Newswire Roundup, April 8

General news

Donald Glover announces Phoebe Waller-Bridge has left upcoming Amazon series Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Maya Erskine from Pen15 has joined
In same interview with himself, Glover declares his 2013 album Because the Internet the “rap OK Computer“
Whoopi Goldberg joins Amazon series Anansi Boys as Bird Woman; Neil Gaiman to serve as showrunner
Sam Raimi would enjoy more making big-budget movies for large, successful studio Marvel
HBO renews Winning Time for second season
Last Days, the Gus Van Sant not-biopic about not-Kurt Cobain, to become opera
Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth join Lonely Planet, forthcoming Netflix romance film directed by Susannah Grant (Unbelievable)
John Cena to appear in new buddy cop action-comedy Officer Exchange for Amazon
Tom Hiddleston to play Antarctic explorer for The White Darkness, a new Apple TV Plus series from Soo Hugh, creator of Pachinko
Lindsay Lohan wanted to play Regina George in Mean Girls: “I really wanted to play like a pretty, normal girl now and I wanted to have a different kind of role than just the damaged teenager again.” The mothership questions whether Regina George is normal.
Michelle Pfeiffer talks her reservations about joining the MCU as Janet Van Dyne without seeing a script
JK Simmons and Sissy Spacek have a magical space portal in new Prime series Night Sky

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