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A cellphone video of a little Ukrainian girl named Amelia singing a sweet and defiant rendition of Frozen‘s “Let It Go” from a bomb shelter in Kyiv has been viewed by many thousands since going viral yesterday, with no less than the film’s original Elsa – Idina Menzel – taking notice. “We see you,” Menzel tweeted. “We…

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…

PBS’s Wicked in Concert special next month will be co-hosted by the musical’s original Broadway stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, with performances by Mario Cantone, Gavin Creel, Ariana DeBose, Cynthia Erivo, Stephanie Hsu, Rita Moreno, Jennifer Nettles, Alex Newell, Isaac Powell, Amber Riley, Gabrielle Ruiz…

EXCLUSIVE: In her feature debut, singer Camila Cabello will be seen fitted for the glass slipper on Amazon Prime. Amazon Studios is closing a deal to acquire worldwide rights to the Kay Cannon-directed musical Cinderella from Sony Pictures. No premiere date yet, but the film will premiere later this year. Sony…

Ozark Season 3 standout Tom Pelphrey has been tapped to star as the infamous conman and fugitive Jason Derek Brown in American Murderer, opposite Tony-winner Idina Menzel, Ryan Phillippe and Jacki Weaver. Matthew Gentile wrote the script and is directing the indie, which is shooting in Salt Lake City. The pic, which…

Music is a growing presence at film's biggest night, and this year seems to have a larger piece of the broadcast than ever before. Beyond the Academy Awards’ traditional Best Original Song presentations, this year's Oscars have a few "special" performances, highlighted by Billie Eilish, fresh off her Grammy majors…

It is hard to believe, but the new sure-to-be holiday blockbuster Frozen II is the first theatrical sequel to a Disney animated musical, and fans have been waiting six years for this event. So does it live up to the hype and the expectations? Well, pretty much. It is always hard to top an original as enormously…

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…

After making its debut at Telluride and the Toronto International Film Festival, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie’s crime thriller Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler became the talk of the town with its tale of a charismatic New York City jeweler who is actively on the lookout for his next big score. The film, written by…

In 2013’s $1.28B worldwide grossing Oscar winner Frozen, Queen Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now, in Frozen 2, she must hope they are enough. Disney just dropped a new trailer for the sequel (check it out above) wherein the answer to why Elsa was born with those powers is calling her — and…

NBC’s love affair with Broadway isn’t limited to Christmas and Easter seasons: just in time for trick or treat, the network will broadcast A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway, a concert-style special of songs and stars from the stage hit about life in Oz pre-Dorothy. The special, reuniting…

EXCLUSIVE: Singer and actress Idina Menzel (Frozen) is joining Adam Sandler, Eric Bogosian, Lakeith Stanfield and Judd Hirsch in the cast of the Safdie Brothers’ A24 movie Uncut Gems. Set in the Diamond district of New York City, Sandler will star as a jewelry store owner with a gambling addiction who is juggling two…