Jennifer Hudson’s ‘so excited’ to help produce ‘Dreamgirls’ on Broadway
A graphic for the upcoming ‘Dreamgirls’ Broadway production. (Sonia Friedman Productions)
Jennifer Hudson’s got another job.
During her daytime talk show Wednesday, the EGOT winner announced she’ll be helping to produce a revival of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Jennifer starred in the award-winning movie based on the 1981 musical, which she said “changed my life.”
“Twenty years ago, my life changed forever because of a film called Dreamgirls,” Hudson said in a press release. “I am beyond honored to join the extraordinary producing team behind this special, newly reimagined Broadway revival, and to help bring Dreamgirls back to the stage through the visionary direction and choreography of Camille A. Brown. This fall cannot come soon enough.”
Brown, a five-time Tony Award nominee, will direct and choreograph the Broadwayrevival alongside producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner and John Johnson.
“There’s going to be so much more to share, in time,” Jennifer said to her audience. “But I’ve been having so much fun working with this amazing team and I cannot wait to share the incredible production this fall.”
While no ticket information has been released about the show, fans can subscribe to an email list for future announcements.
Netflix has released the full-length trailer for season 2 of the popular Emmy-winning anthology series from A24 and creator Lee Sung Jin.
This season features a brand-new story with a completely different cast of characters. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny star in season 2. The incident that sparks the new “beef” is a Gen Z couple witnessing an alarming fight between their millennial boss and his wife.
“Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their General Manager, Joshua Martín (Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Mulligan),” according to its official synopsis. “Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh Jung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang Ho).”
The trailer shows off the moment of Ashley and Austin witnessing the alarming fight between Joshua and Lindsay. It also features Ashley asking Lindsay some advice about marriage, which she describes to be a “temporary Band-Aid” that covers “the immense pain of knowing you picked the wrong person.”
“Don’t people say you shouldn’t be looking for the right person, but actually, the right wrong person?” Ashley says at the end of the trailer.
There will be eight 30-minute episodes in season 2. Lee returns as its creator, showrunner and executive producer. The first season’s stars, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, also return to executive produce season 2, joined by Mulligan, Isaac, Melton and Spaeny as executive producers.
Maura Higgins attends an event in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 13, 2026. / Ciara Miller attends a premiere on March 30, 2026, in New York. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Women In Film | Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
We’re months away from stepping back into the Dancing with the Stars ballroom, but two cast members are already preparing their dance moves.
The Traitors star Maura Higgins and Summer House star Ciara Miller were announced Wednesday as the first two cast members to join the upcoming season of DWTS.
Higgins and Miller were revealed as part of the next season’s cast at Hulu’s second Get Real House event held in Beverly Hills, California.
Higgins rose to fame on the fifth season of the British reality show Love Island in 2019, where she was a finalist.
She went on to become a presenter for Love Island USA, Love Island Games and Love Island USA: Aftersun.
Most recently, Higgins starred on the fourth season of The Traitors, where she was a runner-up as a “faithful.”
Miller, a former travel nurse and model, joined the fifth season of the hit Bravo reality show Summer House in 2021.
Many fans have shown support for Miller amid the show’s current season, airing now, after her castmates Amanda Batula and West Wilson, whom Miller dated previously, confirmed their romantic relationship in a joint statement shared on their separate Instagram Stories.
While fans are awaiting to see how things will unfold between Miller, Batula, and Wilson at the Summer House season 10 reunion, Miller is turning her attention to DWTS.
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The Oscar for best picture is awarded to ‘Anora,’ and accepted by Alex Coco, Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker and Yuriy Borisov during the 97th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Kyusung Gong/The Academy)
The 2026 Oscars race heated up Thursday as nominations were announced.
The academy confirmed several expected front-runners across all 24 categories while rattling expectations by excluding others.
With a deep field of acclaimed films this year, ABC News’ Chris Connelly and Kelley Carter broke down the biggest snubs and surprises of the 2026 Oscar nominations.
Perhaps the biggest surprise from the nomination ceremony was the scale of success for Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners, a project that was expected to perform well on Thursday morning. The film, which stars Michael B.Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo and more, pulled in a whopping 16 total nominations on Thursday morning.
“I think it surprised us that it got even more than we thought it was going to,” Carter said.
Connelly called the slate of nominations “a dominating performance,” noting Coogler’s nominations as writer, director and producer.
“What a vindication for every risk he took to make this movie,” Connelly said. “It triumphed on every level, box office and now with Oscar nominations. An amazing morning for that movie and for Ryan Coogler, who deserves it.”
While Chloé Zhao‘s Hamnet also took in its fair share of nominations, including best picture and best actress, one notable name from the film was left off the nominations list.
“For me, Hamnet — I was really happy to hear all the nominations that it got, even though you missed out on the Paul Mescal nomination,” Carter said. “I think that he probably should have been in there. But I feel like Jessie Buckley really drove this story, and rightly so, hearing her name called.”
Connelly also reacted to Joachim Trier‘s success with the drama Sentimental Value.
“I was really impressed with the number of acting nominations that Sentimental Value got,” Connelly said. “It’s a beautifully done movie … it was overlooked by a previous award show, but it’s no doubt that for an international body like the voters for the Oscars, a lot of people loved it. I see Stellan Skarsgård as a likely winner in [the best supporting actor] category.”
Notable names left off the list of Oscar nominations this year included Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for their roles in Wicked: For Good and Adam Sandler for his role in Jay Kelly opposite George Clooney, who was also left off the nominations list.
Actors Jacob Elordi, Lindo and the film F1 all scored notable nominations, as well as songwriter DianeWarren, who earned her 17th nod for best original song.
