September 05, 2019
Here's the Scoop...
I like that Guillermo del Toro! He's got a new movie in the works and the cast is growing.
Rooney Mara has joined the cast of the film Nightmare Alley, Deadline reported. Guillermo del Toro is directing the Fox Searchlight film, and the cast also includes Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett.
The last film del Toro directed, The Shape of Water, won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director in 2018. Fox Searchlight also released The Shape of Water. Nightmare Alley will be the first film del Toro directs since, although films he has written and produced have and will come out in between.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which del Toro wrote and produced, opened in August. He also had producer credits on the animated series he created, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia and 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, and upcoming films Antlers and The Witches.
Mara will follow-up recent roles in Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot and Mary Magdalene with Nightmare Alley. She previously appeared in the supernatural indie film A Ghost Story.
In Nightmare Alley, del Toro adapts William Lindsay Gresham's book. Molly (Mara) is the love interest of carny Stanton Carlisle (Cooper). Forced to marry and kicked out of the carnival, they become grifters posing as psychics. Molly plays Stan's medium and at one point the ghost of their mark's late lover.
Nightmare Alley previously was adapted into a 1947 film by Edmund Goulding, starring Tyrone Power as Stanton and Coleen Gray as Molly. Collider reports Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Willem Dafoe, Mark Povinelli and Michael Shannon are also in talks.
Perlman frequently works with del Toro in the Hellboy movies, Blade II and Cronos. Jenkins and Shannon appeared in The Shape of Water.
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Steve
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Billy Crystal to direct, co-star with Tiffany Haddish in comedy film
When Harry Met Sally icon Billy Crystal is writing and will direct Here Today, a comedy film starring Tiffany Haddish.
Crystal will also share the screen with the Girls Trip actress, Deadline.com reported.
The Hollywood Reporter said Saturday Night Live scribe Alan Zweibel is co-writing the movie about a veteran comedy writer who befriends a struggling street performer.
SNL alum Crystal previously helmed the movies 61*, Mr. Saturday Night and Forget Paris. His acting credits include The Princess Bride and City Slickers.
Haddish has guest hosted SNL and appeared in the films Keanu, The Oath, Night School and The Kitchen.
'Watchmen' to debut on HBO on Oct. 20
The graphic-novel adaptation Watchmen is slated to premiere on HBO on Oct. 20.
Starring Regina King, Don Johnson, Jeremy Irons, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Tom Mison and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, the action-drama is set in "an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws," a synopsis said.
Damon Lindelof -- whose credits include Lost and The Leftovers -- wrote the pilot and is executive producing the project.
Based on the graphic novels by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the superhero series comes a decade after a Watchmen film featuring Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan was released in theaters.
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"Somebody in an interview said, 'Well, what if Kendall said she was trans and wanted to transition into a male?' I went, 'Ah, ah, ah!' As a parent I was like in shock. 'Are you kidding me? My little Kendall, she's the highest-paid model in the world. She's gorgeous.' And it really kind of set me back, you know? And me, being in this position, I was like, shocked by my response."
--Caitlyn Jenner, admitting she would have mixed feelings if any of her children came out as transgender but would ultimately "do everything" to support them, in an interview with GIBLIB
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Trisha Yearwood to host CMA Country Christmas special
Ring in the holiday season with #CMAchristmas, hosted by @TrishaYearwood, with special holiday performances & unforgettable collaborations. Tickets for the Sept. 25 taping in Nashville, TN go on sale THIS FRIDAY at 10 AM|CT on https://t.co/LAr9cvJAAV. pic.twitter.com/mcso8MNxBV- CMA Country Music (@CountryMusic) September 4, 2019
Singer-songwriter Trisha Yearwood is set to host the 10th annual CMA Country Christmas special on ABC.
"Music, memories and enjoying the season with loved ones are what make Christmastime so special," Yearwood said in a statement Wednesday. "Hosting CMA Country Christmas is an opportunity to share joy and celebrate the holidays with friends and family everywhere."
The two-hour program will be taped on Sept. 25 at Belmont University's Curb Event Center in Nashville.
Other artists expected to participate include Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Janson, For King & Country, Tori Kelly, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Runaway June, CeCe Winans, Brett Young and Chris Young.
No air-date has been announced yet.
Season 7 will be the last for 'Grace and Frankie'
The comedy Grace and Frankie will wrap up its run on Netflix with its seventh season.
Starring Jane Fonda, 81; Lily Tomlin, 80; Martin Sheen, 79; and Sam Waterston, 78; the show will air 94 episodes by its finale. It is about two women who bond after their husbands announce they are in love with each other and want to be together.
Season 6 is slated to premiere in January.
"It's thrilling and somehow fitting, that our show about the challenges, as well as the beauty and dignity of aging, will be the oldest show on Netflix," co-creators and show-runners Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris said in a joint statement Wednesday.
Fonda and Tomlin said in their own joint statement that they were both "delighted and heartbroken" about the news.
"We're so grateful that our show has been able to deal with issues that have really connected to our grand generation. And their kids, and amazingly, their kids as well! We'll miss these two old gals, Grace and Frankie, as much as many of their fans will, but we'll still be around. We've outlasted so many things -- just hope we don't outlast the planet," the women said.
The series debuted in 2015 and has earned 11 Primetime Emmy and six Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
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The U.K.'s Royal Mail service announced on Tuesday a new line of stamps centered around music legend Elton John.
The stamp's feature iconic photos of John performing live along with stamp's featuring album covers to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Made in England and others.
Postcards, stamp books and framed stamp sheets are also available.
"The #EltonJohn Collection salutes one of the biggest-selling and most influential artists in the history of popular music," Royal Mail said on Twitter.
John is the second musician to receive a stamp collection from Royal Mail following David Bowie in 2017. Royal Mail had launched the Bowie stamps into space.
John was the subject of biopic Rocketman in May which starred Taron Egerton as the singer.
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