A few years ago, San Diego's Comic-Con International was a comic book convention. How quaint! These days, it rivals the Super Bowl as an annual consumerism orgy where giant soulless multimedia corporations relentlessly sell movies, TV shows, and video games-and this past weekend was no exception.
Producers of the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street are pleased to announce that Hugh Panaro with Jake Boyd , Eryn LeCroy , Michael James Leslie and John Rapson will join the cast including Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello , Stacie Bono and John-Michael Lyles beginning Tuesday, August 29 at the Barrow Street Theatre . For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.SweeneyToddNYC.com .
The future of one of the most beloved characters in all of film may be in for another change in direction. The future of one of the most beloved characters in all of film may be in for another change in direction.
BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Chris Sarandon was born in Beckley, W.Va., on this day in 1942. This birthday guy earned a 1976 Oscar nomination for his role as Leon in "Dog Day Afternoon."
If you lined up the most successful actors currently at work in Hollywood, you could easily name each celebrated face one after another - Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey jnr and Dwayne Johnson - until you got to the final figure, a 53-year-old Englishman with a mischievous grin and a mountaineer's muscled arms. This is Andy Serkis, and he has more hit franchises to his name than any of his famous contemporaries.
Last week we lost the legendary writer, producer and director George A. Romero , the sweet, brilliant and humble indie auteur who defined the zombie genre twice, first with the groundbreaking 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and its bloody successor, 1978's Dawn of the Dead . But on August 6th, seminal Toronto repertory theater The Royal will honor the legacy of Toronto resident Romero with a special screening of his 2009 film - his final feature - Survival of the Dead .
A wall covered with letters started bulging and counting down as lights flickered across Hall H. No, the screen wasn't possessed and the electricity was fine - it just meant it was time for the Stranger Things panel at 2017's Comic-Con International in San Diego. The highly anticipated second season drops October 27, 2017 on the Netflix streaming service just in time for Halloween.
Nicole Kidman - who stars in the BBC's forthcoming second series of Jane Campion's Top of the Lake - declares that "maternal love brings you to your knees." "It's surfacing in pretty much everything I do," the 50-year old actress tells The Sunday Times .
DAVAO Representative Karlo Nograles is hopeful that President Rodrigo Duterte will prioritize House bills which seek to address the current traffic crisis. Nograles and his brother, Pwersa ng Bayaning Atleta party-list Representative Jericho Rosales, have recently filed House Bill 6009, also known as the Transport Network Service Act.