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CBS News
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
"Purple Rain" musical's world premiere set for this fall in Minneapolis
Prince's sister Sharon Nelson tells her own story in new book Prince's sister Sharon Nelson tells her own story in new book Prince's sister Sharon Nelson tells her own story in new book After a lengthy delay, the much-anticipated musical stage adaptation of Prince's beloved 1984 movie and album "Purple Rain" is finally set to make its world debut this fall in downtown Minneapolis. Hennepin Arts announced Monday the production is set to run from Oct. 16 to Nov. 16 at the State Theatre, with tickets going on sale on May 9 at 10 a.m. Although it kicks off in mid-October, the official opening night is set for Nov. 5. The production was originally slated to debut in April, but Hennepin Arts said in October "more time for creative development" was needed. The musical is based on the story by Prince and the film's original screenplay by Albert Magnoli and William Blinn, with music and lyrics by Prince. The book is written by Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and it's directed by Tony Award-nominee Lileana Blain-Cruz. Prince and Apollonia Kotero in a scene from the film "Purple Rain" (1984). Warner Bros./Getty Images Hennepin Arts says two of Prince's closest musical collaborators — Bobby Z of The Revolution and Morris Hayes of New Power Generation — are serving as the production's music advisers. "This is a really good thing and it's something that he would really love," Bobby Z told WCCO's Reg Chapman last year. The film version made $100 million worldwide and was set and shot across the Twin Cities, with the legendary Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue as a major character. The movie, which won Prince an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, follows a thinly-veiled version of the icon, referred to as "The Kid," as he deals with his growing fame amid family and romantic drama. Prince died of an accidental painkiller overdose on April 21, 2016, at his Paisley Park complex in Chanhassen, which has now become a museum in his honor.
Time of India
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Krushna Abhishek and sons recreate Charlie Chaplin's world
Krushna Abhishek with Rayaan and Krishaang recreate Charlie Chaplin's world (Pics by: Kunal Verma) Krushna Abhishek recently did a fun shoot with his twins , Rayaan and Krishaang, inspired by the classic Charlie Chaplin film The Kid . The actor-comedian says, 'I've been a huge fan of Charlie Chaplin since I was a kid. I've seen almost all his films and acts. One day, I rewatched The Kid, in which he shares the screen with a young boy, and it instantly reminded me of my kids. I looked at the child in the film and thought, 'Arre, ye toh Chiku-Piku lag rahe hain!' Hamare bachhe bhi angrez hi lagte hain (laughs).' That's when the idea of a photoshoot struck him. He shares, 'My kids are seven now and I thought this was the best time to click some interesting pictures. This shoot is something we will cherish forever.' 'I was amazed by how expressive my kids were' From costumes to set design, everything was carefully thought out. 'We picked a quaint setup in Goregaon East. The kids got fully into character, and honestly, I was amazed by how expressive they were. Jaise bolo, waise karte hain ,' he says, adding, 'They're full of masti. They don't act up much around their mom, but are totally chilled with me. During the shoot they were doing everything I said — posing, acting and goofing around.' He kept the entire thing a secret from his wife, actress Kashmera Shah . He says, 'She was in America at the time, and I surprised her with the pictures after she returned. She was floored.' 'This time won't come back' Getting nostalgic, Krushna shared how this shoot made him reflect on childhood memories. 'We didn't get too many photos framed back in the day. There's just one picture of my sister (Arti Singh) and me from our childhood adorning one of the walls of my home. I wish we had more. But now, thanks to social media, everything gets saved somewhere. Still, this time won't come back. That's why I knew this was the perfect moment for a shoot like this,' he signs off.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Relive the Revolution in Dolby as Purple Rain Returns Exclusively to Dolby Cinema
Celebrate Prince Again on the Big Screen in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos and Get Your Tickets Today SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Purple Rain, the legendary 1984 rock musical drama starring Prince in his film acting debut, will be brought back exclusively to Dolby Cinema. It will be screened at Dolby Cinema at AMC Theatres locations in the US and Dolby Cinema at ODEON locations in the UK for one night only on March 5. Fans will have the opportunity to fall in love with his royal badness all over again, while new generations can be introduced to his lasting influence in a stunning restoration that offers elevated visuals and transcendent audio. Tickets go on sale today. "Purple Rain reimagined in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for Dolby Cinema is a celebration of Prince's genius and enduring legacy," said Jed Harmsen, Head of Cinema and Group Entertainment at Dolby. "Devoted and new fans alike prepare to be exhilarated by an unforgettable and unparalleled performance from one of music's greatest of all time." Every detail of the film – from the vibrant neon lights of First Avenue night club to The Kid's iconic guitar – come to life through the ultra-vivid visuals of Dolby Vision. All the while, each electrifying performance, from the heartbreaking beauty of "Purple Rain" to the exhilarating guitar riffs of "When Doves Cry," wash over the audience with pristine depth and clarity in Dolby Atmos. Combined, fans will feel as if they were transported back to 1984 to experience every beat of this captivating film like never before. To reimagine Purple Rain for this new Dolby experience, the film was completely restored digitally from an 8K scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (OCN) and the digitally restored picture was color graded specifically for Dolby Vision. The film's audio was also restored from the original Dolby Stereo tracks from over 40 years ago and, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary's 5.1 multi-channel mix master, used to complete a faithfully remastered Dolby Atmos audio presentation. In addition to leading the film as The Kid, Prince also composed and produced the score and original songs. Purple Rain won the Academy Award® for Best Original Song Score (Prince) and the Grammy Award® for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special (Prince and the Revolution). Moviegoers in the US can purchase tickets to see the film at Dolby Cinema at AMC locations by visiting Moviegoers in the UK can purchase tickets at Dolby Cinema at ODEON locations by visiting About Dolby Cinema Dolby Cinema is the ultimate moviegoing experience, providing a Dolby-designed environment that showcases the best implementation of Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. With the combined awe-inspiring experience of Dolby Vision picture quality together with Dolby Atmos immersive sound, Dolby Cinema allows audiences to see, hear, and feel the film exactly as Prince and filmmaker Albert Magnoli intended. About Dolby Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) is based in San Francisco with offices around the globe. From movies and TV shows, to apps, music, sports, and gaming, Dolby transforms the science of sight and sound into spectacular experiences for billions of people worldwide. We partner with artists, storytellers, developers, and businesses to revolutionize entertainment and communications with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, Dolby Cinema, and About Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group is comprised of Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. Warner Bros. partners with the world's most inspiring storytellers to create extraordinary entertainment on every screen for the global audience. Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group has been at the forefront of the motion picture industry since its inception and continues to be a leading creative force, producing the broadest slate of films for worldwide theatrical release. Media Contacts DolbyGuru Ramanathangramanathan@ Warner Bros. Motion Picture GroupMichael Stuart View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
CBC
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
This hurts me to say: Love Hurts is garbage
First there was Jackie Coogan: star of 1921's The Kid, one of the first modern child stars and good enough at it to be billed as "the most famous boy in the world." After his parents — legally, as it turned out — stole all of his money, he worked in off-and-on obscurity, before landing the role that would come to define him: Uncle Fester in the 1960s series The Addams Family. In his final performance for 1982's The Escape Artist, he would even retain enough star appeal to appear on the poster. Then, Bobby Driscoll: Disney's darling, cherubic voice of Peter Pan, face of Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island and recipient of an Academy Award at only 12 — then fired once his no-longer-quite-so-adorable teenaged face took him out of the running for similar roles. He died, unknown, from drug-related complications at just 31, buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. And now, there's Ke Huy Quan and his most recent endeavour, Love Hurts. The movie itself — an action vehicle about a hit-man drawn back in for one last job — doesn't deserve the space it would take up in your brain. But when it comes to Quan, as an archetype for the uniquely terrible experience of former child stars, he fits right in. WATCH | Love Hurts trailer: An early star and trailblazer for young Asian actors in The Goonies and Indiana Jones, he's given the proverbial boot as the cute, hireable kid grows into an entirely different man. After years wandering in the Hollywood wilderness, the start of his return begins: an Oscar-winning performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once, a tear-filled acceptance speech on the hardship of closed doors and joy of being welcomed back — and enough public goodwill to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. This is exactly where the path forks. Because other than for the hopeful few who disembark fame early enough to find nondescript careers as veterinarians or near witness protection-level obscurity, there are only ever really two outcomes for the struggling former child actor: redemption story, or tragedy. 1st live-action since 2022 That puts a lot riding on Love Hurts, Quan's first live-action film role since Everything Everywhere, and one he reportedly rejected twice over concerns about where he wanted his career to go next. In it, he plays Marvin Gable, a realtor so optimistic he offers his employee heart-shaped cookies and bumper sticker platitudes as a cure for the Valentines Day admission that they don't much feel like living anymore. From there, the "pains of love" metaphor gets a lot more literal. A hulking, poetry-reciting hit-man calling himself (ugh) "The Raven" (Mustafa Shakir) breaks into Gable's office, and knocks him out cold. When Gable awakens, with one hand zip-tied to a chair and the other pinned to his desk with a knife, we learn he used to be an elite enforcer for his kingpin brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu), before escaping into the aggressively bland life of suburban real estate. And that's when The Raven breaks the bad news: unfortunately for Gable, he apparently left some business unfinished. Rose (Ariana DeBose), the double-crossing thief he was supposed to have killed on his brother's orders, is somehow still alive. And she's coming back for everyone who crossed her. Oh yeah, and Gable is in love with her. What follows are all the standard John Wick -esque battles that read like Halloween night at the dojo. We have our giant but gentle Raven, we have our bumbling henchmen tag team of Otis (André Eriksen) and King (Marshawn Lynch). We have an aww-shucks Sean Astin as the cowboy-hatted Cliff Cussick, who is apparently Gable's ostensibly beloved, adoptive family. Despite having actual familiarities off-screen from their time co-starring in The Goonies, here, the two share all of one exposition-heavy scene together. There are cheesy lines, there is a boss battle — there's even a committed, if deeply odd, cameo by Property Brothers ' Drew Scott as the karate-obsessed realtor-next-door. An exposition dump You could compare the "underestimated character is actually an action star" commercial reel to a million other films: from A History of Violence, to The Foreigner, to The Equalizer to Salt. Each of those are varying degrees of good — but that's something they accomplish by focusing on the character, slowly revealing their dangerous backstory, and then unleashing them for an unrelenting third act. It's one even seen in 2021's Nobody, the Bob Odenkirk feature helmed by 87 North Productions, which is also behind Love Hurts. Unfortunately, upon seeing the success Nobody found with that generic plot line, the company seems to feel like they've found the formula that lays golden career arcs. Love Hurts works more like an external construction of constituent parts: its writers — or possibly its producers — seem to have built their film from literal scenes from other movies, without understanding (or caring) how or why they worked in context: "Harry and Marv were funny in Home Alone, weren't they? Let's throw them in. Didn't Out of the Past have something about a mild-mannered guy revealing a complicated criminal past? Just copy and paste whatever works." Love Hurts is just a clumsy exposition dump. It's built of a series of characters and events about whom you're directly told why you should care, without any time or effort put into making you want to. Its climactic finale builds into a reveal that at best makes no sense, and at worst, ends with Gable's acceptance of himself as a guy who just loves killing people and shouldn't have turned his back on it in the first place. Heartwarming, right? And that would all be fine if it were just an excuse to get to the action. But the film also makes the unfortunate best-case argument for why the Oscars need an award for stunt choreography: It can be done beautifully, and, as Love Hurts demonstrates, it can be done lazily. Quan himself is adept, but the fight scenes often depart the realm of reality into a cartoonish series of moves you can clearly see were more CGI than stunt work (I'm looking at you, kitchen-island double-suplex). Others are sluggish, or merely repetitive. And aside from the minimally entertaining B-plot of The Raven's doomed love story with Gable's employee (Lio Tipton), that is all that's on offer to entertain you for an 83-minute runtime that feels more like 800. And to be clear, this brings me no pleasure to say. Alongside the stellar comedic showing that former NFLer Marshawn (Beastmode) Lynch has built in role after role, Love Hurts has the opportunity to work as a feel-good safety net for its stars. Nothing would make me happier than to see Quan ride higher and higher still on accolades gilding his golden comeback story. So it hurts. Love Hurts hurts. It hurts to look at. It hurts to sit through. And it hurts me to look at a smiling Ke Huy Quan at the start of his comeback tour, and put him down like I'm Wesley Snipes in New Jack City.
Boston Globe
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Today in History: February 6, Queen Elizabeth II accedes to throne
In 1862, during the Civil War, Fort Henry in Tennessee fell to Union forces. In 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the US Senate; the treaty ended the Spanish-American War and ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. In 1921, 'The Kid,' Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length film, was released across the United States. Advertisement In 1952, Britain's King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old eldest daughter, who became Queen Elizabeth II. In 1978, it started snowing around 7 a.m. By the time it ended 32 hours later, the Blizzard of '78 had dumped 27 inches of snow on Boston (and twice that amount on some South Shore towns), forcing hundreds of motorists to abandon their cars on major arteries, destroying 2,000 homes, and claiming the lives of 29 Massachusetts residents. In 1998, Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, honoring the former president on his 87th birthday. In 2008, the Bush White House defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it was legal, not torture, and had saved American lives. In 2023, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, toppling thousands of buildings and trapping residents under mounds of rubble; the death toll would eventually surpass 50,000. In 2024, Seiji Ozawa died. The trailblazing conductor and leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 seasons was 88.
