Well played, Fincher

This e-mail exchange between directors Mark Romanek and David Fincher was posted on Romanek's Instagram account:

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Baby Driver(s)

Hailee Steinfeld and Millie Bobby Brown, who is not old enough to drive, pretending to drive. (From Hailee's instagram)

Blueprints: "Ingrid Goes West"

In the latest installment of our screenplay column, Jorge takes a look at the tricky task of making a phone screen visually engaging.

As technology becomes more efficient and finds new ways to make our lives easier, it’s making the job of screenwriting more difficult. It’s now nearly impossible to not be able to reach a person in some way (once a common source of screen conflict) and, worse for the visual montony, most of our day-to-day activities include staring at some kind of screen.

Ingrid Goes West didn't just incorporate how we relate to technology today, but made it its central theme. Let’s look at the underrated gem to see how the use of technology is captured in its pages, and how the writers made it as emotionally thrilling as any action movie car chase...

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The Passion of the Link

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• THR details the first attempt to put Black Panther on screen in the 1990s with Wesley Snipes stories about trying to collaborate with John Singleton (ye olde creative differences)
• Coming Soon Jim Caviezel and Mel Gibson reuniting for a sequel to Passion of the Christ about, you guessed it, the Resurrection
• IndieWire you knew that RuPaul was a major film buff, didn't you? Here he is on this year's Oscar race

More after the jump including Andrew Scott, honoring supporting actors, Bollywood stars, Xavier Dolan's next project, and Armie Hammer in a track suit...

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Would you rather...?

It's been ages since we played our favorite time wasting game of imaginary hang outs with celebrities. So let's do it. 

So would you rather

...have a kickbox with Vincent Rodriguez?
...play hood ornaments w/ Billy Magnussen?
...fly the friendly skies with Luca, Armie, and Timothée?
...do an accessories check with Nicole Kidman?
...make it a trio at Sundance with Maggie Gyllenhaal & Martha Wainwright?
...visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland with Lewis Tan?
...enjoy millinery with Juliette Lewis?
...study up on "self care for the real world" with director Sam Taylor-Johnson?
...interior decorate with Sarah Michelle Gellar?
...fight insomnia with Tom Holland?
...or do a little risky DIY cat grooming with Kat Dennings?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide...

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