I Am Link

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--- Blow For Diego - The remake of Scarface might have lost its director, Training Day and Southpaw director Antoine Fuqua, but it gained a star and with him my interest - Diego Luna will play the coke-sniffing big friend to little friends himself! Yes, yes, yes, sign me up. Now a suggestion (NOW a suggestion?) -- they should just hire Brian DePalma to make the movie. And Michelle Pfeiffer could totally still play the love interest. You're welcome.
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--- Unholy Woman - Have any of you ever gotten around to watching the horror film The Hallow? It's been on Netflix for awhile; I got to see it on the big screen back in October 2015 it thanks to FSLC's "Scary Movies" series here in New York, and I liked it rather a lot. You should check it out! Especially now that its director Corin Hardy has signed on to make the Conjuring 2 spin-off film The Nun. Based on, you know, that scary nun. The nun was actually my favorite part of that movie, and Hardy's a solid director, so this might be good.

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--- Sex Games - The only reason to give a shit about that space movie out this weekend is it gave people an excuse to talk to Carla Gugino, and Den of Geek was smart enough to ask her about her upcoming Stephen King adaptation Gerald's Game, which we are very very very much looking forward to. And so is she, apprently! She sounds very excited. Anyway she's the best casting decision they could have made, and after watching Ouija: Origin of Evil (which shockingly doesn't suck) we know the director's somebody to watch out for too.
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--- White Man Walking - If they were better quality or more exciting I would've given these their own post, because I am really incredibly enthusiastic in my hopes for the film, but the first two pictures of Michael Fassbender in Tomas Alfredson's The Snowman are  just Michael Fassbender standing around in some snow, so they just get linked. Alfredson is the director of Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the film's based on a book series about a serial-killer hunting detective... and yes this is the one where his character is named Harry Hole. We are never ever going to get over that.
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--- Bearded When Wet - While everybody else was all excited that Nicole Kidman is going to play Jason Momoa's mother in Aquaman (if you look closely Nicole's stretched-tight face and Momoa's puffy right pec are actually dead ringers so that's pretty spot-on casting if you ask me) I was paying attention to the news that and actor named Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been cast as Black Manta, the film's big villain... because dude (as seen to the side there) is certainly a great big strapping bearded gentleman, he is. I guess he was on Baz Luhrmann's Netflix show The Get Down, which I tried to watch but only made it partially through before completely forgetting to finish it.

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-- And Speaking of actors I love working with directors I love (there's a lot of that news today actually) Colin Farrell is in talks to star (well co-star) in the new film from Dan Gilroy, who made the great Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhaal. A little dampening of my positive vibe here though - Colin would co-star opposite Denzel Washington, who will inevitably devour the scenery and overshadow Colin every chance he gets, because Denzel is incapable of dialing it down anymore. (I don't care what you people say - he's terrible in Fences.) Anyway the movie's called Inner City and it's a legal thriller.

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--- Crazy Pants - Cary Fukunaga is finally doing something! Hurray! I mean one can only spend so much time braiding one's hair, right? His ten-episode Netflix series Maniac, reuniting Superbad's Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in something that does not sound very Superbad-like at all, is set to shoot later this year. Then again he was only weeks away from shooting his adaptation of Stephen King's It and that fell apart, so let's not hold our breath. Those braids won't braid themselves. Maniac tells the story of a couple of mental patients (literal, not figurative) and their elaborate fantasy worlds.
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--- There Will Be Dresses - You probably already saw this but Paul Thomas Anderson has begun shooting his new movie (still untitled) with Daniel Day-Lewis. DDL was spied on set! Pictures here! And The Playlist tells us that it "will follow the life behind the curtain of an uncompromising dressmaker commissioned by royalty and high society," so there's that. Oh and a couple of other people will also act in the movie (even though it could just be a camera staring at DDL and be riveting, obviously) - the great Lesley Manville being one of them! We love her and never get to see her, so good work casting her PTA. But the best news of all is the most obvious news of all - Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood is scoring the movie. Jonny, if you're listening, a thought - write all new material this time. I need to see a member of Radiohead clutching an Oscar before I die.
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--- And Finally hey look it's a picture of Michael Haneke and Jean-Louis Trintignant on the set of their new film together (via), which is called Happy End. It will obviously be a feel-good romp. They worked together on Amour last; Isabelle Huppert is also in the film. If I had to guess this movie won't be until Cannes next spring, but who knows. Ya ain't getting any younger, Michael.

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