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Mank‘s Amanda Seyfried had three words to describe receiving her first Golden Globe Nomination on Wednesday: “so f*cking awesome.” The Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables actress will compete alongside fellow nominees Glenn Close, Olivia Colman, Jodie Foster and Helena Zengel for the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama prize.

Amanda Seyfried is reflecting on her role in Les Miserables.

Amanda Seyfried is reflecting on some of her most memorable movie moments. 

Kate Aurthur editorDuring a conversation between Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”) for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, presented by Amazon Studios, Kirby confessed her fandom. “I’ve loved you so much since ‘Mean Girls’ — it’s so iconic,” she said to Seyfried.“Mean Girls,” Seyfried told Kirby, was her first movie.

Les Misérables, and recently noted the positives in a new interview.“I really don’t want to dredge up the past but I did have my monster out there, I did have the internet turn on me and hate me and it was like a whole big thing,” Hathaway told The Sun.“And it was a really good thing for me personally. You can be incredibly empowered because of those things.

Anne Hathaway has said that the online backlash to her winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Les Misérables was “empowering”. The star also won Best Supporting Actress prizes at the Baftas, SAG Awards and Golden Globes in 2013 for her performance as Fantine.

Actress Anne Hathaway recently spoke to British newspaper The Sun and opened up about winning a coveted Oscar, to one’s surprise the actress was not pleased about winning the prestigious award.  “You’re supposed to be happy,” the 38-year-old actress told The Sun on Sunday. “I didn’t feel that way.” For the unversed, The Intern Anne won the award in 2013 for her terrific performance in the musical Les Miserables.

Anne Hathaway is speaking out about her Oscars win and how she was not actually happy when she won the coveted award.

James Corden celebrated Donald Trump’s last day in office with a very special performance.

Ellise Shafer administratorJames Corden celebrated Trump’s last day in office with a parody of “Les Misérables” number “One Day More,” featuring a slew of Broadway stars.In the video, which aired during Tuesday’s episode of “The Late Late Show,” Corden arrives at work in a good mood due to President-elect Joe Biden’s impending inauguration.

Les Miserables, but when I see you in the street I’m not allowed to pop earbuds into your head holes and blast “Do You Hear The People Sing.” It’s wonderful to be a person who expresses love through touch. But exclaiming “I’m a hugger!” and then not waiting for a response just feels antiquated when we know that different people experience affection differently.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUniversal Filmed Entertainment Group has renewed its first-look deal with Working Title Films, the producer of many of the studio’s most beloved movies.

Hugh Jackman is getting in his daily workout.

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The Trial Of The Chicago 7.The new Netflix drama, out today (October 16), concerns the real-life trial against a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters who incited violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.Speaking to NME in a new interview, which you can watch in full above, Redmayne spoke of his previous experience of working with Cohen on Les Miserables, and how that impacted their work together on the new Netflix film.“I adore him,” Redmayne told NME.

Herbert Kretzmer, the journalist and lyricist knew for his English-language adaptation of the musical Les Miserables, has died. He was 95.

Herbert Kretzmer, who has died aged 95, was at various times an influential theatre and television critic on Britain’s two rival mid-market newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, before finding greater fame and infinitely greater fortune with the English libretto for the West End hit musical Les Misérables, widely reckoned the greatest show in musical history.With Alain Boublil (original French lyrics) and Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Kretzmer was the third of the triumvirate who

Tom Grater International Film ReporterHerbert Kretzmer, whose English lyrics for the then little-known French musical Les Miserables helped turn the show into a blockbuster production, has died at the age of 95.High-profile theatre figures including Tim Rice first shared the news and his agent has since confirmed it to the New York Times.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentHerbert Kretzmer, best known as the lyricist on the English version of the musical “Les Miserables,” and writer of songs such as “Goodness Gracious Me” and Charles Aznavour’s hit “She,” has died at 95.Tributes came in Wednesday from some of the leading lights of the British stage world.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, All3Media lands “All Creatures Great and Small” in several major territories, Limonero Films strikes a deal with Disney on two factual series, HBO Max picks up two Blue Ant International series, “Les Misérables -The Staged Concert” returns to London for the holidays and Gobstopper launches new sister company Flying Saucer TV.All3Media has announced a raft of global acquisitions for “All Creatures Great and Small,” produced by Playground for Channel 5 in

Les Miserables will return to the stage for a special Christmas run, after closing nearly seven months ago amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Naman Ramachandran The finale of “Britain’s Got Talent” will feature performances from the combined companies of “Les Misérables – The Staged Concert,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Mary Poppins,” presented by renowned theater producer Cameron Mackintosh.Ant and Dec will host while Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, David Walliams and Ashley Banjo will be on judge duty.The popular ITV show, created by Simon Cowell, took place this year largely without his physical participation as he broke his

trailer for the remake of “The Witches,” a beloved 1990 dark comedy about a convention for witches, has dropped, giving a first look at the updated tale directed by Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump,” “Back to the Future”).The star-studded cast also includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérables,” “The Devil Wears Prada”) and Octavia Spencer (“The Help,” “The Shape of Water”), as well as Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger Games,” “The Lovely Bones”), Kristin Chenoweth

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Great Performances has set its fourth annual “Broadway’s Best” November line-up on PBS, including the world premiere of Lea Salonga in Concert featuring the Tony Award-winner singing her signature songs from Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Aladdin and Mulan.The Broadway’s Best programming, running on Fridays from November 6 to Nov.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWill Packer Productions has hired Johanna Byer as executive VP of motion pictures.For the past four years,  Byer has served as senior VP of film and television for French film studio Gaumont.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas Carol and other works of Charles Dickens will make its streaming debut before Christmas utilizing technology to combine socially distanced performances.Estella Scrooge, with a book and direction by Tony Award winner John Caird (Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickelby) and

When Trevor Ashely and I started our phone interview, I immediately got a sense of the exuberance and passion that he must bring to his life and various projects, which you’d obviously need quite a bit of, if you were planning on bringing the life of Australia’s most favourite glamour girl Carol Spencer (affectionately known as Carlotta) to the stage!You would be hard pressed to find many other Australian performers from any era whose life would make as great a musical as Carolotta’s, and this

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Fabien Riggall, the founder of popular immersive film experience Secret Cinema, has launched new project LOST.

Russell Crowe and an Edinburgh-born musical theatre star have gone viral with their lockdown recording of The Confrontation from hit West End musical Les Miserables. The video racked up over a million hits in just 48-hours with fans clamouring for more from Pilton-born Jeff Leyton and the Hollywood A-lister.

Hugh Jackman is taking whatever wins he can get and that includes his uncensored butt.

Anne Hathaway, who worked with Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Interstellar (2014), revealed that the filmmaker does not allow chairs on his film sets. The actress joined her Les Miserables co-star Hugh Jackman for Variety’s Actors on Actor and during their conversation spoke about the director.

It’s been nearly eight years since “Les Misérables” hit the big screen.

Kate Aurthur editorAnne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman first met when he hosted the Academy Awards in 2009, and became friends when they co-starred in 2012’s “Les Misérables” — which brought him an Oscar nomination for best actor and her a win for supporting actress. This year, Jackman drew raves for his role in HBO’s “Bad Education” as a charismatic school superintendent living a double life.

Carey Mulligan’s style is “heavily influenced” by what she’s working on at the time.The Great Gatsby actress noted in an interview with U.S. InStyle magazine that her personal style is ever-evolving and will sometimes be inspired by the costumes she wears on set for a particular film, such the 2005 period drama Pride & Prejudice, which marked her movie debut, influencing her to wear vintage clothes in her downtime.

Update regarding performances of #HamiltonLDN: In response to the continued uncertainty over when the government is going to completely withdraw social distancing measures and allow the safe return of theatre productions Cameron Mackintosh, his producing partners and Delfont Mackintosh Theatres have had to take the difficult decision of delaying the return of their productions of Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, Hamilton and The Phantom of the Opera until as early as practical in 2021.