Links: New Musicals, Life Tips, Netflix vs Hollywood
Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 1:15PM Variety Cher has dropped out of her expected return to acting with Flint, a TV movie about the water crisis in Michigan citing "serious family issues" (sending her good vibes)
Coming Soon Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Channing Tatum will team-up for an R rated jukebox musical called Wingmen about two pilots who crash land in Vegas
Variety Lola Albright film actress of the 1940s and 1950s and know for TV's Peter Gunn has died at 92
NPR there's a way to search IMDb now for movies that are female created or female focused... but it's tricky
Vanity Fair life tips from Shirley Maclaine
/Film Soderbergh's Cinemax series The Knick has been cancelled. :(
AV Club Wonder Woman pees fire
Interview shares an old interview / photo session of Penélope Cruz from '99
Playbill recaps 'everything we know (so far) about Mary Poppins Returns' but they leave out the most important news that we covered here that the world's best costume designer is behind the new magical nanny looks
Playbill Kelli O'Hara singing "Toyland" - staged concert version coming up in April
Guardian can Hollywood fight back against Netflix who wants us to get over our "romantic" notions of moviegoing. NEVER, NETFLIX, NEVER.
CHUD 'movies no one mentions' on Copycat (1995). Uff, I miss Sigweavie & Holly leading movies
Screencrush new Spider-Man: Homecoming poster, Spidey just chilling (note Avengers tower in the background)
Tracking Board Robert Rodriguez to direct a remake of John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981)
Reader Comments (14)
Did no one look critically at that Wonder Woman poster, or were the objections just ignored? It seems insane that this was published as something other than a joke.
Soderbergh's Cinemax series The Knick has been cancelled. :(
I didn't know you loved that show - I've never heard you talk about it.
I love it so much - easily the best thing that Soderbergh has done since the Traffic/Erin Brockovich combo.
Cash: If the DCXU can't make a good impression (and at this point, it all but can't), at least it'll make a lasting one? I have no clue otherwise.
Copycat is great. And I disagree with the column's complaint about the villain. Not every movie has to (often exhaustingly) build up a villain. It was a movie about Weaver and Hunter, not the serial killer.
Copycat came out in the shadow of ground breaking Seven but Copycat in it's own way was groundbreaking,a real masterful pairing of actresses with Weaver playing the weak character for a change and acting opposite the Hunter who got her role in The Piano after no one informed Weaver that Campion wanted a Sigourney type plus Dermot Mulroney is so sweet and loveable in it.
There is somewhere in the vaults a more cerebral ending to Copycat,there's a still somewhere of Weaver hugging the villain,it was changed after test screenings wanted the killer to meet his fate.
I am there for wingmen. Both those guys can bring old fashioned charm and dance and make it modern too.
Ah I just remembered I love Copycat. I watched way too young to fully understand it but I remember a harrowing restroom scene very vividly. Need to revisit.
Ulrich: I like what I've seen of Brokovich, but the Michael Douglas scenes of Traffic just gave me such a headache I can't endorse it. Hey, Steve, can you perhaps NOT have these scenes all take place under a dark blue filter?
Shirley McClain is national treasure who just keeps on going...glad to see Mr Tatum doing a real musical...
I can't help pointing out, that out of the extremely few directors I would trust with the unnecessary remake of "Escape from NY", Robert Rodriguez is #1. Skilled, fresh and with a sense of humor, plus a huge Carpenter fan - as shown in "From Dusk Till Dawn" and "Planet Terror", two films I love, and probably JC also does. Let's hope QT is also involved in some way, but not too much to overshadow Rodriguez's vision. I want a new vision on the same issue, not a copycat.
... and count me in, for the "Copycat" love.
Yes, Copycat is great. Hunter and Weaver magnificent.
Haha I love Copycat. I actually just watched it again like a month ago. Holly Hunter's character is pretty fascinating.
@Tony T - and I always remember the scenes that visualize Weaver's agoraphobia. Talk about art creating empathy - it totally helped me understand that problem in a much more urgent way.