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If you watched Cats on opening night, you may have seen a different version than others who saw it later in the weekend as sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures sent out a memo to theaters saying that they will be sending out a new version of the big-screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway musical…

Universal Studios Boss Donna Langley didn’t have any trailers for Cats, the studio’s feature take on the hit Andrew Lloyd Weber musical because as actor James Corden said in the reel “it’s a level of technology which hasn’t been used before.” So they tickled attendees this morning with a BTS look showing the dancers…

EXCLUSIVE: Hamilton‘s Andy Blankenbuehler has been set to choreograph Universal Pictures and Working Title’s big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. The three-time Tony Award winner was already part of the extended Cats family, having choreographed the recent Broadway revival. I understand he boards…

Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Ian McKellen are set to star in Working Title and Universal's movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash musical Cats, I can confirm. Quite the cast. Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) will direct the film, which has been adapted by Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) from Webber's…

EXCLUSIVE: The King's Speech director Tom Hooper and Dafne Keen, the breakout star of Marvel's Logan, have signed for the big-budget adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy epic His Dark Materials. I hear that the in-demand director has just closed a deal to helm the eight-part series following lengthy negotiations…

Danny Cohen is one of two cinematographers to have two major films in the Oscar conversation this year (the other being Black Mass and Spotlight D.P. Masanobu Takayanagi). For Cohen—a frequent collaborator of director Tom Hooper’s, who shot The Danish Girl as well as Lenny Abrahamson's Room—having two prominent films…

Talk about hitting the zeitgeist. The Danish Girl, which details the story of the first known transgender in the 1920s, opened over the weekend to very good box office numbers in its limited platform release in New York and Los Angeles. Some of that might be attributable to its hot-button topic, which has made…

Detailing the life and loves of the first individual known to undergo gender affirmation surgery, Focus Features’ The Danish Girl vaults right into the Oscar race in a year that has seen transgender issues scale new heights in our culture. Talking to director Tom Hooper, screenwriter Lucinda Coxon and producer Anne…

Although it takes place in the early decades of the last century, The Danish Girl's story of the love and lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener is in many ways a tale for our times. Yet, at Deadline’s recent packed AwardsLine screening of Focus Features’ exquisite film starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, I…

The film adaptation of David Ebershoff's bestselling 2000 novel The Danish Girl was a passion project for everyone who came into contact with it, including tenacious producers Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon, who never gave up during the 12 years the film took to get off the ground. Such…

The Danish Girl sees Eddie Redmayne transform from Einar Wegener to Lili Elbe in the story one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery. The actor, who won an Oscar for another sort of physical transformation in last year's The Theory Of Everything, today called both roles “a dream come true." For The…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthias Schoenaerts (The Drop) is joining Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl opposite Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything), Alicia Vikander (Testament Of Youth) and Amber Heard (Magic Mike 2). The film, boasting an increasingly formidable cast, sees director and producer Hooper re-teaming with Working…