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Emotion vibrated through New York’s United Palace theater Wednesday night as In the Heights finally screened for a live audience. Applause broke out a dozen times during the musical’s world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. The sight of the opening titles on the big screen alone was enough to get star Anthony Ramos to…

Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is in talks to direct Disney’s Live-action adaptation of its hit 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch Deadline has confirmed. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback are producing. Rideback's Ryan Halprin is executive producing. Mike Van Waes wrote the current draft for the project…

Apple has confirmed the second season renewal of Home Before Dark as the producers talked about crafting a "super bingeable" young detective drama inspired by movies including Indiana Jones. The ten-part series, which is inspired by the real-life story of 11-year-old Hilde Lysiak, will premiere its first three…

They may not be in the Steve Jobs Theater today at Apple HQ, but Reed Hastings and Jeff Bezos will certainly be watching when Tim Cook unveils the company’s new streaming service that the home of the iPhone has been cooking up under lock and key the past two years. Having seen their companies dominate the latest…

Oxford law degree in hand, and a near professional-level violinist, Gemma Chan was poised to become a top-notch London lawyer, when instead, she did an about-face and threw herself into acting. One of the reasons she cites for that decision is a desire to move the diversity needle through storytelling, but at drama…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to a  mystery drama inspired by the real-life story of 11-year-old Hilde Lysiak. The untitled project, from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television, was created by Ben and Kate creator Dana Fox and Dara Resnik (Daredevil), who executive produce with…

“Soooo, this is a bit awkward,” director Jon Chu says in his opening keynote remarks Saturday at Film Independent Forum. He and Jason Blum set out to make a live action movie adaptation of 30-year-old classic animated TV show Jem And The Holograms. They made it “with little resources, all in L.A.,” he said. “It looks…

EXCLUSIVE: Ever since I scooped the news a week ago about G.I. Joe: Retaliation moving from June 29th to March 29th, 2013, no one was buying Paramount‘s excuse that “adding 3D” was the only reason for the 9 month delay. Least of all me. So I did some snooping. And what I found out shows the difficult decisions which…

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has set Scott Speer to direct the fourth installment of the Step Up franchise. Like the last one, Step Up 4 will be done in 3D. The new film will be set in the backdrop of Miami. Speer is replacing Wade Robson, who dropped out for personal reasons that would have kept him from making…

I’m told that Paramount Pictures has chosen Jon M. Chu to direct G.I. Joe 2, the sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Chu just made the studio a pile of dough with Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. The competition came down to Chu and Gary Gray. Production will begin in the fall. Chu is repped by WME and Principato…

How could we possibly live without this info? Paramount's previously announced JUSTIN BIEBER 3D MOVIE is now titled JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER. The film will be released in 3D on February 11th. Step Up 3D‘s Jon Chu is directing the rags to riches biopic about the web-fueled teen pop idol whom cameras follow around…

Paramount Pictures just announced the JUSTIN BIEBER 3D MOVIE is scheduled for wide release on February 11, 2011, because it’s Valentine’s Day weekend. (I can’t report this straight, people.) Step Up 3D helmer Jon Chu is directing the 3D feature film about the teen pop idol and Magical Elves partners Dan Cutforth and…