniseries that HBO actually did adapt.
The performance of Lightyear is an all-time head scratcher. I would've counted it as one of the few properties impervious to streaming, but it looks like Disney really has relegated Pixar to that format in peoples' minds. Part of me totally gets it. I'd wait for damn near anything to show up on a site nowadays, especially if that wait is less than 60 days.