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The first trailer for the upcoming Charlie's Angels movie was released today...



The trailer is okay, I suppose. It looks Charlie's Angels-ish.

It's written and directed by Elizabeth Banks, who I enjoy.

So, that's something.

Oh, and Patrick Stewart is in it too.

That's all I got.

We'll see if the next trailer is any better before it opens on November 15th.

On my list

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Prom Queens

Ryan Murphy and Netflix are taking Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman to the Prom...

Not yet a year into his expensive five-year deal with Netflix, Ryan Murphy is about to deliver his biggest get for the streamer. Deadline hears he will direct and produce the feature adaptation of the Tony-nominated stage musical The Prom and has secured a cast that puts Netflix in new star-power territory. 

Meryl Streep will star alongside James Corden, Nicole Kidman and Ariana Grande, with Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells playing key roles. Sources said Murphy will get underway directing the film adaptation of the Broadway hit in December, for a fall 2020 awards season release in theaters before it airs on the streamer. 

In Prom, Streep will play Dee Dee Allen, a two-time Tony winner who teams with Corden’s Barry Glickman in a flop musical about Eleanor Roosevelt. After career-ending reviews, they decide — along with Broadway babies Kidman as Angie Dickinson and Rannells (Book of Mormon) as Trent Oliver — to champion a cause to rehabilitate their careers. They find one in Emma, a high school senior in Indiana who isn’t allowed to take her girlfriend to the prom. 

A nationwide search led by casting director Alexa Fogel is on to fill the role of Emma. Grande will star as Alyssa, a popular daughter of the head of the PTA. Awkwafina will play the group’s publicist Ms. Sheldon, and Key will play Streep’s love interest and Emma’s ally, Principal Hawkins.

I haven't seen the show, so I am really looking forward to seeing this once it's ready to go next year.

Yes, please

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Code Red

A new trailer for the upcoming third season of Stranger Things was just released...



It's looking really good. We'll see how it all turns out when it becomes available on Netflix on July 4th.

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Abbey Normal

New character posters were just released for the upcoming Downton Abbey movie...



















They are stunning portraits and I can't wait until this opens on September 20th!!

Gloria Vanderbilt

Very sad news today...

Gloria Vanderbilt died Monday morning, according to her son, CNN's Anderson Cooper. The fashion designer, artist and socialite was 95. 

She died in her Manhattan home with friends and family at her side. "Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms," Cooper said in a statement. "She was a painter, a writer and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend. "She was 95 years old, but ask anyone close to her, and they'd tell you: She was the youngest person they knew -- the coolest and most modern."

Born in New York in 1924, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt grew up in France. Her father, financier Reginald Vanderbilt, the heir to a railroad fortune, died when she was a baby. Gloria was the focus of media attention at an early age, dubbed "the poor little rich girl" amid an intense custody battle between her mother and her father's wealthy sister, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Though her aunt prevailed in court proceedings, young Gloria didn't know her well. She considered her nanny, Dodo, her mother figure. 



When she was 17, she married Hollywood agent Pat DiCicco in 1941, against her Aunt Gertrude's wishes. She'd later concede she knew it was a mistake at the time. At 21, she took control of a $4.3 million trust fund her father had left her. She divorced DiCicco two months later and promptly remarried -- this time, to conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was 63 at the time. 

In 1954, she made her stage debut in a production of the romantic drama, "The Swan," at the Pocono Playhouse in Mountainhome, Pennsylvania. She published a book of poetry the following year, the same year she divorced Stokowski. She found love again in Hollywood with director and producer Sidney Lumet, who would earn multiple Academy Award nominations for films, including "12 Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network." The two married in 1956. Following their divorce in August 1963, Vanderbilt married for a final time on Christmas Eve of that year. With writer Wyatt Cooper, she had two more sons: Carter Cooper in 1965 and Anderson Cooper in 1967.

Tapping her artwork as a muse, she produced fashion and textile designs that would earn her the 1969 Neiman Marcus Fashion Award, before opening the door to a line of ready-to-wear garments in the mid-1970s. Under her GV Ltd. brand, she'd go on to sell millions of pairs of jeans bearing her signature and trademark swan logo -- a nod to her first production as a thespian. 

Tragedy struck the family in 1978 when Wyatt Cooper died on the operating table during open-heart surgery. The family took another blow a decade later when Carter Cooper, 23, jumped from the 14th-floor terrace of his parents' penthouse in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan. Carter had suffered with depression. The following years were rough ones for Vanderbilt. On top of coping with the loss of a son, her lawyer and psychiatrist bilked her out of millions. She successfully sued them, but still had to sell her mansion in the Hamptons and five-story Manhattan penthouse to pay off her debts. 

Jones Apparel Group bought Gloria Vanderbilt Apparel Corp. in 2002 for $138 million, and Vanderbilt delved wholesale back into her love for art and writing.



In his mother's obituary, Cooper lovingly described his mom as "the strongest person I've ever met, but she wasn't tough. She never developed a thick skin to protect herself from hurt. She wanted to feel it all. She wanted to feel life's pleasures, its pains as well. "She trusted too freely, too completely and suffered tremendous losses, but she always pressed on, always worked hard, always believed the best was yet to come."

She lived a complex and extraordinary life for sure. I think it's what most of us hope for as we journey through our days on this planet.

She will be missed.

Redrum

The upcoming The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, was released today...



It definitely has a lot of visual references to the original film, including the music at the end. Hopefully it'll be as good as the first one.

We'll find out when it opens on November 8th.

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Even colder

The first full trailer for Frozen 2 was just released...



It looks like it'll rake in all of the remaining money that all the parents in the world currently have when it's released on November 22nd.

I fully support this

Today's holiday needs to occur more than once a year.

Like...weekly.

Jonesing

The first trailer for the upcoming third and final season of Marvel's Jessica Jones was released today...



I still need to watch the second season, but I'm looking forward to seeing this new one after it becomes available on Netflix on June 14th.

Solid Gold

The first poster for Wonder Woman 1984 (I still hate that title) was released today along with a tweet from Patty Jenkins...



Evidently, the gold costume is actually something her character has worn in battle in the comic books. I'll take their word for it.

I can't believe we still have to wait a full year before we see the new film, but I'm REALLY looking forward to watching it when it opens on June 5th, 2020.

Summer Nights

A new poster for the upcoming season of Stranger Things was released today.

Very retro.

The third season becomes available on Netflix on July 4th.

Batty

Now that Robert Pattinson has been cast as the new Batman, I feel like they might as well cast Taylor Lautner as Robin and just kill the franchise with the first movie.

This is why DC movies can't have nice things.