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Scots DJ Calvin Harris has shared an unrecognisable snap on Instagram as he celebrates his 38th birthday.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

The Color Purple, and the glitzy “Anything Goes” opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

AFI Top 10 Films of the Year list, and now general audiences across the country are able to see it.The film has been adapted for the screen from the original 1957 Broadway musical, which was written by Arthur Laurents with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and concept, direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins. Tony Award winner Justin Peck choreographs the musical numbers in the film.

Jon Burlingame editorAudiences viewing Steven Spielberg’s new “West Side Story” will see many differences from the 1961 version, including a younger cast, revised screenplay and new choreography.

, one thing everyone knew he would need is an amazing cast.A story told in 1950s New York City, the beloved musical explores a rivalry between two street gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, and the turmoil that ensues when a forbidden romance between a former Jet and the sister of a Shark sparks new conflict between the warring factions.The 1961 adaptation of directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and featuring the legendary music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

, one thing everyone knew he would need is an amazing cast.A story told in 1950s New York City, the beloved musical explores a rivalry between two street gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, and the turmoil that ensues when a forbidden romance between a former Jet and the sister of a Shark sparks new conflict between the warring factions.The 1961 adaptation of directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and featuring the legendary music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

, one thing everyone knew he would need is an amazing cast.A story told in 1950s New York City, the beloved musical explores a rivalry between two street gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, and the turmoil that ensues when a forbidden romance between a former Jet and the sister of a Shark sparks new conflict between the warring factions.The 1961 adaptation of directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and featuring the legendary music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

, one thing everyone knew he would need is an amazing cast.A story told in 1950s New York City, the beloved musical explores a rivalry between two street gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, and the turmoil that ensues when a forbidden romance between a former Jet and the sister of a Shark sparks new conflict between the warring factions.The 1961 adaptation of directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and featuring the legendary music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

, one thing everyone knew he would need is an amazing cast.A story told in 1950s New York City, the beloved musical explores a rivalry between two street gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, and the turmoil that ensues when a forbidden romance between a former Jet and the sister of a Shark sparks new conflict between the warring factions.The 1961 adaptation of directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and featuring the legendary music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

, one thing everyone knew he would need is an amazing cast.A story told in 1950s New York City, the beloved musical explores a rivalry between two street gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, and the turmoil that ensues when a forbidden romance between a former Jet and the sister of a Shark sparks new conflict between the warring factions.The 1961 adaptation of directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and featuring the legendary music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen

The Telegraph“‘West Side Story’ is, I believe, Spielberg’s finest film in 20 years, and a new milestone in the career of one of our greatest living directors.

adaptation of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ musical memorable. It’s the “ET” director’s most visually exciting film in a zillion years.Still, it’s not gonna become a classic in the way the 1961 original did.

, the film's cast and creator were remembering the life and legacy of Stephen Sondheim, the man behind the musical's iconic lyrics.Sondheim — who wrote the lyrics for the original Broadway production of, which accompanied the music written by Leonard Bernstein — died on Friday at the age of 91.

This month marks the long-awaited return of opera to the north west as Opera North comes to The Lowry, Salford, on its first full live season and tour since the pandemic.

Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg works fast and generally pumps out a movie every two years like clockwork or less. But it’s been three years since 2018’s “Ready Player One,” in some ways because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThere was a time, in the middle of the 20th century, when the orchestra conductor was a shamanistic figure in American life. And during that era, no shaman was more magical — a higher priest of high culture — than Leonard Bernstein.

The first trailer for West Side Story danced its way to the Oscars on Sunday night. Steven Spielberg's remake of the 1961 classic starsAnsel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria.

Chris Willman Music WriterJames Levine, one of the most renowned conductors of the modern era, whose career at the helm of the Metropolitan Opera crashed amid sexual abuse allegations in 2018, has died at age 77.He was reported Wednesday to have died at home in Palm Springs on March 9.

Deadline.The Emmy winner will star alongside Bradley Cooper as Bernstein, who will also direct, as his follow-up to his 2018 hit A Star Is Born.Gruen wrote the 1968 authorized biography The Private World of Leonard Bernstein with Ken Heyman, while he was working as a journalist in New York.He wrote for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times as an art critic, and also wrote biographies on composer Gian Carlo Menotti, Keith Haring and his own autobiography, Callas Kissed Me...Lenny

Jeremy Strong is joining the cast.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Strong is negotiating to co-star in Maestro, the Bradley Cooper-directed drama on composer Leonard Bernstein for Netflix.

NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to her media company and arts collective ARRAY.The award is named for the co-founder of MacDowell, the century-old artist residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and many others have been visiting fellows.

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to her media company and arts collective ARRAY. The award is named for the co-founder of MacDowell, the century-old artist residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and many others have been visiting fellows.

Bradley Cooper has tapped Carey Mulligan to play Felicia, the wife of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, in his upcoming Netflix musical drama Maestro. Mulligan joins Cooper's directorial follow-up to A Star Is Born.

Ever since Bradley Cooper surprised everyone with his directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” which would go on to be nominated for eight Oscars (taking home one), fans have been wondering when we might see his next feature behind the camera. Well, Netflix has already secured the rights for Cooper’s upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic, titled “Maestro,” and it appears the actor-turned-filmmaker has found his next leading lady.

Because nothing in 2020 is allowed to proceed with any kind of subtlety, R.E.M. is back on the charts with 1987’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

The first proper images from Steven Spielberg’s version of the classic musical movie West Side Story have been revealed online ahead of the film’s release later this year. The movie will hit cinemas (hopefully) in December with the likes of Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler amongst the cast. It will be based on the musical of the same name by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

Netflix is getting a lot more musical.The streamer has landed the Bradley Cooper-fronted Leonard Bernstein movie that was previously set up at Paramount.

Netflix will back Bradley Cooper’s upcoming drama about Leonard Bernstein, the legendary conductor and musical maestro behind “West Side Story” and “Candide,” Variety has confirmed.