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Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 11:00PM • AV Club as if the Gilded Age didn't have enough Broadway stars already, Robert Sean Leonard and Laura Benanti are joining the cast for Season 2
• IndieWire It's Batman vs Spider-Man on PVOD charts (but the iTunes chart is fairly interesting for its older titles like Easter hits like Ten Commandments and Passion of the Christ)
• Cartoon Brew Across the Spider-Verse has been pushed back until summer 2023 so yes...
• TFE... we've already had to update the Oscar charts for Best Animated Feature
• AV Club Andy Serkis is going to direct an animated Animal Farm
More after the jump including honors for Lily Tomlin, Liza Minnelli's feelings about her Oscar apperance, Danny Elfman at Coachella, The Northman and more...
• Salon Lily Tomlin immortalized in hand and footprint ceremony in Hollywood
• / Film attends the launch of director David Leitch's (Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train) new Hoillywood Stunt Training Facility (he started as a stuntman
• Jezebel Reports on the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard libel trial (we haven't been following but if you're interested here's an update)
• The Wrap there's trouble at Netflix Animation including a round of firings and projects being cancelled
• LA Times Janelle Monae has come out as nonbinary and is releasing a new book called "The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer" the book explores some of the album's themes
• Guardian Liza Minnelli upset about her Oscar night appearance... apparently she had requested not to be in a wheelchair
Vikings!
• Daily Beast "unpacks" the big Nicole Kidman scene in The Northman but you shouldn't read this unless you've already seen the movie
• Vulture how the Northman is also a Björk music video
• The Film Doctor five notes on The Northman
Music & Stage
• Playbill Matt Doyle interviewed about his performance in Broadway's Company
• Vulture Tonys push back their nomination announcment date a week
• Broadway World all the dates for Tony Award Season (yes, there are precursors just as there are with the Oscars)
• Playbill a South Korean stage production of Phantom (not the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical but the Maury Yeston version) starring a KPop singer will screen in several US cities this summer
• Variety Danny Elfman talks about his web-breaking Coachella set. He went shirtless. He played the Batman score, his Oingo Boingo hits and more. (Now can we please get him his long overdue Oscar?)
Reader Comments (6)
Since we're sharing links, I'll leave one to my latest essay at Photogénie. If you guys want to know more about the cinema of Dimitri Kirsanoff or are eager for some silent film recommendations, give it a read: https://photogenie.be/the-silent-musicality-of-dimitri-kirsanoff/
A cast member of The Age of Innocence joining The Gilded Age? Perfect!
1. How in the hell did Lily Fucking Tomlin not already have her hand prints in front of GCT?
2. Danny Elfman performed at Coachella. Ok, I've heard and seen weirder acts play there. He performed shirtless. MARY WHAT. Like, what the fuck???? Love it.
Danny Elfman could lure Bridget out of retirement aswell,lots of us miss her.
Big Danny Elfman fan here too. Loved him in Oingo Boingo; loved him as a solo artist; and as he is well known in recent dacades by the film and TV audience - as a composer of orchestral scores.
Saw him in 2015 at the Lincoln Center for the "Music of Tim Burton" concert. He sang as Jack with a ferocity that approaches the black metal intensity of Mikael Åkerfeldt. John Mauceri was conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. They rotated singers to do the part of Sally for each city. That night, it was Ingrid Michaelson. Wonderfully tremulous. But Danny Elfman was electric and brought the house down. The audience, many were dressed as characters in Tim Burton movies, went gaga for him.
And oh I love Janelle Monae too. Saw her in concert in Raleigh probably 2013. She had an inexhaustible supply of energy that night.
Glad to know Björk is in The Northman. If only for her and Claes Bang, I'll watch the film.
You know, I loved The Good Wife and The Good Fight and even Madame Secretary (despite the ridiculous plots) because of the all the Broadway people these NY-based shows drew upon. But, with The Gilded Age, until they do a musical episode, I just can't; despite all the lavish costumes and stellar cast, it's just so, so dull. At least in the new HBO Max series, Julia, also awash with very talented theater actors (Judith Light, for goodness sakes!) and written by actual playwrights, there's laughing and dancing and singing, and honest-to-goodness joy.