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The cast recording for the Caissie Levy-led London revival of Next to Normal will release a cast recording next week. A new Spotify listing shows that the album will drop on May 30, just weeks after the filmed capture of the production premiere on PBS. Joining Levy on the album is Jack Wolfe, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Jamie Parker, Jack Ofrecio, and Trevor Dion Nicholas. The Donmar Warehouse production of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical is now available to stream on PBS on Demand. Next To Normal is an intimate exploration of family and illness, loss and grief. At its heart is Diana Goodman, a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past. This production first played at <a...

Last week, PBS aired the official pro-shot of the 2024 West End production of Next to Normal as part of the Broadway Great Performances line-up. Now, Great Performance has debuted a behind-the-scenes interview with cast and crew from the production, featuring stage director Michael Longhurst, cast members Caissie Levy, Jack Wolfe, Jamie Parker, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Trevor Dion Nicholas, and Jack Ofrecio. "I loved filming this show," Longhurst says in the video. "I've had the opportunity to capture digitally several of my theater productions, and each time I do it, I really enjoy the process of watching actors adapt their performance for the camera and thinking about where the camera needs to be placed and the rhythm of the edit and all those...

Oscar-nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Eva Green (Casino Royale), and Maria Pedraza (Money Heist) are set to star in the thriller Just Play Dead, we can reveal.

The film will be directed by Gary Fleder (Homefront) and is written by Dan Gordon (Rambo: Last Blood).

The synopsis reads: “When wealthy criminal mastermind Jack Wolfe (Samuel L. Jackson) is cornered by the Feds, he plans to fake his own death and claim the $30 million life insurance payout with his “grieving” wife Nora (Eva Green), while framing her surfer lover Chad for his murder. But Nora is cooking up a scheme of her own: kill Jack for real, frame Chad and keep the fortune for herself. As lies unravel, Nora and Jack scramble to outsmart one another, leaving one burning question: who will come out on top in this twisted game of life and death?”

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PBS has shared a new clip from the 2024 West End production of Next to Normal, airing tomorrow as part of PBS's Great Performances line-up. The clip is taken from the musical number "I'm Alive," which sees Dan (Jack Wolfe) trying to get the attention of his mother (Caissie Levy) during her meeting with her psychiatrist. Tune in to PBS on Friday, May 9 at 9 p.m. Et to watch the musical, filmed last September. The Donmar Warehouse production of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical starred Caissie Levy, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Trevor Dion Nicholas, and Jack Ofrecio. Next To Normal is an intimate exploration of family and illness, loss and grief. At its heart is Diana Goodman, a suburban wife and mother...

The Wheel of Time has been an epic undertaking for Prime Video. Adapting the long-running fantasy book series begun by the late Robert Jordan and finished by Brandon Sanderson, the show takes place in a world where women are able to wield the mystical One Power. Young Rand al'Thor is the rare man who can channel. He is the Dragon Reborn, a legendary figure who can either save or destroy the world.

The Wheel of Time is one of the latest in the long run of fantasy shows on TV, which means there's plenty more like it to check out. These 15 shows can appeal to The Wheel of Time fans and are worth checking out!

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Let's start with the obvious choice, another show on Prime Video based on an epic fantasy franchise.

We’re a couple weeks away from the BAFTAs awards ceremony and one category at the show will celebrate rising stars.

Nominees Mikey Madison, David Jonsson, Marisa Abela, and Nabhaan Rizwan celebrated their nominations at the Vanity Fair Ee BAFTA 2025 Rising Star Party on Wednesday (February 5) at Pavyllon in London, England.

The event featured a who’s who of British talent, including many fan fave actors and plenty of newcomers who probably have a shot at a nomination in the future.

The winner of the Ee Rising Star Award will be announced at the BAFTAs on February 16. Also nominated in the category is Unstoppable actor Jharrel Jerome.

Mikey stars in the new movie Anora and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. David had his breakout in the sci-fi thriller film Alien: Romulus this past year. Marisa stars in the HBO series Industry and led the film Back to Black in 2024.

With so many canceled shows continuing in comic or graphic novel form, its safe to say Shadow and Bone is not exempt from the conversation. Shadow and Bone was canceled in November 2023, barely a week after Netflix released a connected game titled "Enter The Fold" during Geeked Week. And while a comic run would be a good way to see the show safely continued, it breaks my heart as a comic fan to say that a Shadow and Bone comic book continuation wouldnt workand its not what the show deserves.

Shadow and Bone was a fantasy TV show that premiered in 2021 and centered around the discovery of Sun Summoner Alina Starkov and her countrys political divide. Its second season arrived in 2023 after much anticipation. The adaptation combined the trilogy Shadow and Bone with the duology Six of Crows, both written by author and executive producer Leigh Barudgo.

Unfortunately, both Shadow and Bone...

Warning: This list contains spoilers for Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom novels.

The Shadow and Bone TV show never completed Six of Crows' storylines due to its cancellation. Essential members of Kaz's crew are introduced, but they are never all working together at once. The official six members of the "Six of Crows" are Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina, Matthias, and Wylan.

Netflix's canceled Shadow and Bone TV show never had the time to complete the story of Kaz Brekker's (Freddy Carter) crew, the title characters of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows. Shadow and Bone loosely follows the plot of Bardugo's Shadow and Bone novel trilogy. She later wrote the spinoff Six of Crows, focusing on new characters in the same world. However, the Shadow and Bone TV show adaptation alters the timeline so some Six of Crows events happen alongside the Shadow and Bone plot.

Andrew Scott has been awarded Best Actor at the 33rd Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards. The win makes the Irish actor the first performer to be handed top honors from both of the UK’s national critics bodies.

Scott won the Theatre Awards award for his performance in Vanya, a one-man Chekov adaptation during which Scott plays eight different characters in conversation with each other. Scott landed the same award late last year from the Film Critics Circle, also under the UK Critics’ Circle umbrella for his performance in Andrew Haigh’s enigmatic feature All Of Us Strangers.

Sarah Hemming, the chief theater critic of the Financial Times, described Scott’s performance in Vanya as “tremendously moving, dialing up the empathy at the heart of that great, humane play and at the heart of live theatre” when she presented him with the award.

The Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance went...

We are still approximately six weeks away from learning the nominees for the 77th Tony Awards, but across the pond the finalists for the 2024 Olivier Awards were just announced. A radical new remounting of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Nicole Scherzinger is the most nominated show of the year with 11 citations. Another musical revival is nipping at its heels: the immersive “Guys and Dolls” scored 10, as did new play “Dear England,” which centers on England’s national men’s football team and stars Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate. Scroll down to see a complete list of 2024 Olivier Awards nominations.

American audiences will be familiar with many of the plays, musicals and performers nominated this year. The Best New Musical category includes Tony Award-winning shows “Next to Normal” and “A Strange Loop,” while Best Musical Revival boasts productions of “Groundhog Day” and “Hadestown.” Caissie Levy,...

The stars are stepping out ahead of the 2024 BAFTAs!

Joe Alwyn joined Bridgerton stars Phoebe Dynevor and Rege-Jean Page at the 2024 Pre-bafta Filmmakers Dinner & Party hosted by Dunhill and Bsbp on Tuesday night (February 13) held at the Bourbon House in London, England.

The event was held to celebrate the British film culture and community ahead of the BAFTAs, which takes place on Sunday, Feb. 18. Check out the full list of nominations here.

Since the guestlist was so stacked, we pulled together pics of so many of the stars arriving at the party!

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Shadow and Bone, along with its planned Six of Crows spinoff, was canceled by Netflix, leading to controversy and a fan campaign to save the show. Christina Strain, a writer for Shadow and Bone, shared new plot details for the scrapped Six of Crows spinoff, including a scene centered on Wylan Hendricks. Although Netflix canceled the series, there is still a chance that another party could pick up Shadow and Bone and its spinoff for further development.

Shadow and Bone writer Christina Strain reveals new plot details for the canceled Six of Crows spinoff. Based on the book trilogy by Leigh Bardugo and developed for television by Eric Heisserer, the fantasy series follows the orphan cartographer Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), who discovers she is a Grisha, one with extraordinary magical abilities, and could be the key to saving her war-torn world from dark forces. Netflix canceled Shadow and Bone...

The best in West End theatre was celebrated at the 2023 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, where Nicole Scherzinger was the big winner of the night!

Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton were among the stars who walked the red carpet at the event on Sunday night (November 19) at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England.

Nicole won the award for Best Musical Performance for her work in the new revival of Sunset Boulevard, beating out A Strange Loop‘s Kyle Ramar Freeman, Crazy for You‘s Charlie Stemp, and Guys and Dolls‘ Marisha Wallace.

Sunset Boulevard‘s Jamie Lloyd won the award for Best Director and Guys and Dolls won the award for Best Musical.

Ruth Wilson received a Special Editor’s Award in acknowledgment of her marathon 24-hour show The Second Woman.

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Shadow and Bone's cancellation leaves several storylines unresolved, including the fate of Alina and Mal and their possible future together. Wylan's mysterious past and his relationship with Jesper will never be fully explored, adding to the unresolved plot points. Kaz and Inej's complicated relationship, Kaz's personal trauma, and Inej's quest to find her family are left unfinished, leaving fans wanting more.

Netflix's decision to cancel Shadow and Bone after two seasons leaves several storylines unresolved. The TV adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse series follows the adventures of Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) when she discovers she possesses a unique power, earning her the title of the Sun Summoner. Alina and her allies fight for the security of the Grisha, a group of people with various supernatural abilities, and the future of their country, Ravka. Shadow and Bone changed the timeline of Bardugo's first trilogy for the purpose of expanding the universe quickly.

Shadow and Bone is one of five shows cancelled by Netflix earlier this week, and some of those involved with the series have reacted to the news on social media.

Shadow and Bone aired for two seasons on Netflix, with season two arriving in March. Starring Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan, Daisy Head, Calahan Skogman, Lewis Tan, Anna Leong Brophy, Jack Wolfe, Patrick Gibson, and Ben Barnes, the series follows a young woman (Li) as she deals with having rare powers.

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The Shadow and Bone cast is remembering their time on the fantasy series following Netflix’s cancellation after two seasons.

On Friday, Freddy Carter, who played Crows leader Kaz Brekker, wrote on Instagram that “maybe at some point I’ll have the right words to express the immense gratitude I feel to everyone who put their whole hearts into making, watching and supporting Shadow and Bone. Until then, I’ll just say, thank you.”

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When the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes got underway earlier this year, many Netflix shows were left with fates up in the air.

Now that the strikes are over and Hollywood is getting back to normal, the series won't be making the cut for additional seasons are being revealed.

Deadline revealed Wednesday that Shadow & Bone, Glamorous, Agent Elvis, Farzar, and Captain Fall will not be returning.

Shadow & Bone is the highest profile of the five shows, having made it to a second season.

Despite the freshman season garnering considerable buzz, Shadow & Bone Season 2 launched earlier this year to little fanfare.

Based on the Grishaverse books by Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone Season 2 follows Alina Starkov, who is now on the run.

The series stars Jessie Mei Li (Alina Starkov), Archie Renaux (Malyen Oretsev), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Amita Suman (Inej Ghafa), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Danielle Galligan (Nina Zenik...

Shout Studios acquired North American rights to “The Kill Room,” a thriller starring Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson and Joe Manganiello.

The distribution and production division of indie Shout Factory has emerged victorious in a bidding war at Cannes Film Festival. Shout Studios plans to release the film in theaters this fall.

“The Kill Room” was directed by Nicol Paone and written by Jonathan Jacobson. The dark comedic-thriller follows an art dealer (Thurman) who teams with a hitman (Manganiello) and his boss (Jackson) for a money laundering scheme. The plan accidentally turns the hired killer into an overnight avant-garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.

“’The Kill Room’ is a sharp, darkly comic evisceration of the art collecting scene, delivered with wily relish by Uma Thurman and director Nicol Paone. We’re confident this will play very well with audiences who like their entertainment both witty and visceral,...

The second season of Netflix's Shadow and Bone, debuted on the streaming platform on March 16, introducing new dynamic characters in the series based on Leigh Bardugo's best-selling YA novel series. Season 2 arrived with brand-new locations that play vital parts in story's progression. For fans who want a closer look at the set, Jesper Fahey (Kit Young) and Wylan Hendricks (Jack Wolfe) have got everyone covered with their recently released video tour of the set, taking viewers to the fantastical Grishaverse.

When Shadow & Bone was first adapted by Netflix, many wondered how, and even if, the Crows could fit into the narrative. The Six of Crows duology is highly praised as a step up from the foundational trilogy, but if it weren't for Alina and Mal's adventures, the Grishaverse couldn't exist. Now, two seasons later, the Shadow & Bone series has become a backdoor prequel of sorts for the Crows and their impending heists.

After introducing Jesper Fahey (Kit Young), Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter), Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman), Nina Zenik (Danielle Galligan), and Matthias (Calahan Skogman), Shadow & Bone season 2 will introduce another key player - Wylan Hendricks, played by Jack Wolfe. The new batch of episodes finds plenty for the Crows to do as their adventures takes them to Shu Han for a memorable heist before they head back to Ravka to help Alina.

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This post contains spoilers for season 2 of Netflix's "Shadow and Bone."

"Oh, I do love a challenge," says Jesper Fahey (Kit Young) in season 1 of "Shadow and Bone," before twirling his dual pistols and blasting away at enemies. An expert sharpshooter who never misses his mark, Jesper is a vital member of the Crows of Ketterdam, who are on a mission to aid Alina Starkov (Jesse Mei Li) in the latest season of the Netflix fantasy series. When not busy gambling his hard-earned Kruge away and hugging Milo the goat, Jesper spends most of his time being effortlessly skillful during tense shootouts and dangerous missions.

While the first season hinted that there's more than meets the eye to Jesper's impressive abilities, season 2 confirms that he's Grisha — a Fabrikator who can manipulate metals, among other things, to change their texture and composition.

Those acquainted with Leigh Bardugo's "Six of...

The latest season of Netflix's "Shadow and Bone" just dropped, in which the Crows of Ketterdam play a major role in assisting the Sun Summoner Alina Starkov (Jesse Mei Li). Series showrunner Eric Heisserer has taken an unorthodox route when it comes to adapting Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novel series by combining the storylines of the "Shadow and Bone" trilogy and "The Six of Crows" duology, leading to a complex, intertwining story that directly impacts the fate of the Grishaverse. As the Crows have emerged as one of the strongest aspects of the Netflix adaptation, Heisserer has been quietly developing a "Six of Crows" spin-off series, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Bardugo's duology exclusively focuses on the Crows, who are forced to take up a perilous mission after a drug named jurda parem is on the verge of being circulated across Kerch. The implications of this drug falling into the...

Alina and Mal found a bit of peace, but that quickly got foiled when Alina learned her nightmares were real.

Shadow and Bone Season 2 Episode 1 saw Alina dreaming of Kirigan inside the fold while the Crows dealt with their issues.

Pekka managed to kill the woman whose name was on the deed for the Crow Club, which means the club now was his: as was Inej's contract.

Mal and Alina continued their romance, but their romantic interactions kept getting interrupted by multiple outside occurrences.

Both of them managed to get caught, causing them to flee the land they had just arrived in.

We didn't see much of the Zemeni side of things, so hopefully, they get brought back into the future. Just as Alina did, we learned that the Zemeni consider their magic users blessed and don't categorize them.

The Zemeni saved Alina and Mal later in the episode, much to everyone's surprise.

Fans quickly fell for the cast of "Shadow And Bone" when the show first premiered on Netflix in 2021, and now that the fantasy series is back for a second season, there are even more characters to love as four new stars have joined the cast. Lewis Tan has signed on as Tolya Yul-Bataar; Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar Kir-Bataar; Patrick Gibson as Nikolai Lantsov; and Jack Wolfe as Wylan Hendriks. They join original cast members Jessie Mei Li (Alina Starkov), Ben Barnes (General Kirigan), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Amita Suman (Inej Ghafa), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Archie Renaux (Malyen "Mal" Oretsev), Danielle Galligan (Nina Zenik), Sujaya Dasgupta (Zoya Nazyalensky), and Calahan Skogman (Matthias Helvar).

Showrunner and executive producer Eric Heisserer shared a breakdown of what viewers can expect from the upcoming season in an interview with Netflix's Tudum in March, confirming that the new characters will play a big part in the plot.

Strip away all the CGI smoke monsters and cultural pastiches and invented languages from “Shadow and Bone” and it’s still, at its heart, a tale of Chosen One vs. Dark Lord. Now in its Season 2, the Netflix series is the kind of handsomely made fantasy epic that networks could once build a whole lineup around. There’s a dense mythology of lore and palace intrigue and a love triangle or two for good measure. The show debuted in early 2021 in the midst of a TV world still dotted by question marks and pointed to a possible future for effects-driven literary adaptations.

But for all its heroes and villains linked by destiny — living saint Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) mentally communicating with her sworn enemy the Darkling (Ben Barnes) — and CGI centerpieces — a massive dark-matter entity called The Fold that divides an entire nation in two — there’s a better...

Shadow and Bone will be getting a Six of Crows spinoff sooner than later if all goes right. The Netflix series is adapted from the young adult novel series by Leigh Bardugo known as the Grishaverse. Although it largely follows the main storyline of the book series, which involves Sun Summoner Alina Starkov's (Jessie Mei Li) adventures with her best friend Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux). The series also incorporates characters and elements from the spinoff duology Six of Crows, which follows the Crows of Ketterdam.

This week, Entertainment Weekly sat down with the show's creator and co-showrunner Eric Heisserer in the wake of Shadow and Bone season 2's release on March 16. He explained that the reason he split showrunning duties with Daegan Fryklind this season was the fact that he was developing an eight-episode Six of Crows spinoff. If this new Shadow and Bone season performs well, the spinoff will...

YA fantasy adaptations tend to be dense in mythology and self-seriousness, with so many lands and lineages and plot turns that the newbie viewer might need a drink, or at least a thorough set of recaps. “Shadow and Bone,” returning to Netflix for Season 2 (a feat in itself these days), has all of the standard intricacies. Between Ravka and Fjerda, the Grisha and the Shu, the Barrell and the Fold, there’s a lot to keep track of, and the task can be daunting for novices to navigate.

But “Shadow and Bone” has an ace in the hole that the cardsharps of the Crow Club would appreciate. It rarely forgets to have fun, a quality that can easily get lost amid the spells and brooding that often characterize such enterprises. The series has a swashbuckling spirit and lively wit. It has clever heist plots and barroom brawls. Even as it...

Warning: This post contains very minor spoilers for Shadow and Bone season 2Shadow and Bone season 1 combined the disparate areas of the Grishaverse — which encapsulates the Shadow and Bone trilogy of books by Leigh Bardugo and everything set in that world, including the Six of Crows duology — rather seamlessly, marrying the plethora of stories together in a way that made sense and elevated the source material. In eight episodes (which were provided for review), Shadow and Bone season 2 manages to do the same.

Far from a sophomore slump, season 2 merges various aspects of Bardugo’s trilogy and parts of the Crows’ story while continuing to revitalize the narrative with a fresh perspective. It’ll still be a familiar story for book readers, but there are enough changes to make it worthwhile and enticing. Adaptations are difficult, and there will always be things left by the wayside, but showrunner Eric Heisserer...

Two years after "Shadow and Bone" made its debut on Netflix, the Grishaverse finally returns with season 2 of the fantasy-action-romance hybrid. Based on the books by Leigh Bardugo, this is a show dense with lore that shows no mercy to non-book readers and/or those for whom April 2021 is a distant, foggy memory. It's definitely worth rewatching the first season if you don't want to be floundering in questions like "wait, what's merzost?" and "who the hell are all these people?"

If you don't have time for a rewatch, here are the basics. The world is made up of ordinary people and Grisha, born wizards with power over certain elements. Some can control wind, some can control fire, some can control water, some can manipulate materials, some can hear heartbeats and squish people's internal organs at will. In season 1, orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) learned that she was a...

Four new characters from the Grishaverse play major roles in “Shadow and Bone” Season 2 on Netflix. Like the pair of The Darkling and Alina, these new characters contain contradictions.

Adapted from the last two books in Leigh Bardugo’s “Shadow and Bone” trilogy — “Seige and Storm” and “Ruin and Rising” — with plot points from the “Six of Crows” duology mixed in, the sequel installment of the YA fantasy show introduces new characters and builds upon old concepts, specifically that of identity. Twin Heartrenders Tamar Kir-Bataar (Anna Leong Brophy) and Tolya Yul-Bataar (Lewis Tan) challenge the strict Ravkan identity categories in the fantasy world because have Grisha power to manipulate elements, but they are also just as comfortable using battle axes and swords.

“There’s a lot of duality. So I feel like the twins are a physical representation of duality, they’re two different sides of a coin,” Leong Brophy told TheWrap.

Shadow and Bone's second season is fast approaching on Netflix.

The show's stars from all parts of the Grishaverse sat down with us and gave us the scoop on the new season!

The cast got separated into three different groups, and the first group featured three of the newest cast members: Lewis Tan, Anna Leong Brophy & Patrick Gibson.

The three play Tolya Yul-Bataar, Tamar Kir-Bataar, and Nikolai Lantsov, respectively. The three actors gave us the lowdown on their characters throughout the second season!

These interviews have been edited for clarity.

TV Fanatic: For all three, but mainly Anna and Lewis: How do you think your [characters'] relationship with Alina aligned with the book/each other being Shu like she is?

Anna: I think we have an immediate understanding of when we meet of her predicament. She's also someone caught between two worlds. I think that's a theme often explored in the Grishaverse,...

Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone” Season 2 will continue to immerse viewers into the fictional fantasy world created by Leigh Bardugo, author of the “Shadow and Bone” trilogy and the “Six of Crows” duology.

Landing on the streamer March 16, the second season of the YA fantasy series adapts both “Siege and Storm” and “Ruin and Rising” from Bardugo’s trilogy while sprinkling in elements from the “Six of Crows” duology. New characters from both parts of the Grishaverse enter the story this round as well, including Tolya Yul-bataar (Lewis Tan), Tamar Kir-bataar (Anna Leong Brophy), Sturmhond aka Nikolai Lantsov (Patrick Gibson) and Wylan Hendricks (Jack Wolfe).

Season 1 laid a complex foundation for the elaborate universe that houses this story, and for those that need a refresher on what exactly happened in the first season, look no further. We’ll do our best to summarize, from the intricacies to the adventures.

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Exclusive: Writer, producer and director Florian Sigl, the filmmaker behind the recent movie version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, has signed with CAA for representation.

The Magic Flute, which was released by Shout! Studios this month, had its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival (Zff) in Switzerland last year, and marked Sigl’s feature debut. Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich was exec producer.

The cast of the film includes Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus), Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Jack Wolfe (Shadow and Bone).

Sigl has directed and produced award-winning commercials in Europe and the U.S. for companies including BMW, Mercedes, Vw, Toyota, L’ Oreal, Nissan and Suzuki. The filmmaker is currently in development on multiple TV series and features.

Sigl started out studying classical music with a scholarship to the Munich Conservatory in Germany. After a stint as president of the German Producers Association, he...

The world of Mozart is coming to life with The Magic Flute. Inspired by the opera of the same name, the film revolves around aspiring music student Tim as he uncovers a mystical gateway in his prestigious boarding school that transports him into The Magic Flute, setting him on a magical adventure.

Jack Wolfe leads the ensemble cast of The Magic Flute alongside F. Murray Abraham, Iwan Rheon, Stéfi Celma, Niamh McCormack, Asha Banks, Stefan Konarske, and Amir Wilson. Also featuring celebrated opera stars Sabine Devieilhe, Rolando Villazón, and Morris Robinson, the film is an artful blend of Mozart's grand opera and a coming-of-age drama.

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Ahead of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with star Jack Wolfe to discuss The Magic Flute, making his transition from stage to screen acting, developing a brother-like relationship with co-star Iwan Rheon and...

In Shadow and Bone’s Season 1 finale, Kaz made a deal with Alina to conceal her identity as the Sun Summoner in exchange for the queen’s jewels, which he planned to use to free Inej.

When we meet the Crows back in Ketterdam at the start of Season 2 — premiering next Thursday, March 16 on Netflix — our motley heroes quickly realize that their home was stolen from them, and they have nothing left.

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Ted Lasso, Scream 6 and House of the Dragon.

Scream 6 premiere

The latest Ghostface flick premiered in NYC on Monday with stars Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jack Champion. Several of the stars of Scream 5 also came out to support, including Jack Quaid and Dylan Minnette.

Devyn Nekoda, Liana Liberato, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega and Courteney Cox Dylan Minnette, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Devyn Nekoda, Jack Champion, Tony Revolori, Liana Liberato, Melissa Barrera and Jack Quaid Spyglass Media Group’s Peter Oillataguerre and Gary Barber

Ted Lasso premiere

Season three of the hit Apple TV+ comedy debuted in L.A. on Tuesday with stars Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham, Phil Dunster, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Cristo Fernández and Toheeb Jimoh,...

Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the magical world of Mozart’s famed opera.

This Harry Potter-ish adventure fantasy stars Jack Wolfe as Tim Walker, who passes from school into the world of the opera and its many adventures as hero Prince Tamino. Wide releases may be picking up steam and Scream, but in terms of new specialty, and family fare, these isn’t much new competition this weekend.

Melissa Boag, EVP of Family Entertainment at Shout! Studios, hopes it will play with fans of magical adventure, Harry Potter, and classical music. Wolfe is a star of Netflix YA series Shadow & Bone.

The Magic Flute is an upcoming fantasy adventure film by German director Florian Sigl, starring Iwan Rheon, F. Murray Abraham, Jeanne Goursaud, Amir Wilson, and Niamh McCormack.

The film follows Londoner Tim Walker, as he travels to the Austrian Alps to begin term at the legendary Mozart boarding school. The real adventure begins when Tim discovers a long forgotten passageway leading to the extraordinary world of Mozart‘s “The Magic Flute.”

Release Date

March 10, 2023

Where To Watch The Magic Flute

In Theaters

The Cast

Jack Wolfe / Tim Walker / Prince Tamino

F. Murray Abraham / Dr. Longbow

Iwan Rheon / Papageno

Jeanne Goursaud

Amir Wilson / Anton Milanesi

Stéfi Celma / Papagena

Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht

Steffen Mennekes / Priest

Niamh McCormack / Sophiie

Waldemar Kobus / Mr. Suessmayr

La entrada “The Magic Flute” Stars Iwan Rheon, F. Murray Abraham, and Jeanne Goursaud se publicó primero en Martin Cid Magazine.

There’s something for everyone this month on Netflix, including the streamer’s first-ever live-streamed global event: Chris Rock’s comedy special “Selective Outrage.”

The last time the comedian was on a stage of this scale, he was slapped in the face by Will Smith. You’ll have to tune in at 7 pm Pm Pt/10 pm Et on Saturday, March 4 to find out if he addresses the Oscars incident!

On the drama front, the second half of “You” Season 4, starring Penn Badgley, returns March 9. Fans of political intrigue will want to tune into “The Night Agent.” Former child star Gabriel Basso stars as a vigilant FBI agent who answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House. Idris Elbra returns as disgraced London detective John Luther in “Luther: The Fallen Son” on March 10. And of course, we can’t forget the steamy series “Sex/Life,...

Screen Rant is pleased to present an exclusive clip from The Magic Flute, which lands in theaters on March 10. Hailing from first-time director Florian Sigl and veteran executive producer Roland Emmerich, this fantasy adventure film follows teenage Tim Walker as he joins a prestigious boarding school in his quest to become a singer. But one quest leads to another, and he finds himself in an alternate world of magic and mystery.

The Magic Flute also stars F. Murray Abraham (The White Lotus) as the headmaster, Dr. Longbow, who helps make Tim's days at the academy miserable. Once he crosses the mystical gateway inside the library, however, he enters the world of a Mozart opera: The Magic Flute, ruled by the Queen of the Night. There, he becomes Prince Tamino and meets characters such as Papageno and Princess Pamina (Asha Banks).

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With the sleepy release months of January and February behind us, the time has come to enter March, where a deluge of exciting titles await. Prepare for the much-anticipated return of fan-favorite TV series: everything from "The Mandalorian" and "Ted Lasso" to "Succession" and "Yellowjackets." Even "Riverdale" is on the way back, if that's the kind of chaos that you're into! But enough about other streaming services — what's going on over at Netflix, the Og spot for a weekend binge?

The streamer has recently revealed their release slate, detailing everything to come in March 2023 and there's a lot going on. For one thing, they've somehow managed to produce yet another season of "Love Is Blind," an often painful-to-watch dating reality series where terrible decisions are made and basically nothing good ever happens. Netflix has been going hard on the reality front for a while now, something that certainly isn't slowing down,...

Shadow and Bone returns next month for its second season, and Netflix has released a trailer teasing the eight new episodes. The fantasy mystery drama is based on the novels by Leigh Bardugo.

Starring Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan, Daisy Head, Calahan Skogman, Lewis Tan, Anna Leong Brophy, Jack Wolfe, Patrick Gibson, and Ben Barnes, Shadow and Bone revolves around young Alina Starkov (Li), an orphan and assistant cartographer of the Ravka nation's First Army. She discovers that she is the Sun Summoner, a rare and long-awaited Grisha who has the ability to control light.

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Shout! Studios has acquired U.S. and Canada rights to Studiocanal and Working Title’s cross-cultural British romantic comedy “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” with a view to releasing it in late spring, it was revealed at Berlin’s European Film Market on Tuesday.

Directed by veteran Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”), “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” follows documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), for whom swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath’s (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan (Sajal Aly). As Zoe films Kaz’s journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder...

Netflix has debuted the trailer for the upcoming season 2 of ‘Shadow and Bone.’

Alina Starkov is on the run. A beacon of hope to some and a suspected traitor to others, she’s determined to bring down the Shadow Fold and save Ravka from ruin. But General Kirigan has returned to finish what he started. Backed by a terrifying new army of seemingly indestructible shadow monsters and fearsome new Grisha recruits, Kirigan is more dangerous than ever. To stand a fighting chance against him, Alina and Mal rally their own powerful new allies and begin a continent-spanning journey to find two mythical creatures that will amplify her powers. Back in Ketterdam, the Crows must forge new alliances as they contend with old rivals and even older grudges that threaten not only their place in the Barrel but their very lives. When a chance at a deadly heist comes their way,...

Shadow and Bone Season 2 Trailer — Netflix‘s Shadow and Bone: Season 2 TV show trailer has been released. The Shadow and Bone: Season 2 trailer stars Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Daisy Head, Lewis Tan, Patrick Gibson, Anna Leong, Jack Wolfe, [...]

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Netflix has dropped the trailer for the eight-episode second season of “Shadow and Bone.” The second season depicts Alina Starkov, played by Jessie Mei Li, on the run in an effort to bring down the Shadow Fold and save Ravka. However, General Kirigan (played by Ben Barnes) is also back and this time has an army of shadow monsters behind him.

The Season 2 cast includes also includes Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan, Daisy Head, Calahan Skogman, Lewis Tan, Anna Leong Brophy, Jack Wolfe and Patrick Gibson.

Eric Heisserer and Daegan Fryklind serve as showrunners and executive producers, with Leigh Bardugo as author and executive producer for the series. “Shadow and Bone” is also executive produced by Shawn Levy, Josh Barry, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen for 21 Laps Entertainment, Pouya Shahbazian (Loom Studios) and Shelley Meals.

Season 2 of “Shadow and Bone” premieres March 16. Check out the trailer below.

Alina is embracing her role as the Sun Summoner in "Shadow and Bone" season two. On Feb. 17, Netflix released the official trailer for the new season, and it promises a dramatic confrontation between Alina and the Darkling, while giving fans a glimpse of the new faces they can expect to see in the forthcoming episodes.

Back on Sept. 24, 2022, Netflix released the first teaser for the upcoming season at the global fan event Tudum. In it, Alina rejects the idea that she's just a symbol, Wylan and Nikolai make their big debuts, and the Crows prepare for a fight. That's a good thing, because the Darkling isn't messing around. "Are you willing to sacrifice that which is most precious to you?" he asks in the action-packed trailer.

Netflix's "Shadow and Bone" premiered in 2021, receiving rave reviews from critics and fans alike. Based on the popular book series by Leigh Bardugo, the...

Netflix’s nearly three-minute trailer for Shadow and Bone season two opens with the revelation that General Kirigan has created an army out of shadows and has plunged the country into darkness. It’s going to take everything Alina Starkov and Mal Oretsev have to emerge victorious against Kirigan and his unkillable army.

Author Leigh Bardugo told Netflix’s Tudum this new season differs from her trilogy. “We are going to get to see some incredible new characters,” explained Bardugo. “We’re going to see characters interacting with each other, questing with each other, fighting and laughing with each other, who we never got to see together in the books — and I think that’s a unique thing about this show.”

“We’ve […]really dug into more of the mythology this season in terms of the amplifiers, but also the creator of the amplifiers, Morozova — who he was, what his backstory is,...

Alina Starkov is determined to tear down The Fold and save Ravka in the trailer for Netflix‘s Shadow and Bone Season 2.

The trailer, released Friday, begins with General Kirigan (played by Ben Barnes) emerging from the darkness of The Fold with three large scars across his face. As he stands in front of Alina (Jessie Mei Li) with his army of shadows, she realizes that she is the key to stopping him. She and Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux) set out on a journey to find the Amplifiers — two mythical creatures that can boost Alina’s power, giving her a fighting chance against Kirigan and his growing strength.

But Alina and Mal aren’t the only ones to take note of the havoc The Darkling begins to wreak. Back in Ketterdam, a chance at a deadly heist sends Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter) and the Crows once again on a collision...

If you've been itching for another fantasy show to binge, then Netflix has heard your calls. The second season of "Shadow and Bone," based on the Grishaverse franchise by Leigh Bardugo, is coming soon. While the show's initial season left some major plot threads hanging in the balance, it looks like those will be explored more in-depth in the next batch of episodes.

"Shadow and Bone" immediately proved to be a success for Netflix when it premiered in April 2021. In her review of the first season, /Film's Vanessa Armstrong praised its accessible world-building and compelling characters, a balance arguably rarely achieved in modern fantasy fare. From the looks of this latest trailer, this will prove to be no different for its second season.

Speaking of its latest trailer, we see glimpses of everything that makes "Shadow and Bone" such a popular series. You've got big fight scenes, sexual tension, actual romance,...