Here's the Reason Why 'Wicked' Is Being Split Into Two Movies

Amber Heard’s legal team has officially filed to appeal the verdict in her recent libel trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp. Following a bombshell trial in the US, a jury found that the Aquaman actress did defame Depp with her 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post about her experience with domestic abuse.Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp, 59, was awarded $15million (£13m) in total, broken down as $10m (£8.3m) in compensatory damages and $5m (£4m) in punitive damages.

Actress and singer Shonka Dukureh has died at the age of 44, it has been confirmed.The entertainer made her film debut last month in the blockbuster Elvis, the Elvis Presley biopic also starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, playing Big Mama Thornton. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has said Dukureh was found in the bedroom of her apartment and that no foul play is suspected.Dukureh shared the apartment with her two young children and police said one of them found her unresponsive and ran to a neighbour’s house to raise the alarm. The neighbour then called emergency services just before 9:30am on Thursday.

Netflix dropped a whopping $200 million ($50 million shy of the budget for “No Time To Die”) on the visually grand adaptation of Mark Greaney’s spy novels in hopes that it kicks off a popular movie series along the lines of James Bond, “The Bourne Identity,” “Mission: Impossible” and “John Wick.” Best of luck! That’s an awfully tall order when your film doesn’t have a strong main character.James Bond is King Lear next to Sierra Six — played by a cold and demure Gosling — an imprisoned murderer who has his sentence commuted in exchange for becoming a trained underground killer for the CIA. He carries out secret unsavory missions for the government.When Six is lured into the gig by his handler Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), he’s told, “You’ll exist in the gray.” Six replies: “Disposable?”Yup. Skip ahead 18 years.

Britney Spears found a way to survive the scorching heatwave in the UK this week – by prancing around naked in her London hotel room. The Slave 4 U singer is fresh from her honeymoon with husband Sam Asghari after the pair tied the knot at their home in California last month. Ringing in the first days of their married life, Britney, 40, and Sam, 28, spent weeks ‘island hopping’ around tropical destinations, including Cabo, Mexico. It appears the honeymoon has officially come to an end but Britney hasn’t given up the jetset lifestyle just yet, as she’s popped up in London for reasons unknown. Waking up her Instagram followers, the Toxic singer shared a set of photos of her posing around the hotel room completely nude in some, and wearing green bikini bottoms in another.

Ricky Martin has described the past couple of weeks as ‘painful’ after he was accused of having a romantic relationship with his nephew.Lawyers for the 50-year-old singer had previously vehemently denied allegations that he was involved in a sexual relationship with his 21-year-old nephew. On Thursday, a judge dismissed a restraining order against the musician after his nephew asked to withdraw the claims. Speaking out about his ordeal for the first time, Martin said in a video: ‘I’m in front of the cameras today because I really need to talk in order for me to start the healing process. For two weeks I was not allowed to defend myself because I was following a procedure where the law obligated me not to talk until I was in front of a judge. ‘Thank God these claims were proven to be false but I’m going to tell you the truth.

supports HTML5 videoIf you weren’t excited for Don’t Worry Darling already, then this new trailer is about to change that – this film looks truly wild.Starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, the Olivia Wilde-directed psychological thriller hits cinemas later this year, telling the story of a seemingly perfect suburban life in the 1950s.However, cracks in Jack (Harry) and Alice’s (Florence) marriage begin to show when Alice is forced to question everything she’s known and whether the idealised community of Victory is real at all.An official synopsis for the movie explains how Jack works for the top-secret Victory Project, spending all day in the headquarters with CEO Frank (Chris Pine) and the other husbands in the community.However, all is not as it seems in their tight-knit desert utopia, as the wives get to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle provided they offer discretion in return and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause.Like a classic thriller film, there’s something far more sinister lurking beneath the attractive facade of the community, which pokes at Alice’s curiosity and leads her on a mission to expose what’s really going on.As you can imagine, the film is drama and tension from start to end, with the latest teaser encapsulating that fully.Jack and Alice’s marriage seems blissful initially, as the trailer opens with jaunty music, sweet morning kisses, Jack wearing a frilly apron while cooking in their fancy kitchen, and outings to very lavish parties.But, things turn sour when Alice pokes her nose where it isn’t wanted and the mysterious nature of the film unravels.We see Florence watching herself on TV, appearing to be drowning, cracking eggs only for nothing to be inside them, and tea cups rattling

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorOne of the joys of live theater is that it’s ephemeral — a show is never the same from night to night. But “Freestyle Love Supreme” has taken that up a notch, presenting an entirely improvised hip-hop musical revue created live on the spot.

Carson Burton Taurean Blacque, beloved for his role of Detective Neal Washington on “Hill Street Blues,” has died. He was 82 years old.Blacque died Thursday according to his son Rodney’s Facebook post. He died in Atlanta following a brief illness, according to reports.For all seven seasons of the popular NBC cop show, Blacque starred alongside Michael Warren, Daniel J.

Shonka Dukureh, who most recently played the role of Big Mama Thornton in the movie Elvis, has died at the age of 44.

Misty Copeland is a mom!

David Harbour is opening up about his physical transformation.

Kourtney Kardashian is speaking out in response to the fake social media accounts that were made in her son Mason Disick‘s name.

We’re exactly one year away from the release of Christopher Nolan‘s new movie Oppenheimer and Universal Pictures is teasing the highly-anticipated film!

Lea Michele has kicked off her Life in Music tour!

The cast of the upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves just premiered the first trailer at Comic-Con!

The world rests on the shoulders of a group of thieves in Paramount and eOne’s new movie.

It's been a non-stop adventure since  debuted on ABC, and the party is just beginning! Production for season 2 began on Monday, and Quinta Brunson shared that fans will be getting even more when season 2 premieres on Sept. 21. The star and creator was joined at San Diego Comic-Con by co-stars Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis and Sheryl Lee Ralph, as well as executive producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker in a live virtual panel. On the first day of the 2022 convention, Brunson revealed the upcoming season also features more episodes than the first, although she admitted that they probably weren't supposed to announce that bit of news yet.ABC announced that the smash series had officially been renewed for a second season in March, ahead of the show's midseason premiere.

 actress and blues singer Shonka Dukureh was found dead in her Nashville apartment Thursday, ET can confirm. She was 44.According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in the Baz Luhrmann production, was found dead Thursday morning, in the bedroom of her apartment that she shared with her two young children.

Kourtney Kardashian is shutting down speculation that her son Mason Disick is leaking private family information on social media. The Poosh founder also labeled the person behind the “fake” Mason accounts as “ultra ultra ultra creepy.”

: the second season is always the hardest for new cast members, and Crystal Kung Minkoff is experiencing that firsthand on season 12 of . «Yeah, I did [feel that],» Crystal confesses to ET, speaking at a viewing party for  thrown by her pal/co-star, Kathy Hilton, and Menolabs at Kathy's home on Wednesday night. «And it's so funny because, it actually looks harder, too! I didn't know at the time, really-- I mean, I felt it, but I was like, 'Oh, this is just part of [the process]...' and then when you're watch, you're like, ugh.»Basically, by watching back the first half of the season (so far), Crystal's feelings from filming have been validated.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticAccording to Stephen Schwartz, nothing can follow “Defying Gravity.” And for the “Wicked” songwriter, that’s one key reason why the movie version of his blockbuster Broadway musical has to be split into two parts.It’s not just about overall length, the composer is saying — it’s about the audience needing a breather after one of the great Act 1 closers of all time. (Even if that breather is 12 months of moviegoers going on with their daily business, versus 20 minutes cooling their heels outside a Broadway house.)“We found it very difficult to get past ‘Defying Gravity’ without a break,” Schwartz says.