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"Double Jeopardy is my jam!!! I ain't mad at cha, Miss Ashley! " - Dorian
"Ashley reminds me of Ida Lupino, who in the '40s had a lot of talent but was undervalued because of her association with genre potboilers." -Brookesboy
Went a little overboard today but we were behind on news plus the Emmys happened!
The Daily Harry Dean Stanton (RIP) --sorry we didn't cover this (!) but it happened in the midst of TIFF international flights and such My New Plaid Pants good Orlando Bloom-ing morning to ya My New Plaid Pants dueling Call Me By Your Name magazine covers Junkee please don't call Call Me By Your Name "universal" Women and Hollywood distribution deal for Emma Thompson in The Children Act marked for 2018
Lots more after the jump including mother! takes, Emmy aftermath, I Tonya, and the Younger season finale...
It's time to play our new favorite fantasizing rather than dealing with awful reality game. So where and with whom would you like to be doing what right about now. Would you rather...
...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn? ...decorate Milla Jovovich's face with jelly stickers? ... float in the sea with Nico Tortorella? ... see Hamilton with Ashton Sanders? ... go vegetable shopping with Kristin Scott Thomas? ...hit the stables with Naomie Harris? ... "go heavy" with Orlando Bloom? ... do a shot with Leonardo Nam and Ptolemy Slocum as Westworld season 2 begins filming? ...F@*# Up some homophobes with Haaz Sleiman?
Cartoon Brew it turns out the new animated film Leap is actually a previously internationally released animated film named Ballerina, reworked by the Weinsteins for the US with a new voice cast. The difference: the reviews are terrible this time Variety Orland Bloom to star in and produce an urban fantasy series called Carnival Row which has humans and mythological species interacting (sounds a smidge like the new Will Smith project Bright) The Guardian James Cameron interview on Terminator 2. But the part that's getting quoted is his dismissal of Wonder Woman (though he says he enjoyed it) Variety... but naturally Patty Jenkins has fired back
IndieWire lots of female directors hitting the festivals this year. Here's a list of 20 Nerdist we haven't heard anything about that ill-advised movie remake of The Birds (1963) in a while. But now there's news that another adaptation of the source novella is aiming to be a dramatic BBC miniseries Mental Floss extensive piece on the costumes of Game of Thrones Boy Culture Jay Thomas of Mork and Mindy and Murphy Brown fame has died of cancer /Film casting for the live action version of Teen Titans (which will just be called Titans) has begun with Anna Diop nabbing the Firestar role. /Film The best recent Asian action movies you probably haven't seen Like Hacker Movie Pass is suddenly seeing a huge influx of subscribers. You guys I love the service so much. If you don't have it you really should get it. It saves you so much money if you like seeing movies regularly.
OffScreen The Atlantic interesting piece on Taylor Swift's persona-shifting new single "Look What You Made Me Do" The Stage Stephen Sondheim on what directors should and shouldn't do when restaging musicals The New Yorker read this brilliant piece, please... "Louise Linton isn't mad. You're mad."
Exit Video Ever wonder what it would be like to hang out with Madonna for a whole day on your birthday? Dennis Hensley enlisted his comedienne friend Nadya Ginsburg to play her all day and find out. "C'mon" hit play. Ginsburg is a brilliant Madonna impersonator and proves it again.
A photo posted by Baz Luhrmann (@bazluhrmann) on Dec 16, 2016 at 3:05pm PST
...reminisce about the first time you saw Star Wars (1977) with Baz Lurhmann (can you believe how young he was here!) ...celebrate the 15th anniversary of Lord of the Rings with Orlando Bloom? ...go roller skating with Elle Fanning? ...visit Warsaw in the winter with Ewan McGregor? ...or take your lunch from a RuPaul bag with Cheyenne Jackson?