Time for a link roundup so recent news doesn't entirely escape us...
movies
• AV Club Phantom Thread deleted scene -- an actual food fight between Cyril and Reynolds! Daniel and Lesley are clearly enjoying themselves
• IndieWire March Madness movie brackets. This A24 one is a nightmare. How to vote against so many great movies?
• THR Hugh Jackman's next two projects are The Front Runner and Bad Education (despite the familiar famously queer titles I'm disappointed to say that neither of those are adaptations of famous gay love stories or drag Almodovar movies.)
More after the jump including Cameron Diaz, Roseanne, Broadway movie adaptations, Ben Affleck, and more...
• EW Cameron Diaz Selma Blair and Christina Applegate reunite to talk Sweetest Thing (2002). Unfortunately the rumors were true: Diaz is officially retired from acting.
• Variety a big screen adaptation of Stephen King's The TommyKnockers is coming. It's hard to believe there are still King books yet to adapt but he is prolific and given the success of It don't be surprised if literally everything else remaining gets fast tracked, too.
• Film School Rejects things learned on the Lady Bird commentary by Greta Gerwig
tv
• Awards Daily A look at the upcoming Emmy race for Comedy Series. With Master of None and Veep sitting this year out things are finally wide open
• BuzzFeed Donald Glover writes a mock Deadpool script to shade FX after they cancelled his animated series which already had a straight-to-series order
• Deadline Roseanne's return was a huge ratings win for Broadcast TV, highest rated sitcom in three years
• Variety an interesting piece on Roseanne's politics ... and how they're somewhat separate from Roseanne's.
• Salon also takes Roseanne's massive success as an opportunity to dig into some stats about how confusing people's political beliefs really are (i.e. a lot of people don't fit simply into "liberal" or "conservative" columns)
• The Playlist is wondering if it can break its own Emmy curse --despite the sitcom's massive popular in the 1980s (the #1 show of the late 80s/early 90s) it was never nominated for Best Comedy Series.
• Fast Company a profile of a Netflix tagger -- watching movies and tv as a career
stage
• Playbill Beetlejuice is headed to the musical stage
• Theater Mania First footage from the stage musical version of Pretty Woman starring Steve Kazee (who won his Tony for another film-to-stage adaptation, Once) and Samantha Barks (Eponine in the screen version of Les Miz)
miscellania
• NYT Time magazine is for sale. Here's what else you could buy for the money
• Village Voice excellent essay on gender and the Stormy Daniels / Trump story
• The New Yorker "The Sadness of Ben Affleck" is a must read... but you've probably read it already. We'll give Ben Affleck the last word since he has responded to the article, tweeting:
@NewYorker I’m doing just fine. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos.
— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) March 29, 2018