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La dramatica adaptacion de Tom Hopper del musical 'Los Miserables' ha marcado un hito de taquilla, de acuerdo a The Hollywood Reporter. La pelicula ha recaudado algo mas de 300 millones de dolares en todo el mundo, y al final de este pasado fin de semana se calcula que ha superado a Chicago (que engroso 306,8 millones de dolares) -aunque aun no hay cifras oficiales-, en la lista de las peliculas musicales de mayor exito, convirtiendose en el tercer musical de mayor exito.

Anne Hathaway is the recipient of this year's Screen Actor's Guild award for ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role' for her role as 'Fantine' in Tom Hooper's adaptation of LES MISERABLES.

Tom Hooper's sweeping adaptation of LES MISERABLES has hit a box office milestone, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Tom Sturridge, the British stage and film actor whose credits include Being Julia and On The Road, will make his Broadway debut this spring in Orphans.

Coming off an explosive 2012 summer season as TV One's most watched reality series, R&B Divas has been renewed by the network for a second season and begins production in Atlanta this month. The show, which followed Faith Evans, Nicci Gilbert-Daniels, Monifah Carter, Syleena Johnson and Keke Wyatt working together to produce a compilation album, will return featuring the original cast in spring 2013 with an eight-episode order. Based on its success with the format, TV One will spin-off a second series, R&B Divas: LA (working title), which will follow the lives and careers of five yet-to-be-named Los Angeles based R&B performers with an eight-episode order slated for Q3 2013.

Claude-Michel Schönberg, co-composer of LES MISERABLES, has confirmed that 'Suddenly,' the new, Oscar-nominated song written specifically for the movie, may be added to the stage show at some point.

Fans of the 8-time Oscar nominated film version of Les Miserables need only wait a few more months to add the title to their DVD collections. According to Blu-ray.com, the movie will receive a March 19 DVD and Blu-Rayrelease. It is currently available for preorder at Amazon.com.

According to BBC News, the Les Miserables film soundtrack is the first cast recording to hit No. 1 on the UK and Ireland album chart in 16 years. The last movie musical to reach the top of the charts was the Evita film soundtrack, from the motion picture starring Madonna in 1997.

According to Daily Mail, the cast of the Academy Award nominated LES MISERABLES will be performing at the Oscars this February. The song that will be performed is still undecided, but rumors are circulating that it will likely be either be a medley, or one of the ensemble numbers such as 'One Day More' or 'Do You Hear The People Sing.'

TNT has given the greenlight to Marshal Law: Texas (working title), a new unscripted drama from Warner Horizon Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Television (JBTV) and Megalomedia Inc. The network has ordered six episodes of the series, which is being executive-produced by JBTV's Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman, along with Megalomedia's Jonathan Nowzaradan. Jerry Bruckheimer Television's KristieAnne Reed is co-executive producer.

Houston Grand Opera (HGO)-the only opera company with two Grammys, two Emmys, and a Tony - continues to raise the bar for American opera with next season's gripping new line-up.

BBC AMERICA announced today the channel will co-produce the new drama, FLEMING (Working Title), about the life of Bond creator Ian Fleming. Film star Dominic Cooper will portray the celebrated author in the new original four part drama.

According to Variety, Dominic Cooper is set to play James Bond creator Ian Fleming in a four-part biopic for Sky Atlantic. The working title for the miniseries is 'Fleming', penned by John Brownlow and Don Macpherson and directed by Mat Whitecross.

According to Deadline, Lifetime's pilot THE SECRET LIVES OF WIVES will not be moving forward to series.

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films Old Vic Productions and NETworks Presentations, LLC bring the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical to Segerstrom Center for the Arts from April 16 - 28, 2013. Based on the international smash-hit film and featuring music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, choreography by Peter Darling and direction by Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot the Musical has earned critical acclaim around the world and was the winner of ten 2009 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

We've all heard of extreme makeovers and extreme diets... but extreme parenting? Bravo Media announced today that it has greenlit EXTREME GUIDE TO PARENTING (working title), a new series following parents who practice unique styles of raising their children.

According to whatsonstage.com the blockbuster film LES MISERABLES has surpased 'Mamma Mia!' as the biggest ever opening weekend for a movie musical in the UK. The film, which just picked up a Golden Globe Award for Best Film, brought in a record-breaking three day total of £8.13 million, beating Mamma Mia's record of £5.2 million in 2008.

"To love another person is to see the face of God" - Colm Wilkinson's Bishop Myriel of Digne and Anne Hathaway's Fantine, together with Hugh Jackman's Jean Valjean, sung those arguably the most indelible lyrics by tail end in the Tom Hooper-helmed musical motion picture, "Les Miserables," a faithful film adaptation based on the 1987 Tony Award-winning musical, written by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil, and Herbert Kretzmer, which in turn was inspired by the French historical novel of the same name, published in 1862, by Victor Hugo, a well-known French Romantic poet and novelist who had evident antipathy toward the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church; but, interestingly, had high regard for the Church's doctrines.

According to TheWrap, Anne Hathaway will star in an upcoming film adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Shame) is piloting the modern-day version.

Yahoo.com reports that NBC has ordered a new legal drama pilot which will be based on Jo Nesbo's novel I AM VICTOR. According to the report, the series will tell the story of 'a high-powered divorce attorney with a unique view of relationships.'