Melissa McCarthy is in early talks to play the villain Ursula in its live-action/CGI adaptation of The Little Mermaid, Deadline has confirmed. No deal has been done, but it would be the latest piece in place for the project, part of Disney's reboots of its animated classics that include the recent Aladdin and the…
In terms of Oscars won, Sandy Powell may be behind her peer, Colleen Atwood, down 3-4. But with dual nominations today for The Favourite and Mary Poppins Returns, the costume designer takes her career tally to 14, becoming the most-nominated living artist in her field.
With three wins — for The Young Victoria, The Avia…
From his beginnings working in the theater to perhaps becoming (along with Bill Condon and Marc Platt) the leading force behind the resurgence of musical movies, Rob Marshall is riding high with his latest, Mary Poppins Returns.
In a career that includes dramatic Oscar-winning movies like Memoirs of a Geisha and…
When Rob Marshall took on the follow-up to Disney’s beloved behemoth Mary Poppins, it seemed a natural fit for the Oscar-winning Chicago director who's long upheld the value of musical film. But with over 50 years between the Robert Stevenson-directed original and Mary Poppins Returns, Marshall had his work cut out in…
If you want to start your day off with a bang, just invite Mary Poppins. That is what happened when director Rob Marshall and the cast of Disney’s smash hit Mary Poppins Returns, the sequel to Disney’s beloved classic 1964 Oscar-winning musical, took the stage at the DGA Theater in New York City last month as the…
Even as one of the film industry’s preeminent costume designers, a three-time Oscar winner with 12 nominations since 1994, Sandy Powell had a lot on her plate, signing up for Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns. A sequel to a 1964 classic, the Disney musical would require the designer to take Poppins into a new era…
As the writer of Mary Poppins Returns, David Magee embraced the major opportunity he saw before him, putting his stamp on an iconic character that meant so much to him. A sequel to Disney's 1964 musical classic—based on a series of children's books by P.L. Travers—Mary Poppins Returns circles back to the titular…
The production designer of Mary Poppins Returns—Disney's follow-up to a 1964 musical classic—John Myhre knew about the project for at least 10 years, sitting for a long time with the responsibility and opportunity in taking this film on. Discussing it with Marshall on the set of 2009 musical Nine, following…
It has taken 54 years for a sequel to emerge to Walt Disney’s crown jewel, Mary Poppins, but to say the wait was worth it is an understatement for a movie that is practically perfect in every way — actually make that perfect in every way. Considering the legacy that it is up against, director Rob Marshall’s…
Comprising one of contemporary Hollywood's great songwriting duos—who brought music and lyrics to Broadway hit Hairspray, and collaborated on acclaimed NBC musical drama Smash, among many other projects—Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman faced the biggest moment in their storied careers, with Mary Poppins Returns. A…
Perhaps still smarting from the Election Night booing he received for his critical comments of President Trump during the Israeli Film Festival, BlacKkKlansman producer Jason Blum, in a tone of barely controlled ire, briefly summarized how he characterized the message of Spike Lee's acclaimed film about an…
