Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) has announced the Blu-ray high-definition debut of Disney's animated masterpiece, Beauty and the Beast on October 5, 2010.
Past Oscar winners Kathy Bates, Barbra Streisand and Charlize Theron will join former Oscar nominees Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and John Travolta as presenters at the 82nd Academy Awards®, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today. Collectively the group has earned 16 nominations and won four Academy Awards.
For old-world cabaret, performers still swoon over the stately, romantic elegance of the Oak Room at the Algonquin, but this sleek, two-year-old spot is threatening to encroach on the turf of such established institutions.
According to a recent equity casting notice, Leap of Faith, the new musical based off of the 1992 Steve Martin Film, will make its premiere at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles this summer.
Academy Awards Producer Adam Shankman shared a peek inside the Oscar dance auditions. He goes on to say that he thinks this years Oscars will return to 'more comedy, emotional moments, some great musical moments, and a real celebration of the biggest box office year in Hollywood history.'
Michael Riedel reveals this morning that a likely Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Leap of Faith (based off of the 1992 film starring Steve Martin) had an industry reading last week starring Raul Esparza as the preacher, Sutton Foster, and Kendra Kassebaum. The musical workshop, featuring a score by Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermain composer Alan Menken and lryics by Glenn Slater, had Promises, Promises director/choreographer Rob Ashford at the helm. Janus Cercone, who authored the original screenplay also penned the musical book.
Variety reports this morning that Randy Newman's score for Disney's The Princess and the Frog has been ruled ineligible for Oscar consideration by the Academy music-branch executive committee.
The competition for the Academy Awards' Original Score category is heating up with 84 film scores vying for a spot in the competition - yet one film's inclusion as potential nominee may have barely squeaked in despite the Academy's staunch rules on eligibility.
Wayman Wong of the NY Daily News has revealed that Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken has told him that he and lyricist Jack Feldman who wrote the music for the 1992 film are working on bringing the show to the stage, with a reading scheduled for the Spring of 2010 and a new book being written by Harvey Fierstein.
The New York Times reports that Al Pacino will star in a big screen adaptation of Phillip Roth's novel, The Humbling. Pacino is the owner of the motion picture rights. The story centers on an insignificant stage actor who becomes reinvigorated by a younger woman. Barry Levinson, Oscar winner for Rain Man and Oscar nominated for Bugsy, rounds out the creative trifecta. Celebrated publicist Pat Kingsley is also attached.
The Gotham Independent Film Awards kicked off the busy award season on Monday night in New York City and Entertainment Tonight spoke with the stars, including actor Alec Baldwin as he talked about his upcoming Oscar awards show duties.
Oscar®-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today.
Oscar®-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today.
Oscar®-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today.
Upcoming Oscar Ceremony co-host Alec Baldwin attended the inaugural Governor's Awards gala and the actor spoke to Entertainment Tonight about his Oscar duties. You can watch the clip right here on STAGE TUBE!
Variety is reporting that The Stephen Daldry-helmed revival of his 1992 production of An Inspector Calls, currently running in a limited engagement at the Novello Theatre in the West End, will transfer to Wyndhams Theatre in early December for a 16-week run. This move will fill the gap for the theatre created by the early closing of The Shawshank Redemption, as previously announced.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Webster University will co-host the St. Louis premiere reading of the epilogue to the acclaimed play The Laramie Project which, since its debut in 2000, has been one of the most performed plays in America.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Webster University will co-host the St. Louis premiere reading of the epilogue to the acclaimed play The Laramie Project which, since its debut in 2000, has been one of the most performed plays in America.
Daytime Television's Walt Willey stars in Neil Simon's sometimes subtle, sometimes overt, always hilarious study of two friends - total opposites (The Odd Couple) - who become roommates.
Oscar, Grammy and Tony Award winner Elton John will on play on Alice in Chains' upcoming album, the Associated Press reports. The Album is a tribute record to their late lead singer, Layne Staley.
Bill Condon, writer and director of the blockbuster movie musicals 'Dreamgirls' and 'Chicago,' adapted from the hit Broadway shows, is confirmed to direct 'The C Word,' Showtime's new pilot starring Laura Linney.
Whatsonstage.com is reporting that Dame Judi Dench will be donating the replica of the Rose Theatre used in the 1998 Oscar-winning film Shakespeare In Love (for which the Dame herself received a trophy), gifted to her by the film's producers.
The NYC400 is the first-ever list of New York City's ultimate movers and shakers since the City's founding?from politics, the arts, business, sports, science, and entertainment.
Oscar(TM)-winning actor Robin Williams, the extraordinary actresses of The Golden Girls, the voices of Donald Duck and Goofy, and other incomparable contributors to the Disney legacy will be honored on Sept. 10 at the 2009 Disney Legends Awards during the D23 EXPO at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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