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Broadway's 'Death of a Salesman' topped $1 million at the box office last week
18 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
In a rare feat for a non-musical on Broadway, Mike Nichols’ acclaimed revival of Death of a Salesman grossed just over $1 million last week, according to figures released by the Broadway League. The hit show, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman and Andrew Garfield as his wayward son, Biff, set a new record for the 1,036-seat Barrymore Theatre. What’s even more remarkable is that Salesman scored at the box office despite playing only seven performances (most Broadway shows are mounted eight times per week). The production isn’t exactly a dime a dozen, to quote one of Biff »
- Thom Geier
Shall we gather at the river?
28 May 2012 8:38 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
The first time I saw him, he was striding toward me out of the burning Georgia sun, as helicopters landed behind him. His face was tanned a deep brown. He was wearing a combat helmet, an ammo belt, carrying a rifle, had a canteen on his hip, stood six feet four inches. He stuck out his hand and said, "John Wayne." That was not necessary.
Wayne died on June 11, 1979. Stomach cancer. "The Big C," he called it. He had lived for quite a while on one lung, and then the Big C came back. He was near death and he knew it when he walked out on stage at the 1979 Academy Awards to present Best Picture to "The Deer Hunter," a film he wouldn't have made. He looked frail, but he planted himself there and sounded like John Wayne.
John Wayne. When I was a kid, we said it as one word: Johnwayne. »
- Roger Ebert
The 50 greatest matte paintings of all time
27 May 2012 5:35 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
The art of the glass shot or matte painting is one which originated very much in the early ‘teens’ of the silent era. Pioneer film maker, director, cameraman and visual effects inventor Norman Dawn is generally acknowledged as the father of the painted matte composite, with other visionary film makers such as Ferdinand Pinney Earle, Walter Hall and Walter Percy Day being heralded as making vast contributions to the trick process in the early 1920’s.
Boiled down, the matte process is one whereby a limited film set may be extended to whatever, or wherever the director’s imagination dictates with the employment of a matte artist. In it’s most pure form, the artist would set up a large plate of clear glass in front of the motion picture camera upon which he would carefully paint in new scenery an ornate period ceiling, snow capped mountains, a Gothic castle or even an alien world. »
Barack On Broadway
25 May 2012 8:56 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York -- President Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton – and the stars will be out to welcome them.
James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Nina Arianda, Kerry Butler, Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Cannavale, Stockard Channing, Megan Hilty and Cheyenne Jackson are some of the performers slated to attend the June 4 fundraiser.
"Barack on Broadway" is one of two events that day that will join Obama and Clinton. The two presidents will also attend a dinner featuring a performance by Jon Bon Jovi.
The fund-raiser will be at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the home of "Mary Poppins" and will be directed by George C. Wolfe.
General admission is $250, with VIP tickets for $1,000. »
- AP
As 'Battleship' Flops: Ten Other Memorable Box-Office Bombs
21 May 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
To have one giant money-losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.
The film, Universal & Hasbro's adaptation of the board game, directed by "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg, had taken the unusual step of opening everywhere else in the world six weeks ahead of the U.S, in the hope of bagging lucrative foreign coin and building buzz for the U.S. release. But while the film did ok abroad, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
BBC Films Announces New Projects Including Simon Curtis' The Golden Lady
20 May 2012 2:53 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
After the positive reception in Cannes for Rufus Norris' acclaimed Broken which opened Critics Week, BBC Films has unveiled their new slate, reaffirming their commitment to nurturing relationships with filmmakers and developing new talent.
BBC Films is thrilled to be welcoming back former collaborators on a number of exciting projects this year. Following An Education and most recently Dustin Hoffman's Quartet, BBC Films will be working again with Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey of Wildgaze on two projects. Based on Colm Toibin's best-selling novel, Brooklyn will star Rooney Mara and has been adapted by Academy Award nominated Nick Hornby. Hornby's novel, A Long Way Down, has been adapted by Jack Thorne and will be directed by Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker). It will star Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and Emile Hirsch.
Having worked previously with Jeremy Thomas on Glastonbury and now Julien Temple's The Kinks' film You Really Got Me, »
- MovieWeb
Project Shaw 2012
16 May 2012 3:18 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
This project -- in which all of George Bernard Shaw's works will be performed in staged-reading format -- continues May 21 with "In Good King Charles's Golden Days," described as "an outrageous comedy about Isaac Newton, King Charles II, Nell Gwynn, and the whole gang." The cast includes Tony winners Cady Huffman and Maryann Plunkett, Sean Dugan ("Smash"), Jay O. Sanders ("Titus Andronicus"), Daniel Jenkins ("Mary Poppins"), and Christine Pedi ("Forbidden Broadway"). The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, NYC. 7 p.m. $30. (212) 352-3101 or www.projectshaw.com. »
- help@backstage.com ()
‘Annie’ Star Lilla Crawford’s Voice Coach Gives Advice for Young Singers
15 May 2012 8:57 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
When it comes to understanding the fundamentals of voice lessons for children, who better to ask than the voice teacher of Broadway’s new “It Girl”? Lilla Crawford, star of the upcoming production of “Annie,” works with Badiene Magaziner. Crawford, who made her Broadway debut as Debbie in the closing cast of “Billy Elliot,” beat out 5000 girls to win the lead role after a highly publicized nationwide casting.An accomplished singer with credits in opera and on Broadway, Magaziner holds a Master’s Degree of Music in Voice from The Juilliard School of Music and has been a voice teacher for more than ten years. Her students have appeared in a long list of Broadway shows including “Billy Elliot,” “Mary Poppins,” “Rent” and “Miss Saigon” as well as on “American Idol.” She also coached “America’s Got Talent’s” first $1,000,000 winner.”Magaziner, who teaches speech level singing, notes a slight shift away from beginning. »
- help@backstage.com (Kelly Crisp)
Thn’s Top 10 Disney Movies: Part 2
5 May 2012 3:07 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To celebrate the release of the legendary Beauty And The Beast in 3D, Thn is taking a look back at the very best Disney films of all time. To appease the purists, we have omitted any joint productions with Pixar (we need to give the others a fighting chance, after all). There is a multitude of cinematic greats in The House of Mouse, and we have found the diamonds in the rough. Numbers 10 – 6 can be found here, below you will find the top five.
So why don’t you just ruminate, whilst we illuminate the possibilities.
5. Beauty And The Beast (1991)
Here it is. The movie whose return to the cinema we are celebrating at Thn. It will no doubt dazzle in 3D but even with a mere two dimensions, it is a magically romantic spectacle. We all know the story, let’s get down to what makes it so glorious. »
- John Sharp
Monsieur Lazhar – review
3 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Mohamed Fellag is glorious as an Algerian refugee turned primary-school teacher
Only the most obstreperous delinquent could fail to be charmed by Monsieur Lazhar, in which an Algerian refugee plays ramshackle Mary Poppins to the kids at a Montreal primary. This sweet, soulful drama plays out to the scrape of desks and the echo of voices, and showcases a glorious performance from Mohamed Fellag as the substitute teacher who is not quite what he claims. Lazhar gatecrashes the school in the wake of a tragedy. He flounders, he flourishes and is eventually found out. There is just time to deliver one final, moving life lesson before the bell sounds, and the past rolls in to claim him.
Rating: 4/5
World cinemaDramaXan Brooks
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- Xan Brooks
Thn’s Top 10 Disney Movies: Part 1
3 May 2012 11:08 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To celebrate the release of the legendary Beauty And The Beast in 3D, Thn is taking a look back at the very best Disney films of all time.To appease the purists, we have omitted any joint productions with Pixar (we need to give the others a fighting chance, after all). Whether you prefer singing dwarves, flying elephants, dancing broomsticks or saucy mermaids, check out our favourites.
Let’s do this. Oo-da-lally, bitches!
10. Dumbo (1941)
The earliest (and shortest) film on our list, Dumbo is a sure-fire crowd pleaser. The feel-good story of a baby elephant, who is mocked for his over-sized ears but learns to fly with the help of a talking mouse. Something we can all relate to. Although the feature is famous for being about a flying elephant, it is remembered for three key musical numbers;
Pink Elephants On Parade – The trippy hallucinations of a drunken mouse and »
- John Sharp
Disney Parks
30 April 2012 5:01 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
When's the last time you went to a movie amusement park? For reasons I can't figure I was having multiple flashbacks about Disney World today. Maybe it's because summer is on the way?
I've only ever been once, a treat from my best friend on my birthday. I had such a blast and I was a total freak about running around to take photos with the characters I loved even though it was two million degrees out and I looked terrible (not a summer person). I was talking to Mary Poppins when Sleeping Beauty appeared and I was like 'bye bitch' (not really) but I bolted for Aurora because, duh, best princess. I might be mixing up the series of events because it was quite overwhelming for days and days.
Share your Disney stories in the comments. Should I go again? Any new rides of note?
My favorite photo from »
- NATHANIEL R
Film Nerd 2.0: 'Mary Poppins' thrills the kids and destroys Dad
28 April 2012 8:00 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
"Mary Poppins" is not the film I thought it was. Growing up, I saw the film many times, and I always enjoyed it. It's hard not to enjoy the film. A passion project for Walt Disney, it was lavished with every bit of tender loving care he could muster, and director Robert Stevenson did a wonderful job of creating this eccentric, artificial version of London and filling it with strange and memorable characters. I loved the songs by the Sherman Brothers, and I thought Mary Poppins herself was, as she says, practically perfect in every way. Seeing this as a kid, »
- Drew McWeeny
Albert Nobbs – review
28 April 2012 4:03 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Ever since playing the title role of Albert Nobbs in an off-Broadway adaptation of George Moore's novella back in 1982, Glenn Close has wanted to bring this tale of a cross-dresser in late 19th-century Dublin to the screen. Her labour of love is an affecting, handsomely mounted affair set in the world of Joyce's Dubliners, and its subjects are sexual oppression, the exploitation of women in patriarchal society, gender identity and the shaping and misshaping of character. Most of the action occurs in and around a small hotel where Nobbs has long worked as a waiter, living in a top-floor room alongside the other servants. But the best, most involving scenes centre on her relationship with another cross-dresser, the painter and decorator "Mr Page" (Janet McTeer).
Nobbs, a Londoner, adopted male disguise as a teenage orphan to escape from male abuse and find independent work; Page fled from a violent husband, »
- Philip French
Watch: Julie Andrews Sings Lovely Duet With Colbert
25 April 2012 9:38 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
During last night's "Colbert Report," Stephen announced that he will release his first children's book, "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)" And he even got Maurice Sendak, who called him an "idiot" last time they spoke, to offer the dazzling blurb: "The sad thing is, I liked it!"
Stephen, always a man of humility, knew that he needed to learn from the best before taking over the world of children's publishing. So he spoke to the princess of that world (not to mention several others), Dame Julie Andrews, about her own literary career -- she's written 26 children's books since all but retiring from performing.
Much of that retirement has been due to a botched vocal surgery Andrews underwent in 1998, which kept her from singing regularly in public, despite becoming synonymous with musicals like "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music." But Stephen refused to take no for an answer, »
- Ross Luippold
Watch: Julie Andrews Sings Lovely Duet With Colbert
25 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
During last night's "Colbert Report," Stephen announced that he will release his first children's book, "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)" And he even got Maurice Sendak, who called him an "idiot" last time they spoke, to offer the dazzling blurb: "The sad thing is, I liked it!"
Stephen, always a man of humility, knew that he needed to learn from the best before taking over the world of children's publishing. So he spoke to the princess of that world (not to mention several others), Dame Julie Andrews, about her own literary career -- she's written 26 children's books since all but retiring from performing.
Much of that retirement has been due to a botched vocal surgery Andrews underwent in 1998, which kept her from singing regularly in public, despite becoming synonymous with musicals like "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music." But Stephen refused to take no for an answer, »
- Ross Luippold
Julie Andrews Loves Tom Hanks As Disney
23 April 2012 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Beloved actress Julie Andrews has applauded casting bosses for landing Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in a new film about the making of Mary Poppins - because the Oscar winner personifies what was special about the movie mogul.
Andrews, who played the title character in the Disney film, loves the idea of Hanks portraying her film boss in the retelling of the 20-year battle to secure the rights to turn author P.L. Travers' book into a movie musical.
The actress tells the Los Angeles Times, "I can see that would be great... Disney had that little twinkle in his eye, and he was hugely smart and a little fatherly in some ways. I think Hanks would be wonderful in that."
And she admits she'll be keeping a close eye of the development of the film - because she was such a big part of the story.
Andrews adds, "It'll be interesting to see what they tell and how they tell it." »
Broadway critical list: 'Magic/Bird,' 'Peter and the Starcatcher' struggle out of the gate
23 April 2012 2:36 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
So much for hoop dreams. In their first full week since opening earlier this month, the new Broadway plays Magic/Bird and Peter and the Starcatcher appear to be struggling at the box office. Magic/Bird, the joint biography of basketball greats Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, opened April 11 to generally negative reviews. Despite backing from the NBA as well as other producers, Eric Simonson’s sports drama grossed a paltry $163,223 for the week ending April 22, according to figures from the Broadway League. The show played to houses that were only 55 percent full and took in a mere 19 percent of »
- Thom Geier
'The Walking Dead' - The Sitcom?
23 April 2012 12:01 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
It seems to be a reasonably popular game these days to take well-known entertainment properties and re-edit them to give them a whole new meaning. That is how we ended up with things like The Shining, a family drama, and Scary Mary, which makes Mary Poppins look like Bloody Mary. I'm kind of a sucker for those re-edited mashups. So now, I present to you The Walking Dead - as a sitcom. Set to the theme music from Growing Pains. It terrifies me that I actually know that. Source: Mashable »
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe casting news
20 April 2012 10:50 AM, PDT | ScreenTerrier | See recent ScreenTerrier news »
Meet the four young actors who will be playing the Pevensie children in Rupert Goold's new stage adaptation of Cs Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Rehearsals are currently underway with performances to start on May 8th, prior to an official opening on May 29th, at a specially created venue in the grounds of London's Kensington Gardens.
Philip Labey (represented by Cole Kitchenn), a graduate of Guildford School of Acting (2009), will play the eldest of the Pevensie siblings, Peter.
Carly Bawden (represented by Shepherd Management) originally from Somerset, and also a graduate of Guildford School of Acting will play Susan. Carly recently played Catherine in the revival of Pippin at the Menier Chocolate Factory and previously starred in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the Evita tour.
18 year old Jonny Weldon (represented by Mark Jermin Management) plays Edmund. Jonny played Jim Hawkins in the Bristol Old Vic's production of Treasure Island last year. »
- noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
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