Links: Color Purple, Yuba County, and Rebel Wilson
Monday, November 5, 2018 at 10:00AM Playbill very cool news. The tony winning The Color Purple musical will be adapted to screen. Smart of Cynthia Erivo to immediately focus on the screen following her Tony win for that show. Perhaps she can transfer the role now that she has a larger profile in the film industry?
Pajiba first photos of Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly offer an uncanny resemblance
Tod Phillips Joaquin Phoenix taking a smoke break on the set of The Joker
/Film Deadwood just began production on a movie with the TV series cast returning to their acclaimed roles
IndieWire held a little ceremony to honor some of this year's top film people: Charlize Theron, Amandla Stenberg, Ryan Coogler, and Alfonso Cuarón among them.
Tribeca Film Disobedience deserves a place in awards season
Variety Rebel Wilson in hot water after proclaiming (incorrectly) that she's the first plus size woman to lead a rom-com (if she had just admitted she was wrong, this wouldn't have blown up but for some reason she doubled down)
Variety Fun! Allison Janney and Laura Dern will be co-starring in a comedy called Breaking News in Yuba County for director Tate Taylor (The Help)
Awards Daily Best Song Oscar-winner Annie Lennox wrote a new tune for A Private War
Into on the erasure of both polyamory and bisexuality in Bohemian Rhapsody
Humanizing the Vacuum perceptive review of Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Reader Comments (10)
Rebel Wilson was such a flash in the pan - I keep trying to like her (and her new movie looks kinda funny) but she makes it so hard to!
And WEISZ deserves her second nomination! !!
Maybe they get The Color Purple right this time.
I always forget that Annie Lennox won an Oscar.
The original movie is fine flaws and all. No adaption of the story will replicate the book.
I love Annie Lennox! She's said that she's not particularly interested in releasing new albums at this point--I'm hoping she changes her mind. She has a one-in-a-million voice.
"Disobedience deserves a place in awards season."
Yes. Specifically Best Supporting Actor. Please, for the love of god, SOMEONE give Alessandro Nivola recognition at the end of the year. Even one critics award would be fine. I just don't want him to be completely ignored.
Rebel Wilson had such an easy out with this controversy since both PHAT GIRLZ and JUST WRIGHT (the two titles people are bringing up most frequently as counter to Wilson's comment) didn't get theatrical releases in her home of Australia and I imagine most here wouldn't have heard of them. Alas she comes off sounding silly, unprofessional and a dismissive of racial element. But then I'm not a fan anyway, so...
So glad they've announced a COLOR PURPLE musical adaptation. Not everyone has access to Broadway or even travelling shows (that aren't necessarily as good) so I'm happy with this 'remake' and, yes, smart to wait and see if Cynthia could hold her own on screen rather than just on stage. She very much can.
If "The Color Purple" cast anyone but Cynthia Erivo they are stupid. But great news, wonder if they'll get some interesting director for it. Rob Marshall stay away please. Melina Matsoukas would be an amazing left field choice.
V -- ooh. that's an intriguing idea... though we dont know how she is with features, yet.
I would like the ridiculous Rebel Wilson comments (and attempted defence of said comments) to provoke a full article or ideally The Film Experience Mini-Series on...
Last Holiday
starring Queen Latifah
It's probably one of my most-watched romantic comedies of all time (and in the Wayne Wang canon sits proudly alongside Maid In Manhattan, another easily dismissed masterpiece of the genre).
Someone once said of Maggie Smith in Sister Act "she's so good that it appears she's not even acting" and I apply this statement to Queen Latifah in this role. So charismatic and effortless.