| | | | | | | | Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 | | | | | | "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
-Reba McEntire
To sign up for this newsletter click here. "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
-Reba McEntire
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Alicia Vikander, Tomb Raider | | Angelina Jolie, Tomb Raider | A little more than a year after winning the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for The Danish Girl, Alicia Vikander is getting ready to carry her first Hollywood blockbuster. The role, however, is a familiar one. She’ll play Lara Croft of video game Tomb Raider fame, a character first brought to the big screen by none other than Angelina Jolie. In fact, Jolie booked her Croft gig shortly after winning her own supporting Academy Award for Girl, Interrupted. Of course, in an interview with GQ, director Roar Uthaug promises a different take on the character. This movie will be an origin story, and supposedly “delves deeper into her humanity.” The article also come with the first images of Vikander in character. The major visual difference between her version and the previous? Vikander is rocking full length pants, while Jolie played the adventurer in bootie shorts. | | TV, Even For the Award Winning Filmmaker Behind Moonlight | | Traditional Hollywood Career Paths | So you just directed the film that triumphed at the Academy Awards, what do you do next? Television, apparently. A streaming service to be more exact. Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has announced his next project, and it’s a series for Amazon adapted from Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railway, which follows two enslaved people fleeing from Georgia to freedom in the North. "It's a groundbreaking work that pays respect to our nation's history while using the form to explore it in a thoughtful and original way,” Jenkins says of the source material. Perhaps it’s not unsurprising that the promising filmmaker is taking the TV path. He was originally courted by big studios to helm mainstream projects after his 2008 festival breakthrough Medicine for Melancholy, but turned them down in favor of pursuing more creatively fulfilling projects, a bet that certainly paid off. | | “See Now, Buy Now”...For The Right Brands | | “See Now, Buy Now” for Thakoon and Tom Ford | Is “See Now, Buy Now” the paradigm-changing revolution the fashion industry needs? Results are mixed. After experimenting with the idea of offering clothes for sale as soon as they hit the runway, Tom Ford decided to go back to the old ways of doing things this season. Thakoon, too, is taking a “pause” after betting big on the experience. However, WWD reports that some brands are seeing success. Namely Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and Rebecca Minkoff. “We’re even seeing a halo effect on sales numbers across all our divisions globally,” Avery K. Baker, chief brand officer at Tommy Hilfiger, told the publication of its Gigi Hadid-fronted “See Now, Buy Now” push. “It’s created an incredible amount of visibility and excitement in general in the brand from consumers around the world.” Over in London, Burberry, too, seems to be sticking it out, confirming that many items sold out shortly after debuting. In other words, the effort seems to be a potentially winning one for customer-facing brands that offer wares accessible to a wide array of consumers, not so much for the brands that specialize solely in super luxe stuff. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hailie Scott, the daughter of Eminem and a constant presence in his lyrics, had managed to keep a relatively low profile despite her famous provenance. Yet, for some reason, the internet collectively rediscovered her Instagram page making her the latest in an ever increasing list of noteworthy scions. | | | | | | | | | | Lady Gaga, 31 (RuPaul’s Drag Race Superfan) Julia Stiles, 36 (MVP of ‘90s Teen Movies) Reba McEntire, 62 (Country Queen) | | | | | | | | |
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