How Theater Laid the Foundation for Kenny Ortega’s Hollywood Success (Listen)

As Disney forges ahead with its planned sequel to the classic Halloween hit “Hocus Pocus,” it seems that it’s doing so without the director of the original film. “Hocus Pocus” came out in 1993 as a family-friendly movie about a young man who accidentally awakens three witches on Halloween night who must absorb the town’s youth in order to stay alive forever.

contract was terminated on Tuesday morning by mutual consent, less than four weeks after penning a one-year deal with the Lions and without making an appearance.

Jeff Vasishta If patience is a virtue, former spouses Anna Faris and Chris Pratt have it in spades; after two long years on the market, they have finally sold their secluded and long-ago vacated Hollywood Hills residence.

Mae Hamilton Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren, perhaps best known for his seminal work as Russian boxer Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV,” is teaming up with “Million Dollar Listing” star and fellow Swede Fredrik Eklund, of Douglas Elliman, to roundhouse kick his fetching Hollywood Hills home onto the market with a knockout price tag of $4.25 million.

Ellise Shafer editorRainn Wilson has made the pivot from a “slacktivist” to a full-on fighter for a more sustainable future – and through his YouTube series “An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change,” “The Office” star hopes to inspire others to do the same.In the six-episode series, from his digital media company SoulPancake, Wilson experiences the effects of climate change firsthand in Greenland and explains them in a way to help educate the average person.

Zac Efron has graduated from High School Musical and is now in the big leagues.From discovering a waterfall can be used as a power source to drinking milk straight from a goat, Efron is on a righteous quest to find the greenest ways of life in the Netflix docuseries Down to Earth with Zac Efron – while looking as ruggedly handsome as ever.Efron and wellness expert Darin Olien travel the world in search of fitness and sustainability secrets.Anyone with a desire for all things healthy and green

Dr. Seuss’s most controversial work, The Lorax, a book that was banned from a California school in 1989 for portraying logging in a negative light.

The Hollywood Reporter. She’ll also be in charge of NBC’s slate of cable channels, including Bravo, E!, USA and Syfy.

TMZ reported. He was 49 years old.Also Read: Kristin Urquiza, Whose Father Died of COVID-19, Skewers Trump in Unflinching DNC Speech (Video)The world continues to be upended by the coronavirus pandemic, with more people contracting COVID-19 as the days pass.

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Meryl Streep lends her voice to this environmentalist film, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, based on the book by notable children’s book author, Oliver Jeffers.The movie is about an existential search for one’s greater purpose on earth. A little boy feels lost for seemingly no reason, a feeling his father very much relates to but cannot resolve.

Sarah Jessica Parker reveals “the documentary The True Cost really changed me”, in an interview with The Edit. The true cost of a bargain shirt could be human life.Produced by Livia Firth, the fashion force behind Hollywood’s increasingly popular Green Carpet Challenge, this documentary takes you inside the brutally harsh life of sweatshop workers.

The Hollywood Reporter, the chat host, 52, will be back in the studio at the El Capitan in Hollywood, California on September 21st, to begin broadcasting episodes of his live show on ABC.The show will also return to its regular, one-hour format, after a summer hosted by special guests and episodes that have only been a half hour long for the past few months.  Prior to that, like all other late night hosts in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Kimmel was holding court at his home for the

Logan Lerman was spotted with a spot of grey in his luscious black hair and Twitter is losing its mind.

“The New Mutants” hasn’t exactly been drowning in praise, with the new “X-Men” spinoff movie receiving downright horrible reviews (Forbes, for example, derided the film as “the worst ‘X-Men’ movie ever”).

Everyone has a story of finding an awkward or surprising photo of a family member and a part of the family history they were unaware of. Maybe it’s embarrassing high school photos of your parents, or a surprising and secret career you didn’t know your grandparent had.

Mark David According to an always-in-the-know snitch, Justin Kirk has changed up his living situation with the recent, slightly-shy-of-$1.8-million purchase of a multi-level contemporary perched on a vertiginous hillside high in the Hollywood Hills.The accomplished 51-year-old actor, who got his showbiz start on the stage in New York City, where he earned a prestigious ensemble Obie Award for Terrence McNally’s snappy Broadway play “Love! Valour! Compassion!”, received an Emmy nomination in