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Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 9:00PM Deadline gross. They're making Animal Kingdom (2010) into a tv series? Ellen Barkin is in the Jacki Weaver role so there's that but leave great things alone!
Out talks to Judy Greer about playing girlfriend to Lily Tomlin in Grandma
AV Club another underappreciated actress Carla Gugino has taken over lead role duties from Christina Hendricks in Cameron Crowe's Roadies
MNPP Director John Curran leaves the Lewis & Clarke miniseries so Casey Affleck and Matthias Schoenaerts are without a director. (Naturally there are cute shirtless set photos this being MNPP)
Deadline Billy Crudup won the top male role in 20th Century Women, though it's not the lead. That belongs to The Bening (yay!) and the film is from the undervalued but excellent writer/director Mike Mills (Beginners)
Demanders looks back at My Beautiful Laundrette which recently got a Criterion release
Variety happy news: Season 2 of Transparent arrives in time for Christmas
i09 Ridley Scott still planning on filming a Prometheus sequel next year. (And with Michael Fassbender. How exactly will Fassy be able to squeeze that into his ever busy schedule?)
NY Times Christopher McQuarrie on the anatomy of the Opera scene in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
MNPP Jai Courtney is... um... enjoying himself
AV Club The legendary Max Von Sydow joining the cast of Game of Thrones. That's quite a get for the series. Related but not at this link. /Film also covered this story and were shameless traffic whores enough to not even include von Sydow's name in the headline but merely referred to him as "Star Wars Rogue Nation" actor. That's so disrespectful... and just tacky. End of times.
Woody 2016
Woody Allen has announced the cast of his next Untitled Film (2016). We rarely get anything but a cast list and location as the projects are secretive and/or Woody is not a chatterbox. This one shoots in LA & NYC and will reunite Woody with Parker Posey (Irrational Man), Corey Stoll (Midnight in Paris) and Jesse Eisenberg (To Rome With Love) and first timer in Woody's world newbies: Jeannie Berlin (who does not work enough, she was last seen on the phone with Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice), Blake Lively, Kristen Stewart, Ken Stott, Bruce Willis, Anna Camp, Stephen Kunken, Sari Lennick, and Paul Schneider
About The New Banner
"Anonny" gave me two options for banner topic when he won the theme-choosing with Question of the Week. Though "sweaty" would have been truly new, I promise y'all that it wouldn't have read in black-and-white closeups up top. Unless it was comically drenched sweating and there's only, what, Airplane (1980) for that?
So the new banner is "GRUMPY". I'm not feeling grumpy so I really had to work on my own pose. I'm hesistantly elated. Toronto International Film Festival plans seem settled and I had such a great time last year. I can't truly expect it to be that good every year but it's my favorite festival so cross your fingers that a lot of masterpieces emerge.
THR Emmy Drama Actress Roundtable (in full)
I'd embed it here but we have a policy against "autoplay" videos. Too noisy. Too disruptive to readers. But if you're interested watch it at THR: Viola Davis, Jessica Lange, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lizzy Caplan, Taraji P Henson, and Ruth Wilson. Kind of strange that they waited until after nominations to release the full versions of these (the others arrive throughout August) when some of the people in each roundtable weren't nominated. Naturally Taraji P Henson is the most entertaining.
Reader Comments (12)
I hope the Lewis and Clark series gets back on track, it sounded interesting.
Too bad for Hendricks.
I am worried about the future of the actors of Mad Men.
Only Moss is getting a career. She's involved in the right projects and directors, and managed to get that Golden Globe, a Tony nomination, etc.
But what about Hendricks and Jones. And Jon Hamm for God's sake! A guy who looks like this and is a fantastic actor, and doesn't get any juicy role?
Cal -- i think Hamm will be fine. He keeps getting cameos... which means he's on people's minds. But i worry about the others yes. Especially hendricks who Hollywood was way too hesistant about from the get go even though the public loves her.
Considering Cameron Crowe's output in the last 10 years, I think this is a good thing for Hendricks.
Yeah, if I were an actor with something to lose, I straight-up wouldn't work with Cameron Crowe. Period. It wouldn't even be a question or a debate. That's some scorched earth.
Jeannie Berlin! Wow, I might actually see that Woody Allen movie just for her. I last saw Berlin in the undervalued film Margaret (2011), in which she was fantastic. I wonder why she doesn't work more? Anyone who hasn't seen her in the original The Heartbreak Kid (1972, with Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepard), I highly recommend that as well.
Nat: I wouldn't worry about Hamm yet. He was the lead and the show's JUST over. Hendricks is probably also safe, at least from an artistic standpoint. Backing out of Cameron Crowe (presumably after watching Aloha?) and with hopefully plum supporting roles in a Gillian Flynn adaptation AND a Winding-Refn movie. We'll probably never get to see her act out Poison Ivy. I mean, I hope against hope that it's allowed, but Zack Snyder would probably veto it. Why? 1. Zack Snyder would probably advise Warner Bros to use either Jared Leto or cast someone for a dedicated Two-Face narrative, if he thinks people are getting sick of The Joker as the main villain. 2. Even if Snyder allowed it, he'd probably ask for a classic Silver Age or early B:TAS style take and not the infinitely more popular Plant God. 3. Most filmmakers who want to do Ivy today are probably also going to ask for Harley, even if they agree to the second point. (Yeah, in spite of Harley's origin and iconography, Ivy has kind of become Harley's primary love interest in the comics.) And, well, both Snyder (who's advising this whole experiment) and David Ayer (who almost certainly has some control over where Harley goes) seem like the kind of hyper masculine jerks who hate anything that isn't ram-rod straight.
January Jones is doing TV still - isn't she a regular on Last Man on Earth?
I wish Hendricks tried Broadway, like Moss. I saw that Company dvd and she was very good.
Ok that GIF of Jai Courtney almost made me a fan. He might not be a good actor but he seems like a cool dude. I didn't hate him in terminator genisys and actually i kind of enjoyed that film more than others. I didn't love it, but didn't hate it either. But i haven't seen his other work and I don't care to have the Die Hard series ruined for me. Im treating that film like it never existed.
Josh: I think everyone wants to treat A Good Day to Die Hard as if it doesn't exist. I'd just hope that Willis manages to pull McTiernan out of retirement for Die Hard 6: Die Hardest. And yes, Willis wants to go with that. (3-5, say whatever else you will about them, had genuinely cool titles at least.)
Omg. You Mad Men fanboys are ridiculous. Hamm's career is in great shape.