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EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Baillio and Charlotte Spencer have landed the roles of the stepsisters in Sony Pictures and writer-director Kay Cannon's Cinderella retelling. Señorita crooner Camila Cabello stars in the film along with Pierce Brosnan, Billy Porter, Idina Menzel, and Nicholas Galitzine. The re-imagined musical…

Pierce Brosnan is heading to a land far, far away for the upcoming Kay Cannon-helmed adaptation of Cinderella, Deadline has confirmed. The former 007 actor has been cast alongside Camila Cabello, who will take on the titular role, as well as Idina Menzel, Billy Porter, and Nicholas Galitzine, who Deadline recently…

EXCLUSIVE: Word is getting around that British actor Nicholas Galitzine has won the role of Prince Robert in Sony’s upcoming Camila Cabello musical Cinderella. After a long search, Galitzine, I hear, wowed the filmmakers in many chemistry readings. In addition to Cabello, the actor joins Idina Menzel (who plays…

Billy Porter has confirmed he’ll be joining Sony's upcoming adaptation of Cinderella. In a Q&A Saturday evening at the New Yorker Festival, Porter told attendees he’ll play the Fairy Godmother opposite Camila Cabello, who’s set to star as the glass slipper-wearing lead character. As Deadline reported earlier this…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony and Grammy winning actress Idina Menzel we hear is in talks to join Sony’s musical Cinderella directed and written by Kay Cannon, and starring Camila Cabello. Menzel is poised to play Evelyn, the evil stepmother. Yesterday news broke that Pose Emmy winner Billy Porter is in negotiations for the role of…

Category is: Fairytale realness! Newly minted Emmy winning Pose actor Billy Porter is going from the ballroom culture of ’90s New York to the ballroom culture of a land far, far away as he is in talks to join Sony’s forthcoming adaptation of Cinderella, Deadline has learned. Sony has declined to comment about the…

Andrew Lloyd Webber casually announced that his contemporary musical version of Cinderella, with a book by The Crown actress/Killing Eve writer Emerald Fennell, will arrive on Broadway next year. During an interview on UK’s Good Morning Britain (watch it below) this week, the Cats composer, asked about his unrelenting…

EXCLUSIVE: After almost 20 years at Sony Pictures, Executive Vice President Jonathan Kadin will become an independent producer. Kadin’s first project will be producing alongside James Corden and Leo Pearlman for the upcoming musical-comedy Cinderella starring Camila Cabello. The movie is scheduled to begin prep this…

Sony dated a trio of films for 2020-2021 while moving Screen Gems’ Adam Robitel sequel Escape Room 2 from April 17, 2020 to Aug. 14, 2020. Of note, Kay Cannon’s re-imagination of Cinderella starring multi-platinum pop artist and Grammy nominee Camila Cabello will open on Feb. 5, 2021. James Corden cracked the idea…

Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and Disney’s 1950 animated Cinderella are among the 25 motion pictures that have been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Wednesday’s additions to the registry, now in its 30th year, boosts the…

Andrew Lloyd Webber is developing a contemporary musical stage version of Cinderella, Deadline has confirmed. The prolific composer is collaborating with playwright/screenwriter Tom MacRae and writer/Call the Midwife actress Emerald Fennell. The planned Cinderella would update the classic fairy tale to feature a…

William Phipps, the voice of Prince Charming in the animated Disney film Cinderella and a prolific actor who appeared in more than 200 film and television productions, has died. Phipps passed Friday at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica at age 96 from lung cancer complications, according to his friend, author Tom…