Outspoken Liv Golf supremo Greg Norman has admitted switching to 72 holes has been discussed by the Saudi-backed breakaway's decision makers.
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EXCLUSIVE: Judy Craymer would just love it if Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig could just make herself available to complete the Mamma Mia! movie trilogy.
“Hey, Greta, if you’re free to do anymore projects…” jokes Craymer, the driving force that has kept the “Money, Money, Money” pouring into the box office for musical Mamma Mia!, featuring the songs of Swedish pop stars ABBA, for a quarter of a century.
Saturday night will mark an incredible milestone for a show that has taken over $5.685 billion at the box-office worldwide in ticket sales and is responsible for a further $17 billion in supplementary expenditure from spending on hotels, restaurants, transport and merchandising globally in the 25 years since opening night at the Cameron Macintosh-owned Prince Edward Theatre on April 6, 1999.
Those figures do not include the hundreds of millions of dollars that movie offshoots Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again have amassed.
Saturday also marks the 50 years since ABBA won the 9th Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Brighton Dome in East Sussex, with their hit “Waterloo.”
Many wonder whether ABBA would have remained as huge as they’ve become without Mamma Mia’s firepower driving record sales.
Amazing to reflect now that many in the West End back in 1999 didn’t give Mamma Mia! much hope of lasting a year, let alone 25.
The most Craymer prayed for was to recoup its $4 million production costs “and then you hope that you might do a year or two and be in profit but you never anticipate 25 years.”
It’s now the third longest-running musical in the West End after Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables.
Craymer notes that Mamma Mia! has played in three houses controlled by Mackintosh: the Prince Edward, the Prince of
Outspoken Liv Golf supremo Greg Norman has admitted switching to 72 holes has been discussed by the Saudi-backed breakaway's decision makers.
Following two sold-out limited seasons at London’s Barbican, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed stage version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro will transfer to the West End early in 2025.
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian and writer Julian Clary (Julian Clary: Live – Lord of the Mince) will play the title role in this festive season’s London Palladium pantomime Robin Hood, with singer and travel show presenter Jane McDonald (Cruising with Jane McDonald) topping the bill as Maid Marion.
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending, of “Abigail,” currently playing in theaters. The vampire thriller “Abigail” originated as a modern-day update of the classic horror film “Dracula’s Daughter.” But by the time the filmmaking trio Radio Silence — producer Chad Villella and directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — began production on “Abigail” in Ireland in the spring of 2023, the movie had virtually no connection to the 1936 Universal picture.
George The Poet has waded into the Kendrick Lamar-Drake beef, saying that Kendrick is just “cosplaying as a revolutionary”.The London artist has dismissed the rapper as “catty” in a new interview, adding that he is not an artist that represents radical values and has not spoken enough out on social issues.Speaking to The Guardian, George said: “Kendrick Lamar is a non-revolutionary cosplaying as a revolutionary. [He is someone] who’s been silent about very important things at very important times.”“And now that he has a little catty moment, we’re acting like hip-hop’s back? I don’t want to be part of that.”“We all had record deals at some point.
EXCLUSIVE: Stephan Elliott, who directed the celebrated cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, tells this column that a sequel “is happening” and that the original movie’s stars Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving are back “on board” 30 years after the film’s initial release.
Dennis Harvey Film Critic A grueling two-pedal route to the Grand Canyon just might provide the course-correction male juvenile offenders need in “Hard Miles.” With Matthew Modine as their teacher-coach, this fact-inspired tale covers familiar redemptive sports drama terrain. But it’s traveled with affectingly understated assurance by director R.J.
Luke Newton is reflecting on his more intimate scenes in the upcoming third season of Bridgerton.
EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the history-making reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, reveals that his star Nicole Scherzinger initially “refused to consider” accepting his offer to play Norma Desmond in the show adapted from Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic.
Ryan Gosling announced during his opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live” that he has had to “break up” with his “Barbie” character Ken — but not before one final sendoff. “I’m here because of my new movie, ‘The Fall Guy’ with Emily Blunt,” Gosling, 43, told the cheering crowd. “So don’t worry, I’m not going to make any jokes about Ken because it’s not funny.
Ant McPartlin and Lisa Armstrong split back in 2018 after spending two decades together and being married for 11 of those years.
“The Who’s Tommy” on Broadway, Townshend’s musical in which the young phenom rocks out as the title “deaf, dumb and blind kid” who becomes a worldwide sensation.Bourzgui is on the verge of major things as well — thankfully less dramatically so than Tommy.His Broadway debut is a knockout — the most exciting of the last several years. The actor’s reviews last month were euphoric (including a four-star rave from The Post), and it’s impossible to find a theater agent in town who doesn’t desperately wish he was their client.Townshend, who first watched Bourzgui tackle the complex role of Tommy Walker at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in the summer of 2023, said he was born for the part.“Ali hasn’t required the kind of rock ’n’ roll anointment that I have provided to some of the actors in Tommy in the past,” Townshend told The Post.
Daniel Mays remembers Michael Douglas and Timothy Van Patten, the respectively star and director of new Apple TV drama Franklin, bursting into song whenever he appeared on set.
ABBA fans the world over yesterday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Swedish supergroup’s Eurovision victory in 1974, and one crowd were treated to a surprise appearance by band member Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Former Real Housewives of Cheshire star Christine McGuinness has candidly revealed one of her unexpected fears following the end of her marriage to Paddy McGuinness, as she took part in the latest series of BBC Pilgrimage.The 36 year old star, who was in a relationship with Paddy for 11 years, split from the Top Gear host back in 2022, but during a religious pilgrimage across North Wales revealed that she hasn’t completely addressed the extent of the split yet. The new details first came to light when Christine and her fellow pilgrims were told about druid practices and early baptisms as a symbolic way to let go of their worries and cleanse themselves to start a new chapter of their lives.
Take That have announced details of a new festival called ‘The Greatest Weekend’, starring performances from Sugababes, Sam Ryder and more. Find ticket details below.Developed by the iconic ‘90s boy band, the new festival will be held on the Mediterranean island of Malta, and span across four days later this year.Running between Thursday, October 17 and Sunday, October 20, the live event is the first of its kind, and will see Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald host what promises to be a “celebration of music, entertainment, and unforgettable moments, curated by the band themselves”.The exclusive event tells fans that it offers a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to see the band perform in an intimate live setting, and bring out an array of special hand-picked guests to perform.So far, the first wave of artists have been announced, with Sugababes, Ella Henderson and Gok Wan lined up for the Saturday instalment, and Sam Ryder, Daniel Bedingfield and Heather Small being confirmed for the Sunday event.
The Libertines have revealed that they still have the ambition to break America, despite frontman Pete Doherty being “banned” from the country for two decades.The British indie icons reflected on the success of their career over the past 20 years during a new interview with The Sun (via Music News), and revealed that there is still a part of them that wishes they could take their music across the pond.The discussion came in light of their recently released album, ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’, which was their first full-length LP in nearly a decade and the follow-up to 2015’s ‘Anthems for Doomed Youth’.Opening up about their hopes to take the album into the States, Carl Barat opened up about the struggles they have faced with the prospect over their career. “Trouble is, Pete’s been banned there for the past 20 years,” he said, explaining how Doherty’s well-documented struggles with addiction have led to various legal issues, and prevented the band from heading Stateside.He continued, going on to share how, although the frontman’s sobriety may help them overcome their previous obstacles, they still have no idea what size their audience would be outside of the UK and Europe.“We don’t know what we’re worth ticket-wise — it could be Madison Square Garden or a local bar,” he pondered.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter A TV series set in the world of “Legally Blonde” is in development at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has confirmed. No plot details are available, but the project is being executive produced by Reese Witherspoon along with Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, with Schwartz and Savage also writing. Witherspoon starred in two of the “Legally Blonde” films and will executive produce under her Hello Sunshine banner alongside Lauren Neustadter.
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Gleb Savchenko has announced his split from long term girlfriend Elena Belle after three years.
Cher dazzled Monday night at the iHeart Radio Music Awards in outfits reminiscent of those the pair wore to the premiere of their film “Silkwood” in 1983. Photos obtained by The Post show Streep, 74, in a white Lanvin dress while the “The Shoop Shoop Song” hitmaker, 77, dons a chrome-encrusted black top with matching pants. The duo’s outfits greatly recall — if only by accident — the ones worn by the pair during the film’s Los Angeles premiere.