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During the Comic-Con@Home panel for the BBC and HBO's His Dark Materials, Andrew Scott and Lin-Manuel Miranda talked about something that Scott introduced him to when filming in Britain - and that made him an addict Percy Pigs But what are they? And what do the Brits know that the Americans are discovering?[caption id="attachment_1244560" align="aligncenter"[...]

The only weakness of this issue, and it's a small one, is that it's distracting how much the lead character looks like Lin-Manuel Miranda It's completely understandable for characters to be visually based on famous people However, the preciseness of the likeness is a constant reminder of the Hamilton stars face, which breaks the suspension[...]

The Lin-Manuel Miranda musical has barely been on Disney+ for a few days and already there's thousands of small little tributes Including "Weird Al" Yankovic doing his own version of the musical on his YouTube page called "The Hamilton Polka" But when it comes to video games, we knew somewhere down the road, someone would[...]

Sure, you've heard the Hamilton soundtrack, you saw it on Broadway or on tour, and you've seen the movie on Disney+, but there's an entire world of trivia behind Lin-Manuel Miranda's creation of the cultural phenomenon While this is by no means an exhaustive list, here are a few fun facts to impress your friends[...]

Thankfully, that ends on July 3rd, as Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail will bring us a filmed version of the stage show with the original cast for the world to see It is all very exciting, and Miranda and Kail sat down via Zoom with Variety to talk about the musical itself, and how[...]

2020 has been a bit of a weird year to say the least with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down all aspects of movies from release to pre-production. The change has forced companies to truly change how they release their movies with some moving up their digital releases to bypassing the theatrical experience altogether. It's not […]

The biggest of the big of course is the addition of Hamilton, a broadcast of the original cast on stage performing the smash hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda That hits the service July 3rd Also coming to the service are films like The Mighty Ducks, Ice Age: Collision Course, and Solo: A Star Wars Story[...]

Fiddler on the Roof is coming back to the big screen. MGM has tapped Thomas Kail to bring the story back to theaters with a new remake. Steven Levenson will write the script. The musical opened on Broadway in 1964 and won nine Tony Awards, and the original film version was nominated for eight Academy […]

Disney Chairman Bob Iger and Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared this morning on Good Morning America to share the news In short, Disney is not throwing away their shot.The filmed version includes original Broadway cast members Miranda as the eponymous “ten-dollar founding father without a father,” Leslie Odom, Jr as his antagonist Aaron Burr, Renée Elise Goldsberry and[...]

In The Heights was taken off the schedule this week by Warner Bros. Not surprising in this new theatrical release landscape, but it was one of the only films not given a new release date. The adaptation of the Lin Manuel-Miranda musical was one of the more anticipated films releasing this summer, so it was […]

On February 3rd, Disney announced they will bring the famed show to the big screen with the original cast as a live capture.[caption id="attachment_1160951" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Credit: Terry Underwood Evans / Shutterstock.com[/caption] Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" Plans for Disney The problem is the multi-ethnic take one of the country’s Founding Fathers ventures more into the R-Rating with its[...]

Hamilton, the runaway, hugely successful Broadway musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, is coming to theaters for one night only In partnership with Disney, the one night theatrical event will feature the original Broadway cast reprising their roles The filming will take place at The Richard Rogers Theatre on Broadway, home to the show since its opening[...]

The big screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash looks sensational, capturing the spirit of the stage musical and featuring an exciting, young cast The original musical was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, taking home four, including Best Musical This is as close to a sure thing as Hollywood can get Well, until Hamilton hits[...]

Here in the U.S., the cable giant follows not far behind, premiering the epic series on Monday night, November 4th.Whether you're watching the opener for the third time by this point or counting down the hours until your first view, the fine folks at the BBC are offering a look at what the author himself[...]

The cable giant follows up not far behind, premiering the epic series on Monday, November 4th.Now, BBC has decided to release the series' opening title sequence for our viewing pleasure...https://youtu.be/uRaT0QXAxCwTo help set the proper viewing mood, series stars Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, and Lin-Manuel Miranda sat down for a series of behind-the-scenes features[...]

The cable giant follows up not far behind, premiering the epic series on Monday, November 4th.To help set the proper viewing mood, series stars Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, and Lin-Manuel Miranda sat down for a series of behind-the-scenes features In each clip, Keen, Wilson, McAvoy, and Miranda discuss the personal process that went[...]

Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Sherlock) is set to join the second season of the series, which stars Dafne Keen, James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, and Lin-Manuel Miranda and produced Bad Wolf-New Line Cinema.Father of Will Parry (Amir Wilson), Scott's Colonel John Parry (also known as Doctor Stanislaus Grumman or Jopari) accidentally travelled to Lyra’s world - becoming[...]

While the preview may be a light on the "dark" and the "materials" (it is a teaser, but a little more would be nice), we do get to see stars Dafne Keen, James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, and Lin-Manuel Miranda in various stages of "ultra seriousness" in the Bad Wolf/New Line Cinema-produced series.Based on Pullman's literary[...]

Together they encounter extraordinary beings and dangerous secrets, with the fate of both the living—and the dead— in their hands. The cast of HBO and BBC’s His Dark Materials also includes James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anne-Marie Duff, Clarke Peters, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen father of young lead Dafne Keen) Ian Gelder, Georgina Campbell, Lucian Msamati, James Cosmo,[...]

We're talking of course of the aquatic tale, The Little Mermaid.There are a few things we know for sure, namely that original animated Little Mermaid score composer Alan Menken is on board, as well as Lin-Manuel Miranda Just last month, Tim Burk (Fantastic Beasts) was added as visual effects supervisor, according to HNEntertainment.That's sort of all we KNOW at this[...]