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Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 6:15PM Instagram Actor Garret Clayton (Hairspray Live!, King Cobra, The Fosters) has officially come out of the closet
/Film a rejected 1998 pitch for a Catwoman solo movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer
AV Club Danny Boyle has dropped out of Bond 25. The longer the film delays production, the more I suspect Daniel Craig will bolt, too.
Variety Asia Argento sure has had it rough lately. In addition to her own rage about Weinstein, and the suicide of her boyfriend, she herself is denying claims that she sexually assaulted a minor.
More after the jump including the dying YA movie boom, Madonna docs and criticisms, Sebastian Stan, Crazy Rich Asians, and more...
Awards Daily the punditry changes for the new Oscar season. Lots of movement
The Guardian After Twilight and The Hunger Games, other series have failed to ignite. Is the YA movie boom over?
Towleroad a docudrama about Madonna's early years has a trailer. Jamie Auld is playing Madonna in the reenactments.
The New Yorker with yet another film version coming a look at how Little Women came to mean so much to female writers
Film School Rejects Sebastian Stan is hot right now and using that I Tonya and Winter Soldier good will to line up film. Next up Destroyer with Kidman and a romantic drama with Denise Gough (of stage Angels in America fame) called Monday
/Film Renée Zellweger is moving to TV with What/If an anthology morality tale series
Coming Soon the American Horror Story Coven cast reunited - new photo!
MNPP Lots of photos of all the hotties from Crazy Rich Asians: Henry Golding, Pierre Png, and Chris Pang
The New Yorker went to every Bob Fosse film at the recent retrospective at The Quad NYC
Daily Beast craziest looks from the VMAs red carpet
THR Madonna facing criticism for her Aretha tribute at the VMAs
Reader Comments (20)
John August Catwoman pitch: Okay, the studio were idiots for most of HOW they rejected him (Sarah Michelle Gellar over Eliza Dushku? Hair-washing scene?) and everything, but I have to admit they were right about one thing: This is not really a pitch for Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman. This is a pitch for another actress stepping in.
That tribute Madonna gave to Aretha was horrible and proof that Madonna is full of shit. It was bad enough she butchered "Rebel Rebel" at a show just days after Bowie died and that horrendous tribute to Prince at the Billboard Awards later that year. Now this. Madonna is nothing more than aging dinosaur who is just coasting on her iconic status.
thevoid99: amen. you said it well.
Would be nice to see Sebastian Stan break out with regards to awards recognition. His turn in I TONYA was just as good as the two ladies and didn't even get a fraction of the notices they received.
Next to Robbie, I thought Stan was MVP of I, Tonya.
Has anyone read the unproduced Daniel Waters CATWOMAN screenplay? It's even more bizarre than BATMAN RETURNS (Selina is an amnesiac living with her mother in a dystopian Vegas-type city), but Pfeiffer would have killed it.
Madonna has faced every single ounce of criticism her entire career and the majority of it has been bullshit, including this. I just love the fact that only Madonna, a 60 year old female pop star, could create controversy like this and no one else. She has endured far worse and will continue to endure worse until she dies and everyone worships her entire career.
Argento needs to be treated the same as a male in a situation of similar evidence or the hypocrisy is damning. Rose McGowan has tweeted choosing her friend over the victim after previously tweeting to always listen to the victim. Lena Dunham did the same. Friendship blinds. Good to me and that’s all that matters.
The trouble with Madonna is she's so busy trying to be current and wearing weird Fancy Dress outfits that she has forgotten her legacy,I mean it's 2018 and her albums haven't been re releassed or remastered for years,Ray of Light has lots of demos lying around.
IMDb says Pierre Png is 44 years old. He looks 30!
thevoid99: Kindly suck my dick. That's all.
Why was Madonna paying tribute to Aretha? Did she have any relationship with her? Why is she always chosen to pay tribute to all of these artists when they're gone? (Yes, I know she did a duet with Prince.)
Just spitballing here, but Lauryn Hill actually worked with Aretha and it's the 20th anniversary of her landmark album. It seems like she would have been a much more appropriate artist to pay tribute to her.
Patagonia -
Was that really necessary?
Ken S.-
It was.
Madonna is saying the producers asked her to just tell an anecdote from her life that has anything to do with Aretha, so of course she just had to do what the producers asked! As if she hasn't spent her entire career being a free-thinking, independent woman who doesn't do anything just because someone else asks/tells her to. She should've thought about it for half a second and told them "you know what? This will be during a tribute to Aretha and I really don't have any personal connection to her and I think an anecdote from my life would come off poorly. Either stick to keeping it a tribute or find someone else with a stronger personal connection to her."
She even said on Instagram: "I could never do her justice in this context or environment." So then just maybe don't do it? You don't have center yourself in everything.
For someone who's been so smart about her image and PR in the past this was not a good decision.
And really, awards shows, she already spoke/performed at tributes for Michael Jackson and Prince. It's okay to find someone else. That's nothing against Madonna. But there actually are other talented, articulate performers out there. Find them.
Look, Madonna has always been a narcissistic See You Next Tuesday. Doesn't take away from her achievements and decent singles. But she is more cringe than not nowadays.
tyson -- you know that's whats coming. everyone will fawn after she dies but until then it's decades of people taking shots at her. ah well.
The worship that's going to flood the internet when she does pass will probably break it,Bow Down now while she is here,Look back on her career then get back to me.
Madonna screwed up here and she will undoubtedly do so again in the future. That doesn't take away from all of her many, many achievements, but those achievements don't excuse her from her missteps either. What's so hard to understand about that? She's human.
Someone rejected a Michelle Pfeiffer solo CATWOMAN movie?!