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The Hollywood Reporter reports: Sponge on the Run comes four years after the elaborate $20 million Broadway musical based on the cartoon, which was a commercial disappointment but a delirious critical darling. The show’s psychedelic Day-Glo marine world appears to have been influential not only in the look of the new movie but also in the extent to which songs …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Deadline has confirmed that author Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a Superman reboot feature for Warner Bros and DC, which J.J. Abrams is producing under his Bad Robot label. Hannah Minghella will serve as producer. No plot yet and no attachments despite the fact that we’ve heard how Henry Cavill is eager to get back into the cape. …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Hasbro will rebrand its classic Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toy line as simply “Potato Head,” adapting and better reflecting today’s modern families and gender identities. The toy brand announced on Thursday that while it will drop the “Mr.” from the toy brand and logo, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head will still remain in the line. With …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Halo‘s long road to the small screen has taken one final turn. Showtime’s anticipated series based on the hugely popular Xbox video game franchise will migrate to Paramount+ and be available exclusively on ViacomCBS’ streamer. Produced by Showtime in partnership with 343 Industries, along with Amblin Television, the series is in production in Budapest and will premiere …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Chrissy Teigen rejoiced on Tuesday as President Joe Biden’s Twitter account, @POTUS, unfollowed her, after her request that he do so. “I have tweeted a handful of times since my treasured @POTUS following. In order for me to flourish as me, I must ask you to please lord unfollow me. I love you!!! It’s not you it’s …

Deadline Hollywood reports: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said movie theaters in New York City will be brought into line with the rest of New York state as of March 5, when they will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity with no more than 50 people per screen, masks, social distancing and other protocols. The guidelines include …

Gothamist reports: Central Park’s ice rinks will reportedly close at the end of Sunday after Mayor Bill de Blasio moved to end the city’s contracts with the Trump Organization in the weeks after the riot and insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink, operated by the Trump Organization, will close weeks ahead of when their …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Even though the domestic box office remains in a funk due to the pandemic, moviegoers’ confidence has hit a record high near 50%, according to recent data by NRG. According to exhibition reports, 47% of 5,900 U.S./Canada movie theaters are open. States that are the most open include Mississippi and Utah (both 80%), Arizona (77%), Alabama (70%) …

Variety reports: The great Emmy debate over a merged variety series category has been solved, at least for now: The Television Academy will announce on Friday that it has decided this year to maintain separate categories for variety talk series and variety sketch series after all. The decision to keep the two categories, reversing course from a previous plan to …

Vulture reports: Black characters and other characters of color should also have the right to die tragically in sweet, poignant stories about nightmarish moments in history. That’s a slightly off-center place to begin a review of Russell T Davies’s often beautifully moving limited series It’s a Sin, about the AIDS epidemic in London. But the series follows several young people …

Deadline Hollywood reports: CBS’ praised Mom — the network’s longest running comedy series on the air — will end its run after the current eighth season. Mom‘s series finale has been set for May 6 in its Thursday 9 PM time period. This is the last season of Mom’s two-year pickup which the Chuck Lorre-produced multi-camera comedy received in 2019. …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Regé-Jean Page is going from the Regency-era romance of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular Bridgerton on Netflix to the sword-wielding, role-playing action of Paramount’s forthcoming movie adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons. The actor has been cast in a leading role in the movie based on the iconic game franchise from Wizards of the Coast. Page will join previously …

Variety reports: Ari Gold, the trailblazing LGBTQ artist who sang backing vocals for Diana Ross and Cyndi Lauper, has died of leukemia, World of Wonder Productions confirmed to Variety. He was 47. World of Wonder, the production company behind “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” worked closely with Gold on his collaborations with RuPaul. “Ari was a queer trailblazer whose fierce independence and …

Deadline Hollywood reports:  A major moment in music got underway this week, as Taylor Swift’s re-recording of her 2008 album Fearless made its debut. It’s now Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and it’s off to a promising start. The complete album will be released in April, but the first single, Love Story, has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its Friday …

The Wrap reports: Hasbro, the toy brand behind the “The Mandalorian” action figures, has reportedly canceled Gina Carano’s Cara Dune action figure amid the controversy over Carano’s social media posts. A Twitter user posted the following screenshot on Friday from retailer Big Bad Toy Store. “We have been informed by Hasbro that they have canceled production and will not be …

Variety reports: In the wake of accusations of sexism and misogyny against Justin Timberlake regarding his treatment of former girlfriend Britney Spears, and the “wardrobe malfunction” with Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl in 2004, he has apologized to both women in an Instagram post. In both cases, the reasons for his apology reach back nearly 20 years: He and …

Deadline Hollywood reports: American jazz pioneer, composer, keyboardist and bandleader Chick Corea passed away on Tuesday, according to a post on his Facebook page. He was 79 years old. The Facebook statement says Corea died from “a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently.” Corea was the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 65 …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Jeep has pulled its Super Bowl commercial with Bruce Springsteen from its YouTube channel following reports of the singer’s DWI arrest in his home state of New Jersey back in November. TMZ reports that the singer was arrested November 14 in Sandy Hook, NJ and cited for DWI, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed area. …

Deadline reports: Twitter hit daily active users of 192 million for the three months ended in December, up 27% year on year and five million more than the previous quarter as the social media giant beat Wall Street’s forecast on the top and bottom line. User numbers did not include Twitter’s January decision to block former President Donald Trump – …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the innocuous small business in Pennsylvania that shot to prominence when it became the unlikely stage for a press conference fronted by Rudy Giuliani four days after the U.S. presidential election, will be the subject of a feature doc giving a first-hand account of the rollercoaster series of events. Four Seasons Total Documentary …