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Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 8:00AM by Nathaniel R
The Dietzes are back in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and so is costume design goddess Collen Atwood. Photo © Parisa Taghizadeh for Warner Bros
Our April Foolish tradition continues with the visual and sound categories. For this installment we're just picking highlights from our crystal ball. Read on...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 9:00AM • IndieWire on Ms Marvel's exploration of family trauma and India's Partition
• Broadway World The Wicked movie behind shooting this November...
• ...TFE as you may have heard it will be a (sigh) two-parter which is about as big of a red flag as you can get for this project
• AV Club Steven Spielberg has directed his first music video
• Cartoon Brew Reviews are in for Paws of Fury and they're... not good
More after the jump including Juno, Barbie, The Gray Man, Lady Gaga's "Chromatica Ball", and the Hunger Games prequel...
Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:00AM curated for you so you don't have to be on Twitter.
There’s still plenty of time 💅 https://t.co/xdkimtGfgz
— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) April 28, 2022
a tweet that was probably inspired by this one...
the most important 30 seconds in cinematic history pic.twitter.com/QgRObqzO4W
— giffy (@giffyonline) April 25, 2022
One of the few undeniably fun things about Twitter is celebrities responding to tweets about themselves and watching people riff on other tweets. It's a joy if they have a sense of humor! More tweets after the jump including Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin comparing awards stashes, slut eras, limo singing, awesome duos, funny truths, and ending with an absolutely hilarious letter from "Barbra Streisand" riffing on Jon M Chu's letter about Wicked...
Babs, Gypsy, Isabella Rossellini, Liza Minnelli, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Susan Sarandon, Twitter, Wicked, satire Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 2:29PM by Nathaniel R
Though we've been anxiously awaiting the Wicked movie for (checks IBDB) 18 years, 6 months, and 6 days, we are suddenly dreading it. We were fairly pleased with the casting and the director choice but this new information is a major red flag. In keeping with Hollywood's money-grubbing franchise mania in which they attempt to wrestle as much money from consumers as possible even if they have to pad the stories or extend them well past their breaking point -- popularized by finales that were cleaved in half to guarantee an extra billion in ticket revenue (see Twilight and Harry Potter) or three movies based on a single book (The Hobbit) -- they've decided to make Wicked a two part movie.
Director Jon M Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) writes...
Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 11:00PM by Nathaniel R
After years of fan-casting and online speculation we finally know who will be following in Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth's footsteps in that Emerald City of stage and screen legend. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will be taking on the iconic roles of Glinda and Elphaba in the big screen adaptation of Broadway behemoth Wicked which is, if you've been sleeping under a rock, about the witches before the events of The Wizard of Oz. The news was announced tonight by the film's director Jon M Chu.
How are you feeling about this news? Well how am I feeling? Not even sure and I'll tell you why...