The Thursday edition
Back again! It's been too long, my friends... And boy do we have a packed agenda to get through—so much so that I had to leave quite a bit on the cutting room floor.
I'm trying some new things with the banners this week, especially Below the Fold for [+] subscribers... I'm not sure it all works, but it's something I'm going to keep experimenting with until we figure out something that's visually nice and not too tedious to put together.
So let's get this show on the road!
- Best news of the week: Hacks obviously was renewed for a fifth season after they knocked it out of the park this season.
- Yellowjackets also got it's season four renewal a bit ago.
- However, over in Amazon land, The Wheel of Time was cancelled after three seasons.
- And Kevin Bacon's The Bondsman was cancelled after one season, to absolutely no one's surprise.
- Marvel seems to be struggling still as Thunderbolts is set to lose $100 million—despite actually being one of their better movies in the last decade.
- So now they are lining up Mark Ruffalo to appear in the next Spider-Man movie.
- Over in the Tom Cruise Scientological Complex, he is apparently very serious about making a Les Grossman (from Topic Thunder) movie.
- And his Mission: Impossible director, Christopher McQuarrie is hard at work writing Top Gun 3.
- Jason Momoa's next Apple show, Chief of War, now has a premiere date of August 1st.
- Michael J. Fox is joining the cast of Shrinking for season three.
- Osgood Perkins (Longlegs, The Monkey) is pushing to direct the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot.
- And Despelote, which we talked about in the last edition, got a rave review from Polygon.
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Eddie Alcazar, who has worked with both Steven Soderbergh and Darren Aronofsky, has been working on this animated pilot for four years and the teaser trailer for it is here and it's bonkers in a very Ren & Stimpy kind of way. We need to do whatever we can to get this made. ASAP.
🎠CNN to Air Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck Live From Broadway
The broadcast, which is the first time a live performance of a play will be televised, is scheduled to air live on June 7 at 7 p.m. ET across CNN, CNN International and streaming on CNN’s website.
Maybe it's just me, but this is the kind of thing I wish would happen way more often—and maybe it will now that "live" is the main selling point of broadcast, cable, and streaming these days.
I think the worry is Broadway folks have is if they televise a performance, no one will want to go to the show. At this point, I'm pretty sure that's been proven false, over and over again. Between local sport blackouts and things like Coachella on YouTube, the opposite has been proven true. It becomes marketing for your event—marketing you get paid for! People love live experiences and that won't stop. Hamilton is still touring even though they did the performance for Disney+.
Below the Fold we dive into PBS, All-American Rejects, Mark Millar, Christopher Nolan, Naughty Dog, Cannes, and so much more.
