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EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media, 11-time Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Point Grey Pictures, Lylas Pictures and Giant Ant Films are teaming to bring Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me, to the big screen as a feature-length animated film. Along with…

Director Ethan Coen – collaborating with wife Tricia Cooke instead of brother Joel – delivers a disposable but not entirely unentertaining lesbian-centered crime caper comedy in Drive-Away Dolls. With its raunchy sex and vivid violence, the film is more an affectionate tribute to hard R drive-in B movies…

EXCLUSIVE: Beanie Feldstein is set to join Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan in Ethan Coen’s untitled pic at Working Title and Focus Features. This is Coen's first time directing a film on his own after having spent his movie career co-directing and writing with his brother Joel. As of now, plot and character…

Beanie Feldstein will miss this weekend’s performances of Broadway’s Funny Girl due to a case of tonsillitis and being “extremely contagious.” Feldstein’s standby Julie Benko will perform as Fanny Brice this weekend. “You just gotta laugh at a certain point,” Feldstein says in an Instagram video posted this afternoon…

Contrary to internet rumors and some published reports, producers of Broadway’s Funny Girl say they were not “blindsided” by star Beanie Feldstein’s Sunday night Instagram post announcing her early departure. Using wording similar to that in Feldstein’s post, producers and Feldstein’s representative have released a…

UPDATE, with Michele comment & Glee video As expected, or at least widely rumored, Lea Michele is Broadway’s new Funny Girl, taking over the coveted role of Fanny Brice from the departing Beanie Feldstein. Tovah Feldshuh will take the role of Mrs. Brice after Jane Lynch leaves the production. Michele, best known as a…

Beanie Feldstein announced tonight that she’ll depart the starring role of Broadway’s Funny Girl even earlier than previously announced: Her last performance in the show will be July 31. “Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine,” Feldstein posted on Instagram tonight, “and doing so for the…

UPDATE, with Beanie Feldstein statement: Funny Girl stars Beanie Feldstein and Jane Lynch will depart the productionl on September 25, producers announced today. In a tweet, the show addressed the return of Feldstein following a week off after testing positive from Covid, then announces the September…

UPDATE, June 8 Beanie Feldstein will be out of Funny Girl at least through the end of this week. In a tweet late last night, her “Fanny Brice” standby Julie Benko, wrote, “Hi all! I'm confirmed to be on for Fanny through the end of this week (Sunday 6/11). See you at the August Wilson, gorgeous… and feel better…

Smartly sidestepping the obvious comparison from the start – the line-reading of “Hello gorgeous” sounds more conversational, less sing-songy than the one etched in our brains for all these decades – Broadway’s new Funny Girl revival doesn’t so much make a grand play for replacement as a peaceful offering for…

Broadway’s upcoming revival of Funny Girl, starring Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch, Ramin Karimloo and Jared Grimes has completed casting, with Peter Francis James, Ephie Aardema, Debra Cardon and Toni DiBuono among those joining the cast. The complete casting was announced today by producers Sonia Friedman, Scott…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Gordon Pictures has assembled an all-star cast including Beanie Feldstein, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Kat Dennings, Jameela Jamil and Lolly Adefope for the anthology series package Girls Can't Shoot (& Other Lies), which is based on the international bestselling essay collection Feminists Don't Wear Pink…