The Glorias trailer teases Julie Taymor's unconventional biopic about feminist icon Gloria Steinem, played by four actresses, including Julianne Moore.
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Across the Universe director Julie Taymor's Gloria Steinem biopic, The Glorias, will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video next month.
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The Fate of the Furious helmer F. Gary Gray may have taken his name out of contention as a Fast and Furious 9 director, so here's a list of replacements.
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A Fight Club Rock Opera is in development with director David Fincher consulting with broadway director Julie Taymor and musician Trent Reznor.
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Will Marvel show up at San Diego Comic-Con this year with Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Which member of The Expendables wants to be in The Avengers 2? Want to hear James McAvoy and Peter Dinklage talk about their roles in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Are Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. making cameos…
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We all would prefer to leave acne in our teenage years, but for a lot of us, it continues to pop up in adulthood.
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How can you be a part of Zack Snyder's new Superman movie Man of Steel? What's the best motion comic book of all time? Why did Ryan Reynolds have to encounter something big and green that wasn't wearing a ring on the set of Green Lantern? Want to see an alternative costume from Captain America:…
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For the sixth time, Spider-Man will be missing his cue. On Friday, producers officially announced that their now infamous musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, would be shut down from April 19-May 11 before reopening with all eyes set on a new opening date of June 14, a three-month delay. This is the culmination of…
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What a strange beast Julie Taymor's Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has become. Despite scathing reviews and the negative publicity from injuries suffered by cast members, the show is doing huge business even as the official opening date has been pushed multiple times. We'd heard recently that the show's book might be reworked…
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No matter who's doing the armchair diagnosing, it's dangerous. If it's someone you're dating, then it's a red flag.
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The Julie Taymor show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is the most expensive Broadway production of all time, and one of the most troubled. It has been delayed multiple times, beset by injuries and subsequent investigations and union issues, and met with a scathing critical response. And yet, because reason rarely triumphs over curiosity, tickets…
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With a traditional Broadway show, critics hold their reviews until the show officially opens. They let the production iron out all the kinks during preview performances and then, once the show is ready to officially open, critics can have at it. But nothing has been traditional about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Several delays, injuries,…
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I hope someone is building an appropriately detailed scorecard for Julie Taymor's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, aka the Most Expensive Broadway Production Ever. The show has been delayed, rewritten, gone over budget, and seen far more than the usual share of injuries. Now, the most recent injury, which was endured mid-performance by Christopher Tierney,…
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The U2/Julie Taymor Spider-Man musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, has been running in preview showings for about two weeks now with generally mixed reactions. Most people who've seen the show, which wasn't set to officially open until January 11, agreed it had some major story problems but was visually stunning. For a musical that…
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Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark had its first preview performance on Broadway Sunday night. So how did Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor's (Titus, Frida, Across the Universe) $65 million big stage comic adaptation hold up? Find out after the jump. Disclaimer: It should be noted that a preview performance is not final, much like a…
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You've heard of 'throwing good money after bad,' and no project seems to better embody that old saying than Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The $60m musical has been pushed, re-cast, re-designed and is finally nearing an opening preview date in advance of a 2011 Broadway run. But if these images are anything to go…
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The most expensive Broadway musical in history just swung back a few weeks. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, featuring music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge and directed by Julie Taymor (Across the Universe), was scheduled to open December 21 but has now been pushed back until January 2011 because of several technical issues…
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Holy AfterEffects! Word out of festivals in the past month wasn't terribly positive with respect to Julie Taymor's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. And now that the first trailer is here it is easy to make a guess or to as to why. The cast is phenomenal: Helen Mirren leads as Prospera, with Russell…
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OK, it's not film news, but this is definitely entertainment. Julie Taymor and her producers have been working for over a year to mount a Spider-Man musical on Broadway. Subtitled Turn Off the Dark, the show features music by Bono and The Edge of U2, and stars Reeve Carney (Peter Parker), Jennifer Damiano (Mary Jane…
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One of the films that was in danger of being orphaned when Disney shuttered Miramax was Julie Taymor's adaptation of the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. But the film, which stars Helen Mirren, David Strathairn, Djimon Hounsou and more, will be released by Disney offshoot Touchstone Pictures this fall, and will appear at both the…
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The NY Post's Michael Riedel was a naughty wee boy and went sneaking into the sales launch of Julie Taymor's new Broadway production Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, wherein no press were officially permitted. A slap on the wrist and a kiss on the cheek. Riedel's report contains not only a glimpse at official artwork…
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According to a report on the Bloomberg website (at the end of a trail I picked up at JoBlo), the massively expensive, tremendously ambitious Broadway musical based upon Marvel Comics' friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man has been smacked with delays. On the new schedule, rehearsals will begin in the Autumn and the show is likely to premiere…
Read MoreWhen a Broadway Bono and The Edge-scored musical adaptation of Spider-Man was first announced, director Julie Taymor (Across The Universe) said that she wanted to cast Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess in the lead roles. Well maybe they weren’t available or interested, because an open singer-actors call will take place in Manhattan on July…
Read MoreEarlier this year Julie Taymor (The Lion King) announced plans to direct a Broadway musical based on Spider-Man. With Across The Universe now behind her, the casting process is upcoming. Taymor told The Daily Mail that she hopes to reteam with her Across The Universe cast for the stage project. Apparently Taymor would like to…
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With the Toronto Film Festival ready to ramp up next week, we've just gotten our hands on a ton of new production photos from some of our most anticipated films of Fall 2007. First up is a new photo from Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a romantic musical told through the music of The Beatles.…
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Across The Universe is on our list for the most anticipated films of 2007. We've been waiting for this film for what seems like forever. The movie trailer was released in February and absolutely blew us away (if you haven't seen it yet, watch it now). Then came stories that director Julie Taymor was fighting…
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