Alice Brooks

Apples and Oranges Arts is currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2023 cohort of THEatre ACCELERATOR: The Heroine's Journey in XR - an immersive virtual musical theatre development program geared towards developing and distributing musicals on stage, and in mixed realities.

Filmmakers Academy, the recently launched learning platform where professionals and novices alike can find the tools and resources to master their craft, announces a new course featuring master colorist David Cole (Dune, The Batman, Tron Legacy, Life of Pi). The course, 'Color Grading: LUT Theory & Creation' is now available to Filmmakers Academy members online and via the app.

Kristin Chenoweth has revealed the advice she has given to Ariana Grande as she prepares to 'pass the wand and the crown' to the pop star, who will star as Glinda in the upcoming Wicked film adaptation.

Filmmakers Academy, the new learning platform where professionals and novices alike can find the tools and resources to master their craft, celebrates Women's History Month in March with a unique series spotlighting some of the most dynamic women in film.

Ariana Grande shared praise for the show's leads, Lindsay Heather Pearce and Brittney Johnson, on her Instagram story, stating, 'You were so very, very brilliant. Truly an honor to see and hug and hear and witness you both. I am weeping!!!!!!!!!!!!! Still!!!!!! Words simply do not suffice. Everyone was so remarkable. I feel so deeply thankful to have experienced this this tonight. Floating!'

The Hollywood Critics Association has decided to postpone their 5th Annual HCA Film Awards ceremony. Nicolas Cage, Guillermo del Toro, Jude Hill, Natalie Morales, Alice Brooks, Simu Liu, Greig Fraser, Saniyya Sidney, and the Cast of CODA were previously announced among the special award honorees scheduled to appear.

Nicolas Cage will be receiving this year’s Acting Achievement Award. Guillermo del Toro will be receiving this year’s Filmmaking Achievement Award. Cinematographer Alice Brooks will be honored with the Artisan on the Rise Award. Saniyya Sidney will be presented with the Star on the Rise Award.

The nominations for the 2022 IPA Satellite Awards have been announced! The film adaptions of tick, tick...BOOM!, In the Heights, and Cyrano received nominations. Other nominees include Cynthia Erivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jennifer Hudson, Beanie Feldstein, Robin de Jesús, Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera, Andrew Garfield, Ewan McGregor, and more.

A new casting notice for the upcoming Wicked film adaption details that the film is seeking a 'wheelchair user' between the ages of 18-30 to play Nessarose. Rehearsals are set to begin in June/July of 2022 in the U.K. As previously announced, the new film adaption of the hit musical will star Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

Original Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth took to social media to share their congratulations to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.

El director de IN THE HEIGHTS Jon M. Chu dirigirá la esperadísima adaptación cinematográfica del éxito teatral.

Thank Goodness! Academy Award-nominee Cynthia Erivo and international pop sensation and actress Ariana Grande will lead the long-anticipated film adaptation of Wicked!

The upcoming film adaptation of Wicked is set to reunite director Jon M. Chu with cinematographer Alice Brooks! Chu had previously directed this summer's film adaptation of In the Heights, which also featured Brooks as Cinematographer.

The cast of 'In The Heights' features Anthony Ramos, Leslie Grace, Corey Hawkins, Melissa Barrera, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Dascha Polanco, Stephanie Beatriz, Gregory Diaz IV, Olga Meridez, and Jimmy Smits.

The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival will host a Special Preview Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming In the Heights, the highly-anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway musical from director Jon M. Chu, on Friday June 4th 2021.

Slated to open on June 11, 2021 in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max, the film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.  It will be available on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release. “In the Heights” is rated PG-13 for some language and suggestive references.

Applying the model that accelerates technology start-ups, APPLES AND ORANGES ARTS THEatre ACCELERATOR Program treats storytellers as founders, creating an opportunity to interact with experts in the storytelling, production, financing, distribution and business of show business.

Get the latest news on upcoming film adaptations, the schedule of movie musicals in development or production, and more with our always up-to-date musical film adaptation schedule!

Watch the immersive musical theatre development accelerator live Shark-Tank-style pitch session where participants present their shows to theatre and tech industry veterans!

Streaming Musicals has announced that its next streaming offering will be an encore viewing and cast party on Thursday, May 7, 2020 for Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon's Emma, the musical based on the classic Jane Austen novel.