• Salon remembers the 'gentlemanly gruffness' of Fred Ward (Tremors, The Right Stuff), who has passed away at 79. We will remember him best from Henry & June, Big Business, and Short Cuts.
• IndieWire interesting report on how the streamers are all doing. It was a rough quarter given the expensive (to streamers and viewers) content wars but HBOMax is holding steady and AppleTV got an enormous boost from CODA's Best Picture Oscar win.
• Harvard Film Archives posters of queer movies over the decades from multiple countries
Character actor James Hong, Stephen King adaptations, a royal role for Christopher Walken, smoking hot silent film stars, and more after the jump...
• /Film Alexander Skarsgård and Dane Dehaan to star in tiger hunting drama in The Tiger
• The New Yorker looks back on the celebrity photography of Ron Galella
• AV Club Christopher Walken to play the Emperor in Dune Part Two
• The Root Kerry Washington & Delroy Lindo will lead a comedy series Unprisoned
• Pajiba James Hong (Everything Everywhere All At Once) finally receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 93 years of age
• AV Club 15 Stephen King novels that needs adapting (or re-adapting)
• Boy Culture images from the GLAAD Media Awards last week: Ariana DeBose, Judith Light, and more
• Gr8ter Days fun list of the 13 hottest male silent film stars from Valentino to Cooper
• IndieWire depressing news for Los Angelenos (and awards fanatics and indie film lovers) the Landmark in Los Angeles will close on May 31st
• Slate What's fact and what's fiction in Netflix's war drama Operation Mincemeat...
• TFE ... Ben reviewed it here in case you missed that
• IndieWire Who is distributing which Cannes titles? Most of these were already known but it'll be interesting to see what else gets picked up.