I Am Link

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--- Big Gay Something - Say what you will about Judd Apatow (which was very easy for me in the wake of the godawful excruciating This is 40) but he's really taken to using his Hollywood powers for good, putting his muscle behind getting interesting female voices (Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer) out there, and now he's doing the same for The Gays - he's producing a big comedy that Girls star Andrew Rannells is writing with his (super hot) boyfriend Mike Doyle. Deadline doesn't mention the fact that Doyle & Rannells are together but I sure as heck-fire will. Anyway I go back and forth with Rannells (he can make me laugh, but at what cost?) but this sounds big-leagues, outside of the usually awful gay movie-making ghetto, so we should pay stand to attention. There's no word on what the damn thing is about, though.

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--- More Super - Although they proved they can make great sequels to movies that didn't need a sequel with the Toy Story films, I feel safe in saying that the only Pixar movie that's ever begged for a sequel is The Incredibles (still my favorite Pixar movie) so hearing that Brad Bird is working on the script for The Incredibles 2 finally has me very smiley inside. And outside! And in between! I don't know what that means exactly, just go with it.

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--- After Darth - Hayden Christensen has signed on to play the legendary pool party game inspiration Marco Polo, in an apparently big-budget fantasy epic co-produced with China. Rob Cohen, the auteur behind The Fast and the Furious as well as this year's epic J-Lo-in-danger flick The Boy Next Door, is directing. And I love that THR says that Christensen has got "a reputation for being choosy" with this news. Choosy like fucking store-brand peanut butter.
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--- Who's True - The first trailer for the new season of True Detective has dropped, and it's a bunch of famous people walking around, staring, and shoving. Totally accounted for is Colin Farrell and Colin Farrell's gigantic mustache, though. The show's back in June, which surprised me; I figured the wait (as much as I am "waiting" for this and not "dreading" it, give my less-than-enthusiastic reaction to the first season) would be slightly longer.
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--- Dark Wings - Here's a bunch of superhero movie junk that dropped today in one quick swoop - here's the first good look at Jamie Bell in full Thing rock regalia in the Fantastic Four reboot; it is indeed criminal how they are covering up that adorable boy again. Here's some concept art of Bryan Singer's new favorite twink Ben Hardy in angel wings for the new X-Men movie, proving we were all correct in assuming that boy was Angel to a tee. Oh and there's a glimpse of Daredevil's red costume in this new teaser; I think it looks unbearably silly but I guess no more so than every superhero costume's ever looked on a real human being.
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--- Billy Boys - I've apparently been very very bad keeping up with the casting on Ang Lee's new movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - we caught it when that cute newcomer Joe Alwyn got cast in the lead, but according to The Dissolve since then the names that have also signed on include Steve Martin, Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund, and now Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker. Wowza what a weird fascinating cast.
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--- The New Flesh - A few months ago I wrote a post about all the Frankensteins that were about to be coming our way - well we've just gotten our first glimpse of the Monster that inspired that post: STYD has the first picture from Bernard "Candyman" Rose's Frankenstein, which stars pretty pretty boy (not looking too pretty there though!) Xavier Samuel as the big bolted lunk in a modern retelling of the tale, with Carrie Anne-Moss and Danny Huston as the Doctors who make him that way. The movie premieres in Brussels at their film fest this weekend.

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--- Her Hotel - I've probably missed some announcements since I last posted about Matthew Bomer & Cheyenne Jackson and then Wes Bentley all booking leading roles in the upcoming season of American Horror Story but I do believe that yesterday's word that Kathy Bates is coming back gives us our first Grande Acting Dame of the show. (No, Gaga does not count.) Ryan Murphy says she's "running the hotel" so I hope that makes her the main character a la Lange. Also I hope she holds a sledgehammer at some point.
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