“The Walking Dead” actor Tom Payne and Broadway veteran Betty Buckley have joined the cast of Blumhouse’s next movie “Imaginary,” a horror-thriller led by DeWanda Wise.
Taegen Burns (“The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers”), Pyper Braun (“Desperation Road”), Matthew Sato (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”) and Veronica Falcón (“Jungle Cruise”) will round out the cast.
Lionsgate is releasing the film on March 8, 2024. It wrapped production before the writers’ and actors’ strikes — so it will arrive in theaters as planned, unlike several projects that were forced to pause for months on end.
“Imaginary” was directed by Jeff Wadlow from a script he co-wrote with Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. The story centers on Jessica (Wise), who moves back into her childhood home with her family. When her stepdaughter Alice (Braun) develops a concerning attachment to the stuffed bear, Chauncey, she finds in the basement, Jessica becomes concerned with the young girl’s behavior.
Taegen Burns (“The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers”), Pyper Braun (“Desperation Road”), Matthew Sato (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”) and Veronica Falcón (“Jungle Cruise”) will round out the cast.
Lionsgate is releasing the film on March 8, 2024. It wrapped production before the writers’ and actors’ strikes — so it will arrive in theaters as planned, unlike several projects that were forced to pause for months on end.
“Imaginary” was directed by Jeff Wadlow from a script he co-wrote with Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. The story centers on Jessica (Wise), who moves back into her childhood home with her family. When her stepdaughter Alice (Braun) develops a concerning attachment to the stuffed bear, Chauncey, she finds in the basement, Jessica becomes concerned with the young girl’s behavior.
- 11/13/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency Dkc/O&m and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formalizing a collaboration that’s been responsible for some of Broadway’s splashiest opening night events this season.
From the confetti-covered opening of Company to a Times Square marching band heralding the arrival of The Music Man, the Dkc/O&m-Built collaborations have been among the most attention-getting events welcoming Broadway back after the Covid shutdown. Under the new arrangement, Built Productions will work under Dkc/O&m’s creative division O&m Etc., now run by longtime entertainment industry publicist Gerilyn Shur.
The announcement was made today by Dkc/O&m’s Rick Miramontez and Built Productions’ Jaron Caldwell.
In addition to Company (produced in conjunction with Stark Production Group) and The Music Man, other recent Broadway opening events designed by...
From the confetti-covered opening of Company to a Times Square marching band heralding the arrival of The Music Man, the Dkc/O&m-Built collaborations have been among the most attention-getting events welcoming Broadway back after the Covid shutdown. Under the new arrangement, Built Productions will work under Dkc/O&m’s creative division O&m Etc., now run by longtime entertainment industry publicist Gerilyn Shur.
The announcement was made today by Dkc/O&m’s Rick Miramontez and Built Productions’ Jaron Caldwell.
In addition to Company (produced in conjunction with Stark Production Group) and The Music Man, other recent Broadway opening events designed by...
- 5/19/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In a break with Broadway custom of recent decades, producers of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are not inviting critics to pre-opening night previews.
Instead, critics are being invited to the revival’s Feb. 10 opening night at the Winter Garden Theatre, with reviews embargoed until thereafter. (Deadline received the invitation by email today.)
Typically, critics are invited to at least several pre-opening night previews, with reviews embargoed until opening night. Although the trope of aisle-sitters rushing to file reviews after the opening night curtain falls conjures images of All About Eve-era Broadway, the practice is thought to have generally continued at least into the 1970s, with then-New York Times critic Richard Eder occasionally, perhaps apocryphally, credited with having encouraged the switch to critics’ previews to allow reviewers more time to consider and craft their reactions.
Asked by Deadline for the reasoning behind the decision, Music...
Instead, critics are being invited to the revival’s Feb. 10 opening night at the Winter Garden Theatre, with reviews embargoed until thereafter. (Deadline received the invitation by email today.)
Typically, critics are invited to at least several pre-opening night previews, with reviews embargoed until opening night. Although the trope of aisle-sitters rushing to file reviews after the opening night curtain falls conjures images of All About Eve-era Broadway, the practice is thought to have generally continued at least into the 1970s, with then-New York Times critic Richard Eder occasionally, perhaps apocryphally, credited with having encouraged the switch to critics’ previews to allow reviewers more time to consider and craft their reactions.
Asked by Deadline for the reasoning behind the decision, Music...
- 1/29/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The planned Broadway revival of Melvin Van Peebles’ Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death is still on track for its 2022 debut, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed, following the death of the beloved actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer at the age of 89.
The show’s spokesperson, Rick Miramontez, confirmed that the team is currently at work on the production which will now feature a dedication. The show’s book, music and lyrics were written by Van Peebles, who notably directed Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
The groundbreaking musical features various vignettes of life and pain in a poor Black neighborhood during ...
The show’s spokesperson, Rick Miramontez, confirmed that the team is currently at work on the production which will now feature a dedication. The show’s book, music and lyrics were written by Van Peebles, who notably directed Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
The groundbreaking musical features various vignettes of life and pain in a poor Black neighborhood during ...
- 9/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The planned Broadway revival of Melvin Van Peebles’ Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death is still on track for its 2022 debut, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed, following the death of the beloved actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer at the age of 89.
The show’s spokesperson, Rick Miramontez, confirmed that the team is currently at work on the production which will now feature a dedication. The show’s book, music and lyrics were written by Van Peebles, who notably directed Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
The groundbreaking musical features various vignettes of life and pain in a poor Black neighborhood during ...
The show’s spokesperson, Rick Miramontez, confirmed that the team is currently at work on the production which will now feature a dedication. The show’s book, music and lyrics were written by Van Peebles, who notably directed Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.
The groundbreaking musical features various vignettes of life and pain in a poor Black neighborhood during ...
- 9/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Arthur Kopit, whose 1969 Broadway play Indians was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and later adapted as the film Buffalo Bill and the Indians starring Paul Newman, died Friday in New York. He was 83.
His death was announced by spokesman Rick Miramontez. No cause of death was disclosed.
Kopit’s seven-decade stage career began when he was still a Harvard undergraduate, with his 1963 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad getting an Off Broadway production that later moved to Broadway with Jerome Robbins directing.
Indians, about the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and an early example of the era’s anti-Western genre, opened on Broadway in 1969 and starred Stacy Keach, Manu Tupou, Raul Julia and Sam Waterston, among others. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Indians was adapted by director Robert Altman in 1976 as (full title) Buffalo Bill and the Indians,...
His death was announced by spokesman Rick Miramontez. No cause of death was disclosed.
Kopit’s seven-decade stage career began when he was still a Harvard undergraduate, with his 1963 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad getting an Off Broadway production that later moved to Broadway with Jerome Robbins directing.
Indians, about the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and an early example of the era’s anti-Western genre, opened on Broadway in 1969 and starred Stacy Keach, Manu Tupou, Raul Julia and Sam Waterston, among others. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Indians was adapted by director Robert Altman in 1976 as (full title) Buffalo Bill and the Indians,...
- 4/3/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Arthur Kopit, an award-winning playwright known for Indians and Nine, died on Friday morning. He was 83.
Without specifying a cause, his death was announced by spokesperson Rick Miramontez on Saturday.
Born in 1937, Kopit was educated at Harvard University. Among his early plays was Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, which Jerome Robbins directed on Broadway while Kopit was still an undergraduate student.
Kopit went on to receive Tony nomination and Pulitzer Prize finalist nod for his 1968 play Indians, which opened on Broadway and starred Sam Waterston and Stacy Keach....
Without specifying a cause, his death was announced by spokesperson Rick Miramontez on Saturday.
Born in 1937, Kopit was educated at Harvard University. Among his early plays was Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, which Jerome Robbins directed on Broadway while Kopit was still an undergraduate student.
Kopit went on to receive Tony nomination and Pulitzer Prize finalist nod for his 1968 play Indians, which opened on Broadway and starred Sam Waterston and Stacy Keach....
Arthur Kopit, an award-winning playwright known for Indians and Nine, died on Friday morning. He was 83.
Without specifying a cause, his death was announced by spokesperson Rick Miramontez on Saturday.
Born in 1937, Kopit was educated at Harvard University. Among his early plays was Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, which Jerome Robbins directed on Broadway while Kopit was still an undergraduate student.
Kopit went on to receive Tony nomination and Pulitzer Prize finalist nod for his 1968 play Indians, which opened on Broadway and starred Sam Waterston and Stacy Keach....
Without specifying a cause, his death was announced by spokesperson Rick Miramontez on Saturday.
Born in 1937, Kopit was educated at Harvard University. Among his early plays was Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, which Jerome Robbins directed on Broadway while Kopit was still an undergraduate student.
Kopit went on to receive Tony nomination and Pulitzer Prize finalist nod for his 1968 play Indians, which opened on Broadway and starred Sam Waterston and Stacy Keach....
Veteran actor David Schramm, who portrayed airline owner Roy Biggins on Wings for eight seasons, has died at the age of 73, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Schramm’s passing was announced Sunday by his publicist, Rick Miramontez, who said the actor died in New York. No additional details were given.
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The actor’s career spanned four decades, including his stint on Wings from...
Schramm’s passing was announced Sunday by his publicist, Rick Miramontez, who said the actor died in New York. No additional details were given.
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The actor’s career spanned four decades, including his stint on Wings from...
- 3/29/2020
- TVLine.com
David Schramm, the veteran stage actor who portrayed the airline owner Roy Biggins for eight seasons on the 1990s NBC comedy Wings, has died. He was 73.
Schramm was a founding member of the New York-based The Acting Company, which announced his death on Sunday. Publicist Rick Miramontez said he died in New York. No other details were immediately available.
Schramm made his first appearance on Broadway in 1973 in Three Sisters and his last in 2009 in Finian's Rainbow. In between, he appeared opposite Judith Ivey in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce in 1979.
Schramm also worked in productions for the ...
Schramm was a founding member of the New York-based The Acting Company, which announced his death on Sunday. Publicist Rick Miramontez said he died in New York. No other details were immediately available.
Schramm made his first appearance on Broadway in 1973 in Three Sisters and his last in 2009 in Finian's Rainbow. In between, he appeared opposite Judith Ivey in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce in 1979.
Schramm also worked in productions for the ...
- 3/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Tony Sokol Jul 10, 2019
Rip Torn, who played characters from Judas Iscariot to the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, dies at 88.
Respected and versatile character actor Rip Torn died Tuesday in Lakeville, Conn., according to Variety. Publicist Rick Miramontez did not release a cause of death, but said Torn was with his wife, Amy Wright, and two daughters, Katie and Angelica. He was 88.
Torn believed actors should “play drama as comedy and comedy as drama,” according to the statement, and the actor was equally at home both. He starred in comedies like Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life and the Men in Black films, as well as TV comedies 30 Rock, playing General Electric CEO Don Geiss, mentor to Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Torn won an Emmy for his part in HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, and was nominated for a Tony award in...
Rip Torn, who played characters from Judas Iscariot to the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, dies at 88.
Respected and versatile character actor Rip Torn died Tuesday in Lakeville, Conn., according to Variety. Publicist Rick Miramontez did not release a cause of death, but said Torn was with his wife, Amy Wright, and two daughters, Katie and Angelica. He was 88.
Torn believed actors should “play drama as comedy and comedy as drama,” according to the statement, and the actor was equally at home both. He starred in comedies like Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life and the Men in Black films, as well as TV comedies 30 Rock, playing General Electric CEO Don Geiss, mentor to Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Torn won an Emmy for his part in HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, and was nominated for a Tony award in...
- 7/10/2019
- Den of Geek
Neil Simon, the pioneering playwright who set a new tone in theatrical comedy with such shows as The Odd Couple and captured the spirit of the middle-class American family with plays like Lost in Yonkers, has died. He was 91.
Simon, who boasted more combined Oscar (four) and Tony (17, winning three times) nominations than any other writer, died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital in Manhattan, publicist Rick Miramontez said.
With a career that spanned five decades and more than 40 plays, many of which he also adapted for the screen, Simon is arguably the ...
Simon, who boasted more combined Oscar (four) and Tony (17, winning three times) nominations than any other writer, died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital in Manhattan, publicist Rick Miramontez said.
With a career that spanned five decades and more than 40 plays, many of which he also adapted for the screen, Simon is arguably the ...
- 8/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neil Simon, the pioneering playwright who set a new tone in theatrical comedy with such shows as The Odd Couple and captured the spirit of the middle-class American family with plays like Lost in Yonkers, has died. He was 91.
Simon, who boasted more combined Oscar (four) and Tony (17, winning three times) nominations than any other writer, died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital in Manhattan, publicist Rick Miramontez said.
With a career that spanned five decades and more than 40 plays, many of which he also adapted for the screen, Simon is arguably the ...
Simon, who boasted more combined Oscar (four) and Tony (17, winning three times) nominations than any other writer, died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital in Manhattan, publicist Rick Miramontez said.
With a career that spanned five decades and more than 40 plays, many of which he also adapted for the screen, Simon is arguably the ...
- 8/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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