Новости за 04.01.2024

The original Chicago cast of the newly reimagined The Who’s Tommy will join star Ali Louis Bourzgui when the musical revival opens on Broadway in March. Producers Stephen Gabriel and Ira Pittelman announced full principal casting today, with Chicago’s Goodman Theatre line-up heading to New York. Alison Luff will play Tommy’s mom Mrs. Walker, Adam […]

The Costume Designers Guild has fashioned the nominees for its 2024 awards. The two top-grossing live-action films of the year — Barbie and Oppenheimer — will vie in the marquee Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Period Film categories, respectively, along with such awards-season favorites as Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, Maestro, May December, Saltburn […]

The hit London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard is heading to Broadway later this year and bringing star Nicole Scherzinger and the rest of the West End principal cast with it. As Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye revealed before Christmas, Scherzinger will make her Broadway debut reprising her acclaimed performance as Norma Desmond. Although production […]

As connected-TV ad spending continues to surge, the GroupM Ad Innovation Accelerator has launched as a cross-company program designed to bring about an evolution of the living-room ad experience. GroupM, the media investment arm of WPP, says the initiative is “aimed at redefining engagement between advertisers and audiences.” BrightLine, Disney, KERV, NBCUniversal, Roku, Telly, and […]

Darts fever has gripped the UK with the rise and rise of last night’s defeated 16-year-old finalist Luke Litter, and Sky has boarded the bandwagon with a three-part documentary series on the sport from the producer of Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story. Sky’s Darts [working title], which comes in the wake of a wealth […]

The BBC has come under fire from the scientific community after a David Attenborough documentary about a recently discovered underwater creature only briefly mentioned the fossil finder who found it. More than 2,000 signatures have been recorded on a change.org petition to have the pliosaur named after Philip Jacobs, who was named only as a […]

EXCLUSIVE: BBC News has started the year with a sober reminder for staff: money will be tight. Jonathan Munro, BBC News’ deputy CEO and director of journalism, emailed colleagues on Wednesday to warn that significant funding has already been committed to elections, wars, and major sports events. The news bonanza, coupled with the BBC’s need […]

Back with a bang, The Traitors returned for the BBC last night, watched by 3M viewers. The opening ep, in which 22 contestants were introduced and three were chosen to be ‘traitors’, has been anticipated for months, following the runaway, watercooler success of the first. Helmed ably once again by Claudia Winkleman, the show peaked […]

Elvis Presley is set to join ABBA in the strange new world of immersive concerts more than 45 years after he passed away. The Return to Sender and Hound Dog superstar, who had an Oscar-nominated movie made about him last year, will be brought to life in London in November before moving to Las Vegas, […]

Global box office is estimated to have reached $33.9B for 2023, a 30.5% gain on 2022, according to Gower Street Analytics. While this represents continuing worldwide recovery, the figure remains 15% behind the average of the last three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019). Gower Street also recently estimated that, due in part to this year’s strike-impacted release […]

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival has tapped actor Ewan McGregor to receive its honorary dragon award for career achievement during its 47th edition, running from January 26 to February 4.  McGregor will attend Göteborg to receive the award, participate in an ‘actors talk’ Q&A session, and present the Nordic premiere of Niclas Larsson’s Mother, Couch, in […]

We remember the Alamo. Now, the Alamo Drafthouse is going to remember for you. The movie chain is undertaking a year-long “Time Capsules” program, featuring curated films from 1974 to 1999. Alamo Time Capsules is “a yearlong trek back through time that revisits both beloved blockbusters and forgotten favorites spanning six landmark cinema years — […]

“By 2022, many people in management were aware of Gonzales’s egregious conduct and what he did to Plaintiff,” alleges a sexual assault suit filed yesterday by a current Disney employee against the Mouse House, its ex-VP Distribution Nolan Gonzales and various former Fox assets. “Plaintiff overheard a chairperson at Disney say that Gonzales was a […]

Jackson Mahomes, whose sideline antics have annoyed, outraged, and delighted football fans in the Kansas City area, has had three felony charges against him dropped. The younger brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Jackson had the three charges dismissed by a judge at the request of the prosecution on Wednesday, according to Johnson […]

Ning Hao’s The Movie Emperor will screen as the opening film of Macau’s Asia-Europe Young Cinema Film Festival, which is holding its inaugural edition from January 5-11. Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s 12th Fail, recently a hit in India, will screen as the closing film.  The event has two major sections – a programme of masterclasses and […]

SPOILER ALERT: Major plot points from tonight’s series finale of Magnum P.I. can be found below. NBC’s Magnum P.I. said goodbye tonight and series star Jay Hernandez is opening up about how he feels about the ending and whether or not there are talks of continuing the story. “I actually floated the idea of a […]

It’s goodbye once again for Rage Against The Machine. In a note to fans, drummer Brad Wilk said that the “Public Service Announcement” reunion tour won’t resume, and the group is not carrying on in any form. This marks the third farewell for the group. They also split in 2000 and 2011. “I know a […]

Britney Spears has delivered some naked truth: she says reports of a new album are “trash,” and she will never return to the music industry. “Just so we’re clear most of the news is trash !!!,” the singer said in an Instagram post on Wednesday. “They keep saying I’m turning to random people to do […]

Devo will be coming to the Sundance Film Festival in more ways than one. Just one day after the Chris Smith directed documentary about the New Wave band makes its SFF debut in Park City on January 21, Devo will be taking the stage at the newly opened Marquis on the luxury ski town’s Main […]

In what is expected to be a series of releases over the next several weeks, the names of a couple of former presidents and dozens more were revealed today as associates of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Among the over 180 individuals named in the 943 pages, which saw the federal court website crash for a […]

Jeffrey Wright is recalling the time he did not censor himself for the film Ride with the Devil. Studios release different versions of films depending on where they are being exhibited. During a roundtable with his American Fiction co-stars, Wright opened up about dubbing himself for the “airplane version” of the 1999 Ang Lee film. […]

Dr. Mitch Ripley is officially on duty. We’re seeing the first photos of Blindspot alum Luke Mitchell as Ripley in the season 9 premiere of Chicago Med. As we previously reported, Mitchell joins the NBC medical drama as Dr. Ripley, an Emergency Department doctor with a troubled past who shares a history with Dr. Charles […]

Two months before Season 18 of So You Think You Can Dance is slated to premiere on Fox, the series’ co-creator, lead judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe has become the subject of two sexual misconduct lawsuits, including one filed by Paula Abdul who accused him of assaulting her twice over the past 20 years. Now […]

Janet (Langner) DeLorenzo, who worked in daily syndicated television for more than 30 years, died on December 30. DeLorenzo was 63 and no cause or location was given DeLorenzo started her career as an intern in the early days of The Oprah Winfrey Show at ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago. One of the first employees at […]

With the Golden Globes still in a process of evolution following their sale to Eldridge and Dick Clark Productions in the wake of myriad controversies, how much did the current state of affairs weigh on Jo Koy, in deciding whether or not to assume the mantle as host for the 81st edition? Not much, suggests […]