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Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 1:15PM 
The race for Best Original Song nominations at the Oscars is just beginning. Here's Elton John and Taron Egerton singing what we assume is the end credits song for Rocketman. It was written specifically for the biopic. And a week before this film premieres we'll hear two new songs in Disney's live-action remake of Aladdin...
Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 11:38AM 
• Coming Soon Emma Thompson is in talks to join Disney's Cruella movie. No word on what her role is, though, since its Emma Stone playing the title character
• Playbill Leos Carax (Holy Motors) begins shooting a movie musical called Annette this summer. Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver star
• MNPP Rocketman photocall at Cannes. Fun suit, Taron Egerton
• Screen Daily how Nadine Labaki's Capernaum became a major hit in China's growing arthouse cinema market
• Variety ...and speaking of. Labaki is working on a documentary on the making of Lebanon's all time biggest hit film
More after the jump including Avengers Endgame, a reboot of Saw, recent Hollywood deaths, and the latest news from Broadway...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 6:00PM It's an open thread as we raced off to the movies on a whim just now...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 3:31PM Jason Adams reporting from the Tribeca Film Festival one last time...
The sins of the flesh have always been right there on the surface of Fairy Tales, waiting to be ravaged by sex and by violence, by finger and by claw. Crooked old ladies morph into comely lasses, and ripe red lips are ready to be plucked and plundered. Snow White didn't move in with seven little dudes by mistake -- whatever our imaginations can imagine, whatever wishes our hearts can make, they're all within reach for a price, endless sleep and poisoned apples. Anne Fontaine's White as Snow is just the latest in a long string of movies soft-coring up our princess fantasies...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 1:00PM By Glenn Dunks
Two new documentaries cover politics in very different ways. One pounds the pavement on the trail of a brewing political movement from a relative newcomer, while the other examines the legacy of a presidential icon as directed by a man with nearly 40 documentary credits (and dozens more dramas) to his name.
Knock Down the House and Meeting Gorbachev are a fascinating pair; the scrappy underdog and the classic image of government. Although they have almost nothing in common beyond the surface, they offset one another, their strengths highlighting the others’ weaknesses in a particular way. One stands above the other in quality and in the sly way that they interrogate the long shadow of history...
