Link grab bag from Disney strategies to new Auteur projects to Sean Young speaking out
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 10:02PM It's been approximately 1,000 years since our last link roundup. It's always tough to keep up with news during Oscar season when more important things (shiny gold statues!) are on the mind.
• Variety Disney is shifting release strategies and dates again for Black Widow, Luca, and Cruella among others. We're disappointed that Adrian Lyne's long awaited return with erotic thriller Deep Water is now a 2022 movie (that's well over a full year since it was first supposed to come out.)
• IndieWire meanwhile Warner Bros announces that it will end the opening simultaneously on HBOMax treatment for its new movies starting in 2022 which will play in theaters for 45 days first. (We're guessing the people behind Dune are pissed that this doesn't apply to them) since none of their deals imagined a non-theatrical world.
• Towleroad Lady Gaga has already upset the woman she's playing in Ridley Scott's Gucci biopic
More after the jump including Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Elliot Page, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood...
• /Film as you may have heard Steven Spielberg is making a drama inspired by his own childhood. Michelle Williams will be playing his sort of mother and Seth Rogen his sort of uncle.
• MNPP Oscar Isaac doing some fight training for Moon Knight
• Deadline Helen Mirren joins the Shazam franchise as a villain
• Time Elliot Page is on the cover of Time magazine
• /Film Clint Eastwood has a new movie called Cry Macho that's due in October. His movies haven't been big at the Oscars in a while but you never know.
• Coming Soon The DC Universe has snatched up fresh Oscar nominee Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) to write one of their upcoming superhero films, Zatanna
• Deadline Naomie Harris and Chiwetel Ejiofor are headlining a reworking of the David Bowie picture The Man Who Fell to Earth, this time as a series on Showtime. Ejiofor has the alien role.
• Out LGBTQ holiday romcoms won't just be a one year thing. Single All The Way announced for 2021 on Netflix.
perhaps unsurprisingly Promising Young Woman is doing well after a price drop. It's the kind of genre-tinged movie that would have found an audience even without awards play
A Bit on Box Office
• IndieWire Interesting details on what's hot on various streaming services but we object to the very misleading picture painted about both theatrical box office and Netflix. The article posits that Oscar nominations mean nothing to consumers while failing to note that no Netflix titles suddenly resurge for any reason really after their initial week. The nature of Netflix is that you're only hot for your first week (or two if you're lucky). What's more the coasts and big urban markets are the places where Oscar contenders that aren't four-quadrant titles tend to earn most of their bank theatrically and most of those markets are just not open or are just now reopening. So of course the movies are packing them in!
Finally
• Daily Beast Sean Young is speaking out again, this time against Ridley Scott but it is a bit bizarre to hear someone badmouth a production (in this case Bladerunner 2049) and reveal details of her deal while also revealing that she signed an NDA. Seems a bit dangerous legally... (doesn't that mean she shouldn't be allowed to tell us these details?) but we are not lawyers so we don't know how these things work! Anyway she's always been a fun celebrity primarly because she seems to have no filter with journalists (Barbra Streisand will not be pleased about this interview!) and was just A+ electric onscreen until that toxic affair with James Wood and subsequent legal battles sidelined her career.
Exit Videos
Here's the new trailer for Japans' Demon Slayer, now their all time box office champ. It was eligible for the Oscars this year but is getting its US release in April, R rated, with both subbed and dubbed versions. We really wish animated features would start joining live-action films in (mostly) sticking to the calendar year for their eligibility.
And the trailer for a new Joss Whedon series called The Nevers. Very excited to see Olivia Williams, Ben Chaplin, James Norton again (underutilised all). Not yet familiar with the lead Laura Donnelly but we hear she's great on stage. Hope it's good.
Reader Comments (15)
Nathaniel, did you also see that Sharon Stone has a new tell-all book coming out which will cover her experiences on the set of Basic Instinct... that should be juicy
That Sean Young interview is amazing.
I wish she's being cast in mainstream movies again; she is a pretty good actress and has screen charisma.
Seth Rogen as Steven Spielberg's uncle in a film about Spielberg by Spielberg. Now this I gotta see as this might be the first Spielberg film I have interest in seeing after the horror that is... Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.... ugh.... I take back every awful thing I've said about Hook as this is the worst film he's made.
I hate the fact that Deep Water is coming out January of 2022 as that will be Adrian Lyne's first film in 20 years.
In some really sad news, George Segal just passed away. I really like that guy. He's one of my favorites as he's just so fun to watch. The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox may not be a film that many will say is great but that was one of my dad's favorite films.
@thevoid99 You've missed some really good films: WAR HORSE, BRIDGE OF SPIES, LINCOLN.
Zatanna?!? I haven't thought about that character in a while...a little Dr. Strange, a little Scarlet Witch...whose first appearances (1963 and '64) predate hers (1964) ever so slightly.
If you know a movie is going to be on a streaming platform 45 days after it hits theaters, would you really feel compelled to go to the movies?
That's not meant to be snarky - I'm just curious to hear what people think. Because I look at that news and I'm like, "Oh, I'll just wait for it to come out on streaming."
Sean Young is in shaky territory but appreciate her candour.
Turner said the same about Beatty. Repulsive.
"If you know a movie is going to be on a streaming platform 45 days after it hits theaters, would you really feel compelled to go to the movies?"
Yes, the theatrical experience is unique.
There are better things to cover about that Gucci movie than the fact that a convicted murderer is mad she hasn't met Lady Gaga, just saying!
Why would Streisand be upset?
Marcos -- because Young calls her out for defending Beatty/sleeping with him.
Jules -- i'm sure there are! but we havent checked in on news in weeks and this was being discussed out there. What have you heard that's interesting about it? I admit i've heard very little other than who is starring and directing.
That Sean Young interview was delicious (not to mention fairly horrifying yet unsurprising). She sounds like a fun person to hang out with.
Now sure if you saw it, but Film Comment magazine is looking to return. They've relaunched their podcast (new episode every Tuesday) and after the departure of their Editor-In-Chief and an one year pandemic lockdown, their Co-Editors are figuring out the magazine's return. All film lovers should subscribe to this periodical. It's bi-monthly and with a subscription, each issue is about $3.50. Check out filmcomment.com for more info.
Nathaniel - Honestly, I just love all the set photos.
The Sean Young interview made me think of Linda Fiorentino, another headstrong, magnetic actress who was branded as difficult. I would love to read a piece where she gives her perspective on the business after all those years - her interviews were a hoot and she was never scared to casually call someone out.