Fresh off his sleeper success with The Greatest Showman, Michael Gracey has given a Naruto movie update for his long-gestating live-action adaptation of the beloved anime.
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A new story reveals that Greatest Showman reshoots were handled by frequent Hugh Jackman director James Mangold. Mangold assisted director Michael Gracey.
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The La La Land composers get the spotlight in these The Greatest Showman featurettes about the film's catchy musical numbers and soaring soundtrack.
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Listen to two songs from The Greatest Showman soundtrack, featuring Hugh Jackman and Keala Settle really belting out some energetic tunes from the movie.
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EW has released a first look at The Greatest Showman photos, which show Logan star Hugh Jackman as famous huckster P.T. Barnum alongside Zac Efron and more.
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Following Ghost in the Shell and Death Note, another popular manga is heading to the big screen with Lionsgate making moves in developing a Naruto movie.
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As The Hunger Games: Catching Fire quickly races towards becoming the highest grossing film of 2013, it's no coincidence studios continue to close deals for similar young adult fare. The latest is Universal, which just signed director Michael Gracey to direct Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the first in a YA trilogy written by Laini Taylor. Stuart…
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Tom Hardy has just accepted the role of rock legend Elton John in Rocketman, a biopic directed by Michael Gracey and written by Lee Hall. Focus Features will distribute the film, which starts shooting in Fall 2014. Read the full release below. Here's the full press release on Rocketman: Tom Hardy will star as Elton…
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Elton John has finally chosen a director to bring his crazy history to life. Rocket Pictures revealed today commercials helmer Michael Gracey will direct Rocketman, the John-centric biopic first announced in 2011. Scripted by Billy Elliot's Lee Hall, Rocketman is no ordinary biographical drama. As befits is colorful subject, the movie is described as "a biographical musical…
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For quite some time, Disney has been developing a new live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in which the old story would get a fairly modern makeover. Michael Chabon wrote the initial version, but the film has been tweaked a few times over the past decade with directors as disparate as Yuen…
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In 2009, after Hugh Jackman's successful Oscar-hosting stint, Fox announced development of The Greatest Showman on Earth, a film about P.T. Barnum that would star Hugh Jackman as the classic American huckster and businessman. We've heard nothing about the project since, but it is still a concern over at Fox. And it isn't just any…
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While Relativity and Universal have been publicity dueling with their competing Snow White films, Disney has been slowly developing one of its own. The project, formerly known as Snow and the Seven, has been in development since 2002 with the latest update coming six months ago when Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt came on-board to firm…
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Even though Christopher Weekes' script The Muppet Man 'won' last year's Black List poll of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, there was every chance it would never make it to the screen. Essentially a biopic of Jim Henson peppered with fantastical scenes starring The Muppets, it would require the involvement somehow of both the…
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