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It's time to play our favourite time wasting Instagram game (an elaborate excuse to share 10-12 fav celebrity social media posts of the week). So, WOULD YOU RATHER...
• do the can-can in Paris with Jessica Chastain and Sophie Turner? • do research on Elvis with Baz Luhrmann? • take a hot ride with Zoe Saldana? • test perfume mixes with Michelle Pfeiffer? (It's called "layering") • sip on Shah Rukh Khan in Dubai? • kiss a llama with Daryl Hannah? • go plant shopping with Jake Choi? • have lunch with Marvel's superwomen? • count it down with Madonna & Meluma? • get beautiful with Judy Greer? • eat skittles with Carrie Preston? • shower with Channing Tatum?
Variety Whoa. Daniel Day Lewis is going back to work. And with Paul Thomas Anderson again no less. They're making a 50s fashion drama /Film shares concept art from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4... which obviously never went before cameras
Salon Actor Jake Choi on the odds against Asian actors especially the "de-sexualized" men LA Times 100 people who could help fix Oscar's diversity problem. I'd be surprised though if at least a few of these people weren't already in the Academy since they've been nominated or close to it. The ultra strange thing is they don't list Bradford Young, one of the very best working DPs, under cinematography and I didn't think he was a member yet. Is it just a terrible oversight or did his invitation skip my notice? AV Club a new Melissa McCarthy produced series Nobodies will be very meta. It stars her non famous comic actor friends playing themselves with a famous movie star friend (no word on who will play the Melissa McCarthy surrogate) Towleroad Colton Haynes is working on a photo book with Tyler Shields. He promises it will be "shocking". So... the unauthorized sequel to Madonna's "Sex" book, maybe? The Guardian a good piece on reshoots for upcoming movies and the danger of "dark" or "light" templates for franchises
Off Screen Adequate Man "Please do not lick your kitty"
Emmy Season is Upon Us... Awards Daily is wondering if Scandal can make an Emmy comeback Decider comedies the Emmys need to consider
...and for the following year's Emmys we even have a Children's Programming contender worth getting excited about: JULIE ANDREWS IS BACK IN 2017!