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Oscar and Grammy winner John Legend is teaming up with best-selling pop singer and Hairspray Live! alum Ariana Grande to perform the title song for the soundtrack to Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. Written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the 1991 animated film…

A new trailer for EuropaCorp’s upcoming thriller The Circle hit the web and it features Tom Hanks as a charismatic founder of a tech company who claims that the key to human perfection is complete transparency. “Without secrets, without the hoarding of knowledge and information, we can finally realize our potential,&#8221…

Emma Watson, perhaps best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise films, has signed with CAA for agency representation, moving from WME. Watson has two big films on her slate for next year: she stars as Belle in Disney’s live-action rendition of Beauty And The Beast, which was directed by Bill…

It was a rosy Day 1 for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast trailer. The studio says it racked up 127.6 million online views worldwide in its first 24 hours, topping the record of 114 million set by the Fifty Shades Darker clip in September. The studio said Facebook accounted for 29 million trailer views, fueled by 27…

Disney has unleashed a new trailer for its live-action adaptation of the studio's animated classic Beauty And The Beast. Starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as Beast, the film is directed by Bill Condon and retains the animated pic's Alan Menken/Howard Ashman/Tim Rice score, while adding several new songs…

Just in time to brighten your mood – if, that is, it needs brightening after a very interesting week – a new teaser poster for Disney’s upcoming live-action version of Beauty and the Beast made its way online earlier today. Posted to Twitter by star Emma Watson, the poster nods heavily to the animated classic on which…

EuropaCorp will release its thriller, The Circle, on April 28, 2017. Pic is based on the international best-seller by Dave Eggers, and stars Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega. Directed and adapted by James Ponsoldt, The Circle follows burgeoning social media executive Mae (Watson) who is encouraged by the tech…

EuropaCorp has confirmed that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Circle, the pic written and directed by James Ponsoldt based on Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel. Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Karen Gillan and Patton Oswalt lead the ensemble cast. No release date yet on the pic, which sold in foreign markets…

As Deadline first revealed exclusively more than a month ago, Emma Watson has now been set to star in James Ponsoldt’s adaptation of Dave Eggers’ book The Circle. Watson, in the role Alicia Vikander was recently attached to, stars opposite Tom Hanks as a young woman who is hired for a big job in an Internet monopoly…

EXCLUSIVE– One of the hottest Cannes pic packages — the Tom Hanks-Alicia Vikander-starrer The Circle — is in the process of being reconfigured as the star of that young actress soars after her performance as the beguiling robot in Ex Machina. The Swedish actress is in talks to star in two major new tentpoles: Assassin…

Riding the momentum of its live-action revamps of classic fairy tale stories including this past weekend’s big debut for Cinderella, Disney has set a March 17, 2017, release date for Beauty And The Beast. Production is planned to begin in May in London with Harry Potter star Emma Watson as Belle, Downton Abbey‘s Dan…

Beta Cinema market has announced its Berlinale line-up including one of the festival’s big premieres, the Nazi resistance drama 13 Minutes (Competition – Out of Competition) from director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Oscar-nominated Downfall).  In addition, among Beta Cinema’s pre-sale titles is the $15M Emma Watson-Daniel…