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The UK's vibrant film and TV production sector recorded a stellar start to 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered all shoots across the country. Largely driven by inward investment, spend was tracking to hit a new record before the closure of sets in March. Still, numbers for January – March totaled $806M…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony's reimagining of the classic Cinderella fairytale is the latest high-profile production to pause shooting as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. This weekend, crew were sent home from the project, which is based at the UK’s Pinewood Studios. The studio confirmed to us today that a…

Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning actor Billy Porter is continuing to change and challenge perspectives when it comes to gender norms, this time in Kay Cannon's forthcoming live-action iteration of Cinderella at Sony. The Pose star is set to play the fairy godmother in the feature, and in a recent interview with CBS…

EXCLUSIVE:  With cameras set to roll on Thursday, Sony is rounding out the cast for Kay Cannon’s new telling of Cinderella, starring Camila Cabello. Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Minnie Driver is set to play Queen Beatrice, with Grammy-Award winning musician Missy Elliott in talks to play the role of the Town…

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…