| | | | | | | | Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 | | | | | | "It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you."
- Lena Dunham
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- Lena Dunham
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Ansel Elgort and Robert Pattinson, Serious Actors | | |  | | If you put happy-go-lucky Ansel Elgort and the ever brooding Robert Pattinson in a room together, we’re not sure how they’d get along but the two actors do share a similar career trajectory. They both had their big breaks in films based on YA novels (Pattinson in Twilight, Elgort in The Fault is in Our Stars and the Divergent series) and this year they may both jolt to genuine and respected mainstream leading man status playing small time criminals in highly stylized films that were festival hits. Elgort’s turn comes in Baby Driver, which rolls out to cinemas tonight. The film is hotly anticipated, and currently holds a coveted 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. You’ll have to wait a few months to see Pattinson’s turn in Good Time, but when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Pattinson was hotly tipped as a Best Actor contender. He ended up losing out, but the praise for his performance as a Queens-born petty crook remained, and you can watch the just released trailer here. Of course, both have plenty of films in the works, and Elgort added another juicy role just yesterday. He’ll play John F. Kennedy in a film centered on the President’s fabled heroics as a member of the Navy. How silly of us to doubt actors in YA films in the first place? The 1983 film adaptation of high school reading list mainstay The Outsiders helped to launch the careers of Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and, oh yeah, Tom Cruise after all. | | |  | | | Lena Dunham’s Surprising Next Move | | | | | What is a Lena Dunham to do without her Girls? A high profile film gig is the next logical step for anyone coming off a hit TV show, and Dunham may very take the step, albeit behind the camera. The Tracking Board reports that Dunham and her girl co-producer Jenni Konner are in talks to pen the script for the American remake of the German hit comedy Toni Erdemann (a film people loved so much that it was a mini-scandal when it didn’t win the Palme D’or at Cannes, and a mini-scandal again when it lost the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film). The film has already signed Kristen Wiig and Jack Nicholson to star as the film’s eccentric daughter and father lead characters, and yet hasn’t secured a creative team yet. The Dunham news makes sense. She’s tweeted her praise of the work of the original film’s director, Maren Ade, before, and they’re both female filmmakers known for strong, distinct, and darker takes on comedy. If Dunham and Konner sign on that only leaves the question of who directs. | | | | | | Dov Charney’s Los Angeles Apparel | | Dov Charney’s American Apparel | American Apparel burned bright as hipsters’ favorite basics brand throughout the ‘00s, but like so many things from that era (see: nü-rave, MySpace, cans of Sparks, the Cobrasnake) its time had to come. Earlier this year the brand basically disappeared, its stores left empty and its intellectual property sold off. Its classic designs are still on the wholesale market under the ownership of the Canadian manufacturer Gildan, but sans the sexy marketing and the (redeeming) dedication to manufacturing all clothes in America. The brand's founder, the ever-controversial Dov Charney, is back with a new brand and, well, it looks strangely familiar. It’s called Los Angeles Apparel. It manufactures in America. It peddles brightly colored basics. RetailDive takes a deeper dive in Charney’s latest exploit, and reports he’ll concentrate on wholesale at the moment. As for future plans? Well, Charney says, yes, some of the marketing may end up being sexy. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ansel Elgort might not be the only person to launch the second stage of their career with Baby Driver. Eiza González proves to be a real scene stealer in a pivotal role. Read an interview with the emerging star here (Eiza González). | | | | | | | | | | Elon Musk, 46 (Bodacious Billionaire)
John Cusack, 51 (Hollywood Everyman)
Kathy Bates, 69 ( Oscar, Tony and 14 time Emmy Winner)
Mel Brooks, 91 (Architect of American Film Comedy) | | | | | | | |
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