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EXCLUSIVE: Disney‘s Snow White, which has been dragged through the tabloids like she was Leona Helmsley, is seeing Thursday previews tonight of $3.5M per our sources. Note, these numbers don’t come from Disney. Showtimes began at 2PM.

After raiding the crown jewels for just about every live action reboot imaginable, Disney has finally gotten around to the one that started it all, the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film represented Walt Disney’s first-ever full length animated feature.

controversial film posed for pictures together at the El Capitan Theatre despite their alleged feud.Zegler, 23, wore a rose-colored lace dress with a corseted bodice and a floor-length skirt, while Gadot, 39, had on a sheer black lace dress with a ruffled miniskirt and a floor-length skirt.The actresses channeled their respective roles as Snow White and the Evil Queen with their fashion choices.Their cast members Martin Klebba, Jason Kravits, George Salazar, Andy Grotelueschen, Emilia Faucher, Lorena Andrea, Dujonna Gift, and Idris Kargbo also attended the premiere. Director Marc Webb, screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, producers Marc Platt and Jared LeBoff, songwriters Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, composer Jeff Morrow and cinematographer Mandy Walker were at the event, as well.Zegler and Gadot were in multiple photos together on the red carpet for the pre-party celebration, which was followed by a screening of the film.Disney hosted a smaller-than-usual group of photographers and reporters to cover the premiere, a change that was previously confirmed by Variety.The only interviews that Zegler and Gadot did were with people employed by Disney, like Jodi Benson, who voiced Ariel in the 1989 animated classic “The Little Mermaid.”Four days before the LA premiere, Zegler and Webb, 50, promoted “Snow White” at an event in Segovia, Spain which Gadot did not attend.

Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot hit the red carpet at the LA premiere of their movie Snow White held at El Capitan Theater on Saturday (March 15) in Hollyweood.

EXCLUSIVE: June Diane Raphael has been tapped as a lead opposite Lexi Minetree in Elle, Prime Video’s upcoming Legally Blonde prequel series executive produced by the film franchise’s star Reese Witherspoon.

Disney just unveiled the brand new song “Waiting On A Wish” from the upcoming live-action Snow White!

Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore has been tapped to helm the upcoming Legally Blonde prequel series Elle. Moore will direct the first two episodes of the show from Amazon MGM Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.

Peacock announced this morning that Universal Pictures‘ musical sensation Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will begin streaming exclusively on the service beginning March 21, along with the Sing-Along version and other bonus content. 

Disney has just released a brand new teaser for the upcoming live-action Snow White!

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The “Legally Blonde” prequel series at Amazon Prime Video has found its young Elle Woods. Lexi Minetree has been cast in the lead role of “Elle,” which will follow Woods during her high school years before she went off to Harvard. The original Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon, made the casting announcement on Instagram.

Amazon MGM Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine have cast Lexi Minetree (The Murdaugh Murders) in the role of “Elle Woods” to lead its upcoming Legally Blonde prequel series.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com With the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” forever ingrained in pop culture history, seven-time Oscar-nominated production designer Nathan Crowley knew it was the necessary starting place to develop “Wicked.” At the Variety FYC screening presented by Universal, Crowley told Clayton Davis, Variety’s senior awards editor, about his close collaboration with director Jon M. Chu, who recently won the Critics Choice Award for best director. “He really wanted to push the design as far as he could into this magical place with building the sets.

The cast of Wicked is working hard during awards season and they toasted to their success at a Vanity Fair party this week.

Wicked producer Marc Platt previewed this year’s Wicked: For Good while speaking about his Producer’s Guild Award-nominated first film on Saturday morning.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events When it was announced that Jon M. Chu would be developing a Britney Spears biopic at Universal after the studio acquried rights to her memoir, fans immediately flooded social media with their top picks to play the pop princess. Among the hopefuls is Olivia Holt.

Millie Bobby Brown is somehow a natural fit for a ’90s bombshell look, as she proved in her . The British actor, who has naturally brown hair, just went honey blonde.With the liner-forward lip look, bouncy blowout, and black velvet dress with a square-cut neckline, the look is three parts Pamela Anderson, one part .Pamela Anderson in 1993Brown also put a 2000s filter on the first image that includes graphics from the earlier days of Microsoft Windows. The youths yearn for dial-up for some reason.She left the post caption-less, but did add a song, “Who Do You Think You Are?” by the Spice Girls—a song that, lemme just say again, came out eight years before she was born.

Cynthia Erivo was flying high, defying the societal norms of airplane culture, when she openly wept after finding out about her Best Actress nomination. While en route to Sundance, where Erivo is being honored with the festival’s Visionary Award, she caught the eye of the flight attendant onboard who brought her tissues. “It’s fine,” Erivo said jokingly, “I’ve got happy tears.”There’s much to celebrate in the land of Oz and Hollywood as Wicked soared its way to 10 total nominations, one of them including a Best Supporting Actress for co-star Ariana Grande. “I don’t know how to tackle this. The whole thing is madness and amazing. This is the most wonderful thing to have gone through and to experience. I’m just really pleased, it’s so cool.” 

Michaela Zee “Wicked: Part Two’s” official title, “Wicked: For Good,” prompted some mixed reactions online when it was first revealed in December. Director Jon M. Chu, however, believes the title of the second installment has certainly been changed for the better.

EXCLUSIVE: Unlimited is not just a melodic lyric used in one of the most iconic songs in Broadway history. It also reflects the determination of those in front of and behind the camera that brought ’s pièce de résistance “Defying Gravity” to life onscreen. 

The stage-to-screen adaptation of Wicked has added another impressive achievement to its list after smashing box office records last month.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Smash-hit musical movie “Wicked” is flying into homes this New Year’s Eve — with a load of deleted scenes, commentary and other extras. Following its theatrical run, the Universal Pictures film, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will be available exclusively to purchase or rent on Dec. 31, 2024, on major digital platforms.