Billy Connolly will be the recipient of the Edinburgh Television Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award this year.
30.07.2021 - 02:09 / variety.com
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“What difference can one song make?” asks “Vivo,” a super-saturated, instant-classic musical cartoon from Kirk DeMicco, director of “The Croods,” featuring a whole bunch of catchy new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda — a man who’s spent his career proving just how impactful clever music can be. In fact, it was Miranda who made Disney’s “Moana” so memorable a few years back (marking his maiden voyage into animation).
Billy Connolly will be the recipient of the Edinburgh Television Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award this year.
“I didn’t have any TV or film experience really by the time we shot this,” Hamilton star and Emmy nominee Daveed Diggs said of the Disney+ filmed version of the Tony-, Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. “Tommy told me, do your show and we’ll catch the show,” the Snowpiercer star added of veteran director Thomas Kail’s calming instruction back in 2016.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Hulu, there are plenty of new films to enjoy, and no shortage of options on when and where to watch them. This list includes the most exciting new releases available to see in theaters or stream from the comfort of your couch, with movies starring A-list actors such as Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Chris Pratt, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, Tom Holland, Idris Elba, Margot Robbie and more.
So many of you told us we needed to watch Vivo on Netflix, from Lin-Manuel Miranda. We finally got around to it! Here are our thoughts!
Good in the ‘Wood?I just finished seeing Vivo, 1 of the many new movie releases out now on Netflix. The same team that gave us the music of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alex Lacamoire, collaborate again for this animated musical comedy film.
As the fall festivals Venice, Telluride and Toronto, as well as New York and London continue to evolve in the surging Covid environment, AFI Fest has announced it is moving full speed ahead.
Angelique Jackson Lin-Manuel Miranda’s highly anticipated movie “Tick, Tick…Boom!” will make its world premiere as the opening night screening of AFI Fest 2021.The 35th edition of AFI Fest runs from Nov. 10 to Nov.
Tick, Tick…Boom!” follows Jon (Garfield), a waiter and aspiring composer who hopes that his next theatrical project, “Superbia,” will bring him his Broadway dreams.
Lin-Manuel Miranda can breathe easy after his kids approved his latest animated musical Vivo.After his success with musicals “Hamilton” and “In The Heights,” Miranda revealed that according to his kids, the Sony Pictures movie is their “favorite thing I’ve ever worked on.”“I am so glad that your kids now will all get to hear the thing that has been playing on a loop in my house for years,” Miranda said during a special screening of the film, as reported by NBC News.“Vivo” premiered Friday on
Scott Huver For “Pose” star Billy Porter, “as an actor, one of the greatest moments in the development of a character is when you find out what their clothing is.
Hey, Hollywooders! Have you ever LOVED a movie that critics seem to hate? Or maybe you HATED a movie that got rave reviews?The truth is, movie critics don’t know everything.
has released three movies in the past twelve months, and finished another season of “His Dark Materials” for HBO. Recently he said he’s working on a new Broadway musical.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorVideo from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wedding served as a reference for the single-take opening sequence of Leos Carax’s new film “Annette,” reveals cinematographer Caroline Champetier.Bowing Aug. 6, “Annette” centers on Henry (Adam Driver), a standup comedian who falls in love with Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLin-Manuel Miranda ups his odds for getting an Oscar and completing his PEGOT with “Inside Your Heart,” an original song from the impending animated film “Vivo.” He already has the Peabody, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards in hand; all he lacks is the Academy Award.Not that “Vivo” represents his only shot at it this year.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is promoting his new movie in New York City!
Lin-Manuel Miranda has a new movie musical on the way and it will be released on Netflix next weekend!
Vanessa Hudgens is living her best life in Italy.
Music is everywhere.
Zootopia), with visual consultation by Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins. Serving as the film’s composer and executive music producer is Tony and Grammy award-winner Alex Lacamoire (“The Greatest Showman”), and the film is executive produced by Miranda, Laurence Mark and Louis Koo Tin Lok.“Vivo” will be released through Netflix on August 6.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is everywhere these days. Following “In The Heights” this summer based on one of his plays and the “Tick, Tick Boom” musical starring Andrew Garfield arriving later this year, Miranda is practically ubiquitous.