‘Hamilton’ director Tommy Kail reveals hopes for new Holocaust mini-series ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Donald Trump is keeping his Oscars feud with Jimmy Kimmel alive with a new post on Truth Social in which the former president once again slammed Kimmel for being a “horrendous” Academy Awards host. Trump then mixed up Kimmel with this year’s best picture presenter, Al Pacino.

Jack Antonoff is writing music for a new reimagined Romeo and Juliet play that will arrive on Broadway this autumn.Rachel Zelger (West Side Story) and Kit Connor (Heartstopper) will star in the new musical version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which is directed by Sam Gold.Music for the play has been written by Antonoff while Sonya Tayeh is writing the movement. Tickets for the show go on sale in May here.According to the musical’s synopsis, “The youth are fucked”.

Facing relentless foes and sudden bankruptcy, an Atlanta real estate tycoon must claw his way back to the top when his empire begins to crumble. That’s the premise of the new Netflix series, “A Man In Full,” starring Jeff Daniels.

We Were The Lucky Ones is a harrowing tale based on a true story about a Jewish family who is trying to find their way back to one another after being separated during the Holocaust.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are coming to a TV near you. Netflix on Friday confirmed to Fox News Digital that Archewell Productions is working with the streaming service to produce two non-fiction shows as part of their multiyear overall deal. The first series, which was curated by Markle, focuses on cooking, gardening, entertaining and the joy of friendship.

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I Want My MTV,” an oral history of the music-video channel. “I was making so much money modeling, per day, why take away from that?”Oh, how wrong they were.“House of Style” turns 35 this May. The beloved MTV series, hosted for six years by Crawford, took viewers behind the scenes of the fashion and modeling worlds — a glamorous, irreverent and intimate blend of haute couture and pop culture.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Growing up in Israel meant that “We Were the Lucky Ones” actor Amit Rahav was taught about the Holocaust at any early age. His childhood in Tel Aviv included a school trip to concentration camps in Poland. “It’s mandatory in the curriculum,” Rahav tells Variety.

Netflix has revealed the cast of Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black, a new series coming to the streamer that’s the result of a previously announced creative partnership.

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Jaden Thompson Georgia Hunter is still in disbelief that her family’s story of surviving the Holocaust has been adapted into the Hulu limited series “We Were the Lucky Ones” headlined by Logan Lerman and Joey King. Based on Hunter’s novel of the same name, the show stars Lerman as her grandfather, Addy, and King as his little sister Halina, two of five Polish siblings trying to stay alive and bring their family back together during World War 2. “It’s surreal,” Hunter said at the March 21 premiere of the show, held at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.

Joey King is taking over New York City for her We Were The Lucky Ones press tour!

Selena Kuznikov Co-composers Rachel Portman and Jon Ehrlich have only met in person once, and collaborated across the globe while scoring Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones.” Despite this, both Portman and Ehrlich said that working across continents was one of the best parts of the process. Erhlich said: “She would work on something, and then I would wake up in the morning and go to the studio and unwrap a gift. Then by the end of my day, I was handing it off to her, and she could kind of pick up where I left off.

EXCLUSIVE: The Paris Theater is partnering with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles to  present a selection from the museum’s weekly series, Branch Selects, where movie lovers can journey through film history. Each of the 18 branches of the Academy, selects a film that represents a major achievement in the evolution of moviemaking and its unique disciplines.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Joey King has nothing against method acting – it’s just not for her. Especially for projects like her latest, the Holocaust series “We Were the Lucky Ones.” Based on Georgia Hunter’s best-selling novel of her family’s fight to survive the Holocaust, Logan Lerman stars as Hunter’s grandfather Addy alongside King as his younger sister Halina.

Aramide Tinubu There has been no shortage of television series centering the horrors of the Holocaust. Last year alone, Netflix’s “Transatlantic” depicted a group of resistors living in Marseille, and National Geographic’s “A Small Light” offered a retelling of Anne Frank’s experience through the eyes of Miep Gies, the woman who aided the Franks during their years in hiding. Though both of these series and those like them are important, Hulu‘s “We Were the Lucky Ones,” an adaptation of Georgia Hunter’s best-selling novel based on a true story, showcases something different.