Charles Melton Be My Love Child

I have learned the hard way not to get myself excited for Todd Solondz's next movie called Love Child, because Love Child has been his next movie for going on a decade now and the football keeps getting yanked away from me. In 2017 I posted that it was going to star Penelope Cruz and Edgar Ramirez, then in 2021 I posted that it was going to star Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell. The last update was this past December when Elizabeth Olsen became attached to the lead female role -- well today comes word that Charles Melton, hot off working with my other favorite Todd (Haynes), has found himself attached to the male lead opposite her. I've heard variations on the plot over the years but this is its latest update:

"The story follows Misty who is stuck in a loveless marriage to a brutish husband. Junior, her precocious 11-year-old is her only consolation. When Easy, a handsome vagabond stranger, appears, Junior hatches a plan to get rid of his father so that his mother can marry him instead. But things end up backfiring, so Junior comes up with yet another plan, this one even more devious, and with more disastrous—and unexpected—consequences."

So obviously the casting of the eleven-year-old is pretty crucial, but if Todd Solondz has proven anything over his career it's that he's fucking excellent at casting child actors. Then there's also the role of Junior's father, which seems to be a less important role given that every iteration of casting we've had to date has only been for the Misty and Easy characters (and yes, those names are giving me life). Anyway! I am enforcing a strict wait-and-see approach, a barbed-wire-barrier around my heart, before I allow myself to get excited on this movie once again. That said whatever your religion or lackthereof please whisper something hopeful in its name today. Here is how I pray:

Ismael Cruz Córdova Eight Times

If you've been watching the new Lord of the Rings series titled The Rings of Power then you ought to recognize actor Ismael Cruz Córdova from that (he plays one of the leading elves) -- I already knew of Ismael before thanks to his role (having sex with Jack Lowden) in Mary Queen of Scots, but perhaps you'd seen him on the shows Ray Donovan or The Good Wife or hey, it says he was on seven episodes of Sesame Street! How cool is that?

Anyway he's gorgeous, dreamy, just an absolutely banger, and that's before we even get into the fact that he is good, good friends with Pedro Pascal and Edgar Ramirez, as previously documented. "Good friends" with those two always seems like a euphemism to me, just saying! Anyway Ismael's gorgeousness is also on display this month in The Rake magazine -- click here for the interview, which I have not bothered to read yet. That's what lunches are for. And after the jump I've got the whole photoshoot...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Knock Knock (2015)

Bel: It's like destiny that we were meant to meet.

Do you believe in destiny, Evan?

Evan: I'm an architect, so obviously I believe in things

happening by your own design.

Bel: Well... I do. I don't think people just pick randomly.

I think that, if we are here together, it's because there's

something we have to learn from each other.

A happy 50th birthday to Eli Roth today! Listen, I don't miss the Aughts era of "Bro Horror" anymore than any sane person would, but I still maintain that Eli Roth's early films -- meaning the original Cabin Fever and the Hostel movies -- were smarter about the xenophobia and sexism that they've been bluntly labeled with as of late. I still think those movies were sending up our shitty American instincts more than they were being a straightforward indulgence of them. That said I'll admit I haven't watched them in a decade, so maybe a re-watch would disabuse me of my romantic notions towards them? But he still made Knock Knock in 2015 and that movie's feminist as hell, and presaged the #MeToo movement pretty smartly. Plus Cate Blanchett loves working with him -- she's re-teaming with Eli for his Borderlands video-game adaptation next, alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and Haley Bennett and Gena Gershon and Cheyenne Jackson and Edgar Ramirez! (Not to mention it was co-written by the dude who made the phenom Chernobyl series!) Oh my! So who are you to question Queen Cate? In summation...

Searching For Edgar Ramirez

In case you hadn't noticed -- and why would you? -- it is January of the year 2022. I don't know. It just is. So yeah, it's January, allegedly, and even though nothing else feels the same the studios are still using January as their dumping ground and so the movies coming out, they ain't so exciting. We do have the new Scream movie coming out next week and that is exciting, but otherwise, me trying to do a round-up of things to watch right now? Not a thrill. There is The 355, a lady spies adventure starring Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong'o and Fan Bingbing and Penelope Cruz and Diane Kruger, but I've heard tepid things and...

I know The 355 is all about actresses or whatever but their advertising should feature more of Edgar Ramirez and Sebastian Stan if you ask me, like making out and shit pic.twitter.com/yUM91p5WIB

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 7, 2022

... that would benefit their buzz, don't you think? But nooooooo they know better. Best of luck with that, then. I think we're all gonna be saving that one for airplane rides. (Hollywood has really done Edgar dirty y'all -- he's such an incredible actor when given the chance.) 

There is a good movie out on VOD today (and supposedly in some theaters but I'm not encouraging theater-going at all right now, and I think you know why, but let's try to write a post without naming the pandemic in the room for once) -- it's called See For Me and I reviewed it out of Tribeca last summer, right here. It's about a blind girl named Sophie who is house-sitting for strangers when robbers break in and there's a, you guessed it, cat and mouse game that ensues. It's terrific -- atmospheric, tense, all the things you want from that set-up. I'll share the trailer here: 

Otherwise there is the new Asghar Farhadi movie A Hero in some theaters, but seriously, it hits Amazon in two weeks -- just wait for that please. I will be writing it up up then -- you don't want to see it before you know what I think, right??? Man I'll try anything. Stay home. I am staying home. I am going to watch a bunch of Search Party (watch the trailer here) and celebrate Elvismas tomorrow from the comfort of my sofa, the way Riley Keough's grandfather intended. Have a good safe weekend, everyone. And please tell me what you're watching in the comments! 

The Long Strange Saga of Love Child

The happiest news in the history of happy news hit the internet last night, as word spread via Variety that not only is Todd Solondz working on a new movie called Love Child, but it's going to star no less than the obscenely talented movie stars (and former Lobster lovers!) Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell! Here is how they describe it:

"In a darkly comic twist on the classical Oedipal story, “Love Child” will follow a precocious child who schemes to rid himself of his brutish father so he can have his mother all to himself. Things go awry when a handsome stranger appears. “This is my first movie with a plot and my first movie taking place in Texas,” said Solondz. “It’s fun and it’s sexy and it’s shaped by the Hollywood movies that made me want to become a filmmaker. I’ve loved Rachel and Colin’s work forever, and am so honored to be able to excite their passion for serious and unexpected work as well.”"

Sounds awesome, right? Well let's hold up the happy train, there is one piece of business to attend to first -- in 2017 I reported that Todd Solondz was going to make a movie called Love Child that would star... Edgar Ramirez and Penelope Cruz? I did, I did report that. In 2017 Solondz was looking for financing in Berlin; this time, here in 2021 with his new actors, he's going to Cannes; let's hope it works out better this time. I do think it's curious to read how the plot was described in 2017, just for reference's sake -- it will be curious to see if anything's changed from this 2017 version which gives away a lot more plot specifics:

"Story follows 11-year-old Junior, a delusional aspiring Broadway star with an inappropriate obsession with his mother Immaculada. After orchestrating an accident that nearly kills his abusive father, he encourages Nacho, the handsome man living in the family’s guesthouse, to court his mother and become his new dad. But when the two fall in love, Junior becomes so jealous that he is no longer the subject of his mother’s attention that he hatches a plan to frame Nacho for his father’s murder."

Well I doubt that Rachel Weisz will be playing a character named "Immaculada" for one. But hey you never know, this is Todd Solondz. He goes places!

I DESERVE THIS https://t.co/ojdmtWvfBE

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 16, 2021

Edgar Ramirez Seven Times

So are any of you watching the new Nicole Kidman HBO program The Undoing? Or am I not alone is having never heard it even existed until a week or so ago? Much less that it co-starred Edgar Ramirez. (And Lily Rabe!) Is there anything about it worth my time? Or should I just stick with these photos of Edgar wearing lots of plaids for L'Officiel Hommes magazine? The answer's the plaids, isn't it? Well hit the jump for the plaids...

Edgar Ramirez Seven Times

Ahhhhh I had missed Edgar Ramirez's hair! Is that weird? It's not like I sneaked up behind him that time I saw him do a Q&A at NYFF and cut off a piece of it that I now wear in a locket around my neck at all times or anything. And it might seem like, with that suggestion right on my lips, that I am giving away the game, telling on a secret thing I actually did, but I am not. Really. No lockets here! And no you may not search my person. No, especially not there. Ahem. Anyway as I was trying to say before your weird hair-stealing fantasies ran away with us that Edgar's got real lovely hair...

... and since I haven't seen him in anything since that NYFF screening (which was of Olivier Assayas' film Wasp Network, now on Netflix) a year ago I haven't had the chance to sniff it excuse me look at it, look at it with my eyes. What a loss for us all! Thankfully GQ Mexico took these photographs for their latest issue, which is the next best thing to having sewn a pillow out of stolen hair that you sleep with every night. Hit the jump for the photos...

Show Me Your Uncut & I'll Show You Mine

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Good evening and salutations et cetera, I have got a heads-up for y'all and why not do it with an extra handsome Edgar Ramirez selfie -- the next twenty-four hours are especially stuffed ones with three big movies on my plate, and so I probably won't be posting. Which three big movies, you ask? Well first off fuck you for not having your first thought be, "Oh no, no MNPP tomorrow!" But I'll answer your question, you ungrateful scamps. 

The three movies, all screening for NYFF, are Uncut Gems from the Safdies, Marriage Story from Noah Baumbach, and Wasp Network from Olivier Assayas... the latter of which stars (drumroll please and thanks) Edgar Ramirez. See how I brought that all around? Fuckin' magical.

Anyway see? Big movies. I ain't bullshit. Follow me on Twitter for updates or even better follow me on Instagram -- the latter's "even better" because there will be famous people at all three of the screenings I'm attending and I will no doubt be snapping photos of the famous people. We all love to stare at Famous People dammit!
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5 Off My Head: The NYFF of 2019

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No less than Pedro Almodovar himself designed that there poster for the 57th New York Film Festival (click to embiggen), which has just today announced its Main Slate of 27 movies, all of which you can check out at this link. This comes on the heels of last week's announcement that Martin Scorsese's The Irishman will be their Opening Night picture -- see my post on that here -- and that Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story will be their Centerpiece Film -- see that post here -- as well as the news that Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn, an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's book that stars Norton and Alec Bladwin among others, will be the Closing Night movie. 

Anyway the Main Slate once again this year looks tremendously promising -- every year I do a list of the five movies that I'm most excited about seeing, but since there's easily more than five right now even at first glance I'm going to do this year's list with a stipulation. If the film already showed up in my list of 10 movies I'm most excited for this year, which I wrote back in June, I'm excluding it from today's list. That means you won't see Bong Joon-ho's Parasite or Pedro Almodovar's Pain & Glory or Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire listed below, but believe me -- believe me! -- I wanna see those movies very very much! But NYFF offers such richness that we easy can dig a little deeper...

5 Movies I'm Looking Forward to at NYFF 2019

Martin Eden (dir. Pietro Marcello) -- Not gonna lie, this Italian psuedo-historical drama immediately grabbed my attention because it stars Luca Marinelli, who we've been keen on ever since he got cast opposite Matthias Schoenaerts in another upcoming film called The Old Guard. We're rooting for him... especially showing up at the Q&A. Anyway Martin Eden is based on a book by Jack London, and has Marinelli playing a dissatisfied writer who finds politics and love and class warfare. Perhaps not in that order!

Zombi Child (dir. Bertrand Bonello) -- How the news escaped me that the director of two of the great films of the past decade, Saint Laurent and Nocturama, has gone and directed a zombie movie set in Haiti (which NYFF labels more Tourneur than Romero which sounds plenty ace to me) makes me nuts -- this is exactly the sort of arty nutty thing I should be on and on but good!

Wasp Network (dir. Olivier Assayas) - Assayas re-teams with his Carlos star Edgar Ramirez (who could really use a great role again right about now) to make an epic political thriller about the true story of a group of Cuban defectors who became spies in Miami in the 1980s. You say Assayas, I say how high, but the cast also includes Gael Garcia Bernal and Wagner Moura and Leonardo Sbaraglia (mmm Leonardo Sbaraglia) so sign me up.

Synonyms (Dir. Nadav Lapid) -- I just mentioned this film's star Tom Mercier last week when he got himself cast in Luca Guadagnino's HBO series -- he gives by all accounts an astonishing star making performance in this film, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin earlier this year. He plays a former Israeli soldier who runs away to Paris and finds sexual liberation or something. I don't know, I reached the point where I stopped reading things so it's not spoiled for me, but people I trust a lot have made this film sound like something real special.

Bacurau (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles) -- This is one that my only connection to -- I did very much like Aquarius but otherwise I'm not super familiar with the directors or any of the actors, that is -- is how NYFF is describing it, but what a description! So I'll let them speak for me here:

"A vibrant, richly diverse backcountry Brazilian town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become the targets of a group of marauding, wealthy tourists. The perpetrators of this Most Dangerous Game–esque class warfare, however, may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau. Those who remember Kleber Mendonça Filho’s wonderful NYFF54 crowd-pleaser Aquarius starring Sonia Braga—who appears here in a memorable supporting role—might be surprised by the new terrain and occasional ultraviolence of his latest, codirected with his longtime production designer Juliano Dornelles. Yet this wild shape-shifter shares with that film the exhilaration of witnessing society’s forgotten and marginalized standing up for themselves by any means necessary. With references to the fearless genre works of John Carpenter, George Miller, and Sergio Leone, Bacurau, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a vividly angry power-to-the-people fable like no other. A Kino Lorber release."

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I didn't even room for the new Kelly Reichardt movie!
If you've looked through this year's NYFF line-up 

what looks good to you? Tell us in the comments!

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Do Dump or Marry: These Three Amigos

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Edgar Ramirez just posted this photograph of himself hanging out with his friends Ismael Cruz Cordova -- who you should know from Mary Queen of Scots (as the homosexual who had sex with Jack Lowden) or Ray Donovan or... yes, Sesame Street -- and Pedro Pascal, and it is clearly begging for one of our "Do Dump or Marry" treatments so here we be. We've previously posted plenty of Pedro (here) and Edgar (here) but before you answer in the comments if you're unfamiliar with Ismael I highly recommend you talk a little jaunt through his Instagram...

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Here’s your selfie . Now listen , no ones gender identity is by any means a reason to consider them less human nor it makes it “more ok” for these people to be subject to violence , harassment, discrimination , and in many cases to end their lives . When you see difference , lean towards it . I promise you , a closer look will destroy your mistaken notions and give way to a wonderful new experience . Let me see a show of hands in support ! Mucho amor ! 📸 @beau_nelson

A post shared by Ismael Cruz Cordova (@ismaelcruzcordova) on May 21, 2019 at 3:26pm PDT

Seb & Edgar Get Their Spy Kicks

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I don't think I've posted about this movie before, and it figures it'd take a couple of male actors being added to the female spy movie for me to bite -- the old news is that Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong'o and Penelope Cruz and Fan Bingbing are making a female spy movie together that's called 355. It will be directed by X-Men producer turned X-Men director Simon Kinberg, and written by one of the writers of the television show Smash. We knew all that. What we learned today is that Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez are also joining the cast, and that predictably why I am suddenly here writing about it. I do my own thing! Anyway I know the assumption is that they'll be this movie's equivalent of the Bond Girls, or maybe Bad Guys, or possibly both of those things at once, but why can't they be a kick-ass team of homosexual spies slash lovers that help the ladies out? Why not, I ask???

5 Off My Head: Globes Gotta Globe

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I totally forgot that the Golden Globes nominations were being announced this morning, but perhaps that's for the best - reading through them over at The Film Experience just now left me wishing for a cocktail or ten and its a little bit early for that. Love for desperate dreck like A Star is Born is expected this season so I'm not letting that actually bother me, but a Best Picture (Drama) nomination for Bohemian Rhapsody is some real bullshit, as is a snub for all things Hereditary, and then this...

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I am personally affronted by a nomination for the music for A QUIET PLACE for anything, unless there is a category for "Best Ruiner Of The Entire Concept Of The Movie"

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 6, 2018

... actually gives me stomach pains. What a bad, bad decision that is! Especially when you've got Thom Yorke making gorgeous haunting music right over there in Suspiria! Ugh, Globes. But that's just it - it's the Globes, they gonna Globe, there's no point working one's self up into a froth. So let's look for happy things... which are all, weirdly, among the TV stuff. Here are a few of my favorite things...

5 of My Favorite Globe Nominations

Supporting Actor, TV

Ben Whishaw for A Very British Scandal

Actress in a Limited TV Series

Laura Dern for The Tale

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Very much here for scenes of Daniel Brühl barking boot-lacing commands at a submissive Luke Evans on #TheAlienist pic.twitter.com/xlwt9QV2vo

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 4, 2018

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Actor in a Limited TV Series

Daniel Brühl for The Alienist

Best Actress & Supporting Actor, Movie Drama

Melissa McCarthy & Richard E. Grant 

for Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Limited TV Series

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Runners-up: Timothee Chalamet in Beautiful Boy, 

Stephan James in Homecoming, 

all of the ladies in The Favourite, 

anything ROMA

So what are your favorite nominations?

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Who Wore It Best?

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I'm not sure where this shoot originated...

... but somebody shot the four big names in the Assassination of Gianni Versace cast wearing basically the same outfit - you can see Ricky Martin and Penelope Cruz at this link - and so I figured twas poll time. (Also making Darren Criss look even smaller than he actually is, given the framing of those two pictures, makes me chuckle. Bonus!)

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online surveys

Still no word on when this, the best series of 2018 so far, is hitting blu-ray but you can stream the entire thing on Amazon if you need to. I recommend it highly. And not just for all of the prurient reasons we covered as it aired, but they don't hurt. I genuinely thought the show was a tremendous achievement, for real. Anyway in related news there were a couple of nice photo-shoots of Ricky Martin recently that I might as well share now too (thanks Mac) along with a couple bonuses added in for, you know, bonus, after the jump...

Good Afternoon, Gratuitous Sebastian Stan

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I should have posted this photo-shoot of Sebastian last week when I posted that shirtless shot of him with his trainer and admitted I hadn't yet seen Black Panther - for those keeping track I still haven't, I lose at the game of life! - but waiting a couple of days allows me to also give us this goofy mustache poll...

survey services

... and who don't love a goofy poll about staches? Nobody, no how! Oh and I found a couple more shirtless shots of Sebastian with his trainer too, so that's a good reason to loop back around. See those and the rest of this photo-shoot plus a few dozen other various recent and not-so-recent shots after the jump...

I Am Link

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--- Hulk Out - I was supposed to see Thor Ragnarok last night but I had to abandon my ticket for a work event, boo hoo me. I have it so hard, you guys. But I'm not sure when I'll see it now - this weekend's looking pretty nuts. (See this tweet for confirmation of that.) That said Thor shuffled back up the To-Do list first when I read Chris Hemsworth talk about how many shirtless scenes he's got (apparently Taika really enjoyed getting Chris out of his clothes; use that sentence as you will) and then even more when I read Vulture's Big Breaking Important News Story that this one has Marvel's first nude scene - we get Hulk Butt! Sidenote: I love how furry they've made the Hulk's chest, in keeping with Original Ruffalo. But is Hulk's butt furry? Stay tuned!
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--- Full Cone - The early retrospective of the career of director Stephen Cone so far, which we told you about previously, kicks off today at the Museum of the Moving Image out in Queens with his terrific and lovely latest film Princess Cyd, which we've been telling you to see for several months now. We are on it! Seriously if you're in town you'd be a top shelf fool not to make it out there to something. Anyway The Film Stage chatted with Cone about... well lots of stuff, it's a great peek into a great mind, go read it.
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--- Great Gerwig - I should have linked to this when I posted that clip from Lady Bird earlier today but I spaced on it - anyway you can literally never get too much Greta Gerwig, literally - this profile on her for New York Magazine is top tier stuff, read the shit out of it. She's every ounce the delight we've come to love. In related news The Quad, which is doing that series on Lady Bird's influences that I told you about, just announced that GG will be there in person for the screenings of Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies and (wait for it) Brian DePalma's Carrie! Ahhh! Oh and I haven't read this one yet but here's Greta & Patty Jenkins talking about What Makes Female Directors Great, according to the headline. (thx Mac)
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--- We're All Queer Creeps - I found this personal essay right here about discovering and interpreting one's gayness through the lens of Michael Myers and the original Halloween film really moving and interesting, go read it. Y'all know I'm a proponent of owning the gay villain or as I've dubbed them the Queer Creep, so this fits right in our wheelhouse.
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--- Dancing Boys - First things first I've had that behind-the-scenes video of Armie Hammer (and Timothee & Esther Garrel & Victoire Du Bois, but obviously Armie's the dancing star here) practicing their dancing on the set of Call Me By Your Name for an entire week, maybe longer, and somehow managed to forget to post it - what is the world coming to??? Don't ask me where it came from - somebody posted it on Tumblr but you go try to sort through a week's worth of CMBYN Tumblr, I double peach dare you. Anyway besides that wondrous thing here's a new chat with CMBYN screenwriter and almost-director and forever-legend James Ivory on the movie. He even manages to not bad-mouth Luca's choices this time.
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--- Call Me Leslie - The unjustly ignored in its time and still unjustly overlooked 2006 film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is getting a big fancy blu-ray edition next year thanks to the wonderful folks at Scream Factory, so maybe we can push this thing into broader consciousness besides just horror nerds then. Still pissed we never got a sequel. But in that vein I guess a comic series called Before the Mask (a prequel, duh) got funded by an online campaign last year and that is indeed coming our way. Don't know how I missed that.
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--- Beale Boys - Barry Jenkins of Moonlight fame is getting his next movie together (a James Baldwin adaptation; we told you about it here) and just hired a couple of very fine looking gentleman for supporting roles - Dave Franco and Ed Skrein will co-star in If Beale Street Could Talk, which is about a young pregnant woman named Tish (played by newcomer Kiki Layne) who is trying to save the life of her boyfriend who's been accused of a crime he didn't commit.
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--- And Finally have you seen the new speedo-stuffed teaser for the upcoming American Crime Story second season called The Assassination of Gianni Versace? Not just any speedo - Darren Criss Speedo. If you missed the pictures of Darren rocking a little red speedo on the set (I doubt you did, but just in case) click here for them. And here's that teaser:
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Armie & Edgar & Friends

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It would be utterly captivating if I could find some elaborate excuse for why I am posting that picture this morning but alas I seem to be having some sort of allergy attack and am simply using them to buy myself time. But it's like we always say - who the hell needs a reason for anything? Okay okay here's a bonus: here's a picture of the very first table read for Call Me By Your Name with Luca and producer Peter Spears and several important members of the cast:

Spears shared the photo on his Twitter, which is full of goodies from the set if you're so inclined (I know you're so inclined or else you probably would've stopped reading MNPP a couple of weeks ago) -- here's another good one:

I was so distracted by Armie's short-shorts that it took me awhile to notice that was Bill Paxton second-from-left there - has anyone been able to find out what Paxton's connection to the movie was? The movie is dedicated to him at the very end, but googling around I haven't been able to figure out what his connection was before he passed away. My guess is producer, but IMDb doesn't list him.

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Good Night, Edgar Ramirez

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I hope that working with Ryan Murphy has made 

Edgar realize - MORE OF THIS. MORE OF THIS.

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Pics of the Day

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The first pictures from the new, Versace themed season of American Crime Story have been released by EW - you can see more here (including Penelope Cruz as Donatella). Pictured here are Edgar Ramirez as Gianni Versace, Darren Criss as Versace's murderer Andrew Cunanan, and Ricky Martin as Versace's long-time partner Antonio D'Amico. There are going to be so many speedos on this show, aren't there? In case you missed Darren and his itty bitty red speedo, click here. (And even better out of it right here.)

I See the Gianni in Him

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I wish I had more of those pictures of Darren Criss wearing a speedo on the set to share today but we'll just have to make do with confirmation that Edgar Ramirez really is, at least visually, an excellent and inspired pick to play Gianni Versace. Don't ya think?
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