Tag: Hamilton
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‘Hamilton’ Movie Earns PG-13 Rating Despite Multiple F-Words
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” movie, debuting on Disney Plus, will be rated PG-13 due to “language and some suggestive material.”The original stage show features enough expletives to trigger an R-rating based on rules established by the Motion Picture Association of America, the organization that dispenses parental guidance on film content. However, Disney rarely releases movies with…
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‘Hamilton’ Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda Brings His Award-Winning Broadway Musical To Disney+
American composer, actor, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has so many major accolades to his name: a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. And while his rise to fame started with “In The Heights,” it’s the Broadway musical “Hamilton” that really started…
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‘Hamilton’ Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway Sensation Comes to Disney+ in July
Hamilton has been a Broadway hit ever since it debuted at the beginning of 2015. Unfortunately, that has made it difficult for curious audiences to get a glimpse at the hip-hop fueled historical musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, even as the show travels around the United States. But soon, everyone will be able to see the…
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Disney Plus No Longer Offers Free Trial Accounts
Disney has ended the free seven-day promotional trial for Disney Plus — with the company saying it doesn’t need to dangle freebies to lure new customers to the streaming service.“We continue to test and evaluate different marketing, offers and promotions to grow Disney Plus,” a rep for the company said in a statement. “The service…
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‘Hamilton’ Moves to Disney Plus, Leaving Movie Theaters in the Lurch
The early arrival of “Hamilton” on Disney Plus was welcome news to audiences, who will now get the chance to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical about the ten-dollar founding father while pent up at home. Movie theater owners, whose businesses have been almost entirely shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, might be decidedly less…
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Film Version of ‘Hamilton’ Stage Performance to Hit Disney+ in July
Disney is shifting the release plan for a film of the Hamilton stage show featuring the original Broadway cast.The project, which was originally set for an Oct. 15, 2021 theatrical release will instead hit Disney+ on July 3 of this year, making it available over the July 4 weekend.Filmed at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre in…
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‘We Are Freestyle Love Supreme’: Film Review
For any Lin-Manuel Miranda fans whose hearts sank almost as quickly as they rose upon hearing that, yes, there’s a “Hamilton” movie, and no, it won’t be out for another 20 months, succor may be on the way in the form of a probably faster-arriving movie that features Miranda in almost as big a role,…
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‘Blindspotting’ Spin-Off Series in Development at Starz
As first reported by Variety, Starz is developing a spin-off series of the critically-acclaimed feature film “Blindspotting.” The half-hour dramedy has cast Jasmine Cephas Jones, reprising her role as Ashley from the film, as its lead. This will mark the third time Cephas Jones has worked with Daveed Diggs, the first, of course, being the…
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‘Be More Chill’ Represents the Positive Power of Fandom Gone Right
Throughout early 2017, I constantly listened to musical soundtracks on YouTube, from Hamilton, to Heathers, to The Great Comet of 1812. Somehow, the YouTube Autoplay involuntarily recommended a number that I was not familiar with: “More Than Survive.” It was from a musical called Be More Chill. I thought, how did I, a musical theatre…
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‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Tried to Soften Sarah Connor, Linda Hamilton Said Hell No
Linda Hamilton hasn’t appeared in a Terminator film since 1992’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day. That’s about to change with this year’s Terminator: Dark Fate, which will see Hamilton once again play the ass-kicking Sarah Connor. Getting Hamilton back is a big deal, and certainly makes Dark Fate look more interesting than all the other lackluster…