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Concord, considered to be the world’s leading independent music company, has acquired Broadway Licensing Global and its imprints Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stage Rights.

All of the imprints will now become part of Concord Theatricals. The acquisition does not include Stageworks or the Broadway On Demand streaming service.

Concord Theatricals was formed in 2018 and has since become one of the world’s most significant theatrical companies, comprising the catalogs of Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, in addition to dozens of new signings each year. The firm provides comprehensive services to creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and producing. In all, the company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally.

Concord’s catalog includes 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals.

The American remake of Another Round still has Chris Rock attached to direct, but it’s taken a while to find a new writer for it.

Pretty much since the superb Another Round first landed back in 2020, there’s been chatter about an American remake of the film. Starring Mads Mikkelsen and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, the comedy drama won an Oscar and rightly so. Considering the themes the film deals with, it’s astonishing it’s such an accessible and hugely entertaining film.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way swooped in quickly for the remake rights to the movie, and he’s going to be producing the new film. That deal was done a few years ago, but finally, there may be some sign of momentum here.

That’s because the new Another Round attracted the interest of Chris Rock, who signed up to direct the movie way back...

Exclusive: Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof) has been tapped to write a new draft of Another Round, the English-language remake of Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning Danish drama from 2020, which has Chris Rock on board to direct.

Rock joined the project in January, as we were first to report. At the time, he had a draft in hand from Stuart Blumberg but was looking for another writer with which to partner. We’re told Auburn landed the job after a long search, beating out maybe 200 scribes in the process.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions secured the remake rights to Another Round shortly after the film landed the Best International Feature prize at the Academy Awards. We’re told that the project is picking up steam now that Auburn is involved, though Rock did just sign on to direct and star in Misty Green, a Hollywood drama for which he wrote the script,...

Sigourney Weaver's The Girl in the Park still has fans talking about its cryptic ending almost twenty years later. 

Written and directed by David Auburn, and originally released in 2007, The Girl in the Park follows a reclusive mother named Julia played by Weaver (who fans may recognize from the Avatar franchise) who is put through the wringer after a young woman (Kate Bosworth) pops up in her life years after her daughter went missing. 

Since the release of the 2007 thriller, fans have theorized whether Bosworth's Louise was, in fact, Julia's long-lost daughter or was just someone trying to take advantage of her. 

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All Arts’ upcoming non-fiction feature “Manhattan Theatre Club, a Home for Artists” will explore the 50-year history of one of the most impactful off-Broadway theaters in New York. Helmed by the club’s very own Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove, the film stitches together archival footage and photos and interviews with stars like Laura Linney, Edie Falco, Sam Waterston and Sarah Jessica Parker.

“Through their stewardship of Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove have left an indelible mark on the theatrical landscape for decades to come,” said Joe Harrell, executive producer of All Arts, a Wnet group streaming platform and broadcast channel based in New York. “Their story champions the vital role of nonprofit theaters in allowing artists to take risks, explore innovative ideas and challenge conventions.”

The Manhattan Theatre Club was founded in 1970 at Stage 73 but took off under the guidance of Meadow as artistic director and Grove as executive producer.

Many movies about Bonnie and Clyde have been announced but never made, including the Go Down Together film and The Story of Bonnie and Clyde. The 1967 Bonnie and Clyde film was controversial for its violence but received multiple Oscar nominations and wins. Love Is a Gun, another Bonnie and Clyde movie, was announced in 2018 but has had no updates since then.

Many movies and TV shows have been made about American outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde, but several never came to fruition, including the Go Down Together film. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met in 1930 and together with the "Barrow gang", carried out a series of armed robberies, notably banks, during the Great Depression. The Barrow gang's crimes were highly publicized in American newspapers, and in 1934, Parker and Barrow were gunned down and killed by a group of lawmen in Texas. Years later, their romance, notoriety, and dramatic deaths would...

Broadway can be a loud place, with belters belting and orchestras swelling and actors playing to rafters in the theater across the street, so it’s both comforting and mesmerizing to see a play as quietly poignant as David Auburn’s Summer, 1976.

Starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht – both outstanding – Summer, 1976, a Manhattan Theatre Club production opening tonight at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, recounts a long-ago friendship that, on the surface, doesn’t seem particularly unusual or outwardly impactful.

Two women, both connected to Ohio State University, are brought together through their young daughters: the mothers are part of a babysitting co-op, and though the two women take an instant disliking to one another, circumstance and proximity begin to wear away their defenses. Alice, played by Hecht, is vaguely hippie-ish, married to a professor and often carrying a joint or two, while the other, Linney’s Diana, is a single mom,...

The Drama League today announced the nominations for the 2023 Drama League Awards. Honoring achievements on and Off-Broadway, the nominations were announced this morning by Roger Bart (“Back to the Future: The Musical”) and Justin Guarini (“Once Upon A One More Time”) at the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Winners will be revealed at the 89th Annual Drama League Awards ceremony at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 19, 2023.

“I don’t think I’ve experienced a theater season in New York ever like this one,” noted Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks. “There’s been a range, a breadth, an expansion of possibility that has been truly astonishing to witness. Theater makers have inspired not only with their creativity, but also with their drive and determination to serve audiences with vision and talent. These nominees reflect the promise and greatness inherent in the work of theater folk, and I can’t help but be deeply proud.

Andrew Garfield and the Tick, Tick… Boom! cast helped to bring the beloved musical to life in a geature film with stunning results. The feature directorial debut of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick. Tick… Boom! is the on-screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical musical of the same name. With a screenplay by Dear Evan Hansen writer Steven Levenson, Tick, Tick... Boom! follows Larson as he struggles with the internal turmoil of turning 30 and not achieving anything yet.

In 1990, Jonathan Larson originated the show off-off-Broadway, calling it Boho Days. Over the next three years, he performed the rock monologue, now called Tick, Tick… Boom! in different festivals, venues, and theater workshops. This caught the attention of producer Jeffrey Seller, leading him to become a fan of Larson’s Rent and bring the musical to Broadway. Following Larson’s death in 1996, Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn reshaped Tick, Tick… Boom! into a three-actor musical.

Update May 2, with second extension: With the Tony Award nomination (Leading Actress/Play) for Jessica Hecht announced today, the Manhattan Theatre Company production of David Auburn’s Summer, 1976 has gotten another one-week extension. The play will now run through Sunday, June 18 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Previous, April 20: Summer, 1976, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht, has received a two-week extension prior to its April 25 Broadway opening at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

The Manhattan Theatre Club production, currently in previews and set for an April 25 opening, will now play through Saturday, June 10. The world premiere production had initially been set to close May 28.

Directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, Summer, 1976 follows an unlikely friendship over the course of one fateful summer, with Linney playing Diana, “a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom,...

The Tony Awards contest for the top honor of Best Play is the most crowded it has been in at least a decade. A whopping 17 new dramatic works will vie for only five slots that recognize the most stellar productions and playwrights on Broadway. This season, the plays in contention hail from renowned dramatists like Tony winners Tom Stoppard for “Leopoldstadt” and David Auburn for “Summer, 1976,” and past nominee Sharr White for “Pictures From Home.” Notably, there are also three winners of the Pulitzer Prize eligible this season: James Ijames’ “Fat Ham,” Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Between Riverside and Crazy,” and Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living.” If all three of these works land nominations, the Tonys will set a record for the most Pulitzer winners nominated for Best Play in one year in history.

According to our current combined odds, it is very possible that history will indeed be made this year.

Hundreds of WGA East members who work for Hearst Magazines Media are planning to stage a walkout Thursday to demand a fair contract. The half-day action is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Et and will last the remainder of the day.

“WGA East members at Hearst have been bargaining a first contract for over two years and their last scheduled day of negotiations is March 28,” the guild said. “With only one bargaining session left, the Hearst Union is taking collective action with a unit-wide walkout in their fight for a fair first contract.”

Rallies in support of the walkout will be held at four locations: outside the Hearst Tower in Manhattan; at the Hearst offices in Easton, Pa; at the Hearst offices in Ann Arbor, Mi; and the Hearst offices in Birmingham, Al.

The guild represents some 500 of the publishing giant’s editorial, video, design and photo staff at more than 25 brands including Esquire,...

Friends, Romans, theater lovers, lend me your ears! The 2023 Tony Awards nominations prediction center is now open, with 23 plays competing for Broadway’s top honors. Be sure to log your early predictions now to see if you can pick which dramas will win over the Tony voters.

Best Play is always a crowded field thanks to a slew of limited engagements that pepper the Broadway calendar, and this season is no different. 18 new works will attempt to be singled out as one of the five nominees.

“Leopoldstat” opened in October to a rapturous response from critics and audiences. It’s the latest drama from Tom Stoppard, who has won this category more than any other playwright. Featuring a vast ensemble cast which includes David Krumholtz, Brandon Uranowitz, and Faye Castelow, the gut wrenching story follows a Jewish family over multiple generations. It’s one of the rare straight plays that...

We’re now about halfway through the 2022-23 Broadway season, and there are currently nine productions of plays set to open this spring. Could we be seeing any of them contend at this year’s Tony Awards? Below is a plot overview of each play as well as the awards history of its author, cast, and creative teams, plus the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.

“Pictures From Home” (opens February 9; closes April 30)

This stage adaptation of Larry Sultan’s 1992 photo memoir is a comic and dramatic portrait of a mother and father, and the son who photographed their lives. As Larry tries to capture his parents, their reality explodes from the frame in an exploration of the power of art and how much it reveals.

Adapted for the stage by WGA nominee Sharr White, the production stars Tony winner Danny Burstein, three-time Tony winner Nathan Lane, and four-time Tony nominee Zoë Wanamaker.

Barry Grove will step down as the Executive Producer of Manhattan Theatre Club, a major Broadway and Off Broadway institution, at the conclusion of the 2022-2023 season.

In his 48 years collaborating with Mtc’s founder and Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, Grove has been a driving force in the production of nearly 450 American and world premieres, earning Mtc 28 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 50 Drama Desk Awards and numerous Obie, Outer Critics Circle, and other honors.

Among the productions staged by the subscription-based non-profit company in the decades under Grove and Meadow are seminal works by playwrights Alan Ayckbourn; Richard Greenberg, Harvey Fierstein, Paula Vogel, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Charlayne Woodard and Matthew Lopez, to name a few. Pulitzer Prize and Tony winners include Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (Pulitzer); Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer) by Beth Henley; Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (Pulitzer and Tony); Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony) by Terrence McNally; Rabbit...

Jessica Hecht, a 2010 Tony Award nominee, will join the previously announced Laura Linney on Broadway this spring in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Summer, 1976, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winning Proof author David Auburn. Daniel Sullivan will direct.

Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 ahead of a Tuesday, April 25 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The casting was announced today by Mtc’s Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer).

The play is set during a summer night when an unlikely friendship develops between Diana (Linney), a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice (Hecht), a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.

The production will mark the Broadway returns of five-time Tony nominee...

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Laura Linney is going from the Missouri Ozarks to Broadway for one of her latest projects.

The Ozark star and Tony nominee is set to make her New York Theater stage return in Summer, 1976, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner and Proof author David Auburn. Commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club through the Bank of America New Play Program, the world premiere production will be staged at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with previews set to begin on April 4, 2023.

Helmed by Tony-winning director Daniel Sullivan, the Emmy winner and Academy Award-nominated actress will star in a story about the friendship between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife, according to Mtc. Set during the country’s Bicentennial celebration, “these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.

Laura Linney will return to Broadway this spring in a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof). The Manhattan Theatre Club production of Summer, 1976 will reteam the writer with his Proof director Daniel Sullivan.

Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The production was initially intended for an Off Broadway run, but Mtc artistic director Lynne Meadow and exec producer Barry Grove announced today that the play will be staged at Mtc’s Broadway venue instead.

Additional casting, the opening night date and creative team for Summer, 1976 will be announced soon.

Mtc describes Summer, 1976 as a “deeply moving, insightful piece is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife.

Thanks to a Tony Award win for “Take Me Out” in the Best Revival of a Play category, Second Stage Theater can finally join the ranks of the other nonprofit theater organizations on Broadway. The re-staging of Richard Greenberg’s baseball drama is their first Tony win in one of the production categories since Second Stage found a permanent home on Broadway.

Second Stage was founded in 1979 and has been a haven for exciting Off-Broadway ventures for years. While some of those productions have transferred to Broadway houses and even won Tonys (including Best Musical champion “Dear Evan Hansen” which was produced “in association with” the nonprofit), a Second Stage produced play has never won a top Tony category until now. Not bad considering they’ve only been on Broadway for four years.

The non-profit purchased The Hayes Theater (named after the legendary Helen Hayes) in 2015. This theater is the...

Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s play that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will be getting its Broadway premiere this fall, the Manhattan Theatre Club announced today.

The announcement follows an acclaimed Off Broadway run of the play by Mtc. The director Joe Bonney and stars Katy Sullivan and Gregg Mozgala will resume their roles for the Broadway staging at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Additional casting, creative team, and other information including preview and opening dates will be announced later.

Cost of Living premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2016 and appeared Off Broadway the following year. The play follows the relationships between a graduate student with cerebral palsy and his female caregiver, and between a quadriplegic woman and her ex-husband. The Pulitzer committee described Cost of Living as an “honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs...

Where better than Washington Heights to meet local hero Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Manhattan neighborhood’s most vociferous supporter? How about at the United Palace Theater, an old movie palace Miranda has been supporting for years, and in whose rehearsal rooms the cast of his debut feature Tick, Tick… Boom! assembled to read through his adaptation of Rent creator Jonathan Larson’s heartfelt autobiographical musical? The story covers Larson’s life in the period immediately before he created Rent, when Broadway success felt impossible, but the drive to try would not abate. Larson died on the night of Rent’s first off-Broadway preview.

Deadline: Jonathan Larson’s work had a foundational impact on you. What’s your history with Rent and Tick, Tick… Boom!?

Lin-manuel Miranda: It starts with seeing Rent on my 17th birthday with my high-school girlfriend, Meredith Sommerville, who got me tickets for my birthday. Rent was...

Six years before his death in 1996, “Rent” composer Jonathan Larson began performing a solo semi-autobiographical musical “Tick, Tick…Boom!” about a young struggling composer named Jon who fears that he has made the wrong career choice. After his death, Larson’s show was expanded into a three-person piece by David Auburn that ran in London, off-Broadway, and as a national tour. Now it is an acclaimed new Netflix movie directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda (who appeared in a Encores production of the musical in 2014) and starring Andrew Garfield.

The composer bio movie genre has long been a favorite of Hollywood, especially during its Golden Age. But these bio-pics played fast and loose with the facts. The Production Code prevented these films from exploring the fact that Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart were gay. And some of these composers and/or their families were still alive and wanted a certain image presented on the big screen.

Georgetown Vertical Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Christopher Waltz Writer: David Auburn, based on the NY Times article 7/8/12 “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown” by Franklin Foer Cast: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/12/21 Opens: May 14, 2021 So you […]

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Despite any prescience on behalf of its subject matter, I’m sure even the playwright himself, Jonathan Larson, would have looked back on his big-budget, science fiction Broadway hopeful “Superbia” with enough hindsight to acknowledge there was no way it would ever see the light of day. As the relatable cartoon shared by artists all over the internet of an iceberg attests: the amount of work produced to get to the one piece that finds an audience (in any medium) is too high a multiplier to even begin hypothesizing. And any creator who isn’t made aware of this fact in school has been done a disservice by their educators. That doesn’t, however, mean you shouldn’t dream or that your first try won’t get funded. Lightning does strike for some.

It didn’t for Larson. Not right away. Not even for the musical tick, tick … Boom! (as...

Initially conceived as a one-man “rock monologue,” then taking on an unexpected new depth after the early death of its creator at age 35, Jonathan Larson’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!” is a show uniquely suited to the musical theater crowd — and not just the masses of fans Larson won over with “Rent.” It resonates especially strongly with the writers, performers and fellow creatives who can identify with how he articulated the struggle to be recognized, to make meaningful work and, according to the high bar Larson set for himself, to “wake up a generation.” People like Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Before “Hamilton,” before even “In the Heights,” Miranda was inspired by what Larson had accomplished with “Rent,” discovering in the show a fresh kind of musical, one characterized by a contemporary new sound, characters with recognizable struggles and an uncommonly diverse cast. In an awful twist of fate, Larson died of an aortic...

Two decades ago Mary-Louise Parker won her first Tony Award for her enthralling performance in David Auburn’s “Proof.” Five Broadway appearances later, Parker is on the cusp of winning the second Tony of her career for her searing turn in Adam Rapp’s “The Sound Inside,” according to our exclusive Tony Awards predictions. “The Sound Inside” has six nominations, including Best Play.

Parker earned the best reviews of her stage career for “The Sound Inside,” topping even the rapturous notices she received for “Proof.” Back then, John Simon (New York Magazine) called Parker’s work in “Proof” “a performance of genius.” In his rave review of “The Sound Inside,” Jesse Green (New York Times) wrote, “Parker, never better in her 30-year stage career, has dug even deeper into Bella, treating each line as if it were an archaeological site; she builds her performance on artifacts, not theories.” Vinson Cunningham...

From a recording of Hamilton dropping on Disney+ to In the Heights hitting the big screen, Lin-Manuel Miranda has been having a moment bringing his onstage work to a broader audience. Now, he's making his feature-length directorial debut with Netflix's Tick, Tick… Boom! (out Nov. 19), paying homage to his musical theater roots by adapting Rent creator Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical of the same name. Starring Andrew Garfield as Larson, the film follows the legendary composer as he contemplates his career choices before his 30th birthday. Here's what you should know about the life that inspired the musical, a life that was tragically cut short at age 35.

Larson, who became worried about his career while waiting tables in New York City, first performed Tick, Tick... Boom! as a solo act in 1990. The musical centers on Jon, or Larson, as he starts to hear a ticking sound just before his 30th birthday.

The fall festival season continues to take shape. Next up: Los Angeles’ own AFI Fest, which will open with the world premiere of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut, “Tick Tick Boom”. The Netflix feature is based on the autobiographical musical by “Rent” playwright Jonathan Larson and stars Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield. The film is written by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson and produced by Academy Award and Emmy winners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for Imagine Entertainment, Julie Oh, and Miranda. The Opening Night screening will take place at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre.

The festival experimented with an October festival berth and virtual festival last year during the pandemic; after three years running both AFI Fest and AFI Docs, director Michael Lumpkin retired in March, 2021. He is yet to be replaced; for the moment the woman in charge is Sarah Harris, who moved...

When two geniuses collide, great things can happen. That's precisely what audiences could be getting with Netflix's Tick, Tick...Boom!. The new teaser released by Netflix shows off the upcoming musical starring Andrew Garfield. Tick, Tick...Boom! is an autobiographical musical from Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent. This film is also the feature-film directorial debut for Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative genius behind Hamilton and In The Heights.

The new teaser shows off Larson (Andrew Garfield) as he lives his life in New York City, trying to make it big in the performing arts scene. The story takes place in the 1990's and focuses on Larson who works at a diner and is constantly questioning his career choices while trying to fulfill his dream. Garfield says that he is hearing a tick as time goes by, suggesting he is wondering what he is going to do with the time he is given.

When two geniuses collide, great things can happen. That's precisely what audiences could be getting with Netflix's Tick, Tick...Boom!. The new teaser released by Netflix shows off the upcoming musical starring Andrew Garfield. Tick, Tick...Boom! is an autobiographical musical from Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent. This film is also the feature-film directorial debut for Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative genius behind Hamilton and In The Heights.

The new teaser shows off Larson (Andrew Garfield) as he lives his life in New York City, trying to make it big in the performing arts scene. The story takes place in the 1990's and focuses on Larson who works at a diner and is constantly questioning his career choices while trying to fulfill his dream. Garfield says that he is hearing a tick as time goes by, suggesting he is wondering what he is going to do with the time he is given.

Netflix has released the first trailer for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature film directorial debut, “Tick, Tick…Boom!,” starring Andrew Garfield.

Staying true to the film’s title, its first trailer shares scenes from “Tick, Tick…Boom!” over an incessant ticking noise that grows faster with each second. The clip also teases Garfield’s singing chops, as the film marks his movie musical debut.

The movie, based on the autobiographical musical by “Rent” playwright Jonathan Larson, follows an aspiring composer in New York City who toils over whether he traveled down the wrong career path.

Garfield stars as Larson alongside Vanessa Hudgens, who plays Karessa Johnson. Rounding out the cast are Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, Bradley Whitford, Noah Robbins and Joanna P. Adler. “Tick, Tick…Boom!” is set to debut on Netflix this fall.

Larson first debuted “Tick, Tick…Boom!” in 1990 as a solo work, but after his 1996 death,...

Lin-Manuel Miranda has conquered Broadway with “In the Heights” and “Hamilton,” and he’s already proven his bonafides in film as an actor (“Mary Poppins Returns”), composer (“Moana”), and producer (“In the Heights”). So what’s next for Miranda? A seat in the director’s chair. Netflix has debuted the first trailer for Miranda’s feature directorial debut “tick, tick…Boom,” adapted from “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical of the same name. Larson performed the musical as a solo work in 1990, before playwright David Auburn revamped it into a 2001 Off-Broadway musical following Larson’s tragic death. “Rent” opened on Broadway in the meantime, making the late Larson a musical theater phenomenon.

The official “tick, tick…Boom” synopsis from Netflix reads: “Andrew Garfield plays Jon, a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical.

Georgetown Trailer — Christoph Waltz‘s Georgetown (2019) movie trailer has been released by Paramount Pictures. The Georgetown trailer stars Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Corey Hawkins, Laura de Carteret, Dan Lett, Amin Bhatia, Jayne Lewis, Lou Jurgens, David Reale, Kent Sheridan, Ron Lea, Massimo Cannistraro, and Sergio Di Zio. Crew David Auburn [...]

Continue reading: Georgetown Trailer: Social Climber Christoph Waltz is More Than He Appears in Paramount Pictures’ Drama Movie...

Making his directorial debut, Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz is both behind and in front of the camera for Georgetown, a real-life story of secrets and scheming in Washington. Waltz stars as Ulrich Mott, a charismatic social-climber who brings the who’s-who of D.C. into his orbit, including Vanessa Redgrave’s Elsa Brecht. The two get married, and eventually Elsa ends up dead, prompting serious suspicion from her daughter Amanda (Annette Bening) about Ulrich’s involvement.

Penned by Tony-winner playwright David Auburn (Proof) and based on the New York Times article “The Worst Marriage in Georgetown” by Franklin Foer, the film was shot in 2017 and premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival to mixed reviews. Ahead of Waltz’s forthcoming performances in The French Dispatch and No Time to Die, his directorial debut will now finally be released in the United States on May 14 followed by a VOD premiere on May 19.

Watch the trailer below.

Paramount has released the trailer for Georgetown, directed by and starring Christoph Waltz alongside Annette Bening and Vanessa Redgrave. The film, in theaters May 14 and on digital May 18, was inspired by the bizarre true story of Albrecht Muth.

The film’s official synopsis notes, “Waltz stars as Ulrich Mott, an eccentric and smooth-talking social climber who seems to have everyone in Washington, D.C. wrapped around his finger. But when his wealthy, well-connected and much older wife (Redgrave) turns up dead in their home, her daughter Amanda (Bening) suspects Ulrich...

Exclusive: Choreographer Ryan Heffington, whose work on Sia’s 2014 video for her hit ‘Chandelier’ earned him the second of two Grammy nominations, has boarded Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Netflix musical tick, tick…Boom! Heffington will choreograph all dance sequences in the film based on the Off Broadway musical by Rent creator Jonathan Larson.

tick, tick…Boom! marks the directorial debut of Hamilton‘s Tony-, Grammy-, Emmy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator Miranda.

In addition to the worldwide hit and Vma Award winning ‘Chandelier,’ Heffington received his first Grammy Award nomination for choreographing the 2013 Arcade Fire video ‘We Exist.’

In addition to those and other music videos, Heffington has done choreography work for Netflix’s The Oa, the musical finale for HBO’s Euphoria, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, and Spike Jonze-directed commercials for Apple’s Homepod and Kenzo World Parfum.

Christian Bale and Matt Damon’s racing drama “Ford v Ferrari” is set to win the weekend box office by a long shot with an esimated $29 million from 3,528 domestic locations.

Elizabeth Banks’ “Charlie’s Angels” reboot could land in a distant second in its debut weekend with about $8.2 million, but the second frame of Roland Emmerich’s “Midway” may come out on top, with about $8.6 million.

“Ford v Ferrari,” which stars Bale and Damon as British driver Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby, respectively, took in nearly $11 million on Friday. Directed by James Mangold, the Fox film follows the pair as they attempt to build a car that can beat Ferrari at the behest of Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) in the 1960s. Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Jason Keller wrote the script, and Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Remo Girone, and Ray McKinnon also star. Critics have favored the film,...

Does the fact that this unwanted update of the Charlie’s Angels franchise is less awful than expected make it worth seeing? In the devalued world of the current multiplex, maybe so. It’s hard not to appreciate the feminist, Time’s Up spark that director-producer-writer-actor Elizabeth Banks brings to material that has long past its sell-by date. At its core, this millennial Charlie’s Angels is still shuffling the same spy-babes clichés that spawned a 1970s TV hit (best remembered for Farrah Fawcett’s waterfall of blond curls), a...

Your friend from the movies is back with the list of attractions this week. A true blue action romance starring Riteish Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra, Tara Sutaria and Rakul Preet Singh, a touching tale on child labor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui stars in a mainstream rom-com and the gorgeous Charlie's Angels are back.

Marjaavaan

The romantic action film directed by Milap Zaveri, stars Riteish Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra, Tara Sutaria and Rakul Preet Singh.

Major Highlights:?A true blue action romance which brings Riteish Deshmukh, and Sidharth Malhotra back after Ek Villian.

Motichoor Chaknachoor

Nawazuddin Siddiqui stars in a mainstream rom-com directed by Debamitra Biswal. Co-starring Athiya Shetty, the movie is a story of a 36-year-old man trying to find a wife.

Major Highlights:?A mainstream rom-com with Nawazuddin Siddiqui as lead?!.. this promises to be different.

Jhalki

Directed by national award-winning filmmaker Brahmanand S. Siingh, the movie raises the issue of child slavery...

For all the Farrah Fawcett posters sold to adolescent boys in the 1970s, director Elizabeth Banks has always seen “Charlie’s Angels” as “super aspirational”: What if a pack of female spies could be smart and funny and capable and sexy, and work together to take down some bad guys? “I remember watching [the show] and feeling like I was watching professional women, women who worked,” Banks, who watched the show with her two sisters, said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I thought that was so cool and they looked so great doing it and they were doing a really interesting job and it changed every day. My mom had a job, and I knew that when I grew up, I was going to have a job. ‘Well, so you’re going to have a job, that looks like a pretty good one.'”

After the success of her feature...

On the surface, now seems like the absolute perfect time to reboot Charlie’s Angels. Hollywood is always hoping to find the next big franchise, female led vehicles are in demand, and it’s all the better when handed to a director who happens not to be a man. And yet, this 2019 incarnation of Charlie’s Angels, coming to us from actress turned filmmaker Elizabeth Banks, feels stuck in the past. Aside from a few amusingly sly remarks about gender equality, much of this movie is the sort of generic action outing that would have been attempted throughout the last few decades. There are fun moments, but the vast majority of the flick is thoroughly disposable. The film is an action adventure, based on the television series and two cinematic outings of the same name. Once again, we’re introduced to operatives of the Townsend Agency, known as Angels, working...

The cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's onscreen adaptation of Tick, Tick... Boom! is coming together. On Monday, Netflix announced that Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, and Tony nominee Robin de Jesús are all joining Andrew Garfield in the movie musical directed by Miranda, which is based on Jonathan Larson's musical set in New York City in the 1990s.

Garfield is playing the musical's autobiographical protagonist, Jon, whose Broadway dreams are at an impasse now that he's about to turn 30 - should he continue on with his longtime goal of writing an award-winning musical, or should he give it up to follow a more traditional career path like his friends and girlfriend?

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The real-life Larson is the playwright behind the iconic Broadway hit Rent but died in 1996 before being able to see the musical's first off-Broadway performance. As for Tick,...

Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie’S Angels take flight. In Banks’ bold vision, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world’s smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs everywhere. The screenplay is by Elizabeth Banks from a story by Evan Spiliotopoulos and David Auburn.

Charlie’S Angels has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for action/violence, language and some suggestive material. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on November 15, 2019.

Enter for your chance to win two free passes to the St. Louis advance screening of Charlie’S Angels. The theatrical sneak preview will be on November 13 at 7pm.

Women’s World Cup star, Golden Boot winner, Olympian and 2019 Best FIFA Women’s Player Megan Rapinoe can now add “Bosley” to her long list of monikers.

The Lgbtq activist fires up a group of young female soccer players in a new promo for Elizabeth Banks’ “Charlie’s Angels” reboot, with Rapinoe swapping her number 15 jersey for a one with an Angels logo.

Echoing the sentiment from the upcoming Sony movie, Rapinoe tells her new recruits: “It’s time to earn your wings. We’re stronger together … remember, your teammates are your sisters.”

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The spot, directed by Blake Benham, was produced by Ace Media, the NFL Player Association’s content arm that identifies and develops new opportunities for all athletes. The video opens with Rapinoe in a power suit, unrecognizable except for her pink hair.

Andrew Garfield will star in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!” for Netflix.

Variety first reported in June that Netflix had won the movie rights to “Tick, Tick … Boom!” with “Hamilton” creator Miranda attached to direct and Garfield the top choice to star. His deal was announced on Wednesday.

“Dear Evan Hansen” writer Steven Levenson is adapting the script based on the original stage show by late “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Julie Oh of Imagine Entertainment are producing along with Miranda. Julie Larson and Levenson are executive producing.

“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is set in 1990 and tells the story of an aspiring theater composer who is waiting tables in New York City while writing “Superbia,” which he hopes will be the next great American musical and finally give him his big break. As he approaches his 30th birthday, he is overcome with anxiety, wondering if his dream is worth the cost.

Andrew Garfield is set to star in the film adaptation of “Tick, Tick…Boom!,” which is the feature directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

The movie is set up at Netflix and is based on the autobiographical, off-Broadway play by the writer of “Rent,” Jonathan Larson. Larson died tragically in 1996 the night before the musical “Rent” made its first preview performance and eventually became a worldwide sensation, winning Larson multiple posthumous Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize.

Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the film back in June, and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Julie Oh are set as producers alongside Miranda.

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“Tick, Tick… Boom!” is set in 1990 and tells the story of Jon, an aspiring theater composer who...

“Charlie’s Angels” is set to land in China on Nov. 15.

The new movie iteration of the 1970s TV show stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinksa as the three gun-toting, karate-chopping investigators sent on dangerous missions by the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose private detection firm now has branches around the world. Elizabeth Banks directs.

The Sony Pictures movie will hit mainland Chinese theaters day and date with its U.S. release.

The last “Angels” film, 2003’s “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” grossed a little more than $2 million in China. There are now tens of thousands more screens in the Middle Kingdom, which has become the world’s second-largest movie market.

However, none of the new film’s three main stars is of Chinese descent, as was Lucy Liu. Whether that will have any effect on its reception in China remains to be seen.

Banks is the first woman...

The Charlie's Angels reboot has changed it's tone slightly in a new full-length trailer for Elizabeth Bank's action-packed adventure. This latest sneak peek brings back all the fun and excitement associated with the franchise, and cuts back on some of the heavier themes some fans have been complaining about. This new sneak peek offers a supercharged spy romp that fits right in with the old TV show and McG's 2000 big screen reboot.

As Patrick Stewart boldly states, you are in the presence of Angels. Though subliminally, the music track kicks in, with a chorus that hums, 'Don't call me angel.' Which is a bit contradictory. Sworn to secrecy, bound by sisterhood, the new Charlie's Angels trailer arrives just as tickets go on sale today. Act fast, and you could be the first to watch this latest mission for the Townsend Agency, in theaters November 15th!

Director Elizabeth Banks...

Hold on to your seats, folks, you are in the presence of angels.

The second official “Charlie’s Angels” trailer dropped Friday morning, with director Elizabeth Banks and her crew of badass women setting off more than a few explosions.

“We workout outside the rules, in secret, together,” we’re told of the latest generation of Angels, which is made up of Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska.

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Banks directs the latest iteration of the iconic ’70s television crime drama, making her the first woman to tell the empowering female-driven story. She also wrote the screenplay, from a story by Evan Spiliotopoulos and David Auburn, and plays the role of Bosley. Djimon Hounsou and Patrick Stewart round out the cast as the other two Bosley characters.

The latest slick teaser...

They're definitely no angels. Three of today's biggest pop stars have joined forces for the upcoming Charlie's Angels soundtrack, which is taking the franchise worldwide. Today, we have the music video for "Don't Call Me Angel", which has Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey bringing their talents together for the first time ever.

Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey officially released their full music video for "Don't Call Me Angel" today, which will appear on the soundtrack for Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot coming from director Elizabeth Banks. Banks is playing one of the many Bosleys in the movie, and she shows up here for some of the fun.

"Don't Call Me an Angel" arrives from director Hannah Lux Davis, who is working alongside co-writers Alma-Sofia Miettinen, Grande, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Del Rey, Max Martin, Cyrus and Savan Kotecha. We're not quite sure what else we'll get...