Broadway reopening has been set for this September, with shows like Hamilton, Wicked, and The Lion King set to kick things off.
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Jon M. Chu will direct the Wicked movie adaptation, a film that's been in the works for almost a decade.
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Universal is looking for a new Wicked director in the wake of Stephen Daldry's exit from the feature film adaptation of the popular musical.
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Thanks to the coronavirus, Universal Pictures has delayed the Minions The Rise of Gru release date by a year, and shifted a few other films around too.
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Universal has officially set the Wicked release date for 2021, bringing the hit Broadway musical to the big screen after years of failed starts.
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Stage musical creator Stephen Schwartz promises that a Wicked movie is still in the works despite Universal striking the film from its 2019 release slate.
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The Cats movie release date has been announced, and it's the same exact release date as Star Wars: Episode 9. Who will win: felines, or the Force?
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Universal has announced that a Wicked movie is in the works, with the beloved stage musical arriving in theaters in December 2019.
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The Wicked movie release date might be sooner than you think. Producer Marc Platt wants Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the hit musical out in 2016.
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Spring Awakening and Wicked movies are still in the works, according to the respective composers of each Broadway hit. Get the latest updates here.
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As film after film gets reworked for the Great White Way, two Broadway smash hits are, in turn, inching closer to the big screen. Universal's been trying to put together a movie adaptation of Wicked (itself the stage adaptation of Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)…
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Every time we run a story about one of the Wizard of Oz films that are in development, the same question comes up: where's Wicked? The Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West told the story of Oz from the perspective of the witch of the title,…
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This week, Peter Sciretta, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley praise Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, discuss the groundbreaking 3D of Jackass 3D, and lambaste the MPAA's ridiculous Blue Valentine NC-17 rating. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us on Sunday (10/24) at 10…
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Prepare yourselves now, because the profusion of Wizard of Oz projects hitting in the next few years may start to get a little overwhelming. In no particular order, we already have lined up: Oz, the Great and Powerful, starring Robert Downey Jr. and (potentially) directed by Sam Raimi; Drew Barrymore's proposed Wizard of Oz sequel,…
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