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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Miller Fong House in Photos
More from Robb Report This Off-Grid Home Sits on 500 Vineyard Acres in Paso Robles Wine Country Inside a $20 Million L.A. Home Designed by Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect Oscar Niemeyer Tim Burton's Whimsical 18th-Century English Country Home Lists for $6 Million Best of Robb Report The 10 Priciest Neighborhoods in America (And How They Got to Be That Way) In Pictures: Most Expensive Properties Click here to read the full article. A lengthy driveway leads to the five-bedroom, five-bath home, which has about 5,150 square feet of multi-level living space. The entry foyer. The fireside living room's large picture window overlooks picturesque views of the Silver Lake Reservoir and San Gabriel Mountains beyond. The dining room opens out to a garden courtyard. The dining room's wet bar. The sky-lit kitchen. The kitchen comes with an eat-in island and a breakfast nook. The media room. A mustard-hued library. The primary bedroom. A seating area in the primary. A terrazzo-lined shower in the primary bath. The pool area. Just off the pool is an alfresco dining spot. There's also a wood-clad indoor/outdoor bath off the pool. Another outdoor dining area overlooks those breaktaking vistas. The lighted tennis court. The two-story guesthouse is filled with natural light courtesy of glass block windows and a skylight. The guesthouse loft. An aerial view of the property, which sits atop a Silver Lake promontory spanning over four acres.
New York Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Beetlejuice' Is Coming Back to Broadway
'Beetlejuice' isn't dead quite yet. The national tour production of the fan-favorite musical comedy, which has had two previous Broadway runs in 2019-20 and 2022-23, will head to the New York stage this fall, producers announced Tuesday. The show, which is adapted from Tim Burton's 1988 film and tells the story of a goth girl and a pushy poltergeist, is set to play the Palace Theater for 13 weeks, beginning Oct. 8 and running through Jan. 3, 2026. Casting will be announced at a later date. In his review of the original Broadway production, which starred Alex Brightman as the title ghoul in a striped suit, The New York Times's Ben Brantley praised Brightman's performance and the 'jaw-droppingly well-appointed gothic funhouse set' by the set designer David Korins ('Hamilton'), though he lamented that the show 'so overstuffs itself with gags, one-liners and visual diversions that you shut down from sensory overload.' No matter: The musical became a fan favorite, with people dressing in costume, lip-syncing to the cast recording on TikTok and showering the show's cast with fan art. With a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect, and direction by Alex Timbers (who won a Tony Award for directing 'Moulin Rouge!'), the stage production was nominated for eight Tony Awards, but won none. 'Beetlejuice' is having a bit of a cultural moment: A popular sequel film, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' also directed by Burton, was released last year, more than three decades after the original, which starred Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice), Alec Baldwin (Adam Maitland), Catherine O'Hara (Delia Deetz) and a young Winona Ryder (Lydia Deetz). The national tour production, which began performances in 2022, has played 88 cities over the last two and a half years. The musical has also had productions in Tokyo; Seoul; and Melbourne, Australia; and is heading soon to Sydney.
Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Jenna Ortega Is Getting Two New ‘Wednesday' Action Figures
Jenna Ortega in "Wednesday" Season 2. Netflix Jenna Ortega is being shrunk into two different Wednesday Addams action figures heading into Netflix's Wednesday Season 2. Ortega's career, of course, shot into the stratosphere with her role as the iconic Addams Family teen with the release of the first season of Wednesday in 2022. Since then, Wednesday — created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and executive produced and directed by Tim Burton — has gone on to become the most-streamed series in Netflix's history with 252.1 million views, which equates to nearly 1.719 billion hours viewed. Now, ahead of the scheduled debut on Wednesday Season 2 in August, toy and collectibles company NECA is releasing new action figures from the series. In a post on the company's Facebook page over the weekend, NECA pictured three 8-inch scale retro-style action figures with cloth outfits from Wednesday. Two of the figures are of Ortega's Wednesday Addams while the third is of Wednesday's roommate Enid Sinclair (Emma Meyers). One of the figures features Wednesday wearing her trademark black-and-white polka-dot dress with the disembodied hand, Thing, on her shoulder, while the other figure is of Wednesday wearing her Nevermore Academy uniform. The Enid figure also features the character wearing her Nevermore uniform. Since NECA tends to include character accessories with its action figure releases, more will surely be revealed when the figures go on sale on NECA's retail site on Wednesday (naturally). The release date of the new action figures has not yet been announced. NECA previously released a cartoonish Toony Terrors figure of her character, Astrid, along with her mother, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) as part of the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice line, which also featured figures of Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) and Dante's Inferno playset from the first Beetlejuice movie. Other Wednesday dolls and action figures have previously been released by such toys and collectibles companies as Mattel and Mezco. Right now, the NECA Wednesday action figures of Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair are only partially pictured in NECA's Facebook post, which you can see below. The upcoming second season of Wednesday wrapped up Netflix TUDUM 2025 on Saturday, which highlighted several of the streaming platforms upcoming original films and TV series, including director Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Rian Johnson's Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Stranger Things Season 5. Jenna Ortega was on hand with some of the Wednesday Season 2 castmates to help introduce the first six minutes of Episode 1 the upcoming season, which is titled, Here We Woe Again. In the opening, Wednesday recounts her summer break before returning to Nevermore Academy, which included a harrowing encounter with a creepy serial killer named Chet (Haley Joel Osment). The scene also included the previously released footage of Wednesday relinquishing a batch of twisted tools at an airport security checkpoint. In addition to the scene, Netflix officially revealed Lady Gaga's character as Rosaline Rotwood, a former Nevermore teacher whom Wednesday encounters. Netflix TUDUM 2025 wrapped up with an elaborately staged trio of songs by Lady Gaga that included "Zombieboy," "Bloody Mary" and "Abracadabra.' Wednesday Season 2 will be released in two parts that consist of four episodes each. Wednesday Season 1, Part 1 will premiere on Wednesday, Aug. 6, and Part 2 arrives on Wednesday, Sept. 3.
News18
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Miley Cyrus Keen To Act Again? Singer ‘Challenges' Directors To Bring Her The Right Role
Published By : Bang Showbiz Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus has 'never really found the role' that would allow her to revive her acting career. Miley Cyrus has 'never really found the role" that would allow her to revive her acting career. The 32-year-old pop star shot to international fame when she took on the title role of Disney's musical television sitcom 'Hannah Montana' in the late 2000s, but has since been heavily focused on her music and only appeared in a handful of films. Speaking on the New York Times' 'The Interview' podcast, she said: 'It's actually really interesting because I got 'Hannah Montana' because I was a singer. 'I was singing in Nashville, there was a little place in our mall where you could go and make demos. We don't have a Build-A-Bear, we had Build-A-Country-Music-Star! 'So I used to go to the mall, make my demos, write my songs. And they were looking for someone who could really sing, not just record kids' music but actually have music be the heart of the show. I was chosen to be an actress because I was a singer. 'I got known as being an actress, but I hadn't actually acted in anything. I had been in a baked bean commercial and I had two lines in a Tim Burton one time." The 'Easy Lover' hitmaker – who starred opposite now ex-husband Liam Hemsworth in 'The Last Song' in 2010 and last held a leading role with 2012's 'So Undercover' – is still keen to return to acting at some point and has 'challenged" directors an writers to come up with something that she can play. She added: 'I became an actress so I could bring that part to life and then I just never really found the role for me because I'm such a character in myself that to find something that can absorb me completely is really challenging. 'And I challenge every writer and director out there to bring it to me because I would love to. 'I either want to be myself because I'm really good at that, or I wanna throw me away because I'm really good at that too. I'm not good in the middle." First Published: June 01, 2025, 17:05 IST
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Live-action remakes recycle the OG magic. Disney needs a plot twist
'If it ain't broke, why fix it?' seems to be the reigning sentiment in the era of Disney remakes. As the studio house takes apart its classics to reinvent, in some cases, and recreate its timeless stories, Disneyheads are not too impressed. Over the weekend, the live-action remake of Lilo and Stitch became the second-highest-grossing Hollywood release worldwide in 2025. Critics, however, have dismissed it as an 'unnecessary' and 'soulless copy' of the original 2002 film. This comes on the back of the disastrous remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that remained mired in controversy and outrage. The pushback begs the question: Are the audiences tired of Disney's needless attempts to revive its biggest hits? Has Disney lost its magic? And if so, can it be restored? Disney's journey into the world of live-action has been tumultuous to say the least. The 1996 release 101 Dalmatians failed to capture the audience's imaginations. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) bedazzled the audiences but received criticism for dispensing with the nonsensical pursuit of the original literature. A turning point came in 2014 with the release of Maleficent, which strayed from the traditional fairy tale take, choosing instead to focus on the villain. The movie junked moral binaries to present a greyer protagonist. What followed was a surplus of high-budget remakes of beloved stories like Cinderella (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019), The Lion King (2019), Mulan (2020), and The Little Mermaid (2023). Some of these movies were huge hits, commercially and critically, while others failed to resonate with the fans. At the heart of these remakes, however, is Disney's attempt to leverage nostalgia, recycling the original magic, which defined millions of childhoods, birthday themes, cakes, bedtime stories, and family time, into CGI-fuelled visions. The kids who grew up watching Ariel comb her hair with a fork or Tramp and Lady share a spaghetti dinner are now adults, and still feel a connection. So, when Disney announces a remake, it's met with curiosity, even from sceptics. Will it be a failure or surpass the original animation? Despite mixed reviews from critics, these movies generally perform well in the long run because of their curiosity. When done right, these remakes can be spellbinding and spectacular. Take The Jungle Book, for example. The Jon Favreau directorial was not just a skeleton of the original 1967 classic. It seamlessly blended CGI with the storyline, making the jungle and its inhabitants super realistic and even more expansive. Disney tends to avoid risk, relying on an established fan base, which ensures pre-release buzz and merchandise sales, for guaranteed success. However, it doesn't always hit the mark. Remakes like The Lion King, despite earning big, have been called visually unimpressive. While actor Will Smith delivered a great performance as Aladdin's genie, some felt he failed to match the charm of the original 1992 genie, voiced by the legendary Robin Williams. Meanwhile, a realistic CGI version of a warthog, meerkat and a lion cub singing 'Hakuna Matata' barely feels the same. It's time Disney turned to overlooked films. Several 2000s releases flopped back then but now enjoy cult followings. With a diverse global audience demanding unique content, one could say the best time for these movies to shine as live-action remakes is now. Take, for instance, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), a film that tackled themes of identity, faith, and justice but was deemed too dark back then. A live-action version today could be both powerful and timely. A sci-fi rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, released in 2002 as Treasure Planet, was an ambitious project that could do better with today's technological advancements. Rumours of a live-action remake of Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) never took fruition. But the film, inspired by the works of both Jules Verne and the art style of Mike Mignola, would make for a thrilling cinematic universe. Unlike Snow White, these new movies won't be trying to make the stories into something they are not. Sleeper movies like these deserve a second chance rather than movies that have already proved their potential and set the bar in the first try. Another live-action remake, Moana, will release next month, while Hercules is in the pipeline, and an Aladdin 2 is rumoured. Clearly, Disney's remake spree isn't slowing down anytime soon. The Disney magic isn't dead. It's just buried, waiting to be rediscovered. To recapture it, the studio must take the necessary risks. While fans may groan at another remake, they will still show up. All they need is a reason to believe again.
