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When others ran from the musical, Jon M. Chu and ‘Wicked’ embraced it

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 22, 2024 10:28 am - “Musical” has been a dirty word lately in Hollywood marketing, but “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu isn’t having it. “When words aren’t enough, music is the extension of your expression. That’s what movies do, and that’s what musicals do,” Chu says.
Christmas TV movies are in their Taylor Swift era, with two Swift-inspired films airing this year

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Nov 22, 2024 10:10 am - Two new Christmas TV movies have a Taylor Swift connection that her fans would have no problem decoding.
Is ‘Glicked’ the new ‘Barbenheimer’? ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ collide in theaters

By LINDSEY BAHR
Nov 22, 2024 9:24 am - “Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make “Glicked” — or even “Babyratu” — happen.
Netflix’s ‘Joy’ is a loud cheer for fertility, for never giving up — and science

By MARK KENNEDY
Nov 21, 2024 5:30 am - Toward the end of Netflix’s “Joy,” the muffled cry of a newborn baby prompts a man and woman in a hospital to embrace out of pure bliss. This charming and winning movie charts the decade-long true story of how the world’s first IVF baby was born in England in 1978.
Lame dialogue wounds spectacularly violent epic sequel ‘Gladiator II’

By Dann Gire
Nov 20, 2024 5:43 pm - In director Ridley Scott’s spectacularly violent, 200 AD Roman epic “Gladiator II,” limbs get lopped and heads get chopped, but the majority of casualties die from being talked to death.
Viola Davis to receive Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
Nov 20, 2024 8:43 am - Viola Davis became one of Hollywood’s most revered actors through an array of powerful roles, from “Fences” to “The Woman King,” and now her decorated career has earned her one of the Golden Globes’ highest honors: the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Wizard of awes: Magnificent movie musical ‘Wicked’ exceeds its hype as cinematic work of ingenuity, thrills and fun

By Dann Gire
Nov 19, 2024 5:10 pm - The most popular song from the Broadway musical “Wicked” may very well be “Popular,” but the cinematic piece de resistance in Jon M. Chu’s magnificently mounted movie version turns out to be a jaw-dropping, retina-ripping, ear-drum-thumping number “Dancing Through Life.”
A luminous slice of Mumbai life in ‘All We Imagine as Light’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Nov 19, 2024 3:50 pm - The rhythms of bustling, working-class Mumbai are brought to vivid life in “All We Imagine as Light.” The stunning narrative debut of filmmaker Payal Kapadia explores the lives of three women in the city whose existence is mostly transit and work.
Dwayne Johnson’s $200 million-plus Christmas pic opens to $34.1 million

By LINDSEY BAHR
Nov 18, 2024 6:49 am - “Red One,” the big-budget, star-driven action comedy with Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans sold $34.1 million in tickets in its first weekend in theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. It topped a box office populated mostly by holdovers.
What to stream: ‘The Piano Lesson,’ ‘Wicked’ album, ‘Spellbound’ and ‘Cruel Intentions’ TV series

Nov 18, 2024 5:30 am - Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo teaming up for the soundtrack to the upcoming movie “Wicked” and a TV series based on the 1999 film “Cruel Intentions” are some of the new television shows, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

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