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Hot Rumor: Five Years After Chadwick Boseman’s Death, Marvel Is Looking to Recast 'Black Panther' Hero T’Challa
Plus, Glen Powell gets a first-look deal at Universal, and why Bret Easton Ellis may be right about Austin Butler, but wrong about 'American Psycho' being "fake news."
Jeff Sneider
January 07, 2025
Happy Tuesday evening, everyone!
It was revealed today that the initial ratings released by the Golden Globes, and dutifully reported by the Penske trades, were, in fact, inflated.
You can’t even write this stuff. It’s almost too good to be true. A fake awards show boasts of fake ratings. I shudder to think of what is counted as a view, and whether the Globes videos that auto-play on PMC sites are included in the tally.
In other awards news that is, unfortunately, very real, the National Society of Film Critics has named Nickel Boys as the Best Picture of 2024 — just in case you needed further proof that critics are living in their own insular bubble.
If you were to show Nickel Boys to the average moviegoer, they’d tear their hair out from sheer boredom. That the film also received runner-up honors for Best Director (RaMell Ross) and Best Supporting Actress (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), and won Best Cinematography (Jomo Fray) in a year featuring Lol Crowley’s stunning compositions in The Brutalist, is certifiably insane.
It was nice to see the NSFC think a bit differently when it came to Best Actor (Colman Domingo), Best Actress (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), and Best Supporting Actress (Michele Austin), though Kieran Culkin was once again unimaginatively named Best Supporting Actor for his turn in A Real Pain, which was good, but nothing special.
And while I haven’t seen All We Imagine as Light yet, I imagine that Payal Kapadia was a divisive choice for the Best Director prize bestowed upon her by the NSFC, which is comprised of more than 60 critics — a majority of whom were no doubt looking to see who could be the most pretentious that day.
In tonight’s newsletter, you’ll read Marvel’s plans to recast the role of T’Challa five years after Chadwick Boseman’s death, and why Lionsgate’s plan to adapt American Psycho is hardly the fake news that its author, Bret Easton Ellis, is alleging.
There are also items about Glen Powell, Armie Hammer, Amy Schumer, Drew Goddard, Will Smith, and mommy influencer-turned-convicted felon Ruby Franke.
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