'in brightest day in blackest night, no link shall escape my sight'

• Screen Daily what can we expect to see at Cannes this year?
• Variety Taika Waititi will be back in front of cameras soon, not just behind them. He'll play the pirate Blackbeard for an HBO comedy series
• Deadline Florence Pugh to star in Sebastian Lelio's next film called The Wonder 
• /Film Cate Blanchett, Cheyenne Jackson, Haley Bennett, Gina Gershon and more signed on for videogame adaptation Borderlands (Blanchett is the lead)

Pixar artist worries, Cronenberg & Viggo reuniting, HBO's Green Lantern and more...

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Are you there Link? It's me, Nathaniel

• US Dish is hosting a viewing party contest for romcom lovers. You can enter until the 26th and the winner has to be wiling to host an online viewing party with their friends and vlog about it afterwards. The prize is $2000
• MCN Gurus of Gold weigh in on the Best Picture and Best Director races
• Guardian excellent and rare interview with Sacha Baron Cohen as himself rather than in character about Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Trial of the Chicago 7, and his activism
• Slate really interesting piece about the way Hallmark has tried to avoid politics and their babysteps towards the modern world via their very popular Christmas movies

More after the jump including Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Zhao, Sound of Metal, new biopics, and new adaptations of old best-sellers...

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