The Princess Grace Foundation-USA has announced that three-time Tony award recipient and Golden Globe winning actress Bernadette Peters will accept the distinguished Prince Rainier III Award for her outstanding artistry and exemplary philanthropic give-back. The 37th Annual Princess Grace Awards Gala will be held on November 25, 2019 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Performers and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.
James Wilks, the winner of Ultimate Fighter, will be Tom Needham's special guest this Thursday at 6 pm on WUSB's SOUNDS OF FILM. He will be discussing his movie GAME CHANGERS, a new film executive produced by Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and Jackie Chan, that documents the explosive rise of plant-based eating in professional sports.
Short+Sweet Hollywood is just around the corner! In the weeks leading up to the event, the 10minute play and film festival announces partnerships with some of the entertainment industry's leading organisations and brands including NBC Universal, LA Casting/Casting Networks and Final Draft, who are offering great prizes and professional development opportunities for the winners.
In 1966, Jacques Cousteau and his research vessel, RV Calypso, immersed global audiences in the awe and wonder of our oceans, a wholly unseen world at that time, through the groundbreaking series “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” Today, more than 50 years later, the ocean remains Earth's greatest untapped terrain for adventure, discovery and storytelling. National Geographic has been spurring curiosity into Earth's awe-inspiring oceans for decades, whether by traveling across the seas or diving to the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench with renowned filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-at-Large James Cameron. Now, at a moment when the urgency of ocean conservation is at a crucial point, National Geographic announces MISSION OCEANX (w.t.), a global, six-episode series and cross-platform event that pairs a dream team of the world's greatest ocean storytellers with the most advanced combined exploration and media vessel ever built. MISSION OCEANX will premiere in 171 countries and 43 languages on National Geographic, with the first season focusing on the Indian Ocean, with the aim that it will become a recurring series focusing on a different ocean each season.
“The Game Changers” follows the story of James Wilks — elite Special Forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter — as he travels the world on a quest for the truth about meat, protein and strength. Executive produced by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan with Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos alongside James Cameron, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic and Chris Paul, “The Game Changers” will debut in cinemas around the world on September 16.
Guest artists have been announced for Titanic Live, an extraordinary concert-film event, only the second such screening ever in the United States. They include uillean pipes and irish whistle player Eric Rigler, singer Maria Zouroudis, The All-American Boys Chorus and the Los Robles Children's Choir.
Reality is often dirty, gritty, depressing and discouraging. Such is the case with FINDING NEVERLAND, the musical written by James Graham with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy. The national tour of the two-act musical takes up residency June 4-9 at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State Street in downtown Columbus).
Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan will be honored by Covenant House at A Night of Broadway Stars on Monday, June 3rd at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City, for her advocacy on behalf of young people facing homelessness.
For the fourth time, the Five Deeps Expedition has successfully dived to the bottom of one of the world's five oceans. The team completed a mission to reach what is commonly known as the deepest point on planet Earth: Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench. Victor Vescovo set a new deep-diving record and is the first human to make multiple dives, solo, to its hadal depths in the DSV Limiting Factor (Triton 36000/2 model submersible) the world's deepest diving, currently operational submarine. The expedition reached a maximum depth of 10,928 meters[1] / 35,853 feet deep, 16 meters/52 feet deeper than any previous manned dive.
When famed Victorian explorer Melford Pumbleshire is torn to pieces by something horrible and unseen while on safari in deepest, darkest Africa, his redoubtable fiance Euphonia Riggstone must lead an expedition to put his unquiet spirit to rest. This globetrotting adventure comedy has romance, betrayal, an amnesiac ghost, perfidious cultists, and a Lovecraftian tentacle monster. Part of the Main Stage Series.
TORUK - The First Flight is a show inspired by James Cameron's movie AVATAR, and created by Cirque du Soleil; it comes to London's O2 Arena in June. BroadwayWorld spoke to puppeteers Helen Day and Antony Antunes about the show.
When famed Victorian explorer Melford Pumbleshire is torn to pieces by something horrible and unseen while on safari in deepest, darkest Africa, his redoubtable fianc Euphonia Riggstone must lead an expedition to put his unquiet spirit to rest. This globetrotting adventure comedy has romance, betrayal, an amnesiac ghost, perfidious cultists, and a Lovecraftian tentacle monster. Part of the Main Stage Series.
Cirque du Soleil's TORUK - The First Flight is delighted to announce that due to overwhelming demand, tickets for additional matinee performances have gone on sale this morning. Inspired by James Cameron's record-breaking movie AVATAR, Cirque du Soleil's uniquely different touring show TORUK - The First Flight will make its UK debut in June at the Manchester Arena from 20-23 June 2019 and London's O2 Arena from 26-30 June 2019.
Christa Oliver, a lecturer in the Division of Dance at Texas State University, has been selected to participate in Harvard University's 2019 Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research seminar June 24-July 5.
According to Deadline, Michelle Yeoh, star of Crazy Rich Asians and Star Trek Discovery, will play scientist Dr. Karina Mogue in James Cameron's upcoming Avatar movies.
Blumenthal Performing Arts and Discovery Place Science are pleased to announce a second installment of the popular National Geographic Live series. CompuCom will continue its support of the program as the local sponsor for the 2019-2020 presentations.
In an extraordinary concert-film event, only the second such screening ever in the United States, the blockbuster film Titanic will be shown on a vast LED outdoor screen with James Horner's epic score performed live by the New West Symphony's renowned orchestra on Saturday night, June 22, in Thousand Oaks. The special showing will take place at the William Rolland Stadium on the campus of California Lutheran University.
