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Instagram Actor Garret Clayton (Hairspray Live!, King Cobra, The Fosters) has officially come out of the closet /Film a rejected 1998 pitch for a Catwoman solo movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer AV Club Danny Boyle has dropped out of Bond 25. The longer the film delays production, the more I suspect Daniel Craig will bolt, too. Variety Asia Argento sure has had it rough lately. In addition to her own rage about Weinstein, and the suicide of her boyfriend, she herself is denying claims that she sexually assaulted a minor.
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• Vulture Kathleen Turner in conversation, dishing on Burt Reynolds, William Hurt, Eileen Atkins and more. I had no idea that she didn't like Elizabeth Taylor! That's insane but Turner is always good for a blurb. So frank and funny. • Parade 10 Steve Martin quotes to brighten your day on his birthday • Variety Ruby Rose is the latest actress to quit her social media after online trolling. This time a bizarre she's not gay enough to play a gay character or some nonsense (even though she's been out for years!). When will the madness end and why do we live in such a mean world?
• MNPP the trailer to Gaspar Noe's latest provocation, Climax • Slate a round up of all the shark jokes people made while reporting on The Meg • Film School Rejects Netflix's original film slate for the last few months of this year. It's stacked. • Variety an update of sorts on that Fan Bingbing rumor we told you about. Is China banning her from acting for 3 years? • Variety should the Emmys have even more categories? Acting categories too often combine very disparate skills. • /Film Neill Blomkamp (District 9) is directing a sequel to Robocop, ignoring the other sequels apparently, and he wants Peter Weller to return as star. • VarietyInstant Family, a comedy starring Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg moved up from 2019 to a November bow this year • i09 Jeff Goldblum jigsaw puzzles! • Coming SoonTrain to Busan, the Korean zombie hit, is getting a sequel
Exit Video It's another teaser for Matthew Weiner's new series The Romanoffs. I'm soooo excited for this because I love Weiner AND I have no idea what to expect really even after watching this. Looks like the kind of show that might have instant takes which prove incredibly wrongheaded once you see the show develop.
Screen • Boy Culture on Faye Dunaway's Gucci ad • The Guardian -Margot Robbie has joined Fox News sexual abuse scandal movie which already features Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson and Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly. Talk about star power in one film • /Film -The more Tom Cruise runs in his movies, the better they perform at the box office. No, really • THR -Mary Carlisle, who had been the oldest living screen star, has died at age 104.
More after the jump including Fan Bingbing rumors, Greta Garbo, Linda Hamilton's return, and Julia Roberts as an audience member...
• Towleroad Yes, it's true Golden Girls action figures are coming! • The Guardian Janeane Garofalo and Ethan Hawke share memories of Reality Bites (1994) • The Brag I like this piece on BPM, Queer as Folk and politics on dance floors • Playbill after four seasons Sutton Foster finally sings on Younger. On tonight's episode she's doing The Sound of Music's "Lonely Goatherd" • The Wrap Frances Conroy and Robert DeNiro are joining Joaquin Phoenix in that ill-advised Joker origin story movie • Filmmaker Magazine talks to Steven Soderbergh about his amazing debut sex lies and videotape (1989) • Awards Daily a tribute to Donald Sutherland, one of the greatest actors of Hollywood
Exit Video The Go-Gos appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss their career for the launch of the Broadway musical "Head Over Heels". ♥️ this band so much.
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Polygon <-- I wrote this piece for them on The Dark Knight and the Oscar quake that followed. Have a look won't you? The Ringer LOLZ. The forthcoming Downton Abbey movie ...with zombies Variety Weinstein Company's library of hundreds of Oscary films and TV shows like Project Runway now owned by a new company Lantern Entertainment. MNPP Tab Hunter marathon on TMC this Friday! /Film Batwoman series in development at CW. It's another one of those Berlanti superhero shows. I enjoyed The Flash for a time but I really wish if we're going to have this many shows that there would be some differentiation of producing teams so that there wouldn't be so much homogeny with point of view.
More after the jump including MoviePass trouble and new projects for Halle Berry, Taraji P Henson, Rose Byrne, and Kate Winslet...