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The Hollywood Reporter @THR Oscars: South Korea Picks ‘Escape From Mogadishu’ for International Feature Category Oscars: South Korea Picks ‘Escape From Mogadishu’ for International Feature Category Ryoo Seung-wan's action drama is based on the true story of South and North Korean diplomats who joined forces to escape the 1990s Somali civil war. hollywoodreporter.com 7:46 AM · Oct 5, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Oscars: Spain Selects ‘The Good Boss,’ Starring Javier Bardem, for International Feature Category Oscars: Spain Selects ‘The Good Boss,’ Starring Javier Bardem, for International Feature Category Bardem, a best actor Oscar winner for 'Biutiful' in 2010, reteamed with his 'Loving Pablo' director Fernando León de Aranoa on the movie. hollywoodreporter.com 6:38 AM · Oct 5, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR #TheManySaintsofNewark director Alan Taylor says there's a hint in the film about Tony's final fate in #TheSopranos ‘Many Saints of Newark’ Director Gives His Opinion on Tony Soprano’s Fate Alan Taylor on a new hint in the film about the ending to 'The Sopranos' — and why he thinks Tony died in the HBO show’s final scene. hollywoodreporter.com 6:18 AM · Oct 3, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Foreign Box Office: ‘No Time to Die’ Rockets to $119M Overseas Opening Foreign Box Office: ‘No Time to Die’ Rockets to $119M Overseas Opening The 25th James Bond movie set numerous records, including becoming the first Hollywood title in the pandemic-era to cross $100 million in a foreign launch without China. hollywoodreporter.com 12:47 PM · Oct 3, 2021·SocialFlow

Pamela McClintock @PamelaDayM Is moviegoing returning to some semblance of normalcy? #Venom2 is the 1st sequel of the pandemic era to earn more than its predecessor (the 1st 'Venom' earned $80m in 2018). Can't hiss at that. 12:44 PM · Oct 3, 2021·Twitter Web App

The Hollywood Reporter @THR ‘Venom 2’ Ignites Box Office With Record $90M Opening ‘Venom 2’ Ignites Box Office With Record $90M Opening The Sony sequel hit pre-pandemic levels to come in well ahead of the first 'Venom,' as well as helping to fuel the biggest weekend overall since the COVID-19 crisis struck in North America. hollywoodreporter.com 11:08 AM · Oct 3, 2021·SocialFlow

Mankiewicz interviews Daniel Craig about his farewell to Bond. James Bond.

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Box Office: ‘No Time to Die’ Eyes Record $113M Overseas Opening Box Office: ‘No Time to Die’ Eyes Record $113M Overseas Opening The long-awaited 25th James Bond movie is igniting moviegoing across the globe as it opens in 54 foreign markets a week ahead of its debut in North America. hollywoodreporter.com 12:28 PM · Oct 2, 2021·SocialFlow

SpeedReads @SpeedReads Golden Globes group adds 6 Black members after massive backlash over lack of diversity: Golden Globes group adds 6 Black members after massive backlash over lack of diversity theweek.com 1:15 PM · Oct 1, 2021·Twitter Web App

A dependable actor, whether he was cast as a durable World War II soldier with frostbitten feet.. ...a White writer who had his skin darkened in order to experience conditions for Blacks in the 1950s Deep South... ...or one of our greatest presidents.

The Hollywood Reporter @THR ‘Aladdin’ on Broadway Canceled for Two Weeks Following Additional Breakthrough COVID Cases ‘Aladdin’ on Broadway Canceled for Two Weeks Following Additional Breakthrough COVID Cases Just a day after the Broadway show resumed following negative PCR tests from cast members, 'Aladdin' will now pause for 12 days before resuming shows on Oct. 12. hollywoodreporter.com 6:43 PM · Oct 1, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Maria Schrader’s ‘I’m Your Man’ Wins Best Film at the 2021 German Film Awards Maria Schrader’s ‘I’m Your Man’ Wins Best Film at the 2021 German Film Awards Germany's top movie awards were handed out in Berlin Friday night. hollywoodreporter.com 3:41 PM · Oct 1, 2021·SocialFlow

Bob Strauss @bscritic #AsjhaCooper is terrific as a down-to-earth #BuffyTheVampireSlayer in #BlackAsNight, a fun film about #Black and #Latino teens battling a socially conscious bloodsucker infestation in drug-haunted #NewOrleans. Excellent start to 2021's #WelcometotheBlumhouse series @PrimeVideo. 4:46 PM · Oct 1, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic #Algren, unsurprisingly a #documentary about the midcentury prose poet of Chicago's losing class #NelsonAlgren, features a lot of admirers remarking about how great a writer and cool a guy he was. Best stuff is on his affair with French philosophy goddess #SimonedeBeauvoir. 3:04 PM · Oct 1, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic #OldHenry is a serviceable, slightly Hawksian #Western that provides #TimBlakeNelson with a tasty lead role. Brutal and unforgiving with a somewhat silly twist, it's way better than the other current Western with #TraceAdkins in it, #ApacheJunction. 2:47 PM · Oct 1, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic #Cannes top prizewinner #Titane starts out redefining auto eroticism, then morphs into something else entirely. Thrilling filmmaking that's totally transgressive with odd, earned strains of tenderness. 2:19 PM · Oct 1, 2021·Twitter Web App

The Hollywood Reporter @THR BREAKING: Scarlett Johansson and Disney have settled their breach of contract lawsuit over the star’s #BlackWidow payday: “I am happy to have resolved our differences with Disney," said Johansson. "I look forward to continuing our collaboration" The settlement brings to a close a back-and-forth PR battle that pitted Johansson vs. Disney for the past two months and was poised to have dramatic implications for Hollywood’s major studios Disney Studios chairman Alan Bergman added: “I’m very pleased that we have been able to come to a mutual agreement with Scarlett Johansson regarding #BlackWidow. We appreciate her contributions to the MCU and look forward to working together.” http://thr.cm/rQzUCne 7:58 PM · Sep 30, 2021·SocialFlow

Rebecca Keegan @ThatRebecca My first screening @AcademyMuseum’s stunning David Geffen Theater. Museum Director Bill Kramer introduced The Wizard of Oz, accompanied by the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and conducted by David Newman. Lorna Luft was in the audience. 12:54 AM · Oct 1, 2021 from Los Angeles, CA·Twitter for iPhone

Thank goodness, she lived long enough to receive an honorary Academy Award on March 21, 1994. It'll be interesting to see how her presenter, Glenn Close, finally gets one.

There's "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" -- the 1975 filmed stage production for which James Whitmore received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of President Truman. Of course, it was a one-man show.

"Spin and Marty" was the story of Marty Markham (David Stollery) and Spin Evans (Tim Considine) -- opposites who became great friends while at a boys' summer camp at The Triple 'R' Ranch. It also was a serialized tale on "The Mickey Mouse Club."

The actor Tommy Kirk, who appeared in numerous Disney movies and television productions in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 79. He was one of many memorable young stars -- including Annette Funicello and Kevin "Moochie" Corcoran --who achieved fame on "The Mickey Mouse Club." The Hollywood Reporter said Kirk (pictured below at a memorabilia show) lived alone, and his body was found Tuesday in Las Vegas. Kirk once said that his career with The Mouse Factory was short-circuited because he was gay. “Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young leading man," he said. "After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.” Kirk also fell from grace after an arrest on December 24, 1964 on suspicion of marijuana possession at a Hollywood residence. He wasn't prosecuted for that or for a charge of possessing illegal drugs after barbiturates were found in his car. But his career suffered because of the incidents. Tim Considine and Kirk played the junior detectives Frank and Joe Hardy in episodes of "The Hardy Boys" -- serialized adventures that aired on "The Mickey Mouse Club." They appeared in "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure" (1956) and "The Mystery of the Ghost Farm" (1957). Both actors and Corcoran were inducted as Disney Legends in 2006. Kirk starred in the classic 1957 Disney feature film "Ole Yeller," the story of young Travis Coates and his family as they coped with problems at their late-1860s Texas homestead while the father (Fess Parker) was away on business. Travis drew some comfort from his relationship with the title dog, which helped protect the boy, his mother Katie (Dorothy McGuire) and brother Arliss (Corcoran). The film was based on the award-winning 1956 children's novel by Fred Gipson. The movie's unforgettable ending inspired a funny sequence in a Season 2 episode of TV's "Friends," in which Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) discovered that her mother had misled her as a child by turning off the TV before the climactic scene. Considine and Kirk played romantic rivals in 1959's "The Shaggy Dog," the popular Disney live-action comedy feature about high school teen Wilby Daniels (Kirk) who became magically transformed into a Bratislavian sheepdog. Although he retained his human consciousness after the shape shift, Wilby realized he was in trouble because his mailman father (Fred MacMurray) detested dogs. Kirk was reunited with "Ole Yeller" co-stars McGuire and (Corcoran) for Disney's 1960 adventure film "Swiss Family Robinson," based on Johann David Wyss' about a family of shipwreck survivors on an island somewhere in the southwest Pacific. Sir John Mills starred as the family patriarch, McGuire was his wife and their three sons were played by James MacArthur, Kirk and Corcoran. In 1961, Kirk co starred with MacMurray and Keenan Wynn in Disney's live-action comedy feature "The Absent-Minded Professor," MacMurray played the title character, Medfield College's physical chemistry professor Ned Brainard. His legendary absent-mindedness resulted in three canceled wedding ceremonies, which exasperated his fiancée (Nancy Olson). Meanwhile, his explosive home experiments accidentally created an anti-gravity substance he called "flubber" (a portmanteau for flying rubber). Brainard found himself struggling to fend off the schemes of a greedy land developer named Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn), who wanted to profit from flubber. Kirk played Hawk's son Biff. The movie's 1963 sequel was "Son of Flubber." In 1964, it was Kirk's turn to star as a Disney braniac. "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" starred the actor as a college student whose experiments with mentalism resulted in his developing the ability to read minds. The sci-fi comedy also starred Annette, Leon Ames, Stu Erwin, Alan Hewitt and Norman "Woo Woo" Grabowski. Kirk and Annette starred in "The Monkey's Uncle," the 1965 sequel to "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" that revolved around such plot devices as the custody of a chimp named Stanley and the invention of a human-powered flying vehicle. Annette sang the title song with musical backing by The Beach Boys. It was Kirk's final film for Disney. His contract was terminated by Walt Disney after it was discovered he had become involved with a male minor. Kirk continued to appear in movies, including the 1968 independent project "Mars Needs Women," which co-starred Yvonne Craig. The sci-fi comedy cast Kirk as a Martian on a search for females for The Red Planet. Although it was not released theatrically, it has developed a cult following through the years.

CNN @CNN Artifacts from icons like Spike Lee and Pedro Almodóvar. Ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." Okoye's costume from "Black Panther. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, dedicated to the history and impact of filmmaking, is finally set to open this week Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is ready for its closeup An inside look at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which is dedicated to the history and impact of filmmaking, is finally set to open its doors this week. cnn.com 8:01 PM · Sep 28, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Sundance Film Festival Plans Hybrid Format for 2022 Edition Sundance Film Festival Plans Hybrid Format for 2022 Edition Seven U.S. indie arthouse cinemas have been selected to complement's Sundance's online screening platform and Utah venues, festival director Tabitha Jackson annnounced. hollywoodreporter.com 12:08 PM · Sep 28, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR ABC’s ‘The Shot: Race to the Vaccine,’ CNN’s ‘The Death of George Floyd’ Among News Emmy Winners ABC’s ‘The Shot: Race to the Vaccine,’ CNN’s ‘The Death of George Floyd’ Among News Emmy Winners In an additional ceremony, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will present documentary categories on Wednesday evening. hollywoodreporter.com 11:07 PM · Sep 28, 2021·SocialFlow