A column covering events and conversations on the awards circuit
One day off for New Year’s and it was back into the swing of the season – BIG TIME. Kicking off a week’s end with non-stop awards-related events, you can safely use the word “whirlwind” to describe it all, as the annual Palm Springs Film Awards Gala…
Even as one of the film industry’s preeminent costume designers, a three-time Oscar winner with 12 nominations since 1994, Sandy Powell had a lot on her plate, signing up for Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns. A sequel to a 1964 classic, the Disney musical would require the designer to take Poppins into a new era…
EXCLUSIVE: Pharrell Williams, whose Oscar-nominated song “Happy” helped turn Despicable Me 2 into a monster hit in 2013, has rejoined with Illumination and Universal Pictures. Williams has come aboard to be the narrator of the animatedThe Grinch. Grammy nominee Tyler, the Creator has written an original song — “I Am…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the Emmy season awards circuit.
If you are a member of the Television Academy, as I am, it seems like this Emmy campaign season is never going to end. But Phase One finally will start to phase out beginning Monday, when voting goes live for two weeks for this year’s…
Masterpiece's Little Women marks a breakthrough for PBS: It’s produced by BBC, which, producer Rebecca Eaton noted, "does not do American drama.”
“It's hard to get America novels done with BBC because they are BBC – they have a mandate,” she said. Additionally, it can be expensive. “If you shoot in this country, it’s…
UPDATED, 5:45 PM:Â Angela Landsbury has come forward to clarify her controversial statement made yesterday in regards to sexual harassment during an interview with Radio Times magazine. Here is her new statement:
"There is no excuse whatsoever for men to harass women in an abusive sexual manner,” said Landsbury in a…
Angela Lansbury is in talks to join the cast of Little Women, a three-part drama series adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's coming-of-age classic for BBC One and Masterpiece on PBS.
The project, from Colin Callender's Playground, is written by Heidi Thomas (Call The Midwife) and directed by Vanessa Caswill (Thirteen)…
Angela Lansbury, who has starred in a number of Disney films over her long career, has just joined the cast of Rob Marshall’s sequel Mary Poppins Returns, which is filming at Shepperton Studios. She will portray the Balloon Lady. The film is scheduled for release Christmas Day 2018.
Directed and produced by Marshall…
Angela Lansbury revealed this morning that she won’t be returning to Broadway next season after all. The five-time Tony winner said in June that she would head a revival of Enid Bagnold’s 1955 mysterious comedy The Chalk Garden, with Scott Rudin and Andrew Bryan producing. No other details were forthcoming at the…
UPDATE with Scott Rudin quote: Five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury is heading back to Broadway this season to star in a revival of Enid Bagnold’s 1955 play The Chalk Garden. Scott Rudin is producing with Andrew Bryan. No house has been set yet, nor has any other cast, according to Playbill, which broke the…
Veteran actress Angela Lansbury is a multi-Tony Award winner, but only just picked up her first Olivier. British theater’s most prestigious prizes were handed out tonight in London with Lansbury winning for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit. The play marked her return to the London…
Like a top-billed trouper from time out of mind, Angela Lansbury will continue her Tony-winning, West End-haunting run as the spirited rare medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit. The star of all screens and stages is taking the show on the road for a North American tour slated to begin December 9 at the…
