Once Upon a Link in Hollywood
Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 8:19AM • Variety intereesting news about Disney's alternate compensation plan for TV creatives (the television landscape is changing but pay structures haven't and are essentially still based on the old and outdated 22 episodes per season model)
• Vulture HBO has denied the IndieWire charges of what went down on Big Little Lies season 2 in terms of Andrea Arnold and the final edit
• The New Yorker another piece on Big Little Lies and its prescient season 1 finale and season 2 as a metaphor for the Hollywood fallout from #MeToo
After the jump Jennifer Lawrence, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, motion smoothing, Lord of the Rings casting, and more...
• MUBI inspired by Once upon a Tim in Hollywood, The Daily Notebook investigates that time in Tinseltown history when fading stars were lured to Italy
• Deadline Mike Moh stops by "New Hollywood Podcast" to talk Bruce Lee and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• AV Club Jennifer Lawrence to play a mob informant in Mob Girl (good god, how many movies have there been in my lifetime about mob informants. So many!)
• /Film Greig Fraser, one of the best cinematographers working, will be lensing the next live-action Batman movie
• Vulture the ongoing problems with TV settings and "motion smoothing" and why our brains don't like to see movies this way
• Deadline Catherine Hardwicke to direct Heathen, a feminist viking movie
• AV Club apparently James Marsden was supposed to play Burt Reynolds for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but his scene got cut. Argh!
• Cinematic Corner 10 best scenes in Stranger Things 3 - heavy on the Hopper because she has a thing for David Harbour, don'cha know.
• Heat Vision more details about Black Widow which will co-star David Harbour
• THR Lord of the Rings, Amazon's forthcoming series set before the events of the famous books (and movie trilogy), has announced its first casting, Australian actress Markella Kavenagh (who played Myrtle in the recent miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock)
• Broadway World two stage stars Jessie Mueller and Megan Hilty are playing Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline respectively in a new tv movie for Lifetime
• Heat Vision goes long on the forgotten controversies surrounding The Lion King (1994) and how it was heavily influenced by Kimba the White Lion (1965-1967) without ever acknowledging it
Reader Comments (15)
Abandoning the 22 episode model: Yes, it's old, but it still essentially works, both from a pay model way and a structural way. If you're doing 22 episodes a season, it encourages dramas to do both standalone episodes AND long form storytelling. If you're only doing 8-13 episode batches, the former is always what's sacrificed. And if you want to see why having BOTH is more necessary than people think? Marvel Netflix, through its absence of standalone episodes, is a perfect microcosm for why the essentially universal abandonment of episodic in live-action TV is an ongoing disaster.
Catherine Hardwicke's Heathen: Look, I think female directors should be more prevalent and important. And if it were any other female director, Heathen would sound like an interesting idea. But Hardwicke has been given MORE than enough opportunities to justify herself past Lords of Dogtown and she...hasn't. Six of six critical duds, five of six financial duds.
Agree about Catherine Hardwicke. Where is the director that gave us "thirteen" ??? I want her back!
Faye Dunaway got fired AGAIN!
Have there been a lot of movies about female mob informants? I can think of more movies about Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline!
I love it how all this Big Little Lies stuff is going on and seemingly the only one we haven't heard from is Arnold herself?
Also, that Dunaway story is nuts. It's over for her. You don't recover from that this late in your career (as it were...)
Burt Reynolds himself was supposed to be in OUATIH, but died before filming. Who took his place?
forever1267: Bruce Dern.
If Arnold talks she will never work again in Hollywood so she won't.
Lifetime should make a Faye Dunaway biopic Mommie Dearest style starring Catherine Zeta Jones. Such amazing life. And the diva behaviour rumors on movie sets like in Chinatown (1974) had to be in it. Stories like the one that she refused to flush her own toilet, and expected her assistants to do it for her or on another occasion, while filming a scene in a car, Roman Polanski refused to let her urinate, so he could finish the scene.She then urinated in a cup and threw it in his face. How could he be so insensitive?
Bette Davis has all the low down on Faye's filming antics.
Feline Justice: The "assistants flushing the toilet" thing is just...what? I mean, I can buy the other thing as manufacturing karmic justice, but...flush your darn toilet! Put some gloves on if you're afraid of the germs or whatever, but flush it!
Betty Lou: I'm not sure that matters much to Arnold though. It's not as if she ever pursued making Hollywood films. However, her silence is intriguing.
Volvagia, "Do not flush when using the toilet" must be one of the main items in the book "How to behave like a celebrity" because it's very common to hear stories about how this or that famous when going to the toilet doesn't flush, delegating the task to an assistant or bodyguard. Why? Flushing is a basic act when going to the toilet.
Mob informants make for good audience proxies into an underground world (although they're have been so many mob movies, I'm not sure if there are any surprises left to be had).
James Marsden as a young Burt Reynolds sounds like it could have really worked.
A feminist Viking movie?!