Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore returns to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart, unseating Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Erivo, just weeks away from starting rehearsals for the two-part Wicked musical movie, has stopped off in London to wow an audience at the Royal Albert Hall with a concert performance for the BBC Proms that will broadcast and stream in the late fall.
It was her first time headlining at the august venue situated in Kensington, which sits across from Hyde Park. “I was asked randomly one day to perform at the Proms. I said ‘yes’ — of course I said ‘yes,’” said Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress, singer and producer.
Erivo said that she’s now headed to Hawaii for vacation “to chill out” but added she was returning in August to rehearse for Wicked role Elphaba, the witch.
Principal photography for Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu, starts in November. The film, adapted from the Broadway hit show and a prequel of sorts to, Wizard of Oz, will also star Ariana Grande as Glinda. Wicked is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel and was adapted by Winnie Holzman. Music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz. All are busy in London prepping for the extensive rehearsal period that will last several weeks.
Chu recently revealed that the Universal Pictures production, which Marc Platt is producing, will be released in two stages: chapter one on December 25, 2024 with chapter two exactly a year later.
It might make sense to split the movies and end part one the way the stage musical does, with Elphaba performing the soaring number Defying Gravity.
The “green witch”, as Erivo called Elphaba, is a huge role for her and it feels appropriate that the artist will be filming the mammoth production (shooting’s likely to last a year) in her home town. In a sense she’s returning in triumph because she had to leave the UK to find stellar
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore returns to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart, unseating Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
"Black Widow" star Scarlett Johansson and "The Lost City of Z" actress Sienna Miller are playing sisters in the upcoming movie "My Mother's Wedding." The movie is directed by Kristin Scott Thomas, who is making her directorial debut with the film. The drama is about three sisters who return to their childhood home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana.The sisters are very different from each other with Georgina as a nurse, Victoria as a Hollywood star and Katherine as a captain in the Royal Navy. The movie also stars Emily Beecham, who plays one of the sisters and Scott Thomas herself who plays their mother Diana.This is the third time that she has played Johansson's mother in a movie.The first time was in "The Horse Whisperer" and the second was in "The Other Boleyn Girl." "Directing and acting with such talented actresses and reuniting with Scarlett Johansson has been exhilarating," Scott Thomas said in a statement. Kristin Scott Thomas makes her directorial debut with "My Mother's Wedding." (Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Although this is Scott Thomas' directorial debut, she is an Oscar nominated actress and has been in movies like "The English Patient," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Gosford Park" and "Darkest Hour." Scott Thomas also was a co-writer of this film with John Micklethwait. "I have wanted to direct for a long time and it was thrilling to create this fictional family using my own childhood memories as a springboard," Scott Thomas said.
Netflix is suing the Grammy-winning artists behind an unofficial “Bridgerton” musical for infringement after the songwriting duo, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, staged a live concert without the production company’s permission.
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Vanessa Feltz has announced she will be quitting her BBC Radio 2 Breakfast show after nearly 12 years on air.READ: Vanessa Feltz's wild £3.5m home where fiancé Ben sleeps in a separate bedSharing the news with her early morning listeners, the veteran broadcast journalist shared a few words. Fighting back tears, the 60-year-old said: "I have something to tell you and I know that you already know that I love you… Oh, I knew I was going to cry but I’m going to try not to.
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The BBC has vowed “never” to broadcast Princess Diana’s 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir again following the “shocking” revelation of how it was obtained, the corporation’s director-general has said. An inquiry led by Lord Dyson found the BBC covered up Mr Bashir’s “deceitful behaviour” to secure his headline-making interview with the Princess of Wales and “fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency.” The report said that the journalist was in “serious breach” of the BBC’s producer guidelines when he faked bank statements and showed them to Diana’s brother Earl Spencer to gain access to her.
Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary have confirmed their last day on This Morning. The pair were back at the helm of the ITV daytime programme on Thursday (July 21) when they revealed it was their penultimate show meaning they'll be taking a break after Friday's show.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore lands straight in at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart.
Matthew McConaughey and his "True Detective" co-star, Woody Harrelson, bonded over their shared love of the open water while on a paddleboard during a group vacation in Dubrovnik, Croatia. McConaughey, 52, wore a pair of grey swim trunks, and sat in the front of the soft-top board, while Harrelson paddled in the back wearing neon blue and green striped shorts.
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The Lost City makes a Number 1 debut on the Official Film Chart, entering on digital downloads only.