Month: July 2021

Paramount Pictures shared the trailer for the new film Clifford the Big Red Dog, featuring David Alan Grier as the voice of Clifford. Clifford the Big Red Dog is based on the Norman Bridwell children’s book series of the same name.

The trailer shows Emily (Darby Camp), a young girl, and her uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) discover a small red puppy. Emily’s wish for Clifford to be big and strong magically transforms him into a giant dog. Clifford is seen exploring New York City with Emily (Camp) and Casey (Whitehall) and getting into mischief along the way. Tony Hale, Sienna Guillory, Russell Wong and John Cleese co-star.

Clifford the Big Red Dog opens in theaters Sept. 17.   Check out the trailer at the link: here.

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Filmmaker Kevin Smith shared the first official trailer for his upcoming animated series, Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Smith tweeted, along with the 2-minute preview: “THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE UNIVERSE starts now! See the story trailer for our @MastersOfficial #REVELATION animated series, only on @netflix July 23rd! (Please send lots of love to our @powerhouseanim directors @PatrickStannard & @ProbablyAcon for all the Powerful visuals!)” 

The show, set to debut on Netflix July 23, is based on the popular Mattel line of action figures. Smith is the showrunner and executive producer, and will feature the voices of Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Chris Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Griffin Newman, Tiffany Smith, Henry Rollins, Alan Oppenheimer, Susan Eisenberg, Alicia Silverstone, Justin Long, Jason Mewes, Phil LaMarr, Tony Todd, Cree Summer, Kevin Michael Richardson and Kevin Conroy. Revelation is a sequel to the animated series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which aired from 1983 to 1985.

Plaza Suite, starring real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, will return to Broadway in 2022. Producers announced on social media that the revival of the Neil Simon play will begin previews Feb. 22 at Hudson Theatre in New York, and officially open March 28.  Tickets are available now at the link: here.

Plaza Suite is a three-act comedy that follows three different couples at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York. John Benjamin Hickey will direct the revival, which was originally to open in April 2020. The production was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Broderick and Parker previously co-starred on Broadway in the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Broderick’s other Broadway credits include Beach Memoirs, and The Producers.

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Harry Connick, Jr., has joined the cast of the NBC special Annie Live!  Connick, 53, will play Daddy Warbucks in the TV musical. NBC announced earlier this month that Empire actress Taraji P. Henson will play Miss Hannigan.

Connick confirmed the news in a statement to People: “It’s such a classic show and it’s a show that I’m so familiar with, just from seeing it a million times. And it’s one of those things where you watch it and enjoy it and never really imagine yourself a part of, so when I was asked to play Daddy Warbucks it was kind of surreal because that’s such an iconic role. It wasn’t something I ever really thought about. I was just thrilled that I was asked to do it.”

Annie Live! is based on the Broadway musical, which was itself inspired by the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie.  Annie Live! will air late this year and will be NBC’s first live musical since Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, which aired in 2018.