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Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 9:20AM • IndieWire Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth starring Ethan Hawke, Juliette Binoche, and Catherine Deneuve to open the Venice Film Festival
• The Guardian on the rise of millenial filmmakers -- they're just beginning
• /Film a rare straight-to-series order for a new sitcom from the 30 Rock team - Ted Danson & Tina Fey will star
• Variety why audiences are only going to Disney movies
• /Film the new Mortal Kombat movie will be going for a violent "R" rating
• The Guardian terrific actress Billie Piper is now a director, too. Her first film Rare Beasts is going to Venice. She calls it an anti-rom-com
• Coming Soon Dark Crystal Age of Resistance gets a sneak peek via ComicCon
• Film School Rejects offers up a handy list of forthcoming action films that are directed by women
• BuzzFeed "Euphoria" and the meaning of penises onscreen via the only context in which we're ever shown them.
• AV Club Archer renewed for an 11th season - this time he'll be back to espionage?
• Deadline Brandon Routh, who had the misfortune of being cast as Superman in a bad Superman movie (Superman Returns) gets to put the cape back on for the CW.
• Gr8ter Days TV's Hart to Hart celebrating its 40th anniversary
• Hard Times "James Corden prepared for 'Cats' role by living as obnoxious creature for decades"
• Gold Derby a nearly decade-long trend suggests a Billy Porter or Kit Harrington win for Best Actor
• Variety Two Emmy nominations revoked from Better Call Saul in the short form categories. We think they need much stricter rules about short form because it's starting to seem like a way to just give regular series extra prizes for bite-sized things (instead of honoring shows that are born and intended for the short form)
• Refinery 29 a new interview with Madonna as she premieres another music video from Madame X "Batuka"
Reader Comments (11)
If Kit Harrington wins, I-
Right? Harrington is decent. But that's it.
Nat: All I have to say about Brandon Routh doing CW Superman? JUSTICE! Brandon Routh wasn't the problem with Superman Returns.
I’ll be surprised if any of the Game of Thrones actors (van Houten & Dinklage excluded) ever prove as good as that show’s fans seem to think they are ever again. It’s truly perplexing to me, even by the standards of soap operas, how bland or inexpressive they often were on the show relative to the praise they received.
I forgot the wonderful Dame Diana Rigg as Lady Olenna Tyrell. She fully grapsed the show she was on and was never less than entertaining.
Am I in that small minority that actually liked Superman Returns despite the horror that is Bryan Singer?
I think Superman Returns gets a bad rap and that rap will only get worse in coming years (Singer, Spacey, etc). I think Routh did a fairly charming job and didn't buckle under the weight and expectations fo the role. The movie is beautifully shot and has some great set pieces. Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane on the other hand.....
I love Euphoria. I'm hooked.
The Kore-eda movie sounds like the type of thing I'm going to love.
I never saw Brandon Routh as Superman, but I love him on “Legends of Tomorrow”. He has such great comic timing and inflections, and really knows how to work with another actor to build something interesting.
Tyler Hoechlin, who guests as Superman on “Supergirl”, is a delight. He totally subscribes to the Christopher Reeve interpretation of the part.
The crossover seems like fun, although I don’t watch all the shows. Legends of Tomorrow, always (such fun); Flash, usually (good ensemble); Arrow, never; Supergirl, off and on - the show’s vision of a tormented country can go down some strange by-ways. Ruby Rose: always.
Billie Piper also has four or five rock solid pop singles to her credit. I've long said she is the best pop star there ever was for those four minutes that "Day and Night" plays.
*several* Emmy categories need an overhaul. Danielle Solzy wrote a piece about their absurd documentary category in which four of this year's Oscar nominees are also Emmy nominees while documentaries made for TV continue to get ignored.