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Lin-Manuel Miranda just gave us the best pre-Christmas present; the final Hamildrop. If you are familiar with the term, the Hamildrops have been a series of remixes and special recordings of songs from Miranda's hit Broadway show, Hamilton The 'drops have been happening throughout 2018, and this last one broke our hearts in the best ways. THE FINAL[...]

His 2004 Hamilton bio served as the source material for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical Hamilton, with his 2017 Grant bio being developed for the big screen by Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio. In light of the WHCA's decision, there is no word yet if Samantha Bee (TBS's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee) will host another edition of Not The[...]

Just this week, Lin-Manuel Miranda revealed a list of his five favorite musicals, as well as some pretty great stories as to why. Lin-Manuel MirandaPhoto by Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com In an interview with The New York Times, in no particular order, the "In The Heights" and "Hamilton" creator spoke about what musicals mean to him, and why[...]

won the hot bidding war for the film rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda's first hit stage show, "In The Heights"? Okay well if you don't, back in May, it was a highly sought-after property that was suffering a bit from the initial interest of someone with the initials H.W.  Shortly thereafter, good ol' Warner Bros[...]

Emily Blunt stars as the practically-perfect nanny with unique magical skills who can turn any ordinary task into an unforgettable, fantastic adventure and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays her friend Jack, an optimistic street lamplighter who helps bring light—and life—to the streets of London. The film also stars Ben Whishaw as adult Michael Banks; Emily Mortimer as adult[...]

Emily Blunt stars as the practically perfect nanny with unique magical skills who can turn any task into an unforgettable, fantastic adventure and Lin-Manuel Miranda plays her friend Jack, an optimistic street lamplighter who helps bright light– and life– to the streets of London. Mary Poppins Returns, directed by Rob Marshall, stars Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda,[...]

This alone is exciting, considering how deep into the dance genre and culture of performance art they've been going lately with Pose (which got picked up for a second season). The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Lin-Manuel Miranda is re-teaming with "Hamilton" and "In The Heights" director Thomas Kail for this 8-part series, and they're bringing some top notch[...]

The star of X-Men and Atomic Blonde will join Clarke Peters (The Wire), Dafne Keen (Logan) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), who have already been cast along with director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and writer Jack Thorne (National Treasure) on the project The eight-part series is being produced by Bad Wolf and is expected to[...]

Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights is heading to the big screen The film adaptation of the Tony award-winning musical will hit theaters on June 26th, 2020 Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M Chu has been brought on to direct Anthony Bregman, Mara Jacobs, and Scott Sanders are on board to produce After a heated[...]

Lin-Manuel Miranda isn't just "Hamilton Guy", even though many will know him soley for that.  Before he was rapping about the nation's founding fathers and changing the face of Broadway, Miranda had another notable but less well known hit show called "In The Heights". That musical chronicles a mostly hispanic group of denizens of the Washington Heights[...]

Broadway stalwarts Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt have joined forces to produce the song 'Found/Tonight' It is inspired by the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland who have now made it their mission to change gun control laws in the US after the terrible tragedy they went through a few weeks ago. The song combines[...]

NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon continues to be the late night show that keeps on giving, and last night's 'Hamilton Polka' lip syncing segment is proof of that. Weird Al Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda had been teasing individual song releases for the better part of a month, and two days ago we found out they were[...]

Hamilton star/composer/writer/general good dude Lin-Manuel Miranda has been teasing a special #Hamildrop for February 30th (nice), and fans have been playing detective ever since it was announced Weird Al Yankovic also separately announced that his new single would be hitting Friday as well People starting putting two and two together, and now we know. 'The Hamilton[...]

They even have a partnership set-up to make Pin Mates with Lin-Manuel Miranda, with both Miranda and his dog Tobi coming There will also be one of Lin as Alexander Hamilton from some musical called Hamilton You may have heard of it. More than Pin Mates and wooden figures and Superhero Chair Capes, I am most[...]

Lin-Manuel Miranda and his dog Tobi are getting Pin Mates figures Entertainment Earth has joined up with Miranda's imprint TeeRico to make toys and the first offering is an adorable pair of Pin Mates figures The wooden figure line has really taken off the past couple years, and these will probably prove to be just[...]

The highly anticipated adaptations (both film and TV series) based on Pat Rothfuss's "The Kingkiller Chronicles" may have found the perfect director. Maybe you'll recall back in 2016 when Lin-Manuel Miranda was brought in to serve as creative producer and musical mastermind of both a feature film and TV series for Lionsgate, with Rothfuss a part of the team,[...]

Hamilton's own Leslie Odom, Jr. is getting ready to take the stage at a "theater" that seats over 100 million, with NBC announcing that the Tony Award-winning singer would be performing "America The Beautiful” at NFL Super Bowl LII on Sunday, February 4.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton and the original star, will be returning to the title role when the musical makes a three-week run in Puerto Rico Miranda, born in Puerto Rico, was originally taking his creation to the U.S Territory, but the devastation cause by Hurricane Maria has increased the[...]

At the D23 expo today, during his A Whole New World of Alan Menken performance/show, he dropped a cool piece of news about that one: Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote music for the Disney film Moana and the Broadway smash hit Hamilton will join him in creating music for Ariel's new big screen adventure. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

Currently D23's live action panel is pretty much the best thing to happen during this hour of the day. The upcoming Marry Poppins Returns--a sequel to the

Back in November, it was reported that Lin-Manuel Miranda is particularly interested in playing the character, specifically with an eye on a Maximum Carnage movie A star of Miranda's caliber would be perfect to help launch the Spider-Verse, just as his name is perfect to bring lots of clicks to this article. And future articles, if[...]

Beakley) and Tony Anselmo (Donald Duck). Recurring guest voices this season include: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Allison Janney, Margo Martindale, Paul F Tompkins, Kimiko Glenn, Jim Rash, Josh Brener, Keith Ferguson, Eric Bauza and Corey Burton. Disney XD really wants you to know that they have a major reboot of DuckTales coming in August, and now we know when[...]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is building up quite a resume since departing the hit musical Hamilton He's already did the composition for Moana and signed on as a lead for Mary Poppins Returns as well as getting involved with the adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles Now he can add Duck Tales to the list. Miranda will voice[...]

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Lin-Manuel Miranda joins Blunt in a Bert-like role replacing Dick Van Dyke from the first film, and as probably the world's biggest Mary Poppins fanboys, we're really excited about this movie But while other sites are focusing on the first look at Mary Poppins' profile in this photo, it's something else that caught our eye: That's right![...]

Lansbury will play a character called the Balloon Lady, from the original novels. In the Julie Andrews role this time around is Emily Blunt, backed by Lin-Manuel Miranda playing Jack, a reboot of Van Dyke's old character Bert since the film will not be a reboot but a sequel set two decades later, and Bert being[...]

Crane gets his wardrobe criticized by someone done up to look a bit like Lin-Manuel Miranda in the scene below And when you think that it might just be his response to knowing the real Hamilton… he connects it to the musical I guess he didn't want to throw away his shot. https://youtu.be/QkI5ZoFZdLY [...]

Only half of the group had heard of him, but I was intrigued. Two days later, I'm working on articles and come across the announcement that Lin-Manuel Miranda was going to be working with Rothfuss to adapt his Kingkiller Chronicles I like Miranda, and like many people, I'm a fan of Hamilton Then a couple weeks[...]

Revealed yesterday during a seemingly innocuous (aside from an awesome Jerry Lewis interview) Hollywood Reporter article about 90+ year old actors, the

The talk was about the Hamilton the musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda and then we shifted to the charitable work of Patrick Rothfuss and his fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicles. Today, Variety is telling us that Lionsgate has tapped Miranda to be creative producer and musical guru for feature film and TV adaptations of the Kingkiller Chronicles along[...]