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Friday, June 26, 2020 at 6:00PM 
• The Playlist Tenet pushed back to August. Shouldn't they just push it back to November at this point? What will change in one month's time?
• Variety Zoe Kravitz talks playing Catwoman in The Batman (2021). La Pfeiffer gave her blessing!
• Awards Daily interviews Tim Blake Nelson of Watchmen
After the jump a new Princess Diana movie, Big Mouth changes, new roles for Keke Palmer and Michael Keaton and a Gone With the Wind discussion...
• Variety NEON will distribute a new Pablo Larrain Princess Diana movie to star Kristen Stewart. We dont really understand another Diana movie after the embarrassing Diana BUT Larrain is amazing. So...
• Variety speaking of people risking the ghosts of previous flops, Margot Robbie is going to do a female pirate movie. Will she consult Geena Davis? It's part of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise so she'll probably be safe regardless
• MovieMaker how important are stars to distribution deals for indies?
• IndieWire Jenny Slate will no longer be voicing Missy on Big Mouth (Missy is the best character on the whole show!) and apologizes for playing the biracial character
• Entertainment Weekly an oral history of Scott Pilgrim vs the World
• /Film Michael Keaton is going to be playing Batman again for the DC Universe (how this coincides and is concurrent with Robert Pattinson's The Batman we don't understand)
• Coming Soon Keke Palmer to headline a new thriller called Alice
• The Guardian the 2020 San Sebastian Film Festival will open with the new Woody Allen picture, which takes place during the festival itself!
• Cartoon Brew Chicken Run is getting a sequel with Netflix on board
• Coming Soon Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) has joined The Matrix 4 which is now slated for 2022
Finally...
Gone With the Wind is back on HBO Max with the promised context. Film Scholar Jaqueline Stewart provides that context in the following introduction...
Reader Comments (15)
I cancelled my AMC A List ticket program today 😭
@Volvagia
How do you feel about the Splash Mountain re-theming?
Nothing surprises me anymore really
I really wish all movies be pushed to either to November or April 2021. I just want people to be safe.
Karen Gillan and Margot Robbie in a pirate movie. If it's bonkers and insanely fun, sign me the fuck up!
In regards to these disclaimers, I think it doesn't help matters as it's going to make people see these films even more now. I don't rate Gone with the Wind very highly but I never thought it was controversial as Mammy was a full-fledge character that didn't take shit from anyone. If anything, she ran that fucking house and Rhett Butler respected that.
The Kristen Stewart/Diana movie worries me. I love her, but she’s just such a specific actress that I don’t think she can truly disappear into a real life figure - particularly someone so worldwide famous.
Did Princess Diana bite her lip a lot, sigh and push her dirty hair around? Cause if not we’re in trouble!!!!!
@Aaron- I understand what you're saying abut KStew, but I do think that her casting presents an interesting opportunity to play on her own fame and let that specificity work into her interpretation of the character. Maybe it'll work, maybe it'll be a disaster, I just hope it isn't boring! I'm more interested in the fact that Larrain would do a film that, on paper, seems so similar to Jackie. But if he wants to keep making films about a specific time in the life of fascinating historical women I have a list for him! lol
I have similar hopes for Zoe as Catwoman. I've been rooting for her for a while and I think she's finally coming into her own as an actress after Big Little Lies and High Fidelity. I almost wish she'd get the chance to play a different iconic villain. No shade to Uma, but when will Poison Ivy get the big screen love she deserves?!
Just watched Blackkklansman and if it had some out in 2020, even a COVID free 2020, Spike Lee would be a three time competitive Oscar winner in a cakewalk.
Is Margot playing Anne Bonny in the new Pirates? I remember the Hammer Films project Mistress of the Sea dedicated to the Queen of Pirates starring Raquel Welch (even if Ursula Andress dreamt to play it). Unfortunately it was shelved
Are we putting Spike Lee is the list of the really great auteurs now ? He's made so many incredibly uneven films, "Da 5 Bloods" included.
I was crazy about Bo Derek when she first hit the scene in a big way. I also love pirate movies (including "Cutthroat Island", which i still think is terrific). Around 1981 husband John was set to direct Bo and Richard Harris in an Anne Bonny movie called "Pirate Annie'. I was panting to see it but alas the project was scuttled.
Another link to add - my two literal TV boyfriends right now - Nicholas Hoult and Paul Mescal interview each other in one of those Variety Actors on Actors nominate us for awards bits.
Also Paul Verhoeven at some point was interested in MISTRESS OF THE SEAS, he tried to have with him Divine Pfeiffer and Geena Davis but things didn't go well...but Davis made instead CUTHROAT ISLAND with her then husband Renny Harilin
It utterly amazes me at how many smart, purportedly liberal people are upset at the very idea that HBO MAX would add a contextualizing video preface to GONE WITH THE WIND even after seeing this very mild new introduction. People who have never had a problem with intro after intro run before TCM movies on cable (or classic novels that almost always have some sort of expert introduction by someone) are upset with this, including some high level scholars who should know better ("it's just more work for us, isn't it? That's a good thing." I say, trying to be positive and diplomatic. "Why are they assuming people can't decide for themselves what to think about a film?" they reply, angrily. "What, then, is the purpose of our whole profession as film scholars," I wonder to myself.) It just seems to be white fragility at its most obnoxious. People are dying in the streets at the hands of cops and folks are in a funk that someone points out that "Gone with the Wind" is racially insensitive in a three-minute introduction you can probably skip if you want? The mind boggles.
These movies were all memories for me when I went to golden hours to watch good movies. Now, as technology becomes more modern, watching mr mine becomes more convenient with technological devices.