I Am Link

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--- The Owls Are Happy - When I got to meet Laura Dern a year and a half ago (I will never tire of bringing that story up) my pal Glenn and I told her that she needed to get David Lynch of the darn phone stat and get herself cast as somebody in that Twin Peaks reboot. I was drunk and quite adamant! I mean obviously she'd not had that thought herself once until I mentioned it. So point being you have me to thank, people, now it's being reported that she is indeed reuniting with her bestest director friend in an unknown role (although they have a theory at that link) on a show she somehow never made it onto the first time around.

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--- Defiant Rimming - Several of these stories are a few days old because the cold has turned my brains into molasses, lay off me - anyway several days ago The Playlist told us two things about Guillermo Del Toro: one, that he is going to direct a remake of Fantastic Voyage, that 1966 intra-human epic about scientists shrunk down and injected into a body. (Dennis Quaid naked in Innerspace, holla.) And two, that Pacific Rim 2 is toe up. Anyway I bring up my laziness because in the span of the several days it's taken me to link to this news GDT took to tweeting that the second item is false and that's he's still very much working on PR2. You think he's letting go of Charlie Hunnam that easy?

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--- Jake Follows - I guess all that hanging out with Harvey Weinstein has rubbed off (let's hope this is all that rubbed off Harvey Weinstein) -- Jake Gyllenhaal is going to start producing! His production company (which is called Nine Stories because of course it is, he's such the eternal English Lit sophomore student) is teaming up with A&E to create an anthology TV series focusing in on cult leaders, with a new flavor o' crazy to be explored each season. First up - Jim Jones and his electric Kool-Aid cult. I hope Jake just casts himself as ALL the cult leaders, that would be so so hot.

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--- Act Scared - Final Girl took to list some of the Great Performances in Horror Movies last week, with several choice turns noted by her (holla Essie Davis) and several dozen more noted by the commenters on said post -- glad to see love for Shelley Duvall in The Shining, as always; the boyfriend's was watching that movie while cooking the other day and it always stops me dead in my tracks, watching her freak out. Endlessly convincing terror.
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--- Tight Spaces - Darren Aronofsky is gearing up to make a low-key thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence (okay I think at this point in J-Law's stratospheric career it's tough for anything involving her to be low-key, but sure) and Javier Bardem about a couple "whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence." As sexy as Javier is I kind of hope he's not playing Jennifer's other half because he is 21 full years older than her. Let her have a dude her own age, Darren.

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--- Rando Oscar Stuff - The Oscar nominations are tomorrow and you might hear some from me, you might not, my interest waxes and wanes and is almost always of the totally irritable sort. Especially this year whit total shit like Spotlight and The Big Short gunning for multiple nominations. Anyway one thing I am rooting for, at least nomination-wise, is Charlie Kaufman's wonderful stop-motion animated Anomolisa, and IndieWire has a lovely piece on why the film matters, specifically to the current state of animation. In related news I dug this piece on watching The Revenant from a female critic's perspective, in relation to all the manly posturing surrounding it. Oh and here's Nathaniel's predictions for the nominations tomorrow over at The Film Experience.
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--- This Year's Pedro - I was tempted to embed this here but since there are still no English subtitles for the first trailer for Pedro Almodovar's next movie, which is called Julieta, I'll just link over and let you figure it out for yourselves. The movie is out in April in Spain, but no word on when we'll get it here in the US; my guess is Fall, especially if it's good, so it can ride the wave to next year's Best Foreign Film race. This movie was previously called Silencio, we posted about it here - gorgeous Daniel Grao appears to be this year's hunk. (Look at him with shelves!!!)
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--- Big Bad Blanchett - When it was announced that Cate Blanchett was going to be in the third Thor movie we all, after cleaning up our ejaculate, figured it would be as a film's villain because obviously. Well Mark Ruffalo went and spilled the beans, telling ET that "She's just one of the best, and to have her play a baddie is going to be really exciting." Indeed it would! It will. There are a couple of theories about who that villain could be right here.
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--- And Finally the third season of my beloved Penny Dreadful will begin on the night of May 1st, and there's now a teaser trailer! There's actually a good amount of footage therein (including Josh Hartnett's big haircut reveal!) so go on and Thrill Chill and Eva fucking Green yourself silly...
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