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Every Batman actor should have to audition with this scene. pic.twitter.com/jzqKqVo9QO

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 26, 2022

How much would you pay to see the audition tapes of Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, and Robert Pattinson? More after the jump including embarrassing deaths, Avatar thoughts, Muppets request, Emily Watson shaming, a brilliant Wes Anderson suggestion, questionable phrasing, and one final round of Dont Worry Darling tweets...

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Review: 'Don't Worry Darling'

By Glenn Dunks

To quote Lady Gaga: That’s gossip!

To ignore the gossip cycle that has become the press tour of Don’t Worry Darling can be difficult in the macro, but when the movie started it slipped away quite easily. For whatever may have been said about Olivia Wilde’s second directorial feature in the lead up to its release, that friction hasn’t quite come through on screen.

It’s not a good movie in the sense that it is coherent and fully grapples with the ideas it appears to be putting forward. It isn't and it doesn't. But it also is not a bad movie in that it is badly made or devoid of imagination or one where you can tell everybody on set hated everyone else. Which, after everything that’s happened, feels like more of a win in the moment than it oughta be...

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What did you see over the weekend?

by Nathaniel R

Don't Worry Darling opened at #1 which is impressive for two reasons. The first is that the press was of the "what a hot mess" rather than "what a good movie!" variety. The second, as Rob Watson pointed out on twitter, is that this marks the second consecutive weekend where a film directed by a woman starring a woman opened at #1 playing above expectations...

Weekend Box Office  September 23rd-25th 🔺 = new or expanding /  ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it
WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS)	LIMITED / PLATFORM
DON'T WORRY DARLING	MOONAGE DAYDREAM

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Tweetweek

Curated for you so you don't have to spend time on Twitter. We begin with a perfect tweet timed to daily film festival nonsense (before moving on to more festival nonsense)...

BREAKING: Martin Scorsese's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE just received a 20-minute standing ovation from me in my living room after viewing it for the 100th time

— La Pfeiffer (@La_Pfeiffer) September 9, 2022

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The hot mess of the 'Don't Worry Darling' press tour and other stories...

• Vanity Fair Alfre Woodard takes the Proust Questionnaire
• LA Times on the incredible writing of Manuel Muñoz. If the name sounds familiar that's because you either have very good taste in writers (seriously his work is brilliant) or you've been reading TFE for awhile. Manuel has been on the Smackdown a couple of times and we've also discussed his Psycho-related novel "What You See in the Dark"
• Out After lots of rumors about Kat's diminished role on Euphoria in season 2 and offscreen disputes, actress Barbie Ferraira will not be returning for season 3

That crazy Don't Worry Darling press tour, some Oscar hopefuls in animated short, Elton John twice, Lt Uhura's ashes, and more after the jump...

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