• The Reveal "The Gotham City liveability index" through Batman projects. Hee
• Vulture interviews Lee Pace about Pushing Daisies for its 15th anniversary. Of all the shows being rebooted, shows that didn't get long runs should be at the top of the lists
• AV Club gets righteously snarky about theater chains upping their prices for The Batman. Cosign
• Letterboxd curating a fat girl cinematic canon
• Dread Central "a timeline of women monsters in film"
More after the jump including Austin Stowell, Paul Dano, M Night Shyamalan casting news, and Disney's disgusting anti-gay politics...
• /Film Eddie Izzard to star in a new Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde movie
• MNPP Worst Person in the World beaus -- make your choice
• Broadway World we haven't heard Pamela Anderson's name in years but post Pam & Tommy, the now 54 year old beauty is staging a comeback and it begins with a stint as Roxi Hart in Broadway's undead Chicago. (As much as we love Chicago we think all shows over 20 years should close... give new artists a chance to eventually reimagine these things with revivals!)
• IndieWire Amazon Prime believes streaming might be the answer to what ails awards shows
• THR interviews Paul Dano about The Batman and his role as Spielberg's father in The Fabelmans
• Out M Night Shyamalan has cast two out gay actors (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) in his next film Knock at the Cabin
• MNPP Hunky Austin Stowell
Mouse House Shame
Finally, as you may have heard Disney has been suffering backlash for supporting the politicians behind the GOP's latest antigay moves in Florida. But not enough backlash if you ask us. The company has been releasing terribly lame statements and I wish most news sites would do more to really pick these statements apart because they are atrocious and filled with misleading suggestions and sometimes lies. For instance you cannot "unequivocally" support LGBTQ+ people while donating to their political foes who are seeking to repress them. We also want to have some words to HRC which have given Disney a 100% rating for years. This rating is clearly monetarily driven -- HRC needs their funding, too, -- but it means absolutely nothing since Disney does a terrible job of being an ally to gay people with both gay representation and with their political gestures. "Gay Days" for example is still not officially sanctioned by the company despite all the millions they've earned from it.
Finally, it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that corporate statements in support of gay rights do not move the needle. If Disney actually took a stand and actually unequivocally supported LGBTQ+ people there would be real change in the world because they are a behemoth company with gargantuan financial resources and political power. Whether its right for any one company to have that much power (it's not) is another topic. But since they do in fact have that power, it's shameful that they pretend to be an ally while proving otherwise with their actions.