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Friday, April 10, 2015

Fox Wants to Remake Rocky Horror for a Very Special TV ‘Event’ by Lindsey Weber

To celebrate The Rocky Horror Picture Show's 40th birthday, Fox is planning to remake the film into a TV special — which, according to Deadline, will be called The Rocky Horror Picture Sho…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:48PM
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Disney Will Make a Live-Action Winnie the Pooh by Lindsey Weber

Oh, bother: Disney is turning out yet another live-action version of an animated classic, and this time it'll be Winnie the Pooh. Deadline reports, "The focus will be Christopher Robin a…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:33PM
Friday, March 20, 2015

Shia LaBeouf’s Cabaret Charges Will Be Dropped If He Can Chill Out for 6 Months by Lindsey Weber

According to the Daily News, after three months of treatment,Shia LaBeouf could see the charges from his erratic outburst during a showing of Cabaret last summer…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:23PM
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Duh: Disney Is Making a Frozen Sequel by Lindsey Weber

And now for some news that is surprising to exactly no one: Disney will be making a sequel to 2013's smash Frozen. (That's the one with snow queen Elsa, whose "Let It Go" ballad…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:18PM
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

What’s the Shadiest Ballet Move? Well, Ciara Performs It in ‘I Bet’ by Lindsey Weber

Sure, it's no "Ride," but Ciara can also drop it down slow — into a plié.  ... More »

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:49AM
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Elton John and Alan Ball’s HBO Pilot Sounds Really Cool by Lindsey Weber

True Blood's Alan Ball and Elton John are teaming up with HBO to make a pilot for "an hourlong period drama set against the complex and volatile backdrop of 18th century Vienna," wri…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:04AM
Friday, January 9, 2015

Chappie Trailer: Hugh Jackman Is Not a Fan of Robots or Barbers by Lindsey Weber

In Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, Hugh Jackman has a new haircut, and he's not a fan of robots. He especially doesn't like Chappie, who can think and feel for himself. But Chappie is sooooo …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:50PM

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield See You Secretly Taking a Photo of Them and Will Photobomb You by Lindsey Weber

Cool celebrities like Emma Stone and her boyfriend, celebrity Andrew Garfield, don't even need you to ask them to ham it up for your selfie — they'll notice you discreetly taking a ph…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AM
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Chris Evans Escorts Betty White to the Stage at the People’s Choice Awards, the Internet Can’t Handle It by Lindsey Weber

An adorable thing happened last night at the People's Choice Awards when Betty White won the award for Favorite TV Icon. Chris Evans (who himself won a Favorite Action-Movie Actor award that…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:15AM
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Anne Hathaway Advises Neil Patrick Harris to Do the Opposite of What She Did at the Oscars by Lindsey Weber

With February 22 just around the corner, this year's host, Neil Patrick Harris, probably doesn't need any advice — seeing as he already has quite a few awards-hosting gigs on his résu…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:30AM
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Why Won’t the New Annie Let Miss Hannigan Be Evil? by Lindsey Weber

Miss Agatha Hannigan is a bad person. She’s an alcoholic. A child-abuser. A bitter orphanage-director who uses an 11-year-old to improve her social status. She’s Annie’s main villain, …

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:30PM
Monday, December 8, 2014

Anna Kendrick Sings So, So Much in the Trailer for The Last Five Years by Lindsey Weber

Take that, Into the Woods! The other musical with Anna Kendrick, The Last Five Years, has a trailer now, too, and it's full of singing — completely charming singing about get-togethers and…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:15AM
Friday, December 5, 2014

The Highs and Lows of Peter Pan Live! by Lindsey Weber

Well, that didn't go as bad as many thought it might. Props to NBC for pulling off another live-televison musical event — despite the haters. Thanks to what appears to have been …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:05AM
Monday, December 1, 2014

Idina Menzel Knows As Much About a Possible Frozen Sequel As You Do by Lindsey Weber

After telling the Telegraph that Frozen sequels and a stage musical were "all in the works," Idina Menzel ate her words on the Today show, denying it all: "You know, I have no id…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:16PM
Sunday, November 30, 2014

The-Dream On Writing Songs for Beyond The Lights and Being a Musical Therapist by Lindsey Weber

One of the fall's best movies is the romantic-drama Beyond The Lights. (Vulture's Bilge Ebiri loved the movie and rightly so!) Writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood's first film since 2…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00PM
Friday, November 21, 2014

Hear Meryl Streep Belt ‘Stay With Me’ From Into the Woods by Lindsey Weber

More promos from Into the Woods equals more singing. Good! They're certainly pushing Meryl Streep's turn as the Witch, whose "Stay With Me" is as moving as it is flattering to Streep…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:30PM
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Allison Williams Would Rather You Not Hate-Watch Peter Pan Live! by Lindsey Weber

If you're already planning on "hate-watching" NBC's Peter Pan Live!, well, lay off, said star Allison Williams to Time: If you're going to watch this the same way that you watch a TV…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:55PM
Monday, November 17, 2014

Hear Allison Williams Sing in This New Peter Pan Live! Promo by Lindsey Weber

First she flew. Then she flew some more. Now Allison Williams shows off her equally important singing skills in the newest promo for Peter Pan Live!, which may or may not distinguish he…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:45AM

Watch a Joyful Mandy Patinkin Play With His Model Trains by Lindsey Weber

A lovely profile of the very talented, very exuberant Mandy Patinkin aired on 60 Minutes last night, and Patinkin's dissection of his own career is an honest one. It's worth watching in its …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:35AM
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Hear a Singing Emma Stone Belt ‘Cabaret’ in Her Broadway Debut by Lindsey Weber

Emma Stone made her Broadway debut last night as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. She's taking over for Michelle Williams and will be with the production until February. So, how'd she do? Thank…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AM
Monday, November 10, 2014

Christopher Walken Loves His Tambourine in This Peter Pan Live! Preview by Lindsey Weber

Will the fun ever end? We're less than a month away from the premiere of NBC's Peter Pan Live!, and here's another preview. More flying, natch, and Christopher Walken on a tambourine. Get it…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:15PM
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Peter Pan Live!’s First Promo Is Full of Magic and Fake Wind by Lindsey Weber

NBC'S Peter Pan Live! is so close (December 4), we can already taste the viewing-party snacks we're preparing to serve, and we can already feel the impending tweet-storm brewing. It's so clo…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:30AM
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Watch Meryl Streep Sing in Into the Woods by Lindsey Weber

Come for the beanstalk, stay for Meryl Streep singing. Finally! What we've all been waiting for: a bit of Meryl singing "Stay With Me," the emotional mother-daugther ballad from Into…

SOURCE: Vulture at 03:35PM
Monday, October 6, 2014

Filming a Movie Sex Scene Is Unsurprisingly Super-Awkward by Lindsey Weber

Thanks to Patrick Wilson, Brooklyn Decker, and their Stretch director Joe Carnahan for this fascinating video — a quick look into the makings of a Hollywood sex scene. Watch them awkw…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:30AM
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Shia LaBeouf Takes a Plea Deal for His Cabaret Outburst by Lindsey Weber

Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct today, accepting six months of outpatient alcohol rehab for the time he was removed from the Studio 54 theater after being "loud and dis…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:15PM
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

This Is What Allison Williams Looks Like As NBC’s Peter Pan by Lindsey Weber

Here's Allison Williams in her full Peter Pan Live! getup, complete with mesh sleeves and some green bike shorts. (Looks like someone just got back from Burning Man!) However you imagined th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:25AM
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

People Keep Pressuring Helen Mirren to Twerk. And She Does. by Lindsey Weber

69-year-old Helen Mirren's making the promotional rounds today, first playing "Mirren, Mirren" (get it?) on The Tonight Show, then reliving a "humiliating" twerking incident …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:15AM
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

What Would It Look Like If the Entire Cast of Girls Were in Disney’s Peter Pan? by Lindsey Weber

With the news that Allison Williams will be playing the iconic role of Peter Pan in NBC's Peter Pan Live! this winter, we couldn't help but imagine what it might be like if the rest of the G…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:10PM
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Kristen Bell Sounds Great As Mary Poppins in This Mary Poppins Parody by Lindsey Weber

Parodies are fun and all, but let's not hide the fact that Kristen Bell sounds great as Mary Poppins. It's actually quite distracting from the song's main purpose, which appears to be someth…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:30AM
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Report: Shia LaBeouf Checked Into Rehab by Lindsey Weber

X17Online followed Shia LaBeouf to a private rehab facility, where it also took photos of him carrying the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book. "It looked like he didn't want to do it, but he …

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:30AM
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Watch Jonathan Groff's Tonys Tribute to John Travolta's Oscar Flub by Lindsey Weber

In an inspired tribute to John Travolta's Oscars flub, Jonathan Groff introduces Broadway-favorite Idina Menzel — calling her "wick-ed-ly tal-ent-ed." He then said her name correct…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:57PM

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