Clayton Davis Dear Evan Hansen,It turns out this wasn’t an amazing movie after all.
26.08.2021 - 09:43 / justjared.com
The film adaptation of the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen will be released in theaters next month and star Ben Platt has released two full songs from the movie!
The 27-year-old actor starred in the musical on Broadway and he won a Tony, an Emmy, and a Grammy for his work on the project.
The 16-track soundtrack for Dear Evan Hansen won’t be released until September 24, but you can listen to the new versions of “Waving Through a Window” and “You Will Be Found” right now.
Singing alongside Ben
Clayton Davis Dear Evan Hansen,It turns out this wasn’t an amazing movie after all.
Ben Platt is bringing a vintage vibe to the carpet.
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Ben Platt played Evan Hansen — the socially anxious high schooler caught up in a lie involving a letter with the titular address and the suicide of one of his classmates — for the first time when he was 20. It would be two more years before made its debut on Broadway.
SZA has shared her take on ‘The Anonymous Ones’ for the soundtrack of the film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen.The movie originally started out as a Broadway musical, which won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical.‘The Anonymous Ones’ was written by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Amandla Stenberg for the film adaptation.
“Dear Evan Hansen” at the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday night, a nagging question kept coming up: Should this thing still be a musical?Mostly, yes.The plot — controversial for many — has always been brilliant. Because of a miscommunication, the parents of a young student who killed himself are led to believe that Evan (Ben Platt), a high-school misfit, was his best and only friend.
On paper, an empathetic film depicting teenagers who live with mental health issues finding their way out of their high school years, which can truly be hell, seems like something we might need right now. Unfortunately, Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of the Tony-awarding-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” is not that movie.
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TORONTO – King Street usually closed to traffic and packed full of wandering festivalgoers is empty. Roy Thompson Hall is only half full for screenings, there are no throngs of people crowding outside to get in the theater and no concessions are for sale.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWith “Dear Evan Hansen,” a divisive Broadway musical sticks its neck out in movie form, trusting a shelf full of Tonys to sweep it from improbable stage success to mainstream glory — except when does that work? In a year with a well-above-average number of musicals popping up on the big screen (“In the Heights,” “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” “West Side Story,” “Cyrano,” “Tick, Tick … Boom!”), “Dear Evan Hansen” is the farthest below average in terms of actual
Dear Evan Hansen is Hollywood’s newest entry on the road to reviving the musical genre. The Broadway musical by musicians and lyricist Benj Pasek and Justin Paul is coming to the big screen via Universal to see if it can capitalize on general audience approval.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe Toronto International Film Festival marked a poignant in-person return on Thursday evening, with the opening night title “Dear Evan Hansen.”Before a single frame of the cathartic tearjerker starring Ben Platt was screened, festival co-heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente primed the room at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall.
The cast of Dear Evan Hansen is on the red carpet for the film’s world premiere!
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorStephen Chbosky never intended to create a film series. But with the films “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Wonder” and now “Dear Evan Hansen” under his belt, he jokes that he has made “The First Day of School Trilogy.”Based on the Tony Award-winning musical, “Dear Evan Hansen” will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept.
The movie version of Dear Evan Hansen will be hitting theaters in three weeks and star Ben Platt is getting fans excited with some live performances!