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Lin-Manuel Miranda promises that Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose, an original cast member in Hamilton before her Oscar win for West Side Story will have “a doozy of an opening number” kicking off Sunday night’s show. “There will be dancing,” he predicted in a telephone interview with Deadline, without revealing…

Even as Oscar nominees arrived on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre this afternoon, their ire did not cease over the Academy’s decision to push eight categories to a pre-taped portion of the show. Slammed Oscar nominated tick, tick…Boom! film editor Myron Kerstein whose category is one of those in the pre-show, “We…

When editor Andrew Weisblum came aboard tick, tick…BOOM!, which director Lin-Manuel Miranda describes as a “big, old honking musical,” one of his early challenges was coming to grips with its tone. “I think something we were conscious of…is the balance of humor and neurosis and all these other things that…are kind of…

Where better than Washington Heights to meet local hero Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Manhattan neighborhood's most vociferous supporter? How about at the United Palace Theater, an old movie palace Miranda has been supporting for years, and in whose rehearsal rooms the cast of his debut feature Tick, Tick… BOOM! assembled…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. The life of Rent creator Jonathan Larson was so dramatic, it could only be told as a musical. It helped that Larson himself wrote his own autobiographical musical, tick…

Jonathan Larson died suddenly in January 1996, on the morning before his musical Rent played its first off-Broadway preview performance. A few months later, Rent would begin a 12-year run on Broadway and become one of the most successful musicals of all time. He never lived to witness its success, which makes it all…

While supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Paul Hsu says that he is not “historically…a big Broadway fan,” he found the opportunity to adapt a stellar stage musical for the screen in tick, tick…BOOM!, the Netflix film released last month, which saw him collaborating with Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Pulitzer…

Andrew Garfield stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote his Netflix film tick, tick…BOOM! the Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical pre-Rent musical. Garfield, who plays Jon, a young theater composer who's waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990…

Andrew Garfield had a year to learn how to sing before starring in Lin Manuel-Miranda’s Tick, Tick…BOOM to take on the role of Jonathan Larson. Now with the film just days away from debuting on Netflix, the Oscar nominee says he’s walking away with a much deeper relationship with the Rent creator. “When I started to…

It seems entirely appropriate that Lin-Manuel Miranda would hold off his motion picture directing debut until he had something he clearly could be passionate about. No doubt he has found it in the screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical 1990 Off-Broadway musical tick, tick…BOOM!  Miranda has a close…

Netflix released the trailer, key art and the first single from the film's official soundtrack entitled "30/90" for tick, tick…BOOM!, the Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical pre-Rent musical. Starring Andrew Garfield as Larson, Netflix's tick, tick…BOOM! will premiere in…

EXCLUSIVE: Choreographer Ryan Heffington, whose work on Sia’s 2014 video for her hit ‘Chandelier’ earned him the second of two Grammy nominations, has boarded Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Netflix musical tick, tick…BOOM! Heffington will choreograph all dance sequences in the film based on the Off Broadway musical by Rent…