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Breaking Baz: ‘Wicked’s Jon M. Chu On Unlocking The Musical For The Big Screen And How Casting Cynthia Erivo As Elphaba Was “Like A Coup”
EXCLUSIVE: Jon M. Chu learned to use his power in the right way — just as Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba does in Wicked.
Chu says that after 15 years working with studios he knew "how the machine works" because otherwise, he says, it's very easy to get "overwhelmed by the pressures of fans, by the pressure…
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The West End In 2025: John Lithgow In Broadway-Bound ‘Giant’, Paul Mescal, Brie Larson, Sondheim’s ‘Here We Are’ And Maybe Even ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’s Sizzling Daisy Edgar-Jones
Tennessee Williams sets Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his 1955 play about sexual repression, at a cotton plantation on the Mississippi Delta. You can feel the heat in director Rebecca Frecknall's production at the Almeida Theatre starring a scorching Daisy Edgar-Jones (Twisters, Normal People) as Maggie, the cat…
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’Mufasa: The Lion King’s Barry Jenkins Surprises London Premiere Audience With News Of His Nuptials
Somehow, in between launching Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King with red carpet hullabaloo in Los Angeles and in London, Barry Jenkins found time to marry his longtime filmmaking partner Lulu Wang.
The Oscar-winning director introduced his Mufasa voice cast at the Cineworld theater complex in the West…
Breaking Baz: ‘Wicked’ Star Cynthia Erivo’s Future Is “Unlimited” But There Have Been “Painful Moments” Along The Way
EXCLUSIVE: "Unlimited", Cynthia Erivo sings, "My future is unlimited.” The lyrics from The Wizard and I, a number from the musical Wicked, tumble sweetly, melodically – effortlessly – from her mouth. Such a moment could not have happened 10, 15 or even 20 years ago, because, the star reveals: "I was not…
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Breaking Baz: UK Panto King Michael Harrison On How Andrew Lloyd Webber Put His Name In Lights, And William & Kate’s Family Night At Palladium
EXCLUSIVE: It’s quite something when Andrew Lloyd Webber, the West End’s biggest theater owner, taps you on the shoulder and says he has something to tell you. Even more so when he leads you from the London Palladium’s orchestra seats, up a couple flights of stairs where a beaming Madeleine Lloyd Webber…
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Breaking Baz: ‘A Complete Unknown’ Writer-Director James Mangold Reveals His Process With Timothée Chalamet & What Dylan Himself Thinks Of It All
EXCLUSIVE: James Mangold is sitting comfortably in a posh London hotel sipping tea. Actually, the seats are disagreeably sunken and the filmmaker jokes that we're like "six-year-olds" because we're sitting so low to the ground. "Yes, daddy, I'll have tea," he jokes.
The filmmaker has been scooting…
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Breaking Baz: Nicole Kidman Never Expected To Play Red-Hot ‘Babygirl’ Role That Explores Female Desire “At This Stage Of My Life”
EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman says she was smitten the moment filmmaker and writer Halina Reijn revealed the name of a movie she was writing. “I love the title. So, I was like, ‘Oh! I’d like to be a Babygirl!'”
The Oscar-winner says that when she read the script, she was “completely sort of hypnotized” by…
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Sandhya Suri Reveals The Inspirations For UK Oscar Hopeful ‘Santosh’, The Impact Of The Sundance Labs & What’s Next
Documentarian and narrative filmmaker Sandhya Suri recalls being struck by an image taken during protests over the horrific gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh by six men on a bus in Delhi.
"In this photograph there was a line of female police officers standing against a crowd of ferociously angry…
Filmmaker Steve McQueen Hails Life Of Adam Somner, Salutes Producer & Go-To First AD As “Working Class Hero“
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has paid a moving tribute to much admired award-winning producer and first assistant director Adam Somner, who died just before Thanksgiving from anaplastic thyroid cancer.
They worked together on McQueen's wartime movie Blitz, which seemed appropriate for two…
Breaking Baz: Emma Thompson’s Child-Minding Witch ‘Nanny McPhee’ Stage Musical Aims For London’s West End In 2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Emma Thompson-penned musical adaptation of fantasy movie Nanny McPhee, about a witch who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick, is being primed to hit London's West End in 2026, Deadline can reveal.
Oscar-winner Thompson, songwriter Gary Clark and Working Title's…
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Breaking Baz: ‘The Last Showgirl’s Pamela Anderson Says She “Danced Between Shame And Beating Myself Up”, And It’s Led To One Of The Year’s Best Performances
EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Anderson says she has "danced between shame and beating myself up" — and she's still here.
She has opened so many eyes with her stunning breakthrough performance, at age 57, playing Shelly, a veteran hoofer forced to hang up her heels in Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl. I think it's…
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John Magaro On How He Prepared To Tell The Olympics Story That Horrified The World In ‘September 5’
John Magaro is the glue that holds September 5 together. He stars as ABC Sports producer Geoffrey Mason, who was covering the 1972 Munich Olympics when Black September terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic compound. Magaro must convey the enormous pressure and responsibility placed on…
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