• LA Times RIP the iconic Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
• MNPP celebrating Michelle Williams, who just turned 40
• /Film Ewan McGregor confirms that he'll return to the role of Obi Wan Kenobi for a one season series on Disney Plus. For what it's worth Ewan will be 50 years old when they start shooting next year but that's still young for Obi Wan adventures. Sir Alec Guiness was 63 when the original Star Wars was released in 1977
After the jump, we stan Jane Fonda, Oscar dreams for Mark Wahlberg?, a 'what if' for 2020 movie culture, Sigourney Weaver on set and more....
• Pajiba "It's time to kill off the myth of the wealthy writer" hear hear!
• AV Club compares Dune 2020 visuals to Dune 1984
• Guardian Supposedly Mark Wahlberg is hoping to be back in the Oscar race for Good Joe Bell, a drama premiering at TIFF, about a man who fights against bigotry after his son kills himself due to homophobic bullying. Wahlberg seems like a really strange choice to headline a social justice movie!
• Coming Soon that George & Tammy movie starring Jessica Chastain as country music legend Tammy Wynette is now going to be a television miniseries instead - Chastain is still attached
• Boy Culture Jane Fonda has always been a hero - check out this great 1970s clip of her talking about gay rights. 1970s... LONG before the world began to come around.
• The Playlist Warner Bros is rumored to be considering pushing all of their fall slate big ticket movies back (to make more space for Tenet to have legs)
• Variety a new study shows that streaming services are more fond of female leads than other types of tv
• Vulture Joe Reid imagines what 2020 movie culture would have been like without the pandemic. Fun piece of alternate reality
• CGTN China's Ann Hui is the first female dirctor to win the Golden Lion at Venice
• Variety Oliver Stone taking a restored copy of Born on the Fourth of July (1989) to festivals
• / Film Sigourney Weaver films underwater sequences for Avatar sequels