• Advocate straight actors still not feeling any hesistancy about taking on gay roles that could be played by underemployed actually gay actors. Viggo Mortensen is the latest, he even wrote it for himself
• Coming Soon I don't know quite why I expectd Jordan Peele, who got famous in comedy, to transition out of horror films but he's sticking with the genre. After Get Out and Us his third horror feature lands in 2022 (no plot, title, or cast details yet)
• My New Plaid Pants ohmy. There's a pretty gay rumor about the long delayed Dev Patel picture The Green Knight which co-stars Joel Edgerton
More after the jump including Andrew Scott, The Queen's Gambit, A Quiet Place sequels, new film projects and new TV series...
• Boy Culture Congratulations on 15 years of Matthew's fun blog
• The Guardian interviews Marielle Heller on her latest project The Queen's Gambit
• /Film We don't even have A Quiet Place part 2 yet but A Quiet Place 3 is already announced. Guess they aren't defeating those monsters with great hearing yet
• Playbill Oooh, this is exciting news. Two very fine actors, Andrew Scott and Ruth Wilson will star in a film version of the acclaimed play Oslo (it's not about Norway but Middle East peace talks that occurred there in 1993)
• /Film trailer for the reboot of TV youth detective series The Hardy Boys
• Cartoon Brew new Canadian legislation would force streaming companies to subsidize more Canadian content if they want to stream in Canada. Makes sense. In fact countries that have pre-streaming legislation to promote homegrown cinema are the ones that tend to have much more enduring cinemas that didn't give the whole playing field to Hollywood.
• Coming Soon Adrien Brody and Vera Farmiga will co-star in a new mystery thriller The Salamander Lives Twice
• Playbill Acting legends Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, and Ian McKellen doing a live zoom event for charity late this month
• Cartoon Brew releases for movies in 2020 have been confusing given theater closures and VOD and streaming options but few film rollouts have been as terribly confusing as Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run. Which will now be going to Netflix EXCEPT in Canada and the US.
• Towleroad tributes pouring out for Jeopardy icon Alex Trebek who passed away on Sunday at the age of 80
• Variety Olivia Cooke getting a supporting actress campaign for Sound of Metal. I can confirm she's lovely in it
(last week's unshared links - they might be new to you!)
• Theater Mania Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff to headline a new movie musical called Molly and the Moon
• Broadway Buzz somehow we completely missed that the 2020 Olivier Awards were held in late October - Dear Evan Hansen took New Musical and Leopolstadt took New Play. Andrew Scott ❤️ took Best Actor.
• IndieWire Theater owners are hoping Wonder Woman 1984 saves them at Christmas time but doubts are rising that it will be delayed
• People Belated congratulations to Scarlett Johansson and SNL's Colin Jost who tied the knot last week. This is Scarlett's third marriage and Colin's first
• The Mary Sue looked back at a Buffy episode that resonates all too strongly in 2020...
• Pop Sugar Forever adorable Paul Rudd handed out cookies to people waiting in line to vote on Election Day.
• Letterboxd in addition to our charts here we're also tracking the International Feature Film Oscar submissions over there if you need a handy "to watch" list. We're up to 38 pictures now though there's another month plus left in the submitting process (which usually ends around September 30th... but the final date is pushed back this year (like evrything else) due to COVID-19.