• Coming Soon Juliette Lewis is joining the Roseanne spinoff sitcom The Conners
• MNPP ACK! Somehow I missed the news that there's a new documentary coming about Montgomery Clift and it's playing at NewFest next month
• Awards Daily Willem Dafoe and Paul Greengrass are getting tributes at the Gotham Awards
• AV Club Eric Idle confirms a longstanding rumor about Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in a scene from Empire Strikes Back...
Lots more after the jump including Judi Dench's frustration, Wicked's anniversary, Chris Pine's penis, Glenn Close's movies, JK Rowling's foot-in-mouth problem, and English language remakes of foreign hits which are fine as they are (sigh)...
• Vanity Fair Outlaw King got a 20 minute trim after middling TIFF reviews but they left in Chris Pine's full frontal
• Variety big box office not expected for Crazy Rich Asians as it opens in Japan
• Guardian Judi Dench is uncomfortable with Kevin Spacey being cut from movies "Are we to go back throughout history and anyone who has misbehaved in any way... Are we going to extrude them from our history?”"
• Playbill Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are reuniting on an NBC TV special in October celebrating 15 years of Wicked on Broadway
• Variety Tang Wei (Lust Caution, Blackhat) will headline The Whistleblower an expensive China/Australia coproduction
• The Guardian ranks Glenn Close movies and somehow believes that The Wife is a greater film than Dangerous Liaisons? Oh my I can't. That's even more absurd than putting Albert Nobbs on any best of list and I LIKE The Wife.
• Pajiba JK Rowling in danger of becoming the next George Lucas
• Variety Nicole Kidman and team are going to produce The Female Persuasion based on Meg Wolitzer's book. It's about a college student, though, so dont expect Kidman in the lead role.
• Coming Soon in truly dumb news there's going to be an English language remake of Joachim Trier's supernatural lesbian drama Thelma, that was Norway's Oscar submission last year. It's dumb to remake things that are already great. (sigh)
• Coming Soon ...that's not the only recent foreign hit getting remade. There's currently a bidding war for the rights to remake South Korea's zombie hit Train to Busan