Ever since the stars of Will & Grace came back together for a mini-episode in support of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, there’s been talk about NBC being interested in bringing the show back for a 10-episode run. More recently Megan Mullally has suggested it’s close to happening, while Eric McCormack hinted that while the actors were up for it, they were waiting on NBC.
However, if Leslie Jordan is to be believed, the show’s return is definitely happening. Jordan played Karen’s social rival Beverlie Leslie in the series, becoming a bit of a fan favourite in the process, as well as winning an Emmy for the role. In a recent interview with radio station KPBS, the actor/comedian said, “It’s back! Here’s the way it works: [NBC] has ordered 10 [episodes]. It’ll be for next season, so they’ll go in in July.”
Although that sounds like pretty firm confirmation, we should probably wait for an official announcement before we get too excited, although Mullally’s recent comments have been very positive. However, as Jordan plays a side-character, while he’s probably been contacted, he may not have been involved in the final negotiations or party to decisions firsthand.
For a couple of years, Whiplash director Damien Chazelle has been attached to a biopic of Neil Armstrong, called First Man. Now he’s found the man to play the main role, as 
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has long proved popular fodder for entertainment. As well as TV adaptations and Hollywood movies, we’ve had a Marvel comic book, the addition of the undead to the story with Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, a Bollywood-esque rendition in the form of Bride & Prejudice, and plenty of others. Now it’s time for the story to get a little gay with Before The Fall.
It’s almost two years since I Am Michael premiered at the Sundance Film Festival – enough time for director Justin Kelly and producer/star James Franco to have made and released another movie, 
Shaun Of The Dead and Scott Pilgrim’s Edgar Wright has been working on Baby Driver for a long time. However, he put it on hold while working on Marvel’s Ant Man, but after his somewhat abrupt departure from that project, he went back to it. However, it’s only now we’re getting out first look with a couple of pic via EW.
Following the muted and somewhat confused reaction to Prometheus, 20th Century Fox has been keen to show the follow-up will be something more familiar. The Alien name has returned, the promise has been made that the better known elements of the franchise will be back, and now the first trailer is here to back that up.
New Queer Visions is an interesting idea. It’s a sort of bolt-on for film festivals, allowing them to showcase some of the most interesting and unusual slices of LGBT cinema around. In January it’s the London Short Film Festival, and as part of that there will be two New Queer Visions screenings on the 7th at Hackney’s Moth Club.
How quickly things change. A couple of years again, any film with Robert Pattinson in would have screamed his presence from the rooftops. However, with The Lost City Of Z, you’d hardly know he was there (although the ridiculous beard in the last shot means we probably wouldn’t have recognised him anyway. Instead the focus is on Charlie Hunnam, and to a lesser extent Tom Holland.
While David Lynch’s 1984 movie version of Dune is defended by some, most prefer to pretend the great director had never made it. However, with Frank Herbert’s books being some of the bestselling hard sci-fi novels ever, Hollywood has long thought they should be able to capitalise on its popularity.