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Josh Groban is set as the co-lead opposite H.E.R. in ABC’s animated and live-action blended special, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration. The announcement was made during Friday's panel at D23 Expo 2022. Groban, who previously recorded a song for the 2017 Beauty and the Beast live-action movie, will play Beast…

EGOT winner Rita Moreno (West Side Story) has joined the cast of Fast X, as the grandmother of Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, Deadline can confirm. She joins an ensemble that also includes Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jason Momoa, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, Nathalie Emmanuel, Michael Rooker…

Ariana DeBose is taking home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. She is the second actress to win the Oscar for playing the Broadway character, following Rita Moreno‘s win in 1962. Oscars Winners List DeBose becomes the third Latina to win the…

In accepting the Stanley Kramer Award at the PGAs tonight, EGOT winner and West Side Story actress Rita Moreno, reflected on the time she first heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech near the Lincoln monument in Washington D.C. She was invited to the event by Harry Belafonte. “I’m 90…

If you go to see this, The Prank's on you. Unspeakably lame in every department—writing, directing, acting and intent—this immature little goof on a high school murder mystery is notable only for the presence of Rita Moreno, looking and sounding some twenty years younger than her actual 90 as a sinister school teacher…

EXCLUSIVE: Rita Moreno is heading back to high school in The Prank, a dark comedy from director Maureen Bharoocha making its debut at SXSW on March 13. Deadline has your first look at the film in the teaser above. In a role unlike anything the EGOT winner has played throughout her lengthy career, she stars as the…

Ariana DeBose took home the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her turn in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story on Sunday night—an accolade that is helping to break the glass ceiling for queer Afro Latinas in Hollywood. She is the first openly queer woman of color to win an individual film…

Paramount Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to 80 for Brady  from Endeavor Content, who will produce the film. Seven-time Super Bowl Champion and producer Tom Brady will appear and produce through his production company, 199 Productions, alongside Oscar winner Donna Gigliotti (Hidden Figures) and Endeavor Content…

The Producers Guild said Wednesday that Rita Moreno will receive the 2022 Stanley Kramer Award at the 33rd annual PGA Awards, set to run March 19 at the Fairmont Century Plaza. The honor goes to a production, producer or other individuals “whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of…

It’s a happy 90th birthday to iconic actress and EGOT winner Rita Moreno, celebrating today the renewal of interest in one of her most famous roles, that of Anita in the 1961 version of West Side Story (she’s also the widow Valentina in the 2021 update). But lest we forget, Moreno is one of the few performers to have…

In his long and storied career, Steven Spielberg never has ventured into the musical genre but always has wanted to give it a try. So now, nearly half a century after his first feature film, he finally can check off that box with his stirring — and, dare I say — necessary take on a true American theater and film…

After the success of its Celebration of Black Cinema events for the past three years, the Critics Choice Association said Tuesday it is expanding the series with the inaugural Celebration of Latino Cinema, which will honor icons Rita Moreno, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Demián Bichir along with a group of additional…