Thursday Report
Oscar News:
Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin debuts its trailer:
The State of the Race: Best Picture and the Film Festival Bounce
Where a film is placed in festival season can sometimes help determine how it will land in the Oscar race. I have seen predictions from people saying a movie that opens at the New York Film Festival can’t possibly win Best Picture based on precedent. But if that were true, Parasite would never have won Best Picture. If they like a movie enough, they’ll vote for it, no matter where it premieres. Parasite was first seen in Cannes, like No Country for Old Men and The Artist. [AwardsDaily]
Devil in the White City becomes a Hulu series with Keanu Reeves, but still produced by the original feature film duo, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, to be directed by Todd Field [HR]
First look at Colman Domingo in Netflix’s #Rustin, dropping in 2023.
RUSTIN is executive produced by Higher Ground’s Barack & Michelle Obama, Mark R. Wright and Alex G. Scott. Producers are Academy Award winner Bruce Cohen and Higher Ground’s Tonia Davis.
RUSTIN tells the incredible story of Bayard Rustin (played by Colman Domingo), the brilliant strategist behind 1963’s momentous March On Washington. As a close advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., he dedicated his life to the tireless quest for racial equality, human rights, and worldwide democracy. But as an openly gay Black man, he has been all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build.
Lady Gaga will be playing Harley Quinn in Joker 2
Stuff:
The Biggest Lesson More Comedies Need To Take From South Park [/Film]
Why Nope offers a ray of hope for the movie business [Variety]
How Crazy-Ass Tom Cruise and "Top Gun" Saved America
Fast forward 36 years. Not only are we on the brink of what feels like civil war, and as of this week flirting with real war with two different superpowers, we’re nearly a decade into a crippling fun shortage. We have complexes about every holiday from Christmas to Thanksgiving to the Fourth of July, the president has been severely disordered or clinically dead for at least six years, and the most famous standup performance in a generation involved Chris Rock getting man-slapped by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. [TK News]
Love in the Villa trailer:
Critikal is tired of Superhero movies:
Today in Apology Culture:
‘Station 19’ Writers Room Incident Involving Written Racial Slur Leads To Changes [Deadline]
Virginia school district apologizes for using logo that resembles a swastika, saying they meant for it to “represent four hands and arms grasping together – a symbol of unity for our all-county professional learning conference.” [Cleveland.com]
How to apologize when you aren’t sorry [Lifehacker]
Sesame Place offers third apology [Daily Beast]
‘You can’t apologize prejudice with an apology’ says Reverend Jackson [Chicago Crusader]
Sesame Street mea culpa doesn't wash [Reporter.net]
Family sues Sesame Street for $25 million [The Guardian]