Here are your Manchester United headlines for Sunday, May 22.
05.05.2022 - 16:57 / variety.com
Manori Ravindran International EditorWe’ll have to wait a while longer for Timothée Chalamet’s West End debut.“4000 Miles,” the play that was to be headlined by the “Dune” star, has been canceled at the Old Vic two years after its debut was thwarted by the pandemic. The theater confirmed the cancellation to ticketholders on Thursday, offering credit with the venue or full refunds.A statement from the historic London theater reads: “Following its postponement due to the pandemic, and despite an enormous amount of effort from all involved, we have now sadly and reluctantly concluded that we are unable to reschedule the show at a time possible for everyone involved.“It’s been a long journey to get to this point and despite two years of trying hard to make it work, it has proved impossible.
We’re sorry not to have better news, and we want to thank you for your continued patience and understanding,” continues the statement. “It’s hard to believe that it’s almost two years to the day that we should have been stepping onto The Old Vic stage for the first preview to share our show with an extremely eager audience (‘4000 Miles’ was one of the top-selling shows ever to be scheduled at this theater).” Chalamet’s U.K.
fans had been holding out hope that “4000 Miles” would be rescheduled after the Old Vic’s artistic director Matthew Warcus said in April 2020 that the org was trying to line up new dates for the Amy Herzog play, which was set to star Chalamet alongside Dame Eileen Atkins.Chalamet, who has been filming “Wonka” in the U.K., was set to make his West End debut on April 6, 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic closed theaters. The production had been fully rehearsed when lockdown started.“4000 Miles” played Off-Broadway in
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Paolo Nutini has announced details of a new UK and European tour – get your tickets here and see the full list of dates below.The Scottish artist returned last week with two new songs and news of his fourth studio album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’, the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Caustic Love’.Nutini has now announced a UK and European tour in support of the LP, with a pair of live dates in Ireland in August joining a run of dates that run from September through to November.The tour will visit the UK from October 22-November 1, with gigs in Manchester, London, Birmingham, Hull, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.Fans who pre-order ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ by 3pm on Monday (May 23) will receive exclusive access to a pre-sale for tour tickets, which opens at 9am on Tuesday (May 24).
John Peel – once branded by NME as “the king of the live session” – will be sold at an auction in London next month.Before his death in 2004, Peel amassed a weighty collection spanning over 26,000 LPs, 40,000 seven-inch singles and countless CDs. A selection of those, as well as various items of memorabilia, will be auctioned off at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge location on Tuesday June 14.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBrazil’s economic powerhouse, São Paulo is emerging as a key film-TV player in Brazil’s post-pandemic mix. In one move, São Paulo State and City authorities are teaming to power up a new cash rebate for shoots, international and national, to more than four times the endowment of its first edition in 2021. Launched last July by Spcine, the city’s go-ahead film commission, the first shoot spend rebate in Brazil had a total annual budget of $1.6 million. This time round, now also backed by São Paulo State, 2022’s endowment will come in at R$40 million, $8 million at current exchange rates.Given a return of 20%-30% of expenditure that will make $36 million of various titles’ shoot spend in São Paulo eligible for the rebate program.
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Nine Inch Nails band members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are part of a wave of established musicians that have dipped their toes into the world of film composing. Some of their scoring efforts for feature films include several David Fincher films—”The Social Network” (which they won an Academy Award for), “Gone Girl,” “Mank,” “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo“— “Bird Box,” and Pixar’s “Soul.” Now, the Oscar-winning duo has revealed they’re involved with another high-profile feature film.
The Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been canceled, the theater company announced today, citing a two-year pandemic-caused delay.
Timothee Chalamet‘s West End debut has officially been cancelled.
Paul Weller has teamed up with Suggs from Madness for a new collaborative single called ‘Ooh Do U Fink U R’ – listen below.The stomping ’60s R&B-inspired number delves into Suggs and Weller’s upbringing in Britain’s ’70s comprehensive school system in London and Woking respectively, according to a press release.“Me and Suggs have been talking about doing something together for the last few years so to see it finally happen is amazing! I love the tune and working with him,” Weller explained.“He’s truly a man of many talents. We wanted to do something special and I really think this track is.”Suggs added: “I think teachers are the best people in the world, I love them with all my heart.
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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDisney+ has commissioned a still-untitled TV series on Sicily’s Florio family who during the 19th century built an economic empire on the island and became known as the merchant princes of Europe.Casting is underway in Rome and Palermo, the Sicilian capital, on this high-end period epic to be directed by Italy’s Paolo Genovese whose hit dramedy “Perfect Strangers” has spawned countless remakes around the the world, including an Arab-language adaptation for Netflix.The Sicilian skein, which according to sources is expected to start shooting in July, is based on local bestseller “The Lions of Sicily,” by Stefania Auci, which has sold more than 500,000 copies in Italy and been translated in 30 languages. News that Genovese is directing this Disney+ Italian original has been reported in the Italian press and confirmed by multiple sources.The show, which marks the most high-end Disney+ Italian original to date, is being executive produced by Rome-based Lotus Productions — a unit of Leone Film Group. Both Leone in Rome and Disney in London declined to comment.The Florio’s, who moved to Sicily from Calabria following an earthquake in the late 19th century that had left them penniless, gradually built an empire on the island over the following two decades, becoming a dynasty of shipowners, winemakers, and tuna merchants but also creators of the Targa Florio, the world’s oldest endurance car race.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWilly Wonka is in the business of treats, and Warner Bros. took a cue from the candyman for its 2022 CinemaCon presentation — showing a trailer for Timothée Chalamet’s new film some 20 months away from its official release.The annual convention of movie theater owners got a nearly two-minute look at the prequel — which imagines the lead character of Roald Dahl’s classic novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” as a young man looking to build his empire.Though iconically portrayed as a quirky (bordering on perverse) magnate by Gene Wilder, Chalamet stakes his own claim at the iconic brown velvet top hot worn by Wonka.
Typically studios will only show off their current year wares at CinemaCon, but Warner Bros. went deep in the calendar showing off the first fresh footage from Paul King’s Wonka, the feature musical about the candymeister. The movie doesn’t come out until Christmas 2023.