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Rafi Gavron and Shiloh Fernandez have joined the ensemble of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” sources close to the actors confirm.

The Universal film’s previously announced cast members include Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernthal and John Leguizamo.

Universal shared in December that the film “is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new Imax film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to Imax film screens for the first time.”

Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey” remains one of the oldest pieces of literature still read by modern audiences. It chronicles the story of Greek hero Odysseus during his tumultuous journey home following the Trojan War.

Gavron is best known for his role in “A Star is Born” for director Bradley Cooper, opposite Cooper and Lady Gaga. He began his career...

Over the past 10 years Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar has batted a thousand at the Tony Awards. Both of his past Broadway outings — “Disgraced” in 2014 and “Junk” in 2017 — were nominated for Best Play, making him one of only three dozen writers in the history of the Tonys to have two noms for the top honor. His newest drama, “McNeal,” opened in September and stars Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr., who is making his Broadway debut in the role of a troubled, irascible, and extremely successful novelist.

With the incredibly popular Downey at the helm, fresh off his awards-sweeping “Oppenheimer” performance plus an Emmy for his lifestyle program “Downey’s Dream Cars,” “McNeal” will try to accomplish something no other Akhtar play has done before by earning a Tony acting nomination.

Akhtar’s Broadway bow with “Disgraced,” for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2013, starred a quintet of actors...

Robert Downey Jr. is firmly anti the usage of generative artificial intelligence to recreate his likeness, issuing a warning to potential future executives who may want to bring Tony Stark back from the dead.

The Oscar-winning Oppenheimer actor recently appeared opposite Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher on the podcast On With Kara Swisher to discuss the former’s Broadway debut in a play about the dangers of the AI age.

“There’s two tracks. How do I feel about everything that’s going on? I feel about it minimally because I have an actual emotional life that’s occurring that doesn’t have a lot of room for that,” the actor said when prompted to comment on his thoughts on deepfakes and AI recreations.

At the same time, the MCU actor said he’s confident those currently at the conglomerate wouldn’t do such a...

After poor reviews for Robert Downey Jr.’s highly anticipated Broadway debut came out, the actor has reportedly been struggling to cope.

The actor took on the title role in McNeal, which is currently playing at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City in which he plays an acclaimed novelist whose alcoholism and mental illness have led to a breaking point in his career.

The play, written by Ayad Akhtar, has had poor reviews. Sources close to the actor have reportedly said that the actor is devastated by bad reviews of the production and is unlikely to return to Broadway anytime soon.

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When announcing his role, Downey expressed great excitement.

In a social media post, the actor said, “I knew I wanted to do Ayad’s new play before I was done reading it.

Last month playwright Jez Butterworth brought his latest work, “The Hills of California,” to Broadway. The haunting family drama explores the relationships between four sisters and their dying mother in their creaky seaside home, seamlessly moving back and forth in time between 1976 and 1955. The play previously bowed in London earlier this year, and before coming stateside it earned two Olivier Award nominations for Best New Play and Best Actress for Laura Donnelly, who reprises her performance in New York.

Since his Broadway debut only 13 years ago, Butterworth has quickly established himself as one of the theater’s most accomplished contemporary playwrights. He has two Tony nominations to his name, for New York debut “Jerusalem” in 2011 and for his Tony-winning epic “The Ferryman” in 2019. Those nominations alone already tie him with theater royalty including Ayad Akhtar, Tony Kushner, Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Lynn Nottage, Eugene O’Neill, and Wendy Wasserstein — all...

Robert Downey Jr. may be preparing to put on a new mask as the McU's Doctor Doom in the near future, but the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer star isn't done with taking on original projects just yet it would seem. Having starred in Park Chan-wook's The Sympathizer and made his Broadway debut leading Ayad Akhtar's new play McNeal this year already, Deadline are now reporting that Downey Jr. is being eyed to lead an adaptation of Julianna Baggott's short story The Hider at Universal.

According to Deadline's article, Universal have snapped up the rights to Baggott's short story, whose plot details currently remain firmly under wraps. Ant-Man And The Wasp and Transformers One duo Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari are working on the script for the adaptation, which is the latest in an increasingly long line of projects based on Baggott's works to enter development. Others include a screen...

Exclusive: Universal Pictures is looking to get back in business with its Oscar-winning Oppenheimer star as sources tell Deadline the studio has landed the rights to Julianna Baggott’s short story The Hider with Robert Downey Jr. eyed to star. Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari will adapt the short story.

Plot details being kept under wraps. The project is in early development.

Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell will produce through Team Downey. Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold will produce through Safehouse Pictures. Julianna Baggott will executive produce and Finneas Scott will co-produce.

Universal’s Executive Vice President of Production Development Matt Reilly will oversee the project for the Studio.

The reunion comes after Downey Jr. took home the Oscar for best supporting actor for his critically-acclaimed role in Universal and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

After winning the Oscar for Oppenheimer and being nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his work on The Sympathizer, Robert Downey Jr. is all set to conquer another performance avenue with his Broadway debut McNeal. The AI-themed play debuted at the Lincoln Center on September 30 and has been attended by Matt Damon, Steven Spielberg, and more.

After an eleven-year stint with the MCU as Iron Man, Downey Jr. left the franchise after Avengers: Endgame, with his character arc coming to an end. He has explored multiple facets of his talent with his Academy Award-winning performance in Oppenheimer and now McNeal. He will return to the MCU as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday.

Robert Downey Jr.’s Broadway Debut Sees Many Stars In Attendance Robert Downey Jr. in McNeal | Credits: YouTube/LincolnCenterTheater

Ever since Robert Downey Jr. departed from his role as Iron Man in the MCU, he has been on...

2024 has truly been a standout year for Robert Downey Jr. After securing an Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer and an Emmy nomination for his performance in HBO’s The Sympathizer, Downey continues to dominate headlines.

Robert’s latest venture, McNeal, a provocative Broadway play at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, adds to his already impressive lineup.

A Complex Plot Centered On Controversial Themes

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar, McNeal follows Jacob McNeal (Downey), a literary giant recently diagnosed with end-stage liver failure. At the same time, McNeal learns he has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The news coincides with the upcoming release of his novel Evie, but soon, plagiarism accusations overshadow the success, threatening both his reputation and the book’s launch.

Throughout the play, McNeal grapples with modern issues. From AI to the disillusionment of youth culture, the character delivers tirades reminiscent of a Bill Maher rant,...

Robert Downey Jr. is officially on Broadway and a lot of his celeb friends showed up to support him on opening night!

The Oscar-winning actor was joined by wife Susan Downey on the red carpet at the McNeal opening night performance on Monday (September 30) at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City.

Jason Bateman, Justin Theroux, Will Arnett, Paul Rudd, and Matt Damon posed for photos together while stepping out for the performance.

Also in attendance were Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw, Oscar Isaac and wife Elvira Lind, Matthew Rhys, and F. Murray Abraham, as well as Justin‘s fiancee Nicole Brydon Bloom.

Robert was joined on the carpet by his co-stars: Tony winners Andrea Martin and Ruthie Ann Miles, as well as Melora Hardin, Rafi Gavron, Brittany Bellizeare, and Saisha Talwar.

Here’s a synopsis: “Jacob McNeal (Downey Jr.) is a great writer, one of our greatest, a...

In the new play from Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut as Jacob McNeal, a celebrated novelist drinking himself toward liver failure as he desperately awaits the Nobel Prize in Literature he so cherishes. But after he actually wins the prize, rendering his initial moping about not having won the prize irrelevant, Jacob inexplicably abandons his work ethic, devotes his creative energies to running a bunch of classic texts through a chatbot, and slaps his name on an A.I.-generated novel.

Jacob’s also finishing up edits on another tome, this one with a story overly borrowed not from robots but from the women in his life, including his wife whose suicide haunts him. In such moments, Akhtar attempts to interrogate whether plagiarism via chatbot is any worse than regular plagiarism or just lifting stories from real people’s lives, but...

Robert Downey Jr. is officially a Broadway star and we have the first photos from his new play McNeal!

The Oscar-winning actor is making his Broadway debut in the brand new play, which is being produced by Lincoln Center Theater in assocation with Team Downey.

Here’s a synopsis: “Jacob McNeal (Downey Jr.) is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence.”

Also starring in the play are Tony winners Andrea Martin and Ruthie Ann Miles, as well as Melora Hardin, Rafi Gavron, Brittany Bellizeare, and Saisha Talwar.

McNeal was written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar and features direction by Bartlett Sher. The limited engagement is running through November 24 at Lincoln Center Theater. Get tickets now, while you still can!

The new Broadway play McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., started off with a bang, with $746,230 brought in across just four performances last week.

If the production, which is playing at the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, had played the typical eight performances at that cadence, it would have brought in close to $1.5 million – a big number for a play, putting it in league with the top-grossing musicals. The production played to full houses for every performance, with an average ticket price of $170.37, the second highest in the industry for the week, behind Cabaret, and unusual for a nonprofit house with a large subscription audience.

The play, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher, marks Downey’s Broadway debut and sees him portray a gifted author, but one who always finds himself as runner up for the Pulitzer, as he develops an intense fascination with artificial intelligence. McNeal began previews Sept.

The Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr. got off to an excellent start last week, with McNeal selling out all four previews at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater and grossing a whopping $746,230.

Ayad Akhtar’s play, directed by Bartlett Sher, staged its first preview last Thursday, September 5, and stars Downey as a revered but perpetual Pulitzer runner-up author who develops what the synopsis tells us is “an unhealthy fascination” with Artificial Intelligence. The production also stars Brittany Bellizeare, Rafi Gavron, Melora Hardin, Andrea Martin, Ruthie Ann Miles, and Saisha Talwar, and opens Monday, September 30.

The production’s strong box office last week – average ticket price was $170.37, an especially impressive number for the subscription-heavy Lincoln Center Theater – put the new play on the same turf as the week’s other sell-outs: The Roommate, starring Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone, at the Booth; Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola’s runaway...

In a major development in the leadership of New York City’s non-profit theater scene, Lincoln Center Theater has named directors Lear deBessonet and Bartlett Sher to the roles of Artistic Director and Executive Producer, respectively.

The appointments take effect when longtime Lct artistic director André Bishop concludes his 33-year tenure this June, as previously announced. The transition comes in conjunction with the close of Lincoln Center Theater’s 40th anniversary season.

“It is the deepest honor of my professional life to serve as the next Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, following the astonishing legacy of André Bishop,” said deBessonet, whose current tenure as Artistic Director of Encores! at New York City Center has included well-received productions of Once Upon a Mattress (currently on Broadway), Into the Woods, Oliver!, Jelly’s Last Jam and Titanic.

“I believe the theater is a space for the creation and restoration of community...

A new Broadway season has begun, and there are currently nine productions of plays set to open this fall. Could we see any of them contend at next year’s Tony Awards? Below, find the plot of each play as well as the awards histories of its author, cast and creative team, plus the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.

“The Roommate” (opens September 12; closes December 15)

In this new play by Jen Silverman, Sharon has never had a roommate before. But after her divorce she needs a housemate to pay the bills. That’s when Robyn arrives. The story follows an unexpected, life-changing friendship that’s both funny and deeply moving between two very different middle-aged women as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality and the dream of reinvention.

The production stars Golden Globe winner Mia Farrow and three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone. It is directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O’Brien.

Put those lightsabers down and pick up a Playbill because Adam Driver is returning to the stage. The Tony and Academy-Award nominated actor will be starring in a new Off-Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold on to Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village this Fall for a limited 13-week engagement starting on September 24 and running until December 22.

The official synopsis for “Hold on to Me Darling” reads, “On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane (Driver) finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out, he decides, is to abandon superstardom in favor of the simple life, so he moves back to his hometown in Tennessee. The simple life turns out to be anything but simple in this brilliantly observed tragicomedy, as the consequences of Strings’ success and mind-bending effects of his fame prove all but impossible to outrun.

New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold and Tony Award-nominated Kevin Del Aguila will join the previously announced Daniel Dae Kim on Broadway this fall in David Henry Hwang’s much anticipated Yellow Face.

Eggold will be making his Broadway debut.

Complete casting for the production was announced today by the Roundabout Theatre Company, and also includes Francis Jue, Marinda Anderson, Greg Keller and Shannon Tyo.

Yellow Face, directed by Leigh Silverman, will begin previews on Friday, September 13, 2024, at Roundabout’s at Todd Haimes Theatre, with opening night on Friday, October 1, 2024, 227 West 42nd Street) on Broadway. The limited engagement runs through Sunday, November 24.

The synopsis: Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.

Kim,...

After a bruising year, Marvel is returning to the very things that worked in the past. That means reuniting with franchise crown jewel Robert Downey Jr. as well as the Russo brothers, who directed the two most successful movies for the studio with “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.”

But bringing back key members of the old gang won’t come cheap. Sources say Marvel is plunking down $80 million for Anthony and Joe Russo to direct “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” and “significantly more” for Downey to tackle uber-villain Doctor Doom in the two tentpoles. The Russos’ deal doesn’t include back-end compensation, but it does contain performance escalators that kick in at the $750 million and $1 billion thresholds. A source close to the production disputes those figures and claims the Russo’s paydays are lower. The brothers also will produce the two films via their Agbo banner. That marks...

It’s hard to think of an actor managing his career after leaving a franchise better than has Robert Downey Jr. And that makes his announced return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe — in which he’ll be playing the villainous character Dr. Doom in forthcoming “Avengers” sequels, as announced this weekend — come as a surprise.

Downey’s “Iron Man” kicked off of the MCU in 2008, and his character Tony Stark’s death, in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” was a climax of sorts. “Endgame” represented a culmination of all Marvel storytelling to that point: Downey’s definitive departure meant that this particular set of stories, in which wisecracking defense contractor sat at the emotional center, was done.

What immediately followed his departure was a major hiccup, with his film “Dolittle” bombing critically and commercially in early 2020. It was an attempted franchise-starter, and a cynical one: Downey has said since that he was...

Andrea Martin, Melora Hardin and Ruthie Ann Miles have joined the Broadway cast of McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr.

On Monday, the production also announced that “a highly realistic Metahuman Digital Likeness” of Downey will be used within the production, appearing alongside Downey himself. The technology was developed by Agbo, Anthony and Joe Russo’s independent studio and Downey.

The play, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher, is scheduled to play the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater starting Sept. 5, with an opening Sept. 30.

Additional cast members include Brittany Bellizeare (Flex), Rafi Gavron (A Star is Born) and Saisha Talwar.

The play sees Downey portraying a talented writer who grapples with a new novel, a broken family life and “an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence.”

Downey’s production company, Team Downey, is producing, in association with Lincoln Center Theater. The play will mark Downey’s Broadway debut.

How I Met Your Mother launched the entire ensemble to international fame. Not just that, but it also became a steppingstone for them to transition to high-profile roles and movies. For instance, Cobie Smulders got on board the MCU ship as agent Maria Hill in The Avengers (2015).

Josh Radnor in a still from How I Met Your Mother || CBS

Josh Radnor, on the other hand, had a different approach in his cinematic journey after the show’s conclusion in 2014. Further, he desired a more balanced life and a wanted privacy and space.

Josh Radnor Was Satisfied With His Career Trajectory After Himym In frame the cast of How I Met Your Mother || CBS

After the conclusion of the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother in 2014, it took Josh Radnor another 4 years to get back on the screens in 2018’s Rise. Just a couple of days before its premiere, he...

Exclusive: Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the recently announced Dolly Parton musical Hello, I’m Dolly, set for Broadway in 2026.

“How lucky I am to have the great Bartlett Sher direct my Hello, I’m Dolly musical,” Parton said in a statement. “When you decide to put your whole life up on stage, you hope and pray to find the right director with the right creativity and sensitivity to present all the blood, sweat, tears, light, love, and laughter that I’ve experienced over seven decades of living. My heart tells me that Bartlett is the man and the director for the job.”

Said Sher, “Dolly is one of the great songwriters in the American canon, and being entrusted with the opportunity to help her translate that glorious talent into the American musical theater is not only an honor, but absolutely a thrill.

Floyd Collins, the 1994 musical that has built an enduring popularity due to an Off Broadway cast recording, will finally receive a Broadway staging: The Adam Guettel-Tina Landau musical will be part of the just-announced 2024-2025 40th Anniversary Lincoln Center Theater season.

The musical, based on the true and tragic story of a 1925 cave explorer in Kentucky that has long since passed into folklore, joins the previously announced play McNeal starring Robert Downey Jr. on the Lct season Broadway line-up. Floyd Collins will being previews on March 27, 2025 at Lct’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, with an opening night of Monday, April 21.

Lct also announced its Off Broadway season line-up, which will include The Blood Quilt by Katori Hall, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, and Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, featuring a new version by Mark O’Rowe, directed by Jack O’Brien, both at Lct’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

At Lct’s smaller Clair Tow Theater,...

Fresh off winning his first Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr. is making huge changes in his career. Some of them break trends that he hasn't broken in decades.

This year, Robert Downey Jr. made his return to the small screen after two decades, starring in Max's adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer. However, the changes don't end here. The actor, who has focused on films in the last few decades, will soon return to stage work.

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The Guardian reports that Robert Downey Jr. is set to make his Broadway debut, 40 years after his last stage work. The former MCU actor is choosing another Pulitzer Prize-winning project,...

Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced.

Downey will play the title character Jacob McNeal in the production staged by Lincoln Center Theater and directed by Bartlett Sher (To Kill A Mockingbird).

McNeal will begin previews Thursday, September 5, and open on Monday, September 30, at Lct’s Vivian Beaumont Theater. The production will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 24.

Complete casting will be announced at a later date.

The official synopsis: “Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a...

Robert Downey Jr. is making his Broadway debut this fall in a new play by Ayad Akhtar.

The play, called McNeal, will see Downey portraying a talented writer who grapples with a new novel, a broken family life and “an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence.” Bartlett Sher, resident director at the Lincoln Center who also helmed To Kill a Mockingbird, among others, is directing.

Downey’s production company, Team Downey, is producing, in association with Lincoln Center Theater.

The play will run at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater starting Sept. 5 and opening on Sept. 30. The play will be a strictly limited engagement running through Nov. 24. Complete casting will be announced at a later date.

The Iron Man star won his first Oscar this year for his role in Oppenheimer. His recent projects include the HBO and A24 adaptation of the novel The Sympathizer. He is also slated to appear in Paramount Pictures’ Vertigo.

André Bishop will conclude his 33-year leadership tenure at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2025 at the conclusion of the non-profit theater company’s 40th anniversary 2024-25 season.

Bishop, whose celebrated tenure as Lct’s Artistic Director and more recently Producing Artistic Director included the premieres of such acclaimed new works as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Arcadia, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, to name a very few, announced his intended departure today.

“My years at Lincoln Center Theater have been happy ones,” he said in a statement, “and I will miss working with all my friends and colleagues. But the time has come, as it inevitably does, for the next generation to step in and step up. I look forward to that. Lct has...

André Bishop will step down from his role as producing artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater next year, after having worked at the nonprofit theater company for 33 years.

Bishop will depart at the end of the theater’s 2024-2025 season and the board of Lincoln Center Theater will launch a search for his successor “in due course.” The move from Bishop, who has held the position of producing artistic director at the Lincoln Center theater since July 2013, after serving as artistic director since January 1992, marks the latest shake-up in Broadway’s nonprofit realm, which consists of four theater companies.

On Wednesday, Second Stage founder Carole Rothman announced she would leave the company after 45 years. Longtime Roundabout Theatre Company CEO and Artistic Director Todd Haimes died in April, and Manhattan Theatre Club Executive Producer Barry Grove announced his departure in January after 48 years with the organization.

Chris Jennings, who had previously...

Pen America, the 101-year-old organization dedicated to “the freedom to write,” is offering grants to help early-career screenwriters during the Writers Guild strike, which is now in its 122nd day. Its new Screenwriters Emergency Assistance Fund is offering short-term grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 to eligible screenwriters on a first come-first served basis.

“During these difficult days, we are honored as a writers organization to do as much as we can to relieve the financial stress members of the WGA, East and West, are facing,” said Pen America President Ayad Akhtar. “Pen America has a long history of coming together to assist writers in need, as well as those at risk round the world, and we are honored to be able to do so again during this emergency. We hope our effort will send a powerful message of hope at this time.”

“Pen America recognizes the financial hardship that many screenwriters...

Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt have joined the cast of the live-action sequel to Sony Pictures’ ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife.’

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ writer and executive producer, Gil Kenan will take over directing duties from Jason Reitman. Reitman will move into the writer-producer role alongside co-scribe Kenan and Jason Blumenfeld. Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon are said to be on board to return.

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Details on the plot for the sequel are yet to be revealed but rumours have it the film will be set back in New York and that the infamous firehouse HQ will feature once again.

Nanjiani has landed on his feet over recent years, gaining big roles in major franchises that include Marvel and Star Wars projects. He most recently starred in Hulu’s limited series ‘Welcome to Chippendales,’ Disney+ ‘Star Wars’ prequel ‘Obi-Wan...

Exclusive: Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, comedian James Acaster and Emily Alyn Lind have joined the cast of the live-action sequel to Sony Pictures’ hit film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Gil Kenan is directing, and the previous pic’s cast including Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon will return as the setting shifts to the original films’ New York City and firehouse.

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Jason Reitman, who directed the 2021 pic, will move into the writer-producer role alongside co-scribe Kenan and Jason Blumenfeld.

Not much is known about the sequel, but sources say the plan is to return to New York City and the iconic firehouse made...

Exclusive: Jesús I. Valles’ play Bathhouse.pptx has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, with the honor’s judge Jeremy O. Harris calling the new work an exploration of “a queer history that is quickly being erased.”

The prize for emerging playwrights, now in its 16th year, was selected from more than 1,500 entries. As is the prize’s custom, Harris, the author of Slave Play and a Yale alum, was the selection process’ presiding playwright, or sole judge. Previous judges have included Edward Albee, David Hare, John Guare, Marsha Norman, Nicholas Wright, Ayad Akhtar and Paula Vogel.

“This is one of the most exciting speculative fictions I’ve encountered in years,” Harris said, “using a unique dramaturgy to explore a queer history that is quickly being erased. It brought to mind the works of many heroes like Samuel Delaney, Martin Crimp, and Kathy Acker.”

Winning playwright Velles said,...

Justin Hurwitz discusses the change in writer and director for the La La Land Broadway adaptation. La La Land was written and directed by Damien Chazelle, earning him and Hurwitz critical acclaim and multiple Academy Awards. It was recently announced that a stage adaptation is being developed for Broadway by Lionsgate and producer Marc Platt. While Hurwitz, the composer, and songwriters Benji Pasek and Justin Paul are returning to write additional music for the La La Land adaptation, Tony winner Bartlett Sher will step in to direct from a book written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker.

During an interview with Screen Rant, Hurwitz explained why the Broadway adaptation is not being written or directed by Chazelle. He broke down the difference between stage and film directing, detailing how cinematic Chazelle's La La Land is designed to be. Hurwitz also affirmed his continued collaboration with Chazelle.

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Warning: Some Spoilers for BabylonNow out on digital platforms, Damien Chazelle's Babylon may be one of the more critically divisive albeit lavish films released in 2022. But one aspect of the movie that has garnered near-universal praise is the frenetic and thrilling score by Chazelle's longtime friend and composer, Justin Hurwitz. Whereas Babylon is a product of years of research on Chazelle's part, Hurwitz chose not to emulate what is known of music from the 1920s in creating his score. Instead, Hurwitz leaned on a wide range of influences in order to create a sonic landscape that felt as daring and evocative as the film itself. Although Justin Hurwitz has consistently contributed fantastic music to all of Damien Chazelle's films, the composer's work on Babylon has already been recognized in its own right in the form of a Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination.

Even as Hurwitz hurdles toward the Academy Awards with Babylon,...

This week we’ve already had reports of a Broadway show getting the big screen treatment – specifically, Bob Dylan jukebox musical Girl From The North Country! Hang on… wait… wait… we’re getting word that it is in fact _Moonlight! Only kidding, it actually is La La Land.

The stage adaptation of Damien Chazelle’s six-time Oscar-winning global smash – about an aspiring actress and jazz musician chasing their dreams and falling in love in Los Angeles – is set to be helmed by a veritable City Of Stars. Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher will steer the show, based on a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and three-time Barrymore Award winner Matthew Decker. The film’s original Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz will be returning to provide the music, as will its Oscar- and Tony-winning lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

“I’m thrilled to reunite with Lionsgate and the incredible...

“La La Land” is coming to the great white way.

Tony Award-winning producer Marc Platt announced today that together with Lionsgate, they were bringing the Oscar-nominated film to the stage.

Tony Award and Drama Desk Award-winning director Bartlett Sher will be responsible for the show with a book being penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and three-time Barrymore Award winner Matthew Decker.

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The film’s composer, Academy Award-winner Justin Hurwitz, returns to compose music to lyrics by Tony-winning composing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

“I’m thrilled to reunite with Lionsgate and the incredible team behind La La Land to adapt the movie for the Broadway stage, the next exciting chapter in its evolution,” said Platt. “We’ve assembled a world-class team to create a musical that will delight La La Land...

La La Land is set to be adapted into a stage musical.

The Oscar-winning 2017 musical film starred Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a jazz musician and aspiring actor who embark on a turbulent love affair.

Justin Hurwitz wrote the music for the film, while Benj Pasek and Justin Paul penned the lyrics. All three men will be working on the stage adaptation.

Marc Platt, one of the film’s producers, describes the Broadway production as “the next exciting chapter in [La La Land’s] evolution”.

“We’ve assembled a world-class team to create a musical that will delight La La Land’s millions of current fans and introduce the property to a whole new audience,” he said.

Among the songs featured in the original film were “Another Day of Sun” and “City of Stars”, the latter of which won the award for Best Original Song at the Oscars and the Golden Globes.

"La La Land" is bringing another day of sun from Los Angeles to New York. A musical based on the Oscar-winning movie starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling is currently in development, according to a Feb. 7 report from Deadline.

"I'm thrilled to reunite with Lionsgate and the incredible team behind 'La La Land' to adapt the movie for the Broadway stage, the next exciting chapter in its evolution," said Marc Platt, who produced the original movie and will also produce the stage musical, per the outlet. "We've assembled a world-class team to create a musical that will delight 'La La Land''s millions of current fans and introduce the property to a whole new audience." Previously, Platt produced the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen," which his son Ben Platt starred in. A rep for Marc did not immediately respond to Popsugar's request for comment.

The show will...

La La Land is bringing the city of stars to the Big Apple, as Damien Chazelle's Oscar-winning musical is heading to Broadway. The stage adaptation will be written by award-winning playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker, with Bartlett Sher set as director. Frequent Chazelle collaborator Justin Hurwitz will return to write the score, with duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul returning to write the lyrics. No casting or debut date have been announced.

Broadway will soon turn into La La Land; Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-sweeping 2016 film is getting a stage musical adaptation that’s currently in development, Deadline reports.

La La Land, which starred Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as a fledgling actress and jazz musician, already seems tailor-made for Broadway. The stage version will be directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher from a book written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and three-time Barrymore Award winner Matthew Decker. Academy Award winner Justin Hurwitz, who composed the film, will handle the music, with lyrics by the Oscar and Tony-winning composing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

“I’m thrilled to reunite with Lionsgate and the incredible team behind La La Land to adapt the movie for the Broadway stage, the next exciting chapter in its evolution,” said producer Marc Platt, who worked on both the film and the play. “We’ve assembled...

“La La Land” is headed for Broadway: producer Marc Platt and Lionsgate announced on Tuesday that Damien Chazelle’s six-time Oscar-winning film is being adapted for the stage.

“I’m thrilled to reunite with Lionsgate and the incredible team behind ‘La La Land’ to adapt the movie for the Broadway stage, the next exciting chapter in its evolution,” said Platt in a statement shared with TheWrap. “We’ve assembled a world-class team to create a musical that will delight ‘La La Land’s millions of current fans and introduce the property to a whole new audience.”

Bartlett Sher will direct from the book by Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker. The stage adaptation will feature music by the film’s composer, two-time Oscar winner Justin Hurwitz and lyrics by the Oscar and Tony-winning composing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

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La La Land is heading to Broadway. The Oscar-winning movie musical is being developed as a stage musical by producer Marc Platt and Lionsgate.

The 2016 movie, which starred Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, followed an aspiring actress and a jazz musician as they pursue their dreams in Los Angeles. The film’s original songs include tracks “City of Stars” and “Another Day of Sun.”

Bartlett Sher, whose credits include To Kill a Mockingbird and the Broadway revival of South Pacific, will direct from a book written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker. Composer Justin Hurwitz, who was behind the film’s score, will handle the music for the show with lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the Oscar and Tony-winning creatives behind the songs in the movie.

“I’m thrilled to reunite with Lionsgate and the incredible team behind La La Land to adapt the movie for the Broadway stage,...

A Broadway musical take of the six-time Oscar-winning, 472 million worldwide-grossing movie La La Land is in development, Emmy- and Tony-winning producer Marc Platt said Tuesday.

The show, based on the Damien Chazelle-directed movie, will be helmed by Tony and Drama Desk-winning director Bartlett Sher based on a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and three-time Barrymore Award winner Matthew Decker. The stage adaptation will feature music by the film’s composer and two-time Oscar winner Justin Hurwitz and lyrics by Oscar- and Tony-winning composing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

The movie, which starred Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, followed an aspiring actress and a jazz musician as they pursue their dreams in Los Angeles. The pic won Oscars for director, actress in a leading role, production design, cinematography, original score and original song among its 14 nominations.

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“City of Stars” is heading to the city that never sleeps. “La La Land,” the Oscar-winning film from Damien Chazelle, will be adapted into a Broadway musical, it was announced Tuesday.

A premiere window for the production has not yet been announced. The musical comes from Lionsgate, the distributor behind the 2016 feature film, and the original movie’s composer Justin Hurwitz will return along with songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to write new music for the stage musical.

Bartlett Sher, a Tony winner for the 2008 revival of “South Pacific,” directs from a book written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar and Matthew Decker. Marc Platt, a producer on the original film and a two-time Tony award winner for “A Strange Loop” and “The Band’s Visit,” serves as the lead producer on the project.

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“Young and the Restless” star Tracey Bregman has her Daytime Emmy back. The star’s original Emmy was destroyed in 2018 when she lost her house during Malibu’s Woolsey Fire. As she appeared Tuesday on CBS’ “The Talk,” Bregman was surprised with a replacement statue from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Bregman won her Emmy back in 1985 for the category that was then known as Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in a Drama Series. She appeared on “The Talk” to help celebrate her 40th anniversary on the show (which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary this year). Her on-screen husband, Christian Le Blanc, made a special appearance to surprise her with the new Emmy.

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Harris joins the ranks of such previous presiding playwrights as Edward Albee, David Hare, John Guare, Marsha Norman, Nicholas Wright, Ayad Akhtar and, most recently, Paula Vogel.

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HBO has picked up “Doomsday Machine,” the upcoming series starring Claire Foy as Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The series is adapted from Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s New York Times bestselling book “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination.”

“Doomsday Machine” chronicles the political and social minefields Facebook has navigated on its relentless quest for growth. The series examines how Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg’s work are shaping the way that billions of people around the world communicate and consume information.

The series is created by Ayad Akhtar and hails from Anonymous Content and Wiip. Executive producers include Foy, Akhtar, Wiip’s Paul Lee and Josh Stern, Anonymous’ David Levine and Doug Wald, Adam Berkowitz, Elyse Cheney and Adam Eaglin. Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker is also a consultant on the project.

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HBO has closed a deal for Doomsday Machine, a limited series about Facebook starring Emmy winner Claire Foy as embattled tech giant COO Sheryl Sandberg and executive producing as well. Anonymous Content and wiip (Mare of Easttown, Dickinson), which took the project to the marketplace in October, will co-produce with HBO.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, Doomsday Machine is based on Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s bestselling book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination as well as their New York Times reporting and the reporting of the New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz. Doomsday Machine chronicles the political and social minefields Facebook has navigated on its relentless quest for growth. The series places us in the shoes of Sandberg (Foy) and Mark Zuckerberg, who are shaping the way that billions of people around the world communicate and consume information.

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