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--- Pretty On The Inside - So according to Nicolas Winding Refn's wife, the filmmaker Liv Corfixen, the two most prominent influences on Refn's upcoming horror movie The Neon Demon, which will star Elle Fanning plus several other lovely ladies plus Keanu Reeves, are the cannibalism-survival movie Alive and the beauty pageant comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous. This, yes this, is your mind on drugs. A little more precise info at that link says it's about supermodels and voodoo. I repeat: this is your brain on drugs.

--- Throne Shuffle - In case you're curious what George RR Martin thinks about HBO's recently discussed thoughts on making A Game of Thrones be a full ten seasons long, and then all that possible movie stuff, you can get the highlights over here. Also, I haven't watched them myself but several prmotional featurettes on the upcoming season have been released, you can see them at DH. Somebody let me know if one of them is just Nikolaj Coster-Waldau walking around in briefs for three minutes, then I'll bother.

--- Big Vigor - I didn't get a chance to see Cinderella in theaters this weekend but it was a big hit and everything I've heard has been positive so maybe sometime (ahh who I am kidding, I have too much else to see, this will wait for video)... anyway what matters most is clearly more talk about Richard Madden's princely bulge pants, so here's an interview at HitFix with costumer Sandy Powell where the subject is broached. "Richard had the vigor to get away with it," she says. "Vigor" is my new favorite euphemism.

--- And Speaking of Disney movies just bulging with talent, the live-action Beauty and the Beast movie that Bill Condon is directing just gained Emma Thomspon as Mrs. Potts and Kevin Kline as Belle's father, "Crazy Old Maurice, Ehhhhh???" Sorry I was just possessed by my ability to quote any and all parts from the animated version, don't mind me.

--- Joe Dethroned - This morning I posted the news that Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson had joined the new season of American Horror Story; this actually came on the heels of the news that Bomer's stripper-costar Joe Manganiello had dropped out of Ryan Murphy's other big gay horror show, Scream Queens. Joe's been replaced by Oliver Hudson. I wonder if this has to do with Joe probably getting a role in the Suicide Squad movie?

--- Future Past - Just because the BBC will literally let Steven Moffat and Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman do anything the hell they want to as long as they keep coming back and making Sherlock for them, the next special - which will air this winter - is set in Victorian England, but it doesn't have anything to do with time-travel. It's just its own thing, or whatever. No big whoop. Back up the Brinks truck!

--- Jason Knocks - So apparently the idea behind the Friday the 13th TV show that's been bandied about for a bit - and no, it won't have anything to do with demon-possessed antiques unfortunately - is to borrow/steal a bunch from that repository of great ideas Blair Witch 2: it'll be set in the "real world" town that the Jason Voorhees movies were based on, where "real" murders once happened and were exploited by the franchise, and show the townsfolk dealing with their infamy as a killer stalks amongst them. The killer will be a more "serious backwoods inspired killer." Hey maybe that means we'll get a bag-head? 

--- Black Bird - The couple-of-weeks-old rumor that Jack Huston will be starring in the new Crow movie - after everyone from Bradley Cooper to Luke Evans had stopped dropped and rolled outta there - has been confirmed by the creator of the comics himself; he says that it'll film in the next couple of months.Poof, interest gone.

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