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Following its debut as the opening night gala at the London Film Festival last week, Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical now has an official trailer – check it out above. The new take on the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical stars Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee…

There are stories so good they can withstand any amount of retelling. Matilda began life as Roald Dahl's rollicking tale of an outrageously spirited, clever little girl who defeats the bullying headmistress whose vocation is to make children miserable. The Royal Shakespeare Company turned it into a…

Netflix’s animated comedy film Back To The Outback will feature a voice cast of Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie, Rachel House, Keith Urban, Celeste Barber, Wayne Knight, Aislinn Derbez, Diesel Cash La Torraca, Lachlan Ross Power, and Oscar-nominee Jacki Weaver. The film is…

AMC Networks streaming service Sundance Now has picked up its second international drama in as many days after taking the U.S. rights to Tim Minchin’s Australian show Upright. The eight-part series will premiere on August 6 and tells the story of Lucky Flynn (Minchin) as he travels across Australia to see his dying…

Australian comedian and performer Tim Minchin, who is set to star as Friar Tuck in Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment's Robin Hood: Origins, is fronting a piano-moving road-trip comedy drama for the UK's Sky and Australia's Foxtel. Minchin stars in Upright, an eight-part series about two misfits, thrown together by chance…

Tim Minchin announced on his blog that the animated musical Larrikins, which he had been developing for the past four years, has been “shut down.” Sources involved with the film told Deadline that “creatively it just wasn’t working out well.” The movie, which had been pushed around the schedule already had culled…

Tim Minchin has joined the cast of Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment's Robin Hood: Origins. He will play Friar Tuck in the pic, which has a March 23, 2018 release date. Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan, Eve Hewson, Ben Mendelsohn and Paul Anderson star. Peaky Blinders' Otto Bathurst is directin Joby Harold’s…

It didn’t take long to find the next tenant of the August Wilson Theatre, where Jersey Boys will close January 15. Groundhog Day, which opened recently at London’s Old Vic to laudatory reviews, will begin performances at the Jujamcyn Theatres house in March with an official opening set for April 17. Translation…

The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air alumna Tatyana Ali is set as a regular on BET’s upcoming comedy series Second Generation Wayans, based on the lives of the members of the next generation of the Wayans family. It stars Craig Wayans, Damien Dante Wayans, and George O. Gore II. Ali will play Maya, Damien's quick-witted…