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Racist imagery and cultural stereotypes in six Disney animated classics including Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, Dumbo and Swiss Family Robinson are being flagged on the Disney+ streaming site with warnings and detailed explanations of the “negative depictions” in each title. “These…

Marsha Kramer, a theater and television actress who most recently played Margaret an assistant to Ed O’Neill’s character on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, has died. She was 74. Modern Family director Jeff Greenberg shared the news of Kramer’s death Friday on Twitter. “So sad to hear that my long time friend, Marsha…

Blair Brown, whose credits range from Orange Is The New Black to her Tony Award-winning performance in Copenhagen and the title role in the seminal TV series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, has signed on with Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas to co-star in Beau Willimon‘s The Parisian Woman. The political drama from the Ho…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney will make its own live-action Peter Pan film, and has set David Lowery to direct a script that he will write with Toby Halbrooks. They teamed to write and Lowery directed Pete’s Dragon, a new version of Disney’s 1977 live action/animated musical. It will be the second effort in the family film space…

Girls star Allison Williams finally has joined Facebook, just days ahead of Thursday night’s live broadcast of the Peter Pan musical on NBC. Her accession to the biggest social media platform out there is further boosting a burgeoning online presence for the updated show featuring Williams as Pan and Christopher Walken…

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Meron and Craig Zadan's temporary command center at the Grumman Studios on Long Island has all the charm and none of the warmth of a military bunker. Down the hall, a vast soundstage has been tricked out into the essential locales of Peter Pan: the Darling family nursery in London; Captain Hook's…

Joe Wright’s take on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan lore doesn’t hit theaters until July 17 but a first teaser has dropped via Warner Bros. The fantasy actioner retells the tale of an orphan boy snatched from turn-of-the-century London and transported to a magical land ruled by a moustache-twirling pirate. Pan stars Hugh Jack…

"He might be the first tap-dancing Hook you've ever seen," NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said in announcing Christopher Walken’s casting in Peter Pan Live at TCA in July. No sign of that in this photo tweeted by exec producer Neil Meron today, but the Oscar-winning actor certainly has his game face on. NBC…

Taylor Louderman and Alanna Saunders have been cast opposite Allison Williams, Kelli O’Hara and Christian Borle in NBC’s Peter Pan Live! Louderman will play Wendy Darling, one of the three Darling children and the daughter of George (Borle) and Mary Darling (O’Hara). Saunders will play Tiger Lily, the Native American…

Five-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara has joined the cast of NBC’s Peter Pan Live! She will play Mrs. Darling, wife of George Darling (Christian Borle) and mother of the Darling kids, opposite Allison Williams’ Peter Pan and Christopher Walken’s Captain Hook. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are executive producing the live…

Here is the first photo from NBC’s upcoming staging of Peter Pan Live! featuring Allison Williams in costume (and a wig) as the title character. The image was revealed today on NBC’s Today, which interviewed the actress in the audition studio. In the special, airing on Dec. 4, Williams plays Peter Pan and Christopher…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony winner Christian Borle is finalizing a deal to pull double duty on NBC‘s live production of Peter Pan. He will play Captain Hook’s right-hand man Smee and the Darling kids’ father, Mr. Darling, opposite Allison Williams’ Peter Pan and Christopher Walken’s Captain Hook. In the original Broadway…