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A 25th anniversary celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella will air with a news special cast reunion and presentation of the original film as part of Disney Princess Week. The package, Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20, airs on ABC-TV on Tuesday, Aug. 23 stating at 8 PM ET/PT and will…

There’s a limited series based on Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella in the works from Jennifer Lopez‘s Nuyorican Productions, Skydance Television, and Concord Originals. The project is an original take on the musical to be written by Rachel Shukert (GLOW, The Baby-Sitters Club) who will also executive produce and…

It's Friday again, readers. Jesse Whittock here (for the first time, be gentle), taking you through the week's top headlines. Cannes Goods Pre-market deals galore: With Cannes now less than two weeks away, everyone's in deal mode, and Andreas had the scoop on several big packages. Film Constellation took sales rights …

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Connor, the British director of troubled West End musical Cinderella, has told friends of his "anger" at how the closure announcement of his show was handled by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his executives. Connor had not been told his show would be closing. He'd been on a professional assignment in…

UPDATED with quotes, 7:42 AM: Members of the UK’s major theater unions have spent the past hour protesting against the sudden closing of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella run in London’s West End and have warned of more to come. Actors union Equity organized the protest outside the Gillian Lynne Theatre after multiple…

UPDATED with clarification about when company was told: Composer and London theatre owner Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera) informed cast and creatives Sunday that his Cinderella musical will close at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Covent Garden, London on June 12 after a troubled run of less than a year. The…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. This week, Oscar’s quest to be cool with fanboys and girls continues with the introduction of a “fan favorite” Twitter initiative for Best Picture, plus bad news for Oscar voters who want to be at the Dolby. There’s also big news for the Critics…

Sony Pictures Entertainment follows its release of Parallel Mothers last week with Jockey in three theaters in New York and Los Angeles (Film Forum, AMC Lincoln Square, Laemmle Royal) on Friday in a specialty market crowded by holdovers and wide releases, and amid a Covid-19 surge that's particularly tough on art…

Cinderella, the onetime Sony musical starring Camila Cabello that was picked up by Amazon Prime Video, debuted over the four-day Labor Day weekend notching 1.1 million U.S. households, according to Samba TV. The pic was dropped on Amazon’s streaming service in 240 countries and territories. Amazon, based on Screen Engi…

Camila Cabello wasn’t looking to become an actress when a pair of glass slippers came calling. The Grammy Award-nominated singer stars in Amazon Prime Video’s Cinderella alongside Billy Porter, who portrays her fairy godmother—or GodMuva, as Porter refers to the character—in a modern fairytale for the ages. The film…

I am not sure the world was clamoring for yet another go-round with the well-worn legend of Cinderella, but that didn’t stop producer James Corden, who pitched Sony on the idea of a new-age take, keeping the surroundings and era intact but turning the future princess into a self-made entrepreneur more concerned with a…

Amazon on Tuesday released the official trailer for Cinderella, the musical take on the fairy tale classic that stars Camila Cabello. The pic written and directed by Kay Cannon will hit the streamer on September 3. The modern take on the story kicks off with Cabello’s Ella dreaming of her own dress business while…