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It seems like they mixed religion and politics into one question, because 'Merica, I guess? Overall it's very informative but the answers now are probably much different.

Interesting demographic information in the Deadline writeup. Did we know they polled audience marital status?

When performance enhancing drugs don't even work, SMH... Raiders' Jimmy Garoppolo suspended 2 games for violating NFL PED policy; Vegas set to release QB, per report

Metropolis by way of Thierry Mugler. Hope Anya doesn't end up regretting that outfit...

Critics love Walk Hard and have grown to hate conventional musician biopics, especially after Bohemian Rhapsody made $900 million and won 4 Oscars. They want a "reinvention" of the genre, like Rocketman being an actual proper musical, or at least the actors doing their own singing because that's not the dreaded "mimicry". If the Bob Marley movie was entirely set in a recording studio for the making of one specific album, critics would probably rave about how "refreshing" it was not to be a cradle-to-grave biopic. But general audiences actually like that sort of thing for movies about musicians. They want a live-action PG-13 Wikipedia summary set to well-known music, starring someone with a decent-to-strong resemblance to the real celebrity. Unless it's "too soon" after a star's tragic death, then the biopic will get shunned at the box office.

I followed music charts when I was younger, Legend (Bob Marley and the Wailers' greatest hits album) was a steady seller on the Billboard album charts well into the 2000s and 2010s. Even in the 2020s a resort chain like Sandals was using "One Love" in their ads. Marley is like Queen where people too young for their heyday have still been exposed to more of the music than they realize. I think the Amy Winehouse movie will run into "too soon, they're exploiting her" problems. The movie's production has her father's involvement and her fans dislike him, think he was not a good parent to her in life and is flogging her memory for money. There's skepticism about the Amy casting. Sam Taylor-Johnson is directing so Twitter will hate it. Yeah, lots of Bob Marley posters in American college dorm rooms.

Pair him with Elizabeth Debicki! But I have heard this before, about other actors including Armie Hammer (who obviously had bigger issues). The theory is that most leading men are not 6'5" so they don't want to share the screen and look "puny" next to this younger more virile dude. So the very tall guys get relegated to tall guy roles or their careers just lose heat. The inflection point for male actors is like 6'2" or 6'3", above that actors will start lying about their heights the other way. If a guy is shorter than average, he can either own it or wear lifts.

It was a teaser during the Super Bowl. Even if you hadn't heard of the stage show, Wicked is clearly a take on the Oz story and the most famous movie version of it is also a musical. I think there'd be less fuss about the teaser lacking singing, if it weren't for the recent advertising for Wonka and Mean Girls. With music movies, the campaign tries to build up some anticipation for the biggest songs. This is literally the first official footage for a movie not being released for another 9 months. I doubt that Universal will spend the entire time until November hiding that there's singing in the movie starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

The Oscars luncheon was held yesterday, complete with the class photo of the nominees. Reports vary on which stars got the most applause though it seems the biggest sensation was the dog from Anatomy of a Fall.

There's popular on streaming and there's Moana: It's always showing up on the streaming charts but didn't realize it had only gotten bigger each year. I remember the Bridgerton musical and Barlow/Bear aren't a bad choice if they couldn't get Lin back. Emily Bear is 22 years old, by the way (DOB August 30, 2001).

Per Variety, AMPAS has had a Casting Directors Branch since 2013 and it has about 160 members now. I think awarding voice work can get into a gray area because part of the response to those characters is more about the animation/VFX. Sometimes it's more than one person doing the voice or motion capture for a character, like with Rocket Raccoon. The rules could clear up the nomination parameters I guess.

I feel the intention of the award and the way people will vote probably won't be the same. I suppose that is true of many categories, so... Stunt/dance choreography category next?

Directs a pretty straightforward Bluey or Cocomelon movie Completes his World War II film trilogy with a Rosie the Riveter musical comedy Standard musician biopic of Liza Minnelli complete with lip syncing (bonus points for angering the Gaga stans by not casting her)

Extremely unlikely but Nolan can do a Fabelmans/Marriage Story about his life with Woody, Matthew McConaughey and Josh Lucas as the brothers. But seriously I think Nolan's next movie depends on how well he and Oppenheimer do at the Oscars. Never went to film school, have only seen many Twitter discussions of professors despairing that most students think everything before 2000 is "old" and just aspire to make MCU movies or be YouTubers...

The broadest definition of "nepo baby" is "anyone whose parent(s) have a blue link on Wikipedia". Except Woody Harrelson, lol. He's got to make a movie with Nolan someday so they can bond about their allegedly sketchy family members.

She's also been dating Austin Butler for two years so that probably helps. Cindy Crawford tried acting for a minute back in the day but wasn't very good at it. Unfortunate if Kaia takes after her mother that way...

They said they were going to go there. I doubt you get Miles Teller to play some totally insignificant guy...

Darn, they could have rivaled Taylor and Travis...

Between this and the Oscar miss, tough week for Dua Lipa...

Arthur Fleck is "famous" in this universe and aligned with a political cause; that's usually enough to earn at least some misguided fawning. Even the guy who did the Dark Knight Rises massacre had "Holmies" fangirling him on Tumblr. Joaquin was sold as brooding hot in his younger days. IMO Arthur Fleck isn't supposed to be regarded as conventionally good looking, but a lot of not particularly handsome men have had women attracted to them.

The Journalist and the Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli’s ex Christie Smythe on his release: ‘I’d love to see him’ . I wonder what we will see of Harley's life here before she gets involved with Joker.

The book got big in 2020 during Covid. Harry Styles has a history with older women that well predates the Olivia Wilde relationship, though I'm sure the publicity helped generate studio interest. Between The Idea of You and the After series you could practically program a day-long film festival of Harry Styles fanfic movies.

Girls Who Love Ted Bundy. Also the female prison guards who've hooked up with convicts behind bars and helped them go on the run. Not a violent criminal but pharma bro Martin Shkreli had a Bloomberg reporter fall for him while covering his trial. Left her husband, quit her job, and froze her eggs to do prison visits as his girlfriend, only to be ghosted once she went to the media about their grand love affair. Still caped for him on Twitter even after getting dumped—by an incarcerated fraudster also accused of manipulating the cost of life-saving drugs. An attractive, accomplished professional woman blowing up her whole life out of love for a criminal, despite a thousand red flags. It definitely happens in real life.

WDYM campaigning? Giammati just likes making sure he's photographed getting a burger after winning at an awards show, because he's such regular guy! I remember him saying how much he liked La La Land a few years back. But Stone seems to have a lot of creative control in her projects lately, plus Nolan's reputation for writing his female characters is not the best. Maybe his next movie will be to prove those critics wrong.