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News, Bits, and Bobs Trying to keep up with things we haven't mentioned of late
• The Hashtag Show on what the casting of Ben Mendelsohn and Jude Law in Captain Marvel probably means in terms of villain/story • EW Ridley Scott on his last minute revamp of All the Money in the World • The Guardian Fun interview with Michael Haneke who meets the man who created that parody twitter account of the master auteur
More after the jump including Lady Bird, Mulan, and the beginning of top ten lists...
• Coming SoonAnt Man and the Wasp has wrapped filming. Apparently there's a scene on a beach between Pfeiffer and Douglas • Decider 10 movies you should stream right now to prepare for awards season • The Guardian apparently Feud is just making its way to the UK so there's a new Susan Sarandon interview where she defends her baffling political decisions of the recent past
• Rotten Tomatoes Jude Law has nabbed the male lead of Captain Marvel opposite Brie Larson • Los Angeles Times John Lasseter, Disney/Pixar's long time chief creative officer, is taking a leave of absence from Disney after complaints of inappropriate behavior with female employees • Playbill what are the plays that Broadway revives the most often? The top 12 features well loved playwright's like Tennessee Williams (though I was surprised by his second most revived), Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and of course Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf • Variety Rance Howard, the character actor and father of Ron Howard, has passed away • Gr8ter Days David Cassidy, 70s teen idol of the Patridge Familyhas passed away • VarietyThe Seen and Unseen, which you'll remember I raved about at TIFF, has won two new prizes this past week, splitting the Grand Prize at Tokyo FilmEx and winning the APSA for Youth Feature.
Exit Video Have you checked out the new webseries "Power Couple"? We must thank Joe Reid for recommending it. The concept is simple and hooky (famous pairings through history) and the execution by Sudi Green and Matt Rogers is brilliant. My favorite thus far is Caesar & Cleopatra but they've also done Britney & Justin (with an amazing 50 Shades riff on negotiation) and Evil Queen & Magic Mirror.
• New York Times "The artists have been rebuked. Now what about their art?" • Gr8ter Days which years were the worst for celebrity deaths? A morbid obsessive list that's kind of eye opening. I mean 1977... ouch. • Los Angeles Times Carol Burnett on the 50th anniversary of her classic show • The Guardian Guy Lodge wonders about the relative sexlessness of Call Me By Your Name and Moonlight before it and whether that timidity is what it takes for an LGBT film to become a big Oscar player?
Much more after the jump including Justice League credits, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Apted, Aquaman, an honor for Detroit and the first round of PGA nominations...
• Criterion Close Isabelle Huppert makes her picks! • i09 Netflix odd email phishing scam promotion of The Punisher (I received this too and was like hmmmm... clever but gross and no thank you) • Gr8ter Days Ann Wedgeworth, a favorite of the National Society of Film Critics prizes in the late 70s and early 80s (Handle with Care, Sweet Dreams) and a Tony winner for a Chapter Two (which later became a film albeit without Wedgeworth) and a TV regular has died • Boy Culture It only took 50+ years but the Star Trek franchise just got its first gay kiss via Star Trek: Discovery thanks and out actors Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz • Playbill Broadway hit Come From Away, which is about passengers stranded in a small Newfoundland town during 9/11, is going to get a film version with the Broadway director and writers transferring over • Tracking Board Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo (YAS! She's so undervalued) will headline the third season of True Detective for HBO
Our Ongoing Collective Trauma • HuffPost a fine piece by Matt Jacobs on loving Hollywood and the pop-culture machine but realizing how rotten its been since its inception when it comes to abuses of power and the treatment of women • Deadline Marti Nixon on the recent allegations against Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner • Variety Matthew Weiner denies the allegations but admits to being angry on set a lot of the time and wishes he had behaved differently • AV Club Lena Dunham defends a Girls writer accused of assault • Nylon a personal essay from Evan Rachel Wood about what the psychotic hurricane of these past two years and what she's learned about herself and others during this awful decline in time. • Film School Rejects on the way film sites have been reacting (or not) to the growing list of accusations
Two Videos On Hela's hello cool antler headpiece in Thor Ragnarok and the short teaser for Incredibles 2 (basically Jack Jack giggling and causing havoc with his laser beam eyes)
Off Screen for Fun • New Yorker Disney princes reimagined as allies
Prince Eric is extremely committed to female equality in his kingdom. He has so much to tell Ariel about the plight and oppression of women that he fails to notice that she doesn’t have a voice.
New York Social Diary RIP gossip columnist Liz Smith. I grew up reading her syndicated column *sniffle* This link is a remembrance of her by Denis Ferrara who was a very close friend and collaborator on her column Esquire the ten best comedies of the year including Ingrid Goes West, Thor Ragnarok, Girls Trip, and Lady Bird Independent Firing Kevin Spacey from House of Cards might be more difficult than Netflix thought, legally speaking Awards Daily the case for Michelle Pfeiffer. Give her her damn Oscar already Variety Zendaya is doing a film about the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar (who passed as white to do so). It's called A White Lie
DeadlineWonder Woman 2 has moved to a November 1st 2019 release and Gal Gadot, contrary to reports over the weekend, is already locked in to star. Patty Jenkins will direct again. We hope there's no sophomore slump because the first one was so damn enjoyable/inspiring Variety keeps us updated with what's going on with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman which Netflix will stream. Variety, perhaps for click-bait purposes, acts like the theatrical release is in doubt but it is surely not; Scorsese would never sign a contract that doesn't give him at least some theatrical distribution so expect the usual limited release that no one goes to in theaters because its' also streaming for free on Netflix situation (upcoming with Mudbound) IndieWire Denis Villeneuve might direct Bond 25 but right now a relaunch of Dune is still his priority YouTube new trailer for The Greatest Showman. It's basically the old trailer with a couple more dialogue clips thrown in and some less tuneful than "This Is Me" song that Jackman is talk/singing. I'm still dying to see it because musicals for life, don'cha know /Film Quentin Tarantino's next movie is about the year of 1969 rather than the Charles Manson murders as previously reported. Let's hope it's better than that 1988 film 1969 which starred Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr
Off Screen Damn Joan a Barbie doll funeral Vulture every Taylor Swift song ever, ranked. Fun read even though i think it's silly and click-baity to claim "Look What You Made Me Do" is the worst song she ever wrote Theater Mania 11 Asian-American shows on stages this season across the country Playbill Lin-Manuel Miranda's ongoing effort to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurrican Maria
Exit Videos If only more directors could find a way to harness Kate Beckinsale's natural wit in movies. This video made me LOL so much. Watch every second of it, please. Below that is a Justice League if it were made in the 80s "opening credits" sequence. Cute and weirdly plausible which I'm not sure is a compliment to the movie which is about to open.
Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 12:35PM 
