/Film Donald Glover will be the voice of Simba and James Earl Jones the voice of Mufasa in the forthcoming remake of The Lion King... I notice it's being lumped in with all the other Disney 'live action remakes of animated pictures' in articles but this one is not live action, but CG and mo-cap like The Jungle Book. E! News Malin Akerman recalls her nude modelling shoot with Jamie Dornan AnOther interviews John Waters. Multiple Maniacs is getting a rerelease overseas... hence the interview. What I want to know is where in the box set of his complete filmography? TV Line Darren Criss is Andrew Cunanan and Edgar Ramirez Gianni Versace in the next American Crime Story Awards Daily TV Best Actress in a Limited Series is already crazy competitive for the next Emmys via Feud, Big Little Lies, and more...
Links after the jump including more Viola, plus Arrival, The Lion King, Night of the Iguana, Boyd Holbrook and more...
Coming SoonColossal, that kaiju movie starring Anne Hathaway that we told you about at least year's TIFF is coming out this year and it has such a cute poster (pictured left) and the trailer is also here. Deadline good interview with Octavia Spencer on why she did Hidden Figures and diversity in film Coming Soon here's a super duper strange news item. Kenneth Lonergan is writing an miniseries adaptation of Howards End to star Hayley Atwell. Never mind that there's zero chance of improving on Merchant & Ivory's 1992 masterpiece! Variety what does the Academy look for in an Original Song nominee and winner? Tracking Board what makes a TV pilot script a success? In Contention profiles former sound mixing partners nominated against each other for the first time for Hacksaw Ridge and 13 Hours THR an anonymous source talks about the lack of shame in Hollywood around the gender imbalance in the director's chair MNPP pays tribute to sexy German actor Clemens Schick /Film the Jurassic World sequel has started production
Playbill a deleted scene from Moana - she had many brothers in an original draft Playbill Fathom Events is showing the filmed movie of Disney's Broadway version of Newsies starring Jeremy Jordan today (and a couple of other dates within the next week) Coming Soon I didn't think I could want to see Suicide Squad 2 any less than I already did. I was wrong. Mel Gibson is in talks to direct /Film the latest rumor has it that Marvel Studios is secretly working on a Namor film. I don't believe this one personally because since Namor is a mutant I assume his right are locked up with Fox (though the article mentions they were once with Universal). Fox owns most of the mutant characters due to their extensive X-Men contract and even if Namor doesn't fall under that (since he's rarely thought of as an X-Universe character he is much more closely associated with Fantastic Four which Fox also owns. Film School Rejects a call for more wangs on screen -- and this from a straight dude so everyone is noticing that they refuse to show 'em - even in sex movies like 50 Shades Variety the hilarious Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) is in talks to headline a new romantic comedy called Crazy Rich Asians
General Linkage i09Mad Mad Fury Road meets Pixar's Cars AV Club ignoring that nobody on god's green earth could possibly want to relive the election fiasco of 2016, Megan Ellison and Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty) are developing a miniseries about it right now. Too soon. Interview Mag there's going to be a biopic of Sammy Davis Jr. They have casting suggestions including Elijah Kelley as Sammy and Delroy Lindo as his father Cinesnark has an ode to Keanu Reeves, calling him 'the last great movie star.' I personally think the demise of the movie star is a myth (that's been being told my entire lifetime... and yet my lifetime has had plenty of new movie stars in it) but I tend to like pieces like this anyway because worshipping movie stars is fun The New Yorker looks at the silent film Different From Others, reportedly the first gay romantic drama on film
MNPP Tom Cullen has been at the gym and has a movie coming out co-starring his love Tatiana Maslany Screen Crush Ben Affleck rumored to want out of the Batman game. I mean... he does look miserable doing it, so why not? Batman is the star not the actor playing him anyway. Notice how many faces he's already worn since 1989 and he's still just as popular Tracking Board Mahershala Ali is joining Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy for a new crime drama called Triple Frontier
Oscar Stuff Feinberg Forecast Feinberg is predicting 10 Oscars for La La Land, losing only 3 categories Variety on the backlash to La La Land and why "exuberance" matters. I co-sign this post. I hate when films are deemed "not important enough" as that leads to comedies and family films and adventures and romances and all sorts of genres that produce classics being regularly overlooked at the Oscars Write Out of LA is, on the other side, all in for the La La Land backlash Variety Netflix sharing Ava DuVernay's with classrooms, community groups, and book clubs VarietyMoonlight took the USC Scripter prize for adapted screenplay Indie Wire Anne Thompson says Moonlight is "guaranteed" one Oscar win. Guaranteed feels like too strong a word for me when both of its potential wins (Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actor) have to face off against a surging Lion which took both of those categories at the BAFTAs ... oh and BAFTA wins and gowns in case you missed those posts here!
In Case You Missed It Denzel Washington gave an inspiring speech at the NAACP Image Awards. I'm still torn as to whether he'll pull off a third Oscar win for Fences but I'm rooting for it, since it can't be Viggo!
Esquire cool interview with the director of John Wick: Chapter 2, a former stuntman Stage Buddy on a new book about the immortal classic Casablanca Vox an excellent piece on AMC's Humans and how it differs from HBO's similarly AI themed but wildly different Westworld NYT Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy to return to the stage Indie WireTulip Fever gets pushed back AGAIN even though it was supposed to open in less than two weeks Silver Screening Room on the Adapted Screenplay race of 1976 for reasons I dont know but I enjoyed
More after the jump including Avengers Infinity War...
The Daily Beast Michael Musto talks to an anonymous Oscar voter about who they're voting for. They're very unhappy with Meryl Streep's 20th and La La Land's 14 /Film Barry Jenkins chooses movies from the Criterion Collection -wonderful. (And people forget how obsessed people were with La Haine when it came out) Variety ABC picked up a pilot starring Toni Collette. Please let it be good. Miss her so much. Totally the best actress that directors aren't using which I will NEVER understand Cinematic Corner Sati falls for The Handmaiden
Film School Rejects on Stranger Things SAG acceptance speech and season two MNPP Jason lets Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) take him on a train of thought and it is a joy as is that movie or at least Gable and Franchot Tone in it Village Voice Bilge Ebiri's 10 favorites from Sundance include Where is Kyra? and Mudbound World of Reel Ben Affleck will no longer be directing The Batman movie Pajiba has news of an incredibly problematic sounding new Mel Gibson movie about police brutality. Four Two Nine good piece on LGBT characters still being stuck in the "best friend" / "helper" mode despite many more gay characters in film and television Tracking Board HBO developing a movie about the behind-the-scenes on The Godfather (1972). I mean who gets to play Marlon Brando and Diane Keaton. Those seem like tall orders (lots of people can do a decent Al Pacino)
Off Cinema PlaybillHamilton is doubling the amount of seats in its lottery starting... yesterday. Good luck! Village Voice fascinating piece on the billionaire subgenre within romance novels Los Angeles Times on how the travel ban is worrying Hollywood the business aspects of Hollywood and the talent pool The Guardian Johnny Depp is suing and being countersued... and he's spending money as wildly and foolishly as Nicolas Cage once did (if you're wondering why they both make so many bad movies)
Dune Again As was previously rumored but is now true, Denis Villeneuve has signed on to direct Dune. He mentioned this as a possibility in our interview recently and sounded very excited about it, having been a fan of the novel his whole life. But still, TWO reboots of two beloved sci-fi properties back-to-back with Blade Runner 2049 up next? And right after your Oscar nomination after such deserved momentum from doing your own thing (Enemy-Prisoners-Sicario-Arrival)?! I guess this is cashing in while also fulfilling a dream but it worries this fan of Villeneuve doing his own thing.
Though the David Lynch film from 1984 had its issues it also had some deeply memorable imagery so at the very least it will be interesting to see how his version measures up.
Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 1:28PM 
