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Markham’s Ms. Marvel

-The Ms. Marvel trailer (starring Ontario’s own Iman Vellani in the title role) looks incredible.

-In other Marvel news, they released a statement denouncing all legislation that infringes on LGBTQIA+ rights.

-I love how Rihanna is redefining pregnancy chic. She told Bustle, “I’m not going to buy maternity clothes. I’m not gonna buy maternity pants, jeans, dresses, or [do] whatever society told me to do before.”

-Awful: Kelis‘ husband Mike Mora has passed away at age 37 after a battle with cancer.

–Jimmy Kimmel convinced Succession’s Brian Cox to reenact the bathroom scene from Euphoria. He played Cassie, natch.

–Daniel Radcliffe and his longtime girlfriend Erin Darke made a rare public appearance for the Lost City premiere.

-Speaking of the Lost City premiere, Sandra Bullock said she will probably take a long break before her next acting gig. So, the usual?

–Sandra also said that she didn’t look at Channing Tatum’s package when it was in her face filming the leech scene. “When you’re down there and you have two pages of dialogue, if you’re looking directly at it, you’ll get nothing done.

-This obit for William Hurt strikes a good balance of celebrating his on-screen performances while grappling with his off-camera ugliness. “On a day we should simply be able to grieve the loss of one of the most distinctive performers in cinema, we must also become reacquainted with the idea that some people knew him only as a monster.”

-The Kids in the Hall movie is getting good reviews out of SXSW.

–Jonathan Bailey says the intimacy coordinators take their job on Bridgerton very seriously, and they’ve introduced some new tricks to protect actors during sex scenes this year: “If there are two people doing a sex scene, the rule is they must have three barriers separating them. And there are certain acts where a half-inflated netball can allow for movement without having to connect physically.”

-Here’s our first look at Paul Wesley as Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek series.

-Of course Anna Delvey (who the Netflix show Inventing Anna is based on) didn’t show up for her deportation flight.

-In news that is not surprising but still great, Abbott Elementary has been renewed for season two.

-I was traveling this past weekend so I missed the Critics Choice Awards, but damn that Jane Campion speech was awful. And it came just hours after she was being celebrated for calling Sam Elliot a bitch in a red carpet interview. She has since apologized to Serena and Venus Williams for her “thoughtless remark.”

-The most charming speech of the night came courtesy of Kieran Culkin.

-It sounds like Tom Cruise‘s long-delayed Top Gun: Maverick will make its debut at Cannes.

–Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are trying for a baby, and the Kardashian’s new Hulu show will document their journey.

–Selena Gomez, Tanya Saracho and Gabriela Revilla Lugo are teaming up to develop a comedy spin on the 1984 coming-of-age film Sixteen Candles. Which already was a comedy but ok.

–Evan Rachel Wood‘s HBO doc Phoenix Rising starts tonight, with part two airing tomorrow.

-Also debuting on HBO this week is Minx, in which a cynical pornographer (Jake Johnson) and idealistic reporter (Ophelia Lovibond) team up to create an early ’70s feminist porno mag. The reviews have me excited for this one.

–Rose Leslie and Theo James star in first trailer for The Time Traveler’s Wife, coming to HBO this May.

–Liam Neeson plays an assassin struggling with memory loss in the Memory trailer.

 

Dakota Johnson and Andrew Garfield Talk Fame and Films

-The Social Network costars Dakota Johnson and Andrew Garfield reunited for a conversation for Vanity Fair. “It makes you focus on the things that matter and the relationships that matter,” Garfield says about fame. “Sometimes… if someone says, ‘Hey, are you the guy from the thing?’ I’m like, ‘No, I look like him,’ and then we can have an actual conversation.”

-Meanwhile, Andrew Garfield says he’s open to reprising his role as Spider-Man, which should surprise no one at this point.

-“I feel like nobody knew what the f**k to do with me,” says Jenny Slate in Marie Claire of the parts she was getting (or not getting) offered.

–Bella Hadid is giving us permission to cry. Way ahead of ya, girl.

–Kristen Stewart has never been more relatable than when she talks about being starstruck by Neve Campbell at a restaurant.

-The writers for And Just Like That know that everyone hates what the revival has done to Steve’s character, but are sticking to their guns. (Not that they can change anything now, but I’m guessing the backlash about the Che Diaz character took them by surprise, too. But them not anticipating that Che would be such a loathed character is pretty indicative of how clueless this show is.)

-Following backlash, West Side Story star Rachel Zegler apologized for reenacting Britney Spears’ recent tweets to her sister Jamie Lynn.

–Willem Dafoe and Katy Perry have been announced to appear on next weekend’s SNL, which got this story trending again.

-The George Clooney and Julia Roberts rom-com Ticket to Paradise is temporarily suspending production due to rising COVID cases in the Queensland, Australia.

–Paul Walter Hauser (the character actor from Richard Jewell, I Tonya, Cobra Kai) went a little crazy last night on Twitter over …*checks notes*…the NYT’s film critics daring to make an Oscar wish list.

-Yellowjackets is working towards a season two premiere later this year, which is wild. Godspeed, writers room!

-I’m glad Leighton Meester is coming back to TV, but I wish it was on a better reviewed show than How I Met Your Father.

-Welp. I’m guess I’m going to stop linking to the A.V. Club so much, which is a shame because it’s one of my fave sites for pop culture criticism. It’s awful to watch yet another beloved publication consumed by a private equity consolidation and callously dismantled.

-In a truly odd casting choice, Daniel Radcliffe will play Weird Al Yankovic in Roku’s upcoming biopic about the musician and comedian.

-Encanto’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” has surpassed Frozen’s hit “Let It Go” as the highest-charting song from a Disney animated movie in 26 years. I watched the movie with my niece over the holidays and that song is *still* stuck in my head.

-Gotta say, I love Twitter’s new billboard campaign, which features celebs who once tweeted about their now-fulfilled dreams.

-Adam Scott finds a creepy way to achieve work/life balance in the trailer for the Apple TV drama Severance.

–Oscar Isaac is afraid to fall asleep in the trailer for Disney+’s new Marvel series Moon Knight, costarring Ethan Hawke. This video of those two reacting to the trailer is better than the trailer itself. I gotta assume that enthusiastic hug at the end has already been GIF’d.

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint Reunite

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint in the Harry Potter reunion special
HBO Max

-Perfect for a lazy hangover day, HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will drop New Year’s Day. Here’s our first look at Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

-HBO Max didn’t send out the first four episodes of the Sex and the City reboot screeners to critics until very late (and didn’t seem to provide clips to talk shows) which is probably not a good sign. The first couple of episodes have now dropped and the reviews aren’t great, with lots of talk about the show’s “disarming new seriousness.”

–Disney has pulled the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas-starring erotic psychological thriller Deep Water, which was supposed to be released mid-Jan, from its schedule. There’s no word if it’ll be rescheduled.

-Wow, am I confused by Jessica Chastain‘s repeated attempts to “defend” Jeremy Strong from that NY Mag profile. The writer spent months with him (unheard of in this day and age) and the result was a balanced, nuanced profile. Yes, he is clearly a very intense guy but this is an actor who also once said that he tore up one of his only remaining photos of his mother to get into the right mindset for his role in The Judge, so I don’t think he was mischaracterized.

-Meanwhile, this is the best piece I’ve read about all the reactions to that Jeremy Strong profile.

–Travis Scott spoke about the Astroworld tragedy for the first time in interview with Charlamagne Tha God. “I just control what I can on the stage, and then you have the professionals to control what they can in the crowd. It’s just hard because as an artist you want to have the best shows and you want to have the best experiences so you link with professionals to handle that side of it.”

–Olivia Rodrigo has been named Time Magazine’s Entertainer of the Year.

-At his girlfriend’s urging, Jonah Hill used his time on Jimmy Fallon‘s show to talk about climate change.

-HBO Max’s Station Eleven adaptation is getting good reviews (with comparisons to The Leftovers) but man, I just can’t imagine diving into a story about life after a pandemic wipes out most of humanity.

-The first trailer for Guy Ritchie‘s Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre features Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza’s team trying to pull a job with an a movie star they’re blackmailing, played by Josh Hartnett.