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Exclusive: Sam Humphrey, the New Zealand-born actor, has signed with Los Angeles-based management company Key Talent.

Humphrey is most known for his role as Tom Thumb in the box office smash The Greatest Showman. He has also appeared in Australian soap Neighbours and the TV movie Jeremy The Dud.

Separately, Key Talent has also signed American actress Shelley Regner, known for the Pitch Perfect series.

Key Talent Management represents actors, directors, writers, and musicians. Its clients also include Israeli/Spanish actress Gal Macadar, actor and dancer Asaf Goren, Colombian/Spanish star Édgar Vittorino, and Argentinian actors Gaston Dalmau and Daniela Aita.

Underworld have released a new single, “S T A R,” ahead of their upcoming album Drift Series 1. The rhythmic track takes its inspiration from childhood nursery rhymes as it invokes pop culture notables like Michael Caine, Iggy Pop and Danny Boyle alongside fictional characters like Tom Thumb and Robin Hood.

“Take a rhyme that’s so familiar it’s almost become a part of our DNA and evolve it into something strange and inspiring—a celebration of life, and of lives, and of the good and the truly great,” the...

With an acting career that spans work for Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph Losey to Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch, Russ Tamblyn’s creativity and longevity is proof that there’s life after child stardom. In Tamblyn’s case, there’s also been a bounty of juicy film and TV roles long after his legendary legs no longer kicked up movie musicals such as “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “West Side Story.” His decades in film and TV include all genres, from Robert Wise’s suspense classic “The Haunting” to George Pal’s colorful kidfare, such as “Tom Thumb” and “Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” and Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” series. It’s a career he explores in his upcoming memoir, “Dancing on the Edge.”

It was in 1948, eight years before the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. touted his arrival as “Most Promising Newcomer,” that Tamblyn first appeared in...

Last call for Emmy voting. The deadline to submit ballots for the 24,000 or so eligible Television Academy members is tonight at 10 Pm Pt. Nominations for the Primetime Emmys will be announced July 16.

One of the interesting aspects of this year’s contest will be to see how a few new rules affect the outcome — in positive or negative ways.

The Academy, with its vast number of categories (well over 100), is forever working on rule changes and adjusting to the realities of the multi-channel, multi-choice TV universe. This year, changes have been made in categories short to long. On the short side, all entries must be at least two minutes long because some jokers entered Tom Thumb-sized shows last year. There also is now a committee that first determines whether your short is even Emmy nominatable in the first place, something that has sparked new controversy this year from the...

Fans are sending their best wishes and prayers to “The Greatest Showman” star Sam Humphrey as he prepares to undergo risky surgery. The 24-year-old actor, who played diminutive Charles Stratton (a.k.a. Tom Thumb) in the Hugh Jackman-starring musical about P.T. Barnum, will be undergoing “high-risk corrective surgery,” a rep for Humphrey tells Us Weekly, with TMZ...

The Greatest Showman‘s Sam Humphrey is undergoing a “high-risk” surgery due to complications of Crohn’s Disease.

The actor, 24, played Tom Thumb in Hugh Jackman‘s 2017 musical, “has been suffering from complications” due to the disease “which is exasperated by Sam’s skeletal dysplasia and size,” his rep tells People in a statement.

“He is currently under the care of some of the best doctors in the world at Cedars Sinai and is undergoing high-risk corrective surgery,” the statement continued. “His family and friends are with him and they ask for privacy while Sam is treated and recovers. They...

"The Greatest Showman" star Sam Humphrey -- who played Tom Thumb in the film -- is fighting for his life and is set to undergo an extremely risky surgery ... TMZ has learned.  Sources tell us Humphrey has been hospitalized for several weeks in Los Angeles due to complications with Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. We're told Humphrey's Crohn's is made worse by his skeletal dysplasia. "The Greatest Showman" was the 24-year-old's big break,...

CBS’s Armageddon Upfront just wrapped.

Technically, this Upfront Week’s most anticipated new-schedule unveiling was held at famed Carnegie Hall, per usual. But it began mere hours after Shari Redstone’s National Amusements took the nuclear option, changing CBS Corp’s bylaws ahead of tomorrow’s board meeting to consider diluting the family’s control over the network. Nai said it had to make the move to ensure “the long-term success of CBS” – which is the best gag you’re going to hear at Upfront Week – sorry Jimmy Kimmel – given the Redstone record running Viacom versus Leslie Moonves’ running of CBS.

As CBS Corp chairman Moonves and CBS Entertainment chief Kelly Kahl walked advertisers through their plans for next season, CBS and Shari were literally still duking it out in a Delaware court.

Nai went nuclear to prevent what is claimed was an unlawful action by CBS to introduce...

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Kunichi Nomura, Greta Gerwig, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum | Written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Kunichi Nomura | Directed by Wes Anderson

Isle of Dogs? I love dogs, too. There’s something about their wide-eyed inquisitive faces that makes them an ideal fit for Wes Anderson, the modern master of deadpan whimsy. Using stop-motion puppetry techniques (as simultaneously ultra-modern and old-fashioned as the name of his hero, Atari) Anderson crafts an animated odyssey which is wholly original in art design and conception, if not its broader structure.

Anderson and co-writers Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Kunichi Nomura throw in a ton of world-building exposition, but the film is visually compelling and strange enough that it never feels like a drag.

Though the chronology hops about like an excited puppy, the basic story – set twenty years in the future – is that dogs have been outlawed in the Japanese archipelago,...

Sam Humphrey, Hugh Jackman, Michael Gracey

Oscar nominations were announced this morning and when “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman was nominated for Best Original Song, we’re sure of one person that was excited – General Tom Thumb himself, Sam Humphrey.

Wamg recently had the chance to talk to the young Australian actor about his experience working on the musical spectacle with none other than Australia’s favorite son, Hugh Jackman.

“When I was young, I was a massive fan of Hugh Jackman, and I told myself at very young age that I would someday be in a movie with him”, said Humphrey. Little did he know that, years later, it would be the very first movie of his career.

A casting director noticed Humphrey on a few episodes of an Australian TV series called “Neighbours” and immediately thought of him for the role of iconic circus performer General...

With an all-star cast, gravity defying stunts and show stopping musical numbers, The Greatest Showman is making waves this awards season.

Based on the life of famed show businessman P.T. Barnum, played by Hugh Jackman, the film also stars Michelle Williams as Barnum’s wife Charity and Rebecca Ferguson as the songstress Jenny Lind. The Greatest Showman is up for three Golden Globes this Sunday. Here’s the incredible true story behind the film.

Launching a Circus

Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P. T. Barnum, is best remembered for the famous traveling circus depicted in The Greatest Showman,...

How do you cast a virtuoso Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, spare no expense in production values, add a score by Oscar (La La Land) and Tony (Dear Evan Hansen) winners Ben Pasek and Justin Paul and still end up with the shrill blast of nothing that is The Greatest Showman? Ask first-time director Michael Gracey, who cut his teeth on commercials and music videos without ever mastering the crucial knack of building snippets of musical comedy and drama into a satisfying whole.

As scripted by TV writer Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City,...

Author: Emily Breen

Hugh Jackman Is The Greatest Showman, it cannot be denied. His voice, charisma and screen presence are inarguably mesmeric. And powerful enough to make even the most despicable character palatable. Which is handy. P.T. Barnum was a truly terrible man. A profiteer of the misfortunes of others and a cynical exploiter of the disabled. Yes, he lived in different times. Yet even by the standards of his time, to sell tickets to the autopsy of a profoundly handicapped woman one owned seems…distasteful.

Barnum is a curious, if not downright bad, choice of inspiration for a musical biopic so buoyantly determined to remain upbeat. But by the power of Hugh Jackman, a stonking soundtrack and an unhealthy dose of denial The Greatest Showman nearly grifts its way past our disapproval without a scratch. The curtain lifts on a classic upstairs/downstairs love story: a tailor’s...

True Conviction screens Sunday, November 5th at 4:00pm at Washington University’s Brown Hall (Forsyth Boulevard and Chaplin Drive – two blocks west of Skinker Boulevard) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. In attendance will be the film’s subject Christopher Scott as well as Antoinette (Annie) Grier, project manager of Washington U.’s Smart Decarceration Initiative at the Center for Social Development of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. This is a Free event.

Christopher Scott was released from prison after serving 13 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. That nightmare scenario is far too common: More than 30 people like Chris have been exonerated in Dallas County, Texas. Most of them are black men locked up in their youth who emerged in middle age looking for a way to make sense of what happened. One day, at a support-group meeting for exonerees,...

Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress Viola Davis, the Albertsons Companies Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (Eif) have come together again to continue the Hunger Is “Hungry for More” campaign, which is designed to raise awareness and funds to fight childhood hunger in America.

Through the generosity of Albertsons Companies customers, last year Hunger Is provided five million breakfasts to children in need, a number which the campaign will strive to match this year.

The Hunger Is “Hungry for More” campaign will run through October 15th in more than 2,300 Albertsons Companies grocery stores throughout the country, giving shoppers at Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Star Market, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Acme, and others the opportunity to contribute toward hunger relief efforts in their communities. The print, broadcast, digital and out-of-home PSA campaign, in which Viola Davis addresses the importance of eradicating childhood hunger in the U.S., will continue to...

Rob Leane May 19, 2017

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 ended with an incredible episode. Here's some chatter..

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 ending

World's End was the epic conclusion to Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4, drawing together the plotlines of Ghost Rider, Aida, the LMDs and the Framework for a very satisfying finish.

See related Sam Mendes interview: Skyfall, stunts & cinematography

Once you've watched the episode, you'll want to scroll beyond our spoiler squirrel to see what the showrunners have to say about That ending...

Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 finale cliffhanger

So, showrunners Jed Whedon and Jeff Bell have chatted to IGN about the finale. Was there ever a happy ending, where the gang don't get kidnapped and taken to space after finally being reunited?

"It's what it is," said Bell. "There was not a nice quiet shawarma version of it where they go, 'Oh, it's nice to be together.' It was always supposed to be,...