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It’ll be a shorter-than-planned reign for The Little Prince on Broadway. Producers said today that the show based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella will end its limited engagement May 8 at Shubert’s Broadway Theatre — more than three months ahead of its planned August 14 closing. Combining dance, aerial…

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's elegantly humble 1943 children’s novella The Little Prince is transformed into a visually spectacular, dramatically overblown meld of dance, music, video and, best of all, breathtaking aerial acrobatics in Anne Tournié’s international staging opening on Broadway tonight at the Broadway…

The international stage musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince will arrive on Broadway this spring a month later than previously expected, the latest production delayed by Covid. The Little Prince will now begin previews at the Broadway Theatre on Tuesday, March 29, with an opening night…

Following sold-out runs in Paris, Sydney, and Dubai, a stage musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince will arrive on Broadway this spring, with performances set to begin at the Shubert’s Broadway Theatre on Friday, March 4, 2022. Opening night will be Thursday, March 17, 2022. Produced by…

Netflix is moving ahead with Escape From Hat, an animated feature from two-time Oscar-nominated director Mark Osborne, who directed The Little Prince and co-directed Kung Fu Panda. Production will start this month in New York for a scheduled release in 2022. Osborne will direct and produce with Jinko Gotoh. They…

The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory has hired Film 4's Tracey Josephs as Head of Production. Josephs, based in London, is one of six new hires for the firm after it secured a $180M funding boost earlier this month. Overseeing all physical production at the TV and film company, Josephs was previously Head of…

In 2016, French film admissions at home hit their second-highest number in 50 years — including an increase of 3% for local pics versus 2015. Abroad, it's a different story. Unifrance, the organization that promotes French film overseas, reports today that ticket sales in foreign markets dipped to 34M, down 69% on…

EXCLUSIVE: The Little Prince director Mark Osborne is getting a very special honor from France in recognition of his work in making the first-ever animated feature adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic. He will be conferred the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in March at a ceremony…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. And now it is crunch time. Oscar nomination ballots went live yesterday and are due back a week from today on Friday the 13th. Hope that date doesn’t mean scary things for some contenders, but it is clear the campaigns are taking nothing for granted…

"It's an incredibly challenging book to adapt because it is incredibly poetic and it really lives in the imagination of the reader,"The Little Prince director Mark Osborne says of bringing Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 children’s classic to the big screen. "Everyone who reads it get a different experience." Joined…

“It's an incredibly challenging book to adapt because its incredibly poetic and it really lives in the imagination of the reader,” The Little Prince director Mark Osborne said today at Deadline’s the Contenders event. “That's one of the magical things about the book — everyone who reads it gets a different experience…

A long-time fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1943 literary classic, The Little Prince, director Mark Osborne brought his own unique approach and visual style to his adaptation of the literary classic. Combining tactile, paper-based stop motion and a CG world familiar to younger generations of movie viewers, the film…