EXCLUSIVE: Grey Gardens and The Vow filmmaker Michael Sucsy is teaming with The Get Down composer Elliott Wheeler on the New York City holiday musical A Lot Like Christmas which New Republic Pictures will make. In A Lot Like Christmas , the adult, estranged children of EGOT-winner Riva DeLange — a woman synonymous with Christmas — hate the holidays because of their mother. Riva revives her once-famous Christmas special in an attempt to reconnect with them. Sucsy and Wheeler co-wrote the screenplay and the music and lyrics. Sucsy will direct New Republic Pictures’ Brian Oliver and Brad Fischer and Sucsy’s HungryDuck Productions will produce. New Republic co-financed and produced the Oscar and Golden Globe winning Paramount feature musical Rocketman. Related Story Bert And Bertie To Direct 'Queen Bitch & The High Horse' For New Republic Pictures & Cate Blanchett's Dirty Films “The film is a musical love letter to New York and the magic … [Read more...] about New Republic Pictures Sets Feature Musical ‘A Lot Like Christmas’ With Michael Sucsy And Elliott Wheeler
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Kangana Ranaut On Challenging Diljit Dosanjh To Say He Isn’t Khalistani: Youth Have Been Misled
Kangana Ranaut has had quite a few tiffs with fellow actor Diljit Dosanjh on Twitter in the past few weeks. The quarrels began over farmers' protest, and the duo also talked about their work and the organisations they may support, while taking a dig at each other. Kangana during her interview with Republic TV on the same, said she had asked him to prove that he is 'not a Khalistani' and revealed that he didn't respond. Kangana said, "I openly challenged him to say just once that you are not a Khalistani, he didn't say it. Youth have been misled, they have been presented with a dream about Khalistan." The Manikarnika actress was referring to a tweet in which she questioned his loyalty to the country. She had tweeted, "Mera ek he kaam jai Desh Bhakti ... wahi karti hoon sara din.. main toh wahi karungi lekin tera kaam tujhe nahin karne dungi Khalistani..." ( Here are some more tweets from Kangana about the same. Chal theek hai, sirf bol de tu Khalistani nahin hai, kyun itna baatein … [Read more...] about Kangana Ranaut On Challenging Diljit Dosanjh To Say He Isn’t Khalistani: Youth Have Been Misled
RS Charts: Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Is Number One Again Amid Controversy
Morgan Wallen spent his fourth consecutive week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Once again, he did not face a serious challenger: His 30-song set Dangerous earned 144,200 album-equivalent units, far more than Lil Durk’s deluxe edition of The Voice, which earned the Number Two spot with 84,400 units. Wallen’s chart success continues even as the singer lost the support of the country music industry after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur. In the following days, various music industry players condemned Wallen’s words, major radio chains pulled the singer’s music off the air, his booking agent dropped him and his record label said it would “suspend” his contract. But there was a backlash to the music-industry backlash: Wallen’s album sales nearly tripled, from 10,800 copies on the previous week’s chart to 28,400 copies on the latest chart. At the same time, downloads of individual songs from Dangerous jumped … [Read more...] about RS Charts: Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ Is Number One Again Amid Controversy
RS Charts: Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Dominates Another Week
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” was Number One again on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. Rodrigo’s runaway hit has now been Number One for a month. In its fourth week at the top of the chart, “Drivers License” picked up more than 28 million streams. While the single’s streaming totals have fallen each week since its release, “Drivers License” still out-streamed the second most popular song by a significant margin, more than 10 million streams. SZA’s “Good Days” held strong at Number Two (16.3 million streams), while Doja Cat’s “Streets” moved to Number Three (15.4 million). Morgan Wallen’s music rebounded on the latest RS 100. After a video of the singer using a racial slur emerged last week, radio and streaming services penalized Wallen by removing support for his music. But some of the singer’s fans responded by consuming his songs with redoubled intensity. Wallen had 14 … [Read more...] about RS Charts: Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Dominates Another Week
Oscars Documentary Feature Shortlist: Snubs, Surprises And A Netflix-Amazon Showdown
Netflix has dominated the Oscar documentary race the last few years, winning Documentary Feature in 2020 and 2018, but the release of the Academy shortlists Tuesday confirms it faces a battle this time around, from a rival streamer. Amazon Studios landed two films on the feature shortlist—Time, directed by Garrett Bradley, and All In: The Fight for Democracy, directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés. Time, which touches on mass incarceration through the experience of one Black family in Louisiana, must be considered a solid favorite in the Oscar race, having tied for the Gotham Award and amassing multiple critics’ prizes. Netflix made the Oscar shortlist, as expected, with its top two contenders—Crip Camp, directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, and Dick Johnson Is Dead, from director Kirsten Johnson. It also muscled in with mollusk-themed My Octopus Teacher, ensnaring in its tentacles a fifth of the 15 shortlist slots. But Netflix failed to make the shortlist … [Read more...] about Oscars Documentary Feature Shortlist: Snubs, Surprises And A Netflix-Amazon Showdown