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--- Fantastic Beasts - What a delight it is that The Lobster's turned into a big financial hit (art-house speaking, of course) for director Yorgos Lanthimos ad star Colin Farrell - it should make us getting our greedy hands on their next movie together all the easier, which considering it took like two years for The Lobster to get released here, is a sigh of relief. EW chatted with Farrell about the movie and (spoiler alert) specifically about the film's ambiguous ending, so if you've contemplated that yourself you'll wanna click over.

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--- Blow Me Over - Technically I am excited for Sam Raimi to attach himself to anything to direct, because he's Sam effin' Raimi. That said hearing he's attached himself to a "tornado heist thriller" gives me the briefest of pauses because Sam Raimi plus tornadoes makes me think of his bad Oz movie and I get sad at what should've been. Anyway then that pause passes and then I'm like, "A Tornado Heist Thriller, what the fuck?" and then I get a little giddy thinking what that could actually be.

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--- More Rim To Come - John Boyega is going to play the son of Idris Elba's character in Pacific Rim 2, and if he has half as much sexual chemistry with Charlie Hunnam as he did with Oscar Isaac, well I might break. In related news: Pacific Rim 2 is really happening! I really didn't think it would. Del Toro isn't directing it though - one-time Buffy writer Steven S. DeKnight (he's been working on Daredevil more recently) will be - this will be his first feature film directing gig.
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--- Super Girls - I almost watched Joachim Trier's latest movie Louder Than Bombs this weekend (I still haven't seen it yet) but I got caught up in a mini-Park-Chan-Wook marathon instead; I will watch it soon though, i swear it! Trier's just announced his new film, which will return him to Norway but task him with genre elements for the first time - it's a "supernatural thriller" about a young girl discovering her powers, whatever they may be. It will be called Thelma. And yes we should probably all be thinking of Carrie right now.  
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--- There Will Be Vogue - Everybody lost their shit over the revelation that Paul Thomas Anderson might be reuniting with his There Will be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis for his next movie but the news all sounds too vague for me to put my heart out just yet - get back to me when these two slow-pokes are actually on set making the thing. Anyway if they do make it it will apparently be set in the fashion world on the 1950s, which is unexpected from these two given how hyper-masc their last effort was, but maybe they wanna flip expectations. It would be nice for PTA to show some interest in girly things again - Boogie Nights and Magnolia seem so far away.
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--- Come At Me Demon - I kind of can't believe that I'm getting both Todd Solondz' new movie, the Welcome to the Dollhouse "sequel" Weiner-dog and Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon before this month is over, but it's true! It's true! What a month! Anyway there's a brand new absolutely gorgeous UK quad poster for the latter over here. (Thanks Mac) And make sure you click to embiggen it - the colors are where it's at.
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--- Sick Boy Sequel - I also had a mini Ewan McGregor marathon this weekend, re-watching both Moulin Rouge and half of Beginners (I fell asleep halfway through it just because I started it too late), and when my boyfriend looked up Ewan on IMDb to see what he was up to next he was flabbergasted, straight flabbergasted, to see that Trainspotting 2 was happening. And happening it is - it's filming right now and The Daily Mail has some pictures of Ewan and Jonny Lee Miller and director Danny Boyle on the set!
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--- And Finally, the best news of the weekend - Gillian Anderson will be on American Gods!!! This re-teams her with Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller, a happier making pair there might never be. Here's word on who she's playing:

"Anderson will play Media, the mouthpiece for the New Gods, functioning as their public face and sales representative, by taking the form of various iconic celebrities. She lives off the attention and worship that people give to screens — to their laptops, their TVs, to their iPhones in their hands while they watch their TVs. Ever the perky spokesperson, and always in control, she spins stories in whatever direction best suits her."

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So how long have we got to wait for Gillian to rake up all of the awards there are anyway? I mean I understand, I under-valued her as an actress for too long myself, but now after having seen her do Streetcar twice I'm convinced she's one of the greatest actresses we have working today, and needs to be respected as such. Thankfully Bryan gets it!
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Farewell for now Blanche DuBois! #Streetcar #BlancheinBrooklyn @stannswarehouse @youngvictheatre pic.twitter.com/VydSi0soZI

— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) June 5, 2016

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