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As a number of new Broadway shows gear up for opening and the holiday season, Death Becomes Her, the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, saw a promising early start last week.

The production, starring Jennifer Simard, Megan Hilty and Michelle Williams, brought in $1.07 million in its first week of seven performances, which also included a Halloween tie-in for the supernatural production. The musical is scheduled to open at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Nov. 21.

Sunset Blvd. continued to build on its momentum, with the Nicole Scherzinger-led revival bringing in $1.72 million. That placed it in third position among the industry’s top-grossing shows for the week, besting Hamilton, and playing to close to 95 percent capacity at the St. James Theatre.

Romeo + Juliet, the other new hot ticket, starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, brought in just over $1 million in its first full week of performances after opening at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Death Becomes Her, the new musical adaptation of the 1992 comedy fantasy film, worked up some Broadway magic in its second week since beginning performances at the Lunt-Fontanne, grossing an impressive $1,073,018 for seven previews and filling 98% of the venue’s seats.

The musical, starring Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber and Michelle Williams, was by far the most popular among the slate of previewing productions, with other newcomers mostly falling short of the 80%-of-capacity mark:

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical was at 75% at Studio 54, grossing $516,874; Maybe Happy Ending starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen filled 78% of seats at the Belasco, grossing $294,871; Tammy Faye, the Elton John-Jake Shears musical, played six previews at the Palace, filling just 64% of seats and grossing $319,918; Swept Away, the musical with a score by the Avett Brothers, began previews at the Longacre, grossing $357,470 for five previews, with attendance at 82% of capacity.

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After wrapping up October with discussions of horror classics like Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (listen) and Kevin S. Tenney’s Night of the Demons (listen), we’re checking in with two of cinema’s fiercest divas in Robert Zemeckis‘ Death Becomes Her (1992).

In Death Becomes Her, novelist Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) loses her fiancé Ernest (Bruce Willis) to movie star and former friend Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep), she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Madeline, desperate to one-up her former rival, is offered a mysterious potion that allows her to look young and beautiful forever, but she soon discovers that immortality has a price…

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Despite a career with varying celebrated roles, Isabella Rossellini has never received an Academy Award nomination. This year, fans and critics alike are hoping that changes with her latest film, “Conclave.”

At the Middleburg Film Festival, the iconic actress graced the grounds of the Salamander Resort to promote “Conclave,” directed by Edward Berger. Interviewed there for the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Rossellini gave astounding insights into her iconic career, discussed her latest role, and reflected on the intricate dance between artistic expression and the commercial pressures that define the film industry. Listen below.

In “Conclave,” Rossellini plays Sister Agnes, a nun who subtly navigates the power dynamics within the Catholic Church while selecting a new Pope. The role allowed Rossellini to embody subservience and authority through a reserved yet respectful demeanor. She described infusing Sister Agnes with “authority through silence and modesty,” capturing the tension between reverence and influence many women experience within patriarchal institutions.

NBC promises a star-studded Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade lineup for its Nov. 28 telecast, led by Alison Brie, Idina Menzel, Bishop Briggs and T-Pain, it was announced Friday.

Today hosts Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker will be on hand to present the annual holiday celebration held in New York City on Thanksgiving Day.

Also joining the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with special appearances are Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, Kylie Cantrall, Lea Salonga, Jonathan Bennett, Liza Colón-Zayas, Tom Kenny, Ginna Claire Mason and members of the WNBA Champions, New York Liberty, with mascot Ellie the Elephant.

Besides the traditional high-flying inflatables, marching bands and parade floats, the NBC telecast will also feature performing casts from Broadway shows like Death Becomes Her, Hell’s Kitchen and The Outsiders, as well as the iconic Radio City Rockettes.

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As a commercially oriented, artistically ambitious, innovation-embracing filmmaker, Robert Zemeckis enjoyed an unparalleled pre-21st century career where box-office, critic-approved hits far outweighed the occasional misses or missteps. Awards recognition wasn't a matter of if, but when. Nominated for several Academy Awards, Zemeckis won a Best Director award in 1994 for Forrest Gump. As Forrest Gump's title character, Tom Hanks won his second back-to-back acting (Hanks won his first for Philadelphia a year earlier). Seven years later, a second Zemeckis-Hanks collaboration, Cast Away, proved almost as commercially and artistically rewarding. It was The Polar Express, their third time as director and actor (motion-captured via relatively new tech) that doubled as the first major misstep...

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is celebrating its 98th edition this year — that’s just two away from the big one! Before you gobble up your turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, gather your loved ones (and your pets) around the television to see your favorite celebrities and floats maneuver their way through the heart of New York City. Do you have questions about this year’s festivities? Well, we have answers! Read on for everything to know about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024.

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The event will officially kick off on Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. Et/Pt on NBC and Peacock, and it will conclude at 12 p.m. Et/Pt. If you miss any of the celebration (or simply want to watch it again), there will an encore presentation on NBC beginning at 2 p.m. Et/Pt.

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It’s that time of year again. NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to air live Thursday, Nov. 28 from from 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. Et/Pt. The parade, which begins on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and ends at Macy’s Herald Square flagship store, will also simulstream on Peacock and have an encore on NBC at 2 p.m. Et/Pt.

Hosted again by Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker, the 98th Macy’s Parade lineup is being billed as the largest yet.

Glow and Community alumna Alison Brie will cut the ribbon and kick off the parade.

Last year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade drew the most viewers in the history of the event with nearly 30 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and the encore telecast.

“The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is second to none when it comes to world-class entertainment during the holiday season,...

Two thirds of Destiny’s Child reunited onstage when Beyonce and Kelly Rowland attended a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston, Texas on October 25. Now we’re learning what kept it from being a complete reunion.

The only member of the iconic group that was not in attendance was Michelle Williams.

During a recent interview, she explained that she wanted to be there but was unable to for one very specific reason.

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During an October 29 appearance on Sherri, Michelle said that she was unable to get to Texas because she had a commitment on Broadway. If you were unaware, she is currently playing Viola Van Horn in a production of Death Becomes Her.

“I was so happy, but at the same time it was the first time that I have not been able to be in person for something that I, you know,...

Sunset Blvd. continued to climb the grosses charts, bringing in $1.67 million in its first week of eight performances, which included several comped performances for press.

The revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Nicole Scherzinger, opened at the St. James Theatre on Oct. 20. The numbers gave Sunset a place in the top five grossing shows in the industry last week, behind the stalwarts of Wicked, with $2.2 million, The Lion King with $1.9 million and Hamilton with $1.7 million. Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen rounded out the top five with $1.5 million.

Job, the psychological work drama which counts Shari Redstone as a co-producer, played the final week of its limited run on Broadway and had its highest grossing week yet, with $363,992 and 91 percent capacity at the Hayes Theater.

Overall, grosses across the industry slumped slightly, down 2 percent from the previous week as productions gear up for Thanksgiving and the winter holidays,...

The strong got stronger on Broadway last week even as the overall box office trended slightly downward, with 28 productions on the 36-show roster reporting receipt dips.

In all, the 36 shows grossed $33,921,069 for the week ending October 27, about 2 percent lower than the previous week’s 35-show roster. Total attendance was 285,396, off about 1% from the previous week.

A slew of recent arrivals had very strong weeks, in some cases despite opening night comps and press seats. Romeo + Juliet, which opened at Circle in the Square to strong reviews, pulled in $955,532 even with a totally comped October 24 opening night and various press nights.

Sunset Blvd. grossed $1,664,663 even with three heavily comped press performances at the St. James. With 97% of seats filled, the musical revival had its first full eight-performance week, and its highest grossing week since beginning Broadway previews on September 28.

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Robert Zemeckis reunites with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for an ugly de-aged nightmare that boringly follows the same house throughout time

A swirl of concern and outright fear has long been following Robert Zemeckis’s unusual big bet Here, a 30-year reunion for his Forrest Gump co-stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The film, based on Richard McGuire’s comic strip turned graphic novel, was heralded as the most ambitious use of digital de-aging yet, following the pair through the decades, from teenage years to final days, as part of an ensemble of characters who have lived in the same space over time. Early stills, and a trailer, had clued us into the film being plainly terrifying but nothing had quite prepared us for just how unforgivably dull it would also be. Here lies the year’s most eerie and embarrassing misfire.

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Our run of Gay Icons and Anniversaries continues. After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen), Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), and Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas (listen), we’re celebrating Halloween early with Kevin S. Tenney‘s Night of the Demons (1988).

In the film, Judy (Cathy Podewell) is lured by her prospective boyfriend Jay (Lance Fenton) to a party at Hull House, hosted by the school weirdo Angela (Amelia Kinkade) and her boy crazy best friend Suzanne (Linnea Quigley). Along with friends Frannie, Max, Stooge and Helen, as well as Judy’s secret admirer, Sal (William Gallo), the party will accidentally unleash Evil Dead-esque demons that kill and infect the partygoers.

Can the group survive until dawn? Or will Angela and the other demons dance and lipstick boob them to their doom?

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It’s been almost forty years since Robert Zemeckis made time travel hilarious and fascinating with the blockbuster “Back to the Future.” That was a film about a 1980s teenager traveling back to the 1950s and observing the not-so-subtle changes that befell his hometown and family in the last three decades. And also, his teenage mom tries really hard to sleep with him. It’s a weird film, if we’re being honest.

Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with time throughout most of his films. “Forrest Gump” attempts to track, through a smug and somewhat condescending lens, the whole second half of the 20th century. His horror comedy “Death Becomes Her” explores the comical vanity that underlies our fear of aging and mortality. “A Christmas Carol” is a tale of personal growth and regret through supernatural time-hopping. The list goes on and on, and it’s led him all the way here.

The great actress Isabella Rossellini was the face of Lancôme beauty for more than a decade beginning in the early 1980s, but strangely, if you look back, rarely is she the lead in any of her iconic films.

Sometimes a shadow, sometimes on the periphery, a Rossellini character is nonetheless always knowing, from tragic lounge singer Dorothy Vallens in her then-partner David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” to ethereal beauty whisperer Lisle Von Rhuman in Robert Zemeckis’ “Death Becomes Her” and a wealthy Italian widow who dates below her station in David O. Russell’s “Joy.”

In Edward Berger’s papal potboiler “Conclave,” Rossellini has fewer lines than ever — and probably they could fit on one page — as Sister Agnes. Here is a glowering nun who has seen some shit. In the case of Berger’s English-language follow-up to Oscar-winning heavy-hitter “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Agnes is the eyes...

Just six weeks into Survivor 47 and it’s time for the kinda-sorta merge, new era-style!

Yes, it’s “mergatory” time, my gentle readers, and while everyone is hungry to make it to the game’s next stage (and well, starving in general), Jeff has some cheeky new changes that should satisfy even the oldest-school of Survivor fans. And what’s this about a new host? Read on for all the goods!

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Between modern thrillers, horror comedies, and Universal monster movies, Peacock is a perfect streamer for Spooky Season

With Halloween right around the corner, Peacock’s library this month is fuller than ever, jam-packed with excellent seasonal classics like “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” “Jennifer’s Body,” “Halloween,” and many others. Complete with Peacock Originals and other films from Universal Pictures and Focus Features, there’s no shortage of great movies to spoil you on the streamer at the moment.

If you’re looking to add to your watch list and the best of what Peacock has to offer, here are my picks for the best seven movies currently available to stream!

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No. 7: ‘Death Becomes Her’

No. 6 ‘It Follows’

No. 5: ‘Dìdi’

No. 4 ‘Let the Right One In’

No. 3 ‘A Thousand and One’

No. 2 ‘Get Out’

No. 1 ‘Bride of Frankenstein’

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French director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat is back with a bang after her 2017 debut feature film “Revenge.” A powerful voice in reiterating gender issues, her works challenge societal norms and gender stereotypes, often exploring themes of rebirth, female empowerment, and the complexities of human nature. In her sophomore feature “The Substance” (2024), she continues her winning streak with her characteristic “blunt, bloody, and stylish” films, which are a fusion of exploitation and feminism.

It is a mind-blowing and gasp-inducing farcical film belonging to the genre of body horror/splatter film that challenges stereotypical conceptions of body image, beauty standards, and aging. In “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat refashions the Jekyll and Hyde trope to develop a story in which a fading celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle uses a cell-replicating injectable substance to swap bodies with a younger, hotter, better version of herself. In the subsequent feud with the manifestation of her enhanced self, she...

Australian actress Nicole Kidman began her professional career in 1983 with an appearance in the holiday film "Bush Christmas," and followed it immediately with Brian Trenchard-Smith's very watchable teens-rule actioner "BMX Bandits." She was 16 at the time. Kidman was a striking screen presence, however, and she immediately began a busy career that hasn't slowed since. For six years, Kidman was all over Aussie TV and cinema, with the actress finally breaking into Hollywood in 1989 with her role in the taut thriller "Dead Calm." In 1990, she was cast opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's "Days of Thunder," and her superstar status was cemented. She also began dating Cruise that year, and they married in 1990, staying one of Hollywood's most visible power couples for a decade. 

Kidman was drawn to a great variety of projects, appearing in costume dramas, comedies, FX-based blockbusters, Oscar bait nonsense, and bonkers experiments like "Dogville," "Fur,...

Pumpkin spice is flowing, autumn leaves are turning and it’s time to start watching some of your seasonal favorites. But Fall’s arrival also brings a new challenge every year — figuring out where all the best Halloween movies are streaming right now.

If you’re looking for family-friendly Halloween movies, Peacock has a handful of the essentials, most notably the “Harry Potter” films, as well as “Casper,” “Blippi Celebrates Dia De Los Muertos” and “Scared Shrekless.”

With 150+ new Halloween titles in September and October, Peacock also has the “Leprechaun,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “The Purge” franchises, along with plenty of great standalone horror movies for the Halloween season, from teen screams like “The Craft” and “Jennifer’s Body” to classics like “The Fly” and “Christine.”

Want some underrated horror movies you might not have seen to celebrate this Halloween? No worries, they’ve got that too,...

Very few things can inspire the feeling of youth like a music video that immortalizes the trends and culture of the times. And they’ve come a long way from projections of still images paired with a live performance.

People were wildin’ out with their puffy leg-of-mutton sleeves in 1894, part of the decade called the “Gay Nineties” to the song, “Little Lost Child.”

We have the ’60s and ’70s to thank for advancing us from the methods of the “Naughty Nineties.” These are real names for the 1890s. Let that sink in.

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Due to its namesake, it didn’t take long before film and TV became the special sauce in crafting some visual masterpieces.

Over the years, that trend has only grown, with artists of countless genres jumping on the bandwagon.

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Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in October. The Peacock October 2024 schedule includes the streaming premieres of The Mouse Trap and Blackwater Lane, as well as the debut of the terrifying Peacock Originals Teacup and Hysteria!

Peacock has something for everyone, from frightful favorites like I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Fly and spine-chilling thrillers like The Craft and Jennifer’s Body to films to scare up fun for the whole family, such as the Harry Potter franchise, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and more.

Hysteria!

October also brings a taste of early noughties nostalgia with the exclusive streaming premiere of Didi and a royal reality check when Queens Court returns for season 2. Get on your dancing shoes for the premiere of Reggaeton: The Sound That Conquered the World, and don...

Isabella Rossellini will be honoured during the upcoming European Film Awards with a career award celebrating her body of work as an actor and filmmaker.

The Italian model and movie star, who is the daughter of Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, made her acting debut in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film “Il Prato” before breaking out internationally in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in 1986, followed by prominent roles in films such as Taylor Hackford’s “White Nights,” Robert Zemeckis’s “Death Becomes Her,” and Peter Weir’s “Fearless,” to name a few.

Rossellini, who is 72, has more recently resurfaced as a standout character actress, with meaty parts in Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” alongside Josh O’ Connor, “Spaceman” with Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan, and Edward Berger’s soon-to-be-released “Conclave” in which she plays a scene-stealing nun.

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Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s European Film Awards.

The Italian-American star, daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, was a successful fashion model — famously for French cosmetics brand Lancôme — before shifting into acting. Her first leading role came in the Taviani brothers’ drama The Meadow (1979), but her international breakout was David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) in which she played the mysterious and tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens. The performance, in which Rossellini also sang the film’s titular tune, won her the Independent Spirit Award for best female lead.

Over the next four decades, Rossellini carved out a unique career in cinema, moving between big-budget features — Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (1992), Peter Weir’s Fearless (1993) — and independent auteur films, working with Peter Greenaway (2003’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases), Guy...

The European Film Academy (Efa) is to honour actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini with the European Achievement In World Cinema award.

Rossellini will be an honorary guest at Efa’s European Film Awards ceremony in Lucerne on December 7.

Rossellini made her cinematic debut as an actress in 1979 in the Taviani brother’s film Die Wiese and has appeared in numerous other films since, including Blue Velvet, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Big Night, and Joy.

She has worked with directors such as Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell, David Lynch, Robert Wilson, Taylor Hackford, Marjane Satrapi and Guy Maddin.

Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable

To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s morbidly entertaining sophomore feature, The Substance. Its simplistic title eventually reveals itself to be a vicious bit of irony, considering it refers to a magical titular potion which seems fashioned for those who are actually lacking substance, their worth defined solely by the superficiality of youth and beauty. Los Angeles turns out to be ground zero for this unique riff on Death Becomes Her (1992), plus a formidable array of other cult titles in what is essentially a ‘be careful what you wish for’ moral fable.…...

This article contains massive spoilers for "The Substance."

Tales of the folly of beauty have been told since time immemorial. Once human beings understood the irreconcilable fact that youth and beauty are natural attractants even though the ravages of time and age are impossible to hold back, cautionary stories of characters either looking to hold on to their beauty forever or simply trying to recapture it have cropped up. These are stories with characters who become so obsessed with their own vanity that they're willing to commit crimes or atrocities in order to maintain it are viewed as people who've fallen from grace, their external beauty masking their internal corruption.

In recent decades, these tales have grown a new wrinkle, as they've absorbed the effects that society, industry, and the media have had on reinforcing such damaging ideals. Just using cinematic examples, there've been films such as "Looker," "Death Becomes Her,...

Steve McQueen’s filmography will be feted at the 2024 Middleburg Film Festival.

The annual festival, which will take place from October 17 through 20, will honor Academy Award winner McQueen with the Visionary Director Award. McQueen’s latest film “Blitz” will open the festival, and the auteur will participate in a post-screening conversation.

“Blitz” follows the “epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to Rita and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son,” per the official synopsis.

“Blitz” will screen at Middleburg as a co-presentation with the British Embassy. British Ambassador to the United States Dame Karen Pierce will introduce the feature, and also receive the Festival’s inaugural Film Diplomacy Award.

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of October titles. The Tubi October 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library: over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 Fast channels.

You can watch the Tubi October 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

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Max Minghella’s “Shell” follows in the grand tradition of lurid comedies, like Robert Zemeckis’ “Death Becomes Her,” which satirizes societal pressures on women to look youthful and vital into the later stages of life. “Shell” is purposefully designed to be campy, silly, fun—mainstream entertainment with topical bite. And Minghella largely succeeds in his admittedly modest ambitions. It’s too bad he’s had his lunch eaten by Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” a film with an identical premise and analogous execution but a much higher profile.

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The brand new musical Death Becomes Her will be premiering on Broadway next month and the production just debuted some epic character posters.

Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Michelle Williams, and Christopher Sieber each have two separate posters, one showing their character at the beginning of the musical and the other showing an “after” image following the events in the show.

If you have seen the classic movie, you’ll get the humor in each photo!

Madeline Ashton (Hilty) is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp (Simard) is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé (Sieber) away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn (Williams), a mysterious...

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Kate Hudson had to come out of her shell for her scene-stealing turn in Max Minghella’s TIFF-selected dark comedy “Shell.”

The feature, which was written and directed by Minghella and is led his “Handmaid’s Tale” co-star Elisabeth Moss, marks Minghella’s sophomore feature after his 2018 directorial debut “Teen Spirit.”

For Hudson, working with longtime family friend Minghella helped push her into the territory of camp onscreen. Hudson plays a guru-adjacent beauty cosmetics company CEO who enlists an aging actress (Moss) as a client. However, the company has a dark secret…

Kaia Gerber, Arian Moayed, Este Haim, and Elizabeth Berkley also star.

“When you’re making movies, you’re sort of reliant on [director] Max for the tone,” Hudson said of channeling her onscreen alter-ego of CEO Zoe during a recent conversation with IndieWire. “You’re sort of like, ‘How far do I go here? How much do I lean...

Sabrina Carpenter gave viewers a taste of what she’s made of on Wednesday, performing a few of the summer’s biggest songs at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

Seated atop a glittery swing, Carpenter was lowered onto the VMAs stage while she treated the audience to some ethereal vocals on “Please Please Please.” Once she had her feet on the ground, it was straight into her new single “Taste.” After some Pda with an alien (because why not!), she then segued into her monster hit “Espresso.”

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Isabella Rossellini wanted the “Death Becomes Her” set to be a shared experience, even if she wasn’t the one disrobing onscreen.

The actress told Variety that while she didn’t believe she was fit enough at the time to show off her rear end in one sequence of the film, which co-starred Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, Rossellini didn’t want her body double to feel abandoned at all.

“I went up to my double and I said, ‘I will stay here in my trailer. If you need me, just let me know and I’ll come out and be here with you,'” Rossellini said. “I was there like a mother saying, ‘I’m here to protect you.’”

Rossellini previously told Vulture that there was a “bodily nudity” to the scene in question.

“I think it’s important, if you do a nude scene, to take responsibility,” Rossellini said,...

We seem to be living through a golden age of Death Becomes Her fandom.

The Robert Zemeckis black comedy was a box office hit when it first hit theaters in 1992, and has since been embraced by a legion of LGBTQ film lovers, many of whom see the campy Meryl Streep vehicle as a “cornerstone of Queer culture.” These days, Death Becomes Her seems to be everywhere. There’s the musical adaptation, which is coming soon to Broadway…

…and the movie was clearly the inspiration for Sabrina Carpenter’s recent music video “Taste,” featuring Carpenter and Jenna Ortega in the Streep and Goldie Hawn roles, respectively.

While Death Becomes Her wasn’t a runaway blockbuster like some of Zemeckis’ other films, such as Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Why Is This Walking Corpse Taking Me to the North Pole (aka The Polar Express), it was instrumental in...

Robert Zemeckis is being celebrated at the 2024 AFI Fest.

The American Film Institute (AFI) confirmed that Zemeckis’ upcoming feature “Here” will make its world premiere at the festival with its Centerpiece Screening celebration on October 25. Zemeckis will also be honored by AFI Fest on October 24 with a Directors Spotlight event featuring clips from his filmography and a conversation with Zemeckis about his career.

“Here” stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as a couple who spend their whole adult life in one house; the film is from the perspective of a room in their home. Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and David Fynn also star.

Zemeckis reunites with his “Forrest Gump” stars for the decades-spanning drama. “Here” incorporates AI-assisted technology Metaphysic Live, which digitally de-aged both lead actors. The feature is based on Richard McGuire’s graphic novel of the same name, which was released by Pantheon Books...

“I’m warning you: She loves to dominate a teddy bear,” Demi Moore says as her teacup Chihuahua, Pilaf, toddles into the room. Moore, perched on a kitchen stool in her Los Angeles home, watches her dog with a sly smile. “You’re going to see some humping.”

Pilaf has had a busy year — she was featured in Vogue, and seen in the front rows of Paris Fashion Week — so bringing her to the Cannes Film Festival in May was a risk: Would the pint-size bundle of cuteness upstage her owner at the premiere of her blood-drenched horror film “The Substance”? Perhaps Moore knew the role was more beastly than her little pet could ever be.

“I didn’t know how the movie was going to go,” Moore admits as Pilaf, now in the family room, ravages her stuffed animal in a patch of sunlight. “It’s so out of the box.

At the very start of the noughties, the horror genre was churning out some decent, if unspectacular movies. We saw the re-emergence of the spoof with the first entry in the Scary Movie franchise, Pinhead and co. continued to wreak spiky havoc in Hellraiser: Inferno, while the werewolf genre would get revived with the fun and well received Ginger Snaps. We also got a pretty poor Blair Witch sequel, and let’s face it, the first movie in that series only got traction due to an ingenious marketing campaign, and the media spouting bollocks about people being sick in the cinema from shock. Not the incredibly shaky camera work. Requiem for a Dream provided some messed up thrills, as did the similarly perverted Hollow Man. However, for every decent horror movie that was released, we also got howlers like Da Hip Hop Witch with Eminem. My point is, what the...

Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Taste” music video is going viral – not only for the gruesome plotline, but also Sabrina and co-star Jenna Ortega‘s fabulous looks.

The latest music video from the 25-year-old Short n’ Sweet singer features herself and the 21-year-old Wednesday star fighting over a boyfriend, recalling classics like Death Becomes Her and Kill Bill.

But amid all the carnage, fans were also captivated by Sabrina‘s glam for the gory shoot – and we’ve got the scoop on what she’s wearing.

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As Sabrina sings a lullaby while overlooking an array of deadly weapons laid out on her bed, she picks up a specific lipstick.

It’s the Prada Monochrome Soft Matte Lipstick in the shade Tonka, a mauve-y brown with a dreamy, diffused finish, via Allure.

As the beauty report also notes, she has picked a Prada lip product for a...

Ever since her appearance in You and Wednesday, Jenna Ortega has been making waves in the entertainment industry. Captivating audiences with her striking performances and undeniable charisma, the actress is gradually solidifying her position as one of the most talked-about young actresses of the moment.

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in Netflix’s Wednesday | image: MGM Television

Amid such a crucial moment in her career, Jenna Ortega shockingly appeared under fans’ radar for the role of Bellatrix Lestrange. Considering her portrayal of the gothic heroine in Tim Burton’s Wednesday that has people buzzing, fans are now fervently rallying for Ortega to step into the younger version of the character portrayed by Burton’s ex-wife Helena Bonham Carter in the Harry Potter films.

Fans Envision Jenna Ortega as the Young Version of a Sinister Harry Potter Character

Venturing from Disney series to the world of mainstream television with Penn Badgley’s You,...

Sabrina Carpenter, among the pop princesses of the summer, whose songs “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” dethroned each other on the coveted top spots of the Billboard 100 chart, is a known cinephile. Her latest music video for “Taste,” the third single off of her studio album Short n’ Sweet, is chock-full of references to classic horror films like Death Becomes Her and Kill Bill: Volume 1.

While “Please Please Please,” starring Oscar-nominated actor Barry Keoghan (also Carpenter’s boyfriend), featured a Bonnie and Clyde narrative heavily inspired by Quentin Tarantino and Bennifer (the couple moniker for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck), the singer-songwriter’s “Taste” draws instead from scary movie lore, with Gen Z “scream queen” Jenna Ortega co-starring.

Related: Sabrina Carpenter Gives “Taste” Of New Music Video Featuring Jenna Ortega

The video, released Aug. 23 in conjunction with the album, follows Carpenter as she engages on a vengeance-filled quest to...

Sabrina Carpenter is back with another music video folks can’t stop talking about, and this time, she’s joined by “Wednesday” and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” star Jenna Ortega. Fittingly, the video is full of horror, camp and cult classic movie references — and we’ve put together a handy list to guide you through them.

1. “Death Becomes Her”

This is the most overt reference and it runs throughout the video, as “Taste” has a few references to Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep’s 1992 dark comedy. Most obviously, the core conceit of two unkillable women fighting to the would-be death over one man, as well as the iconic costuming.

There’s also the whole shotgun sequence, which heavily tips its hat to “Death Becomes Her,” right down to the hole left in Carpenter’s torso — a parallel to Goldie Hawn’s unforgettable “I have a hole in my stomach” scene — and the shot peering right through it.

Sabrina Carpenter’s big secret is out. During her appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday, Carpenter discussed her “secret” music video for her latest song “Taste” and spilled a bit on how Jenna Ortega came to be involved in the project.

“[The video] was inspired by one of my favorite films, and she was a huge fan of the film,” Carpenter said of Ortega. “I’m so excited for you guys to see this video, you have no idea. I think it’s my favorite one I’ve ever done.”

The music video for “Taste” seems to clearly be based on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis black comedy, “Death Becomes Her.” The video starts with a parental advisory for “graphic violence” before showing Carpenter eyeing a selection of lovingly organized weapons placed upon a pink bed.

As she sings “Oh, I leave quite an impression / Five feet to be exact,...

Sabrina Carpenter just released her new music video for “Taste” and fans are loving the video – which features Jenna Ortega in a co-starring role.

The 25-year-old singer and actress released her new album, Short n’ Sweet on Friday (August 23) to widely positive reviews.

Keep reading to find out more…

If you don’t know, both Jenna and Sabrina got their start on the Disney Channel with Sabrina starring in Girl Meets World, while Jenna was the lead of Stuck in the Middle. Seeing two Disney stars go from that image to a camp-slasher music video isn’t something that was expected, but was very much needed!

Sabrina opens the video by singing a familiar lullaby, only to change up the words to, “Rockabye baby, snug in your bed. Right now you are sleeping and soon you’ll be… dead.”

When the video begins, Sabrina sneaks up into the bedroom of...

It’s a packed fall for NYC theater fans, with highly anticipated musical adaptations of beloved movies “Death Becomes Her” and “Teeth,” among others, set to premiere.

As is customary, there are also plenty of marquee names ready to tackle Broadway, from debuts such as Robert Downey Jr. in “McNeal,” to thrilling returns, like Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone in “The Roommate.” And — though technically beyond Broadway — favorites like Adam Driver and Kenneth Branagh will also be appearing this fall on the NYC stage.

The weather hasn’t even changed yet, but it’s safe to say the biggest success of the season has already happened, with the brilliant Cole Escola in “Oh Mary.” The play was a downtown smash last spring, but the comedy — written by and starring Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln at the end of the Civil War — has now become a somewhat surprising breakout mainstream hit,...

Wyatt Russell was born to Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn on July 10, 1986, eight days after "Big Trouble in Little China," his pop's third and lamentably final big-screen collaboration with John Carpenter, bombed at the box office. The martial arts action-fantasy movie didn't seriously damage Russell's career, but it did alter its trajectory a tad. Just about everything after "Big Trouble in Little China" was a two-hander or an ensemble piece. Though he could still mess around in nonsense like "Overboard" and "Captain Ron," he couldn't dominate a movie with a broad, endearingly dopey hero like Jack Burton anymore.

Kurt Russell has many different modes, but I grew up with a preference for his swaggering himbos, guys who were so supremely confident in their capabilities that, like Wile E. Coyote, they didn't realize how far off the edge of the cliff they'd run. Watching a lug like Burton scramble out of...

Prime Video is the place to be in August with an incredible month of new releases. The month kicks off with the premiere of the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader on Aug. 1. The series was produced by J.J. Abrams and The Batman‘s Matt Reeves. We also return to Middle Earth this month with the premiere of The Rings of Power season 2 on Aug. 29.

As far as movies go, the Amazon original Jackpot! arrives on Aug. 15 starring Awkwafina and John Cena. This comedy is set in a world where Lottery winners have to survive until sundown in order to claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot – anyone who kills them before that gets to claim their prize.

The Hobbit trilogy also joins the Prime Video library this month, as do 21 and 22 Jump Street, Superman I-iv, Superman Returns, Night Swim, Drive Away Dolls, and 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Here’s everything coming...

Death Becomes Her, the Broadway-bound musical starring Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber and Michelle Williams, has announced full ensemble casting.

The stage musical adaptation of the 1992 film begins previews Wednesday, October 23, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, with opening night on Thursday, November 21.

Joining the previously announced Hilty, Simard, Sieber and Williams will be ensemble players Marija Abney, Lauren Celentano, Sarita Colon, Kaleigh Cronin, Natalie Charle Ellis, Taurean Everett, Michael Graceffa, Neil Haskell, Kolton Krouse, Josh Lamon, Sarah Meahl, Ximone Rose, Sir Brock Warren, Bud Weber, Ryan Worsing, and Warren Yang. Kyle Brown, Lakota Knuckle, Johanna Moise and Amy Quanbeck join as swings.

The full casting was announced today by producer Universal Theatrical Group.

Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her features a book by Marco Pennette, and an original score by Julia Mattison & Noel Carey.

The official synopsis: “Madeline Ashton (Hilty) is the most beautiful actress (just ask...

Scream Factory has taken to social media to share a handful of upcoming 4K Ultra HD releases, including horror favorites from Wes Craven, George A. Romero, and Sam Raimi.

The lineup includes Death Becomes Her, Drag Me to Hell, Devil, Land of the Dead, Shocker and The Wolfman (2010), all of which are getting 4K upgrades this October.

Here’s the full roster with release dates:

Death Becomes Her – October 22 Drag Me to Hell – October 29 Devil – October 8 Land of the Dead – October 15 Shocker – October 29 The Wolfman – October 22

Scream Factory also announced today that the Paris-set 2014 found footage horror movie As Above, So Below is getting a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release on October 1, 2024.

Learn more about the Halloween slate on Scream Factory’s Twitter account.

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