EJ Moreno reviews Disney+’s filmed version of the Hamilton stage musical… Quite wild to think Hamilton is still a big deal five years after its original release, but with songs and acting like this, you can see why. Join our host EJ Moreno as he breaks down his feelings on the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, as […]
Movie Review – Hamilton (2020)
Hamilton, 2020 Directed by Thomas Kail Starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Jonathan Groff SYNOPSIS: The real life of one of America’s foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Filmed live on Broadway from […]
Disney+ releases new Hamilton trailer
Disney+ has released a new trailer for its filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton, ahead of its hotly-anticipated arrival on the streaming service next month; watch the new trailer here… “Hamilton” is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, […]
First trailer and images for Hamilton on Disney+
Earlier this year, Disney acquired the theatrical rights to the award-winning Hamilton and set forward plans to release the already-filmed version of the musical in 2021. Only recently was it revealed that Disney would instead release the special event on the Disney+ streaming service this July, and now as part of the 2020 ESPYs, a […]
Disney fast-tracking Hamilton to Disney+ this July
Back in February, Disney announced that it had teamed with Lin-Manuel Miranda to bring a filmed version of his hugely successful musical Hamilton to cinemas in 2021, but those plans have now changed in the face of the global health crisis and it is now being fast-tracked for release exclusively on Disney+ this July. “No […]
Disney to release Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton in 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton has been an enormous hit on stages around the world, and now the musical is set for a theatrical release from Disney with the original Broadway cast, including Miranda as the lead character Alexander Hamilton. The film is of the original stage play and was shot in 2016 with multiple studios bidding for […]
Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. may join Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express remake
Now that Leslie Odom Jr. has finished his run as Aaron Burr in 2016’s much-talked about Broadway show Hamilton, the actor seems to be setting his sights on the film industry once again. Variety reports that Odom Jr. is in negotiations to join the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express remake. Murder on […]
Jon M. Chu may direct Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights
The popularity of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hugely successful Broadway musical Hamilton, a show about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, has renewed interest in a film adaptation of the multi-talented performer’s previous project In the Heights, which may have just found its director. THR reports that Jon M. Chu is currently in talks to helm the […]
