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Cher Biopic From ‘Mamma Mia!’ Producers, Eric Roth in the Works at Universal
On the day before her 75th birthday, Cher is gifting fans with the news that an official biopic of her life is in the works.The untitled film is set at Universal Pictures, with “Mamma Mia!” producers Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman on board to produce and Eric Roth penning the script, Variety has confirmed.Cher announced […]
Continue readingLily James: ‘All sorts of people can become great loves of your life’
The actor on her role in the BBC’s new Nancy Mitford adaptation, the joy of female friendship, and preparing to play Baywatch star Pamela AndersonLily James was born Lily Thomson in Esher, Surrey, in 1989. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and made her TV debut as Ethel Brown in the […]
Continue readingUniversal international marketing head Simon Hewlett to depart next year
Executive expected to stay with the studio until summer 2021, assist in transition.Universal’s president of international marketing Simon Hewlett will leave the company in 2021.It is understood the announcement comes as the studio consolidates its leadership in Los Angeles. While Universal had hoped he would relocate, London-based Hewlett chose to keep his family in the […]
Continue readingOscar Winning Mariela Besuievsky, Nacho Alvarez Talk Toronto, San Sebastian-Bound ‘My Heart Goes Boom!’
While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two.“Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), the assured debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an Rtve Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next week and has also […]
Continue reading‘Mamma Mia!’ May Get Another Sequel to Complete An Unlikely Trilogy
Mamma Mia! was a sensation on stage that was turned into a big screen musical. Featuring the music of Abba, the 2008 film follows a young girl named Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) as she hopes to figure out who her father is by inviting her mother Donna’s (Meryl Streep) three former lovers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth […]
Continue reading‘Mamma Mia’ Producer Teases Third Film, Says It’s ‘Meant to Be a Trilogy’
In the words of Abba, “Mamma mia, here I go again.”Judy Craymer, a producer behind the original stage production of “Mamma Mia!” as well as the 2008 and 2018 film adaptations, said in an interview with Daily Mail that a third installment could be coming.Before the coronavirus pandemic, Craymer had been planning the franchise’s third […]
Continue readingEd Sheeran Shares Plot Details About Upcoming Danny Boyle Musical Comedy And It Sounds Great
So, the days of everyone freaking out about what type of James Bond film filmmaker Danny Boyle was working on are long gone. Since the departure of the award-winning director from that mega-franchise, we can now focus on that little project that Boyle’s been working on in the interim, his untitled comedy/musical.Read More: Report: Danny […]
Continue readingWhy ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’s’ Box Office Opening Is Still a Win
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” might not have nabbed the box office crown, but its domestic debut is still something to sing about.Universal’s jukebox musical launched with a solid $76.4 million globally, including $34 million in North America and $43.4 million overseas. If its predecessors’ lengthy theatrical run is any indication, the future of […]
Continue readingFilm Review: ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” the perfectly titled sequel to “Mamma Mia!” (it opens 10 years to the week after the first film), kicks off on a bubbly high. It’s 1979, and Donna, the free-spirited expatriate-on-a-Greek-island innkeeper played by Meryl Streep, is now played, at the end of her Oxford undergraduate days, by Lily […]
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