Ryan Murphy Sets Netflix ‘Prom’ Musical: Streep, Corden, Kidman, Ariana Grande, Awkwafina, Key, Rannells To Star - Deadline
Ryan Murphy Sets Netflix ‘Prom’ Musical: Streep, Corden, Kidman, Ariana Grande, Awkwafina, Key, Rannells To Star - Deadline |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2019 06:10 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE: Not yet a year into his expensive five-year deal with Netflix, Ryan Murphy is about to deliver his biggest get for the streamer. Deadline hears he will direct and produce the feature adaptation of the Tony-nominated stage musical The Prom and has secured a cast that puts Netflix in new starpower territory. Meryl Streep will star alongside James Corden, Nicole Kidman and Ariana Grande, with Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells playing key roles. Sources said Murphy will get underway directing the film adaptation of the Broadway hit in December, for a fall 2020 awards season release in theaters before it airs on the streamer.
Murphy adds this to three series he is delivering — The Politicians, Ratched and Hollywood — with two yet to be announced documentaries and another movie stage adaptation coming. Latter is The Boys in the Band, directed by Joe Mantello with the recent Broadway 50th anniversary revival cast. That one begins shooting in July, fresh off its recent Tony win. Related Story'The Late Late Show' And James Corden Do Crosswalk Style 'Les Misérables' In ParisIn Prom, Streep will play Dee Dee Allen, a two-time Tony winner who teams with Corden's Barry Glickman in a flop musical about Eleanor Roosevelt. After career-ending reviews, they decide — along with Broadway babies Kidman as Angie Dickinson and Rannells (Book of Mormon) as Trent Oliver — to champion a cause to rehabilitate their careers. They find one in Emma, a high school senior in Indiana who isn't allowed to take her girlfriend to the prom. A nationwide search led by casting director Alexa Fogel is on to fill the role of Emma. Grande will star as Alyssa, a popular daughter of the head of the PTA. Awkwafina will play the group's publicist Ms. Sheldon, and Key will play Streep's love interest and Emma's ally, Principal Hawkins.
Murphy will produce with Alexis Woodall, Bill Damaschke, and Dori Berinstein. Script is by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, music and lyrics are by Beguelin and Matthew Sklar, based on the original concept by Jack Viertel. Murphy's star-studded cast came together quickly this spring. All were the director's first choices, and each said yes quickly after seeing the Tony-nominated musical with its themes of inclusion and tolerance. Murphy will produce the soundtrack along with Grande and her manager, Scooter Braun. The Prom will cap a prolific year for Murphy, who has won a Golden Globe for The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a Peabody Award for Pose, and a Tony Award for Boys in the Band. Murphy, Streep, Kidman, Corden and Grande are all repped by Kevin Huvane, who went above and beyond in packaging the film for CAA. For Netflix, this comes a day after the streamer announced it secured George Clooney to direct and star in an adaptation of the Lily-Brooks Dalton novel Good Morning, Midnight, with script by Mark L. Smith.  |
| ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Film Review: Horror Sequel Conjures Up Barely Any Real Scares - TheWrap Posted: 24 Jun 2019 02:00 PM PDT What with Woody, Buzz and Chucky all vying for our attention, a doll's gotta pull out all the stops to break out of the multiplex pack these days. The titular star of "Annabelle Comes Home," sorry to say, barely makes an effort. Did the runaway success of her first two films turn her head? Weirdly, the malevolent breakout toy of the "Conjuring" universe seems to be on the same shoot-it-all-in-a-day schedule as her cameoing costars, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson. None of them appear in more than a few scenes, preferring to set things up and then let a cast of (admittedly appealing) unknowns take over. The above-the-line trio arrives in the opening sequence, when celebrated supernaturalists Lorraine (Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Wilson) are transporting Annabelle to safety around 1972, just after the events of "The Conjuring." As fans already know, this little artifact of vicious Victoriana tends to attract evil spirits wherever she goes. So the Warrens ask a priest to perform a single rite of protection, and then lock the demonic doll behind church glass. In their own house. Where their 10-year-old daughter, Judy (Mckenna Grace, "I, Tonya"), also lives. Also Read: 'Annabelle Comes Home' Was Just as Creepy Off Camera, From Moving Furniture to Nonstop Nose Bleeds If you're reading this and thinking, "Yeah, but the actual Warrens kept the actual Annabelle in their house," congratulations. Writer-director Gary Dauberman made a movie just for you. And you will, indeed, enjoy all the references and Easter eggs he's placed throughout, with many of them concentrated in the Warrens' Occult Room. This space is packed to the ceiling with the stuff of nightmares, so you'd think Dauberman — who wrote the other "Annabelle" movies, but makes his directorial debut here — would have been especially inspired. Instead, the majority of the film is low-level ghost-story stuff, which kicks off a year later when Ed and Lorraine go away for a weekend, cheerfully leaving Judy alone with teenage babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman, "Goosebumps 2"). Mary Ellen's best friend Daniela (Katie Sarife, "Girl Meets World") has been trying to contact her dad since he died, so when she hears about the Warrens' work, she insists on staying for the weekend, too. Before you can say "lazy setup," she's found the keys to the Basement of Evil and waltzed inside, touching, playing with, and opening every portal to hell. Also Read: 'Conjuring' Universe Surpasses $1 Billion at Global Box Office Soon enough, Annabelle is showing up in various parts of the house, rocking in a chair or grinning maniacally in bed next to Judy. But she doesn't actually do anything, besides make it easier for other spirits to show up. So the girls — and Mary Ellen's baffled crush, Bob (Michael Cimino), who provides light comic relief — spend most of the movie wandering down dark hallways with various light sources that flicker out at just the wrong moment. Will something creepy and tangentially related to the "Conjuring universe" (a dead bride, a werewolf, an unsatisfied ghost) jump out at them this time? No. What about now? Probably not. But definitely after that! Fortunately, the actors are winning enough that we continue to root for them even when they make countless rookie mistakes. And in fairness, the movie is both set in and endearingly inspired by a more innocent era, so the characters haven't yet learned the lessons of the post-"Scream" generation. See Photos: 15 Facts About the 'Conjuring'-Verse Hauntings, Including 'The Nun' (Photos) Still, there's an awful lot of waiting going on here, even as violins screech and ghost voices whisper. And all the while, that whole room of nastiness is just sitting there, a vault of unexploited potential. Grace, a 12-year-old with more than 50 IMDb credits, is so good that she makes "Annabelle Come Home" kind of work as psychological drama. We feel for Judy when she's bullied at school or tries to stay calm in the face of grave danger just like her parents taught her. And production designer Jennifer Spence ("Shazam!") deserves extra credit for the house's rigorously '70s period detail, which is built around a full rainbow of brown. But when it comes down to it, you can't have a strong horror movie without a strong villain. Given that Chucky is currently working overtime to torment an entire community, surely Annabelle can do more than offer up a couple of creepy grins before calling it a day.  |
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