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10 Movies That Were Adapted Into Broadway Musicals (And How They Did)
The familiarity is there, but it still feels like nothing ever seen before. Tina Fey's smart and sharply amusing Mean Girls is now out on Broadway (and crushing it) and the immersing magic of staged performances is once more powerfully reminding the intangible sense of uniqueness it can bring to any story. Over the past, many silver screen successes have also had the privilege (or not) of being converted into musicals. While taking a two dimensional piece and turning it into a full-blown visual and auditory spectacle undeniably represents a challenge, some have done it with more flair than others...
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Westworld Spoiler-Hungry Fans Get Played by the HBO Series Creators
In a world where the internet is a constant source of rumors, gossip and crazy theories, the creators of HBO's Westworld, power couple Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, decided to prevent overly curious fans from ruining season 2 for everyone else via a pretty blunt strategy: giving it all away, first. It's during a Reddit AMA, nearly 2 weeks after the trailer of the much-anticipated second season of the groundbreaking sci-fi western series was shared online, that the showrunners announced in a surprising post that, in order to protect the new season's secrets, the best plan was to reveal them all.
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What Is the Controversy Around Roseanne All About?
Probe the TV industry and you'll hardly find that everyone agrees there isn't a problem with the rebooted '90s TV series Roseanne, or more precisely, the woman who has portrayed its main character for nearly 10 years. As Emmy voters prepare to spend the next few months deliberating over which shows deserve nominations ahead of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, ABC's Roseanne revival, with staggering season premiere ratings (18 million viewers, to be exact, followed by a still jaw-dropping 15 million for the second episode), is virtually sure to compete for a statuette. But in the light of recent contentious political statements made by its star, comedian Roseanne Barr, not all members of the industry, or even the…
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A Quiet Place
We're not sure what surprises more about A Quiet Place... The fact that John Krasinski, mainly known for his performance as ultra-likable Jim Halpert in the U.S. series adaptation of The Office, is actually directing a horror movie, or that the idea of building a nerve-racking story around characters who, in order to survive, have to avoid making even the slightest sound at all cost, never crossed a screenwriter's mind until today. But maybe it was all meant to be. As strange as it sounds, Krasinski possibly was one of few directors who could pull off such a tour de force with finesse and wisdom, proving in the meantime that your level of…