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‘Wicked’ Loses Another Director as Stephen Daldry Exits the Universal Adaptation
Wicked is having a tough time taking off. Universal’s long-awaited feature film adaptation of the hit musical just lost another director with Stephen Daldry (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close),...
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Andrew Lincoln Trades Zombies For Ghosts as Star of Live-Stream Production of...
Andrew Lincoln is trading zombies for ghosts. In Lincoln’s his first role since he left his 10-year gig on The Walking Dead, the actor is set to star as Ebenezer Scrooge in the stage production of A...
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Early Buzz: Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis Steal...
The Oscar buzz is coming in hot for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe‘s adaptation of the classic August Wilson play which stars Viola Davis and, most notably, Chadwick Boseman in his final...
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‘Giving Voice’ Trailer: Viola Davis, Denzel Washington Pass on August...
“August was that one writer who saw me. And when I say ‘me,’ I do mean me, but I also mean people like me,” Viola Davis says in the trailer for Giving Voice, an upcoming documentary that honors the...
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‘A Christmas Carol’, Featuring Andy Serkis, Daniel Kaluuya, and Carey...
There have been dozens of movie adaptations of Charles Dickens’ classic story A Christmas Carol (with even more to come), but here’s one that puts a new spin on things. Andy Serkis (The Lord of the...
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Featurettes Put the Spotlight on Chadwick Boseman...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is on Netflix today, and the streamer is wasting no time hyping up the lead performances by Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. In two Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom featurettes,...
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Featurette: Bringing August Wilson’s Play From the...
August Wilson‘s words are revered as poetry, his plays taught in classrooms. So it’s no wonder that director George C. Wolfe and producer Denzel Washington wanted to put special care in bringing...
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Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ Movie Trots Over From Fox to Paramount
Spamalot is not dead yet! In fact, it’s getting better now that it’s moved studios after two years of development over at 20th Century Fox. The feature film adaptation of the Monty Python musical has...
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The Quarantine Stream: Derek DelGaudio’s ‘In and of Itself’ is a Mystifying,...
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Derek DelGaudio’s In and Of...
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Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Spirited Away’ is Becoming a Stage Production
Hayao Miyazaki‘s unparalleled 2001 anime classic Spirited Away is getting the stage play treatment. Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning film (titled Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi in Japan) is being adapted...
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‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is Getting Turned Into a Stage Musical
The Queen’s Gambit was a huge hit on Netflix last year, becoming the streaming service’s most-watched scripted miniseries with over 62 million viewers in the first month. Now, fresh off a Golden...
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‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel About the Fateful Tourney at Harrenhal is Becoming...
The Tourney at Harrenhal. The kidnapping of Lyanna Stark. Robert’s Rebellion. All were spoken about in hushed tones during the course of HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones as the fateful events that...
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‘The Dark Crystal’ is Coming Back – as a Ballet
While the pain of the The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance‘s cancelation still hasn’t faded (we deserve season 2, Netflix!) Jim Henson‘s creation will live on in some way or another. This time as…a...
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‘The Great Gatsby’ Musical Soundtrack Will Be Written By Florence Welch of...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic The Great Gatsby entered the public domain at the start of this year, and it didn’t take long before news came out about multiple planned adaptations, including...
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Broadway is Coming Back This September, With ‘Hamilton,’‘Wicked,’ Disney’s...
The neon lights are turning back on, on Broadway. Broadway is reopening this September with a string of mega-hits including The Lion King, Hamilton, and Wicked to bring audiences back into the...
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‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Trailer: Ben Platt Brings the Tony-Winning Musical to the...
Dear Evan Hansen has made it to the big screen. A musical sensation when it debuted on Broadway in 2015, the Tony-winning musical now gets the feature film treatment with original star Ben Platt back...
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‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Teaser: Movie Musical Skips Theaters and...
Amazon wants everybody to be talking about Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Which is why it’s a little ironic that it’s choosing to debut the feature adaptation of the acclaimed West End musical...
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‘In the Heights’ Review: This Crowdpleasing Musical is Full of Big Emotions,...
When In The Heights opened on Broadway in 2008, it was a scrappy little show that could, the product of a college sophomore’s wild ambitions and talent that had been honed and tweaked for years before...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Responds to ‘In the Heights’ Colorism Criticism: “I’m...
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created and starred in the stage musical of In the Heights, has responded to the criticisms of colorism in the feature film directed by Jon M. Chu. The criticism had been...
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Quentin Tarantino Has Written a ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Stage Play,...
Writer/director Quentin Tarantino has nine films under his belt, but he’s just done something he’s never done in his 30-plus year career: written a novelization of one of his own films. But it turns...
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