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Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by David Cromer, has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway history and is the first play to surpass a gross of $4 million in a single week.

For the week ending May 4 2025, the production grossed $4,003,482 for 8 Performances.

Good Night, and Good Luck is currently playing at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it surpassed the previously held record by The Music Man (with 9 performances) and is now the highest-grossing production in the history of the Shubert Organization.

The production recently received 5 Tony Award nominations, including Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Clooney. In addition, it was recently announced that, in partnership with TodayTix, 2,000 tickets are being subsidized by the production to New York City Public School students – including those studying journalism.

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Cynthia Erivo hosts the 2025 Tony Awards (Photo Credit: CBS)

Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending lead the 2025 Tony Awards nominees, scoring 10 nominations each. Dead Outlaw, John Proctor is the Villain, Sunset Blvd, and The Hills of California earned seven nominations, followed by Floyd Collins, Just in Time, Purpose, and The Picture of Dorian Gray with six.

Among the stars earning Tony Award nominations are George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Jonathan Groff, Darren Criss, Bob Odenkirk, Sadie Sink, and Sarah Snook. And with her nomination for Gypsy, Audra McDonald is now the most Tony-nominated performer in Broadway history.

“I’m so grateful, and that’s overwhelming to think about. I’m so lucky. The one thing I always wanted to do growing up, one thing that gave me joy and kind of gave me purpose and made me feel most like myself was to perform theater,” said...

Well, big weekly grosses and even bigger stars can’t guarantee a Tony Awards nomination.

Broadway does what Broadway wants, so no Best Play nominations (or anything else) for huge moneymaker Othello, and no Best Play noms for Good Night, and Good Luck, Stranger Things: The First Shadow and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Same for the critical favorite Cult of Love.

While Good Night and Dorian Gray weren’t nominated for Best Play, their big stars — George Clooney and Sarah Snook, respectively — were nominated for their performances, as expected. In fact, Dorian Gray, in which Snook plays all the characters from the Oscar Wilde novel, has the distinction of being the most nominated solo show in Tony history, placing in six categories: Snook’s performance, Kip Williams’ direction, and nods for scenic, lighting, sound and costume design.

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Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending topped Thursday's Tony Awards nominations with 10 bids each.

Close behind with seven apiece are Dead Outlaw, John Proctor Is the Villain, Sunset Boulevard, and The Hills of California.

Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending, and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical are up for Best Musical.

English,The Hills of California, John Proctor Is the Villain, Oh, Mary!, and Purpose are the Best Play nominees.

Among the acting nominees are George Clooney, Sadie Sink, Sarah Snook, and Nicole Scherzinger.

Clooney was nominated for Best Actor in a Play for Good Night, and Good Luck, his Broadway debut. Notable snubs in the category were Othello stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington.

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The nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards are finally here!

Each year, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre (aka the Tonys), celebrates the best on Broadway for the past season. There’s some big names on Broadway this year, so you’ll likely recognize a lot of these names, even if you haven’t been able to catch some of there performances!

Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending got the most nominations this year with 10 each.

The show is set to take place on Sunday (June 8) with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo hosting. Ariana DeBose hosted for the past three years, but gave up duties this year. The show will air on CBS. Just Jared will be live updating throughout the entire event, so stick with us that night!

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Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards have been revealed — and several of your favorite TV stars are up for Broadway’s top honors.

Veterans among Thursday’s nominees include Glee grads Darren Criss and Jonathan Groff, Smash alumni Megan Hilty and Jeremy Jordan, Succession‘s Sarah Snook and Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink. Other faces from the small screen include Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Cole Escola (Difficult People), Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0), Justina Machado (One Day at a Time) and Audra McDonald (The Good Fight), whose nod for the Gypsy revival was her 11th Tony nomination — the most for any Broadway performer.

Every Friday, Gold Derby rounds up some of the best stories of the week from our friends across the web. Maybe you missed these, maybe you were too busy to read them at the time, maybe you bookmarked them and forgot, but hopefully you'll have some over the weekend to check them out. Happy reading!

Word of the Week: The papal 'conclave' is secretive. The word's origin explains why

The word "conclave" has never been uttered more than in the past six months. So before you (re)watch Conclave this weekend in anticipation of the real conclave, brush up on the word's etymology via NPR.

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For Vulture, Katie Heaney profiles Kaitlyn Dever, who opens up about how the death of her mother Kathy from breast cancer in February 2024 impacted her performance as Abby, herself a grieving young woman, on The Last of Us. The Emmy nominee...

2025 has been a relatively disappointing year for film thus far. Between big-budget disappointments like “Captain America: Brave New World” and underwhelming genre breakouts like “Death of a Unicorn” and “Opus,” it’s hard to feel like the first few months of the year will be anything but a miserable period of time to be a cinephile. Nonetheless, Ryan Coogler was finally given the freedom to make a completely original genre film with “Sinners,” and to no one’s surprise, managed to capture the popular culture zeitgeist with an inventive mix of action, scares, humor, and heart.

“Sinners” is in many ways the ideal cinematic experience. While there’s enough substance within Coogler’s social and historical commentary to appease those who seek a deeper experience, the film is also entertaining as a crowd pleaser, so it should still be entertaining for those who are only wanting to see action and suspense.

Broadway had what appears to be its best non-holiday (Christmas and New Year) week ever last week, with major hits like Good Night, and Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, Othello and longrunners The Lion King, Wicked and Aladdin helping push the total box office figure to $50,874,940 for the week ending April 20.

The figure, for 40 shows, is a huge 47% greater than this week last year. Total attendance of 357,319 was 19% more year-over-year.

Contributing to the big tally were special nine-performance weeks from The Lion King, Wicked and Aladdin.

Even more significantly, the gargantuan total was reached with major contributions from a raft of newly arrived star-packed sell-out productions such as Good Night, and Good Luck with George Clooney, Glengarry Glen Ross with Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr, and Othello...

Since premiering in 1597, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet has endured as one of the greatest and most tragic love stories ever written. It's been performed countless times all over the world. On Broadway alone, there's been a grand total of 37 productions. Since the Tony Awards were established in 1947, there have been six revivals up for consideration, and all were snubbed for the prize.

1951: starring Douglas Watson and Olivia De Havilland; directed by Peter Glenville 1956: starring John Neville and Claire Bloom; directed by Robert Helpmann 1962: starring John Stride and Joanna Dunham; directed by Franco Zeffirelli 1977: starring Paul Ryan Rudd and Pamela Payton-Wright; directed by Theodore Mann 1986: starring Rene Moreno and Regina Taylor; directed by Estelle Parsons 2013: starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad; directed by David Leveaux

A seventh revival is in the running at the 2025 Tonys. Will it be lucky this time around? The...

Now playing at the Music Box Theatre, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an enthralling multimedia tour de force starring Sarah Snook that seamlessly integrates live and pre-recorded video with live stage performance. The production is directed by Kip Williams, who also conceived this new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel.

In the production, Snook portrays not only the three central roles—the hedonistic aristocrat Lord Henry, painter Basil Hallward, and the handsome titular Dorian Gray—but also more than 20 additional minor characters. Throughout, she’s supported by a dynamic interplay of shifting video screens, live camera feeds, and state-of-the-art mobile phone technology.

The story follows the impressionable Dorian, who, upon seeing his freshly painted portrait, pledges to trade his soul for eternal youth and beauty. As he indulges in a life of scandal and depravity, Dorian’s youthful appearance stays unblemished, while his portrait visibly shows the evidence of...

Stranger Things: The First Shadow began stalking Broadway last week, selling out the first two previews of its engagement at the Marquis, grossing $433,725 for the pair of performances. Opening night is April 22. Look to see the coming weeks put the effects-heavy show into the realm of some other recent big grossing shows.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook, opened to strong reviews last week, taking $1,018,514 for two previews and four regular performances, filling all seats at the Music Box.

Boop! The Musical is in previews at the Broadhurst, and grossed $543,892 for seven previews, with attendance at a strong 92% of capacity. Opening night is April 5.

And then of course there were the three heavy (and pricey) hitters among the recent arrivals:

Good Night, And Good Luck, starring George Clooney and opening April 3 at the Winter Garden, sold out its seven previews last week, grossing $3,282,682, with an average ticket price...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Opening night: March 27, 2025

Venue: Broadway’s Music Box Theatre

Written by: Oscar Wilde

Adapted and Directed by: Kip Williams

Performer: Sarah Snook

Camera Operators: clew, Luka Kain, Natalie Rich, Benjamin Sheen, Dara Woo

Running time: 2 hrs (no intermission)

Deadline’s takeaway: If only Oscar Wilde were alive to offer up a pithy description of Broadway’s playful The Picture of Dorian Gray starring the remarkable Succession actor Sarah Snook, because this is a production that most of us will need more than a few words to convey all of its exuberant theatrical dazzle.

Equal parts acting masterclass, tech wizardry, illusion and clockwork stage management, all costumed and set designed with the wit and color schemes of the most vivid Cindy Sherman photographs, Dorian Gray marks audacious Broadway debuts by both Snook and director-adaptor Kip Williams.

So what if the use of video cameras on stage is already bordering on cliché,...

Sarah Snook, known for her role as Shiv Roy in Succession, has embraced an intense training regimen to prepare for her demanding one-woman performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. Portraying 26 characters over the course of two hours with minimal breaks, Snook adopted a method inspired by Taylor Swift’s preparations for the Eras Tour.

Speaking with The New Yorker, Snook described the production as an “athletic feat,” requiring endurance and precision. To build stamina, she rehearsed her lines at full pace while running on a treadmill. When the interviewer noted the similarity to Swift’s workout routine, Snook confirmed the influence. “I heard that and thought, ‘That’s a genius idea. I’m gonna do that.’”

Swift, ahead of her worldwide tour, explained in a 2023 Time interview that she trained by singing her full three-and-a-half-hour setlist while running on a treadmill. She alternated speeds to match the tempo of each song,...

Succession‘s Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook) may have at times fought and tumbled her way through the HBO dramedy, but the Emmy-winning actress is putting her stamina to the true test in her one-woman Broadway adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray — and she’s taking a cue from popstar Taylor Swift to prepare.

As described by The New Yorker, which profiled Snook ahead of the strictly limited engagement, the play is an “athletic feat” involving her speaking for two hours opposite pre-recorded versions of herself sans a break and with only three brief “moments when she can sneak a sip of water.”

When asked how she trained for the unique role, in which she portrays 26 characters male and female, she replied, “No alcohol, no caffeine. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. And I do my lines at pace on a treadmill, you know.”

After the interviewer pointed out...

Sarah Snook is taking inspiration from Taylor Swift as she prepares for her Broadway debut.

The 37-year-old Succession star recently began her one-woman show of The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. To train for the rigorous role, she revealed that she copied a technique from Taylor‘s Eras Tour routine.

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“No alcohol, no caffeine. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. And I do my lines at pace on a treadmill. I heard that [Taylor Swift did that] and thought, ‘That’s a genius idea. I’m gonna do that,’” Sarah told The New Yorker in a recent interview.

Taylor said in 2023 that in order to train for her Eras Tour, she would run on the treadmill daily while singing the set list out loud.

Meanwhile, Sarah, who plays a whopping 26 characters in the revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, compared the show to running a marathon.

Most millennials probably remember Angela Lansbury best as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, or as mystery writing sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Yet Lansbury's career encompassed many different types of roles, including some that might be shocking to fans who only know her from Disney movies. Case in point: her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray, which brought her the second of three Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actress. Lansbury may only have a limited amount of screen time in the 1945 horror fantasy, yet her performance is crucial to the film's central theme, which is that beauty on the outside doesn't necessarily project beauty on the inside.

The late great Angela Lansbury will always be remembered as one of the greatest television detectives of all time thanks to her 12-season run on Murder, She Wrote. Playing retired English teacher turned mystery novelist, Jessica Fletcher, she'd become widely beloved as an amateur sleuth using her reasoning from constructing fictional cases to crack real murders faster than the police officers around her in Cabot Cove and beyond. For as beloved as the role is though, it's only one piece in Lansbury's wildly successful career that has seen her become a Tony winner on-stage and achieve acclaim on the big screen, whether in live-action or as a talking teapot. One of her movies before she shot to true superstardom, the classic 1945 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, is now set to come to Max on February 1.

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Over the last few months, the world has gotten hooked on "The Substance." Despite some staunch naysayers (not to mention some nauseous audiences and a stubborn studio), the popularity of director Coralie Fargeat's balls-to-the-wall body horror farce is simply undeniable, from its unexpected box office haul to its virality across social media platforms like Letterboxd and TikTok. As the fervor steadily rose, so too did its awards buzz. The film has exceeded expectations across multiple Oscars precursors, including an unprecedented five Golden Globe nominations, leading awards experts to predict it could go all the way to Best Picture.

With this in mind, when someone falls in love with one film, the first thing they want to do is watch another one just like it. Thankfully, much like how Sue (Margaret Qualley) is derived from Elisabeth's (Demi Moore) spinal fluid, so too is "The Substance" a brainchild of countless cinematic inspirations.

Ever since his breakout role as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1995), Colin Firth has established himself as one of the most charming and endearing actors in the business. Though capable of portraying a wide range of roles, Firth is at his best when he's clad in an immaculate suit, portraying a gentleman with a masterful knowledge of tact and etiquette. While this archetype of character is most often associated with the romantic lead in period pieces, one of Firth's more underrated outings adds a more devious spin to this type of role. Adapted from Oscar Wilde's philosophical and gothic novel, Dorian Gray (2009) sees Colin Firth in a role that takes full advantage of his strengths as an actor, while adding layers of complexity to each morally dubious decision.

Back in the 1890s, writer Oscar Wilde brought the world a story called The Picture of Dorian Gray – and now the Netflix streaming service has announced that they’re teaming up with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television on a new TV series called The Grays, which ComicBook.com hears will be “a contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde classic about our fascination with eternal youth set against the backdrop of the modern beauty industry.“

The Picture of Dorian Gray has the following description: Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.

Supergirl alum Katie Rose Rogers and All American‘s Robbie Rogers,...

Netflix is in the process of adapting “The Picture of Dorian Gray” into a modern TV series, TheWrap has learned.

The show, titled “The Grays,” will be produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with “The Girls on the Bus” showrunner and EP Rina Mimoun serving as showrunner and executive producer, according to an individual with knowledge. Katie Rose Rogers will write the series.

As the team modernizes the Oscar Wilde novel, the series will center on siblings Basil and Dorian Gray as “The Grays” tackles the classic’s themes through the eyes of the modern beauty industry, according to Deadline, who first reported the news.

Representatives for Warner Bros. Television and Netflix declined to comment.

Mimoun and Rogers will executive produce the series alongside Rogers’ brother, Robbie Rogers, with whom she worked on “Fellow Travelers” and who has served as a producer on “All American” and an EP on “All American: Homecoming.

Steven Spielberg's upcoming film just got a new update. After casting Emily Blunt, it looks like Spielberg found another big name to join the movie.

Per Deadline, Steven Spielberg wants to cast Kingsman's Colin Firth for his untitled film. The Academy-Award-winning actor has appeared in many productions, including 2010's The King's Speech, which won him the Oscar, 2009's A Single Man, 2014's Kingsman: The Secret Circle and its 2017 sequel The Golden Circle, and many other critically acclaimed films. Joining Spielberg would be exciting, and, although Firth hasn't officially closed the deal, he is in early talks to star alongside Emily Blunt.

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Stars: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Phillip Schurer, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Matthew Géczy | Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat

Writer-director Coralie Fargeat follows her acclaimed 2017 debut Revenge with this delicious body-horror starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. Provocative, shocking and shot through with blacker-than-black humour, The Substance is one of the best films of the year.

Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a former Hollywood A-lister who now hosts an aerobics show on TV called Sparkle Your Life. When her slimy boss Harvey (Dennis Quaid) casually fires her for being too old, she’s tempted by a hush-hush body enhancement treatment known as The Substance, something she’s quietly offered by a stranger, who hands her a card with a number on it.

However, the treatment comes with a catch – after injecting herself with the substance, Elisabeth will be replaced by a younger clone of...

Exclusive: Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films has acquired the film rights to one of the hottest theater shows around: the Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde classic The Picture Of Dorian Gray, which has recently been lighting up London’s West End.

Sarah Snook has garnered raves for her performance in the latest iteration of the show and last Sunday the Succession star scored an Olivier Award for Best Actress.

Dirty Films partner Andrew Upton is working with the show’s mastermind Kip Williams on a treatment based on the technically dazzling one woman show, which sees its protagonist play 26 roles. The part was first performed by Eryn Jean Norvill in multiple sell-out runs across Australia. Oscar winner Blanchett attended the most recent run’s opening night in London earlier this year.

Co-producers on the film will be Rachel Gardner and Jo Porter of Australian company Curio Pictures,...

Succession star Sarah Snook and singer-actress Nicole Scherzinger were among the big winners at the 2024 Olivier Awards, which were revealed this evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Snook picked up the Best Actress gong for her multi-character performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play also picked up Best Costume Design for Marg Horwell. Scherzinger landed Best Actress in a Musical for her turn as Norma Desmond in the recent revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard.

Elsewhere, the Best Director award went to Jamie Lloyd for the Savoy Theatre production of Sunset Boulevard while Vanya starring Andrew Scott landed Best Revival. Mark Gatiss won Best Actor for The Motive and the Cue. Will Close nabbed Best Supporting Actor for his role in the National Theatre’s...

Sarah Snook, Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and David Tennant were among the nominees for the 2024 Olivier Awards, which celebrate achievements in London theater.

Parker was nominated for best actress for her role in Plaza Suite, opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, while Snook was nominated in the same category for her one-woman take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Tennant was nominated for best actor for his role in Macbeth, in the same category as Andrew Scott, in a one-man version of Vanya.

Sunset Boulevard, which starred Nicole Scherzinger, who is also nominated, and is set to come to Broadway next year, received 11 nominations, while Dear England, a play by James Graham about an English football manager, received nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the television series, which has also hinted at its Broadway ambitions, is up for best new entertainment or comedy play.

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Stars including Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook, Andrew Scott and David Tennant will compete for Olivier Awards at the UK’s most prestigious theater ceremony next month.

The Sex and the City stars is up for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite – her first Olivier – while Succession’s Snook has picked up a nod for her critically-acclaimed performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

In the Best Actor category, Scott’s performance in Vanya will come up against Tennant’s role in Macbeth, while the starry nominee list also includes Joseph Fiennes for Dear England, which is being made into a BBC series, Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue and James Norton in A Little Life.

Other notable nominations include for singer Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard, where she has picked up a nod for Best Actress in a Musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...

Ahead of the UK premiere of graphic and disturbing supernatural horror film The Well at FrightFest Glasgow 2024, director Federico Zampaglione talks about returning to hardcore horror, working with the late, great Giovanni Lombardo Radice and emerging from the shadow of Italian masters of the genre.

So, Federico, The Well has its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, as part of the popular FrightFest event. Are you excited?

Frightfest is the place where everything started in 2009 and it’s one of the best festivals in the world. I can’t wait to show The Well to the UK fans.

What inspired you to make the movie?

Wanting to get back on the horror horse! I deeply love this genre, because it speaks to the human soul, investigates our unknown fears and gets lost in deep darkness whilst clinging to a blade of light. The Well pushes at the most extreme emotions,...

Exclusive: Succession’s Sarah Snook, now the toast of the town for her dazzling one-woman performance playing 26 characters in a breathtakingly innovative staging of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, will likely head to Broadway early in 2025 once she’s had a break, and if she wants to do it.

There are tentative, in no way definite, plans for the production to be filmed for the National Theatre’s Nt Live.

Look, movies and television are great art forms, and I love ‘em to bits like everybody else, but nothing beats watching an artist at the top of their craft live on a theatre stage. And in Snook’s case in The Picture of Dorian Gray, she’s able to command every inch of the Theatre Royal Haymarket stage.

Sarah Snook in ‘Dorian Gray’

Snook went into rehearsals last November to shoot the extensive video content that features...

Production and sales group Yale Entertainment is to collaborate with New York theatre company Djdl Productions on a slate of feature films.

The companies said the features, to be made under a Yale Entertainment Select Projects, or Yes Projects banner, will be “character driven films that empower unique and diverse cinematic voices.” International sales on the projects will be handled by Yale’s sales operation Great Escape.

The first two projects to be revealed under the arrangement are neo-noir suspense thriller Just Over Broken and sci-fi/political thriller Mars.

Written by Mickey Solis, who also wrote Yale’s 2021 action thriller Rogue Hostage,...

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After closing out January with the very gay (and very terrible) The Covenant (listen) and the pseudo-remake of Single White Female: The Roommate (listen), we kicked off February with journey to the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator. Now, we’re traveling back in time to discuss Albert Lewin‘s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), tells his friend Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian inadvertently makes a Faustian bargain to stay young forever. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. Unfortunately, his sins take physical form on a portrait of himself, and as the years go by he must decide what type of man he wants to be.

Sarah Snook accepted the award for best performance by a female actor in a television drama series at the 2024 Golden Globes on Sunday night.

Snook received the award for her performance as Siobhan “Shiv” Roy in HBO’s Succession, which released its fourth and final season in 2023. It is her second Golden Globe for the role, following her win in 2022.

She opened her acceptance speech with a nod to co-star Kieran Culkin, who took home the award for best actor in a TV drama earlier in the evening.

“Kieran is usually better at these speeches,” she quipped. “You want to get up instead?”

Despite the joke, Snook continued with sincerity: “This show changed my life. Everybody in it is amazing. The cast, the crew were fantastic, this was a team effort. It was always a team and that was what made the show amazing to be a part of.”

Later,...

Exclusive: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production.

Scherzinger, who won the Evening Standard’s best musical performance prize for her show-stopping turn as Norma Desmond, has indicated to producers that she will commit to a six-month season in New York, we understand. The Es also recently named the show’s helmer Jamie Lloyd as Best Director [Disclosure: this writer is a member of the Es judging panel].

Nicole Scherzinger in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Meanwhile, another Es winner, Jack Thorne’s glorious drama The Motive and the Cue, staged by Sam Mendes, has transferred from London’s National Theatre to the Noël Coward, and we can also reveal The Motive and the Cue is in the early stages of discussions for a run in NYC.

Despite the odd cliche, a thriller with an unnerving picture at its core is coated with unsettling energy and a standout performance from Mexican actor Natalia Córdova-Buckley

Simon Ross’s capable debut can be hung in a gallery of films featuring unnerving paintings, from The Picture of Dorian Gray to Ghostbusters 2 and In the Mouth of Madness. Wife turned carer Sofia (Natalia Córdova-Buckley) stumbles across an uncanny canvas in the attic of the mansion to which she has brought her catatonic husband Alex (Ryan Kwanten); it is supposedly a self-portrait of his great-grandfather, but she is startled to find that it is a spitting image of Alex. While this gothic chestnut, and the psychodrama that follows – with Sofia unsure how much is the product of her own under-siege mind – feel familiar, Ross injects them with a troubling inner turbulence that bodes well for him.

Apparently a doting, endlessly patient spouse,...

Oscar Wilde is known as one of the greatest wits in literary history. But he has brought some delightful eeriness, too, with works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and more. This month, one of his finest combinations of the two, the 1887 short story “The Canterville Ghost”, will arrive in animated form on the big screen. Now, we have a clip from The Canterville Ghost courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment and Shout! Studios that, like the movie itself, is aimed at the whole family.

In the clip, host Hiram Otis (David Harewood) shows off “the new wonder of the modern world” – electricity – to his dazzled guests, only to be pranked by those channeling the spirit of Sir Simon de Canterville (Stephen Fry), who soon commandeers the spook….

The official plot of The Canterville Ghost: “As the nineteenth gives way to the twentieth century and scientific invention brings forth new...

Sarah Snook is riding her “Succession” acclaim to new acting heights.

Almost a month after the series finale of HBO hit, the 35-year-old Australian, who recently welcomed her newborn with husband Dave Lawson, joined the London production of Oscar Wilde’s 19th-century novel, The Pictures of Dorian Gray, as the Sydney Theatre Company reported.

Snook will certainly be flexing her acting chops as she’s set to play a whopping 26 characters in the stage show, which will run for 12 weeks.

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However, it could be extended onto Broadway if it’s a hit at the ticket booth, according to Deadline.

The production’s trip to London follows its success in Sydney and across Australia. The two-hour spectacle will see Snook immersing herself in the intricacies of each character.

“I am elated to return to the London stage in such an astonishing piece of theatre,...

Succession’s Sarah Snook is returning to the stage in London, and possibly Broadway, to take on an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a dark tale of a portrait that ages as its subject remains forever young.

The Emmy-nominated actress will have the gargantuan task of playing all 26 characters in Dorian Gray when it opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London’s West End in January 2024 for a limited 12-week season.

It’s a mammoth undertaking for a solo artist who will be required to be on stage for two hours without an interval.

The show was devised by Kip Williams, the artistic director of Australia’s celebrated Sydney Theatre Company. It premiered in Sydney with actress Eryn Jean Norvill creating the part — or parts, because there are 26 of them.

Those connected with it have described the show as “cine-theatre.”

Snook will begin preparing...

Austrian actor Helmut Berger, the groundbreaking star of European cinematic masterpieces such as Luchino Visconti’s “The Damned” and Vittorio De Sica’s “Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” has died at the age of 78. Berger died at home in Austria from natural causes.

In one of European cinema’s most storied and creative periods, the 60s and 70s, Berger boldly established his place in the pantheon of Continental stars via a handful of films directed by Visconti, his one-time romantic partner. “The Damned,” “Ludwig” and “Conversation Piece” were all crafted with standout roles for Berger and the films were hugely successful both at the arthouse box office and with critics and awards groups.

“The Damned”

Berger was nominated for a Golden Globe for “The Damned,” which was also nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1970. No less an authority than the late German filmmaking maestro Rainer Werner Fassbinder called it “perhaps the greatest film,...

Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor and regular Luchino Visconti collaborator who become one of the most recognizable faces of European arthouse cinema in the 1960s, has died at the age of 78. The news was announced by the actor’s agent, who wrote that he died “peacefully but nevertheless unexpectedly” on his management company’s website.

Born in Austria in 1944, Berger moved to Rome and began pursuing an acting career after expressing disinterest in following his parents into the hospitality industry. He initially found work as an extra before meeting Visconti in 1964. The “Rocco and His Brothers” director gave Berger a small part in his 1967 film “The Witches,” an omnibus film also directed by the likes of Vittorio De Sica and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Berger and Visconti began a professional and romantic relationship that would go on to shape the European cinema landscape of the subsequent decade.

Berger’s most significant...

How much influence can one piece of art hold over a person? This is the question at the heart of "Pickman's Model" in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name, the plot chronicles the life of a young artist as he encounters the titular tortured artist and find his world upended multiple times in his life by his grotesque art.

Ben Barnes and Crispin Glover lead the cast of "Pickman's Model" in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, with The Vigil director Keith Thomas at the helm of the installment. Much like the other shorts in the Netflix horror anthology, "Pickman's Model" proves to be an unnerving and thoroughly haunting tale for horror genre fans.

Related: Cabinet Of Curiosities: Pickman’s Model Cast & Character Guide

In honor of the show's premiere, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with star Ben...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Cabinet of Curiosities episode 5"Pickman's Model", Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities episode 5, features an extremely talented cast and some memorable characters. Guillermo Del Toro's horror anthology series consists of 8 stand-alone horror vignettes and features contributions from a diverse group of directors, writers, and actors. This episode, based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, was written for television by Lee Patterson and is directed by Keith Thomas - the director of the 2019 horror film The Vigil.

"Pickman's Model" tells the story of William Thurber, an aspiring young artist studying at an art college in Arkham (a fictional Massachusets city in Lovecraft's work) whose life takes a dark turn after he becomes involved with mysterious classmate Richard Pickman. Pickman is an aloof and introverted figure who, like the central character of "Graveyard Rats", spends most of his time in cemeteries after dark.

Angela Lansbury, the revered actor who won five Tony Awards and anchored the long-running smash TV series Murder, She Wrote, died on Tuesday, Oct. 11, The New York Times reports. She was 96.

Lansbury’s family confirmed her death in a statement, though a cause was not given. Lansbury was just five days away from her 97th birthday.

A star on both the stage and screen, Lansbury picked up multiple Oscar nominations and won five Tony awards over the course of her remarkable career. Lansbury began acting professionally when she was a teenager,...

Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and acclaimed actors of stage, film and television, who had a nearly 75-year career, died at her Los Angeles home today in her sleep, just five days short of her 97th birthday.

The three-time Oscar nominee and Murder, She Wrote star’s death was announced by her family.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 Am today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” the statement reads.

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She is known to television fans as the star of the long-running smash Murder, She Wrote — she was Emmy-nominated...

This Friday, April 29th, IFC Midnight is releasing Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching, a wildly ambitious creature feature centered around the horrors of adolescence, into theaters (it will make its debut on digital platforms on May 17th). In the film, a young girl named Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) decides to take care of a mysterious egg she finds one night, raising the twisted monstrosity in secret. Tinja’s best efforts to care for her new friend—whom she names Alli—prove to not be enough once the animal begins to wreak havoc on her life, leaving the young girl unable to contend with Alli’s increasingly dangerous behaviors.

Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Gustav Hoegen, the animatronic designer and creature FX supervisor behind Alli about his experiences working on Hatching and collaborating with Bergholm on the project. Hoegen discussed how he approached the creation of Alli, the challenges...

Like so many actors fortunate enough to work over the past year, there was a two-week stretch last fall when Ben Barnes found himself sequestered alone in a Canadian hotel room. He was there for “Shadow and Bone,” the new fantasy series Netflix hopes will become one of its signature genre franchises alongside “The Witcher” and “Stranger Things.” The show had largely wrapped production just before the pandemic lockdown, but Barnes still needed to film some final scenes as the powerful and mysterious General Kirigan, also known as the Darkling, who possesses the ability to control darkness and wield it as a deadly weapon.

Before he could dive back into all that, though, there was that pesky mandatory quarantine to endure. So to pass the time, Barnes started making his own music.

“I managed to buy this very small keyboard off of a Facebook marketplace thing,” he explained over Zoom...

"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber. (Click on the images for magnified detail)

Watching The Picture of Dorian Gray as a horror film in this, its 75th anniversary year, is a bit of a puzzle. It’s almost unrecognizable within the genre, though director Albert Lewin does treat the revelation of the deformed painting itself as something of a jump scare. But the overall vibe is more akin to a period drama or a film noir than anything we would consider spooky today.

That is, until you think about it a little more closely.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an atmospheric horror film about things that don’t necessarily scare us nearly as much anymore: arrogance, beauty and the simple fact of sexuality. In this way it does actually resemble the great horror films of its time, monster movies that make much out of giant laboratories and cavernous castles, unnerving...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmakers Podcast #184: Actress Caroline Goodall on how to write and produce...

What a fraud, you might have thought glimpsing astrologist Walter Mercado on TV in the ’90s. But you wouldn’t forget his face. The bejeweled and blonded psychic hotline pitchman looked like a sorcerer from outer space. Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch’s giddily glittery documentary “Mucho Mucho Amor” traces the half-century that Mercado was a global icon, his fingers whirling like flamenco dancers as he hypnotized audiences from Holland to Brazil.

Mercado was as at-home on “Sally Jesse Raphael “as he was in his birthplace of Puerto Rico, where strangers would jockey to stroke his fabulous 15-pound capes, or even finagle a kiss on the cheek. Howard Stern hooted that he was “bigger than Jesus Christ.” Mercado demurred that he was closer to Buddha. But when the film starts, Mercado hasn’t been on camera for over a decade. Many fans assume he’s dead. How could that grande dame live without a spotlight?...