• Cartoon Brew the animated features that will be competing at Annecy. Will any of these become eligible for the Oscar? There's usually several international contenders
• The New Yorker reviews the excellent French abortion drama Happpening which just opened in US theaters.
• TFE... we also reviewed it here from Venice. Consider it a must see!
• AV Club Janelle Monae to play Josephine Baker in a tv series focusing on her role in World War II. Sounds fascinating.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Amazon makes an anti-queer decision on Shortbus (2006), Chicago on Broadway is still stunt-casting, and more after the jump...
• IndieWire Amazon Prime has banned the recently restored Shortbus (2006) for its sexual content, despite nudity and unsimulated sex being available elsewhere on their platform... presumably because Shortbus is queer. Maddening double standard there.
• Deadline somehow we missed this news about a potential Meryl Streep project. Sounds interesting!
• Deadline Jack Huston cast as "Lasher" in the upcoming TV adaptation of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches
• AV Club looks back at the summer of 1982 and argues that it changed Hollywood forever
• Deadline Mike Hagerty, so good as the father in HBO's comedy Somebody Somewhere, has died.
Multiverse Shenanigans
• Vox interesting piece (with spoilers) on Wanda's journey in Multiverse of Madness and the Avengers as co-workers not family dynamic
• TFE... our Doctor Strange 2 review if you missed it
• /Film ranks all the Doctor Strange 2 cameos and fully spoils what happens with each and every character so read at your own risk
• Vulture on Benedict Cumberbatch's Saturday Night Live episode
In related news: Loved this Chloe Fineman focused bit for Saturday Night Live
Offscreen
• Broadway World Legendary powerhouse Jennifer Holiday of Dreamgirls fame will play Mama Morton in Broadway's Chicago this summer
• Out how gay is America Chavez in the comic books? (Very gay though they've erased that in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness)
• Vox tries to make comprehensive sense out of the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard trial
• Atlantic Interesting piece about the current culture wars and Disney vs DeSantis in Florida
• TheaterMania the current Los Angeles production Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Zachary Quinto and Calista Flockhart gets a rave review
Exit Video
HBO will try to recreate the phenom of Game of Thrones with a prequel. Here's the trailer...