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No, really! They are. We won't torture you with Oscar trivia daily (well, not every day) but it really is only 364 days until the next Oscars. The 90th Academy Awards will be held on March 4th, 2018. We'll make our first guesses as to the nominee slate in the first week of April. Those April Foolish predictions are not so very far away now. If you've started thinking about this already, know that you are not alone. Many of us suffer the golden ailment.
Vanity Fair's Emma Watson cover story (with a really cool photoshoot by Tim Walker that of course is getting flak due to one semi-topless photo) Daily News JJ Abrams says Mark Hamill will be up for an Oscar for The Last Jedi next year. Uff, we're going there already? (What is it with blockbuster teams especially that like to make these predictions. Remember when Vin Diesel was sure Fast & Furious was going to be a Best Picture nominee?) Variety a movie theater in London plays a prank, showing a bit of La La Land before a Moonlight screening Variety a movie theater in Alabama, one of those states that just can't help being a stereotype of itself, won't show Disney's new Beauty & the Beast due to... TFE ...the earlier announcement that there'd be a gay character
PlaybillHairspray Live!'s directing duo will reunite for the live version of Bye Bye Birdie -- that's good news as I really think Hairspray Live was by far the best of these productions yet THR strange cast assembled for what's billed as a romantic drama that has something to do with death. Irreplaceable You will star hotties with star hotties Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michiel Huisman as well as Christopher Walker and Steve Coogan i09 filmmakers discussing why video game movies always suck /Film Disney may reboot Tron for... Jared Leto. Hrmmm.
Oscar Crumbs Jezebel an Oscars story we accidentally didn't cover but for a brief mention on the podcast - Oscar winner Patricia Arquette is understandably upset that Alexis Arquette was left out of the In Memoriam montage AV Club Sir Ian McKellen's advice to awards show presenters to avoid the Beatty/Dunaway fiasco
Off Screen The Hairpin "Everyone wants to be this raccoon" Amen Theater Mania Sondheim and Bernadette Peters attend the opening night of the new Off Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, with the theater transformed into a pie shop. The show has already extended its run all the way through December. Wheeee
Mark Harris's Book Gets a Documentary Version Yes, I wish we were talking about Pictures at a Revolution (because we can never get enough Oscar lore) but it's his book about Hollywood directors during World War II which is also fascinating. Here's the trailer for Five Came Back which premieres at the end of the month
More tweets after the jump including Moonlight exuberance and history, Isabelle Huppert, Moonlight making history, Warren Beatty, Murderous Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman photo op, and Janelle Monáe's magical powers...
Remember this past summer when we first heard that Kate Winslet and Idris Elba were making a romantic drama together? Here they are making out on the set of The Mountain Between Us
The 20th Century Fox movie about a man and a woman who survive a plane crash and have to trust each other to survive in the mountains, is directed by Hany Abu-Assad (who is best known for directing two Palestinian Oscar nominees: 20015's Paradise Now and 2013's Omar), is due in late October so basically we can expect it at the festivals...
Storify okay, this woman Nancy Wake needs a biopic. Amazing WW II story Coming Soon production has started on Can You Ever Forgive Me, which sounds like an interesting vehicle for Melissa McCarthy to show her range. She'll play a celebrity biographer who made her name in the 70s and 80s but resorts to deception when her career tanks. It's directed by Marielle Heller who was behind Diary of a Teenage Girl Vulture Which Sundance debuts will be Oscar contenders this time next year? Comics Alliance Aubrey Joseph and Olivia Holt have been cast in the TV adaptation of the superhero comic Cloak & Dagger
Cigarettes & Red Vines photos from the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie which stars Daniel Day Lewis but has no title as of yet Variety Remember when Viola Davis played best friend to Julia Roberts in a thankless part in Eat Pray Love? They'll co-star again in Small Great Things, a racially charged drama about a nurse who is sued by a white supremacist couple. /Film James Cameron gets the rights to Terminator back soon and the franchise will be revived. AGAIN. EW The Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton will perform at the Superbowl! Slate A tribute to Mary Tyler Moore's feminist influence Vice So as it turns out the Kevin Costner character in Hidden Figures was made into more of a 'white savior' in the narrative then he was in the real life story. Playbill Clive Owen will return to Broadway in a revival of M. Butterfly - no word yet on who'll play the Chinese opera singer he doesn't realize is a man despite a long affair. B.D. Wong who works frequently on television these days instead of the stage won the Tony as the opera singer in the original production with John Lithgow originating the lead role that Clive Owen will now play Jezebel on Ryan Gosling's cooking in La La Land Interview has a gallery of the rising stars from Sundance 2017 Towleroad new clip from Call Me By Your Name in which Armie Hammer tries to massage the tension out of Timothee Chalamet
Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 10:38AM 
No, really! They are. We won't torture you with Oscar trivia daily (well, not every day) but it really is only 364 days until the next Oscars. The 90th Academy Awards will be held on March 4th, 2018. We'll make our first guesses as to the nominee slate in the first week of April. Those April Foolish predictions are not so very far away now. If you've started thinking about this already, know that you are not alone. Many of us suffer the golden ailment.
