If you care to find Wicked on streaming, look to Peacock.
The Oscar-nominated movie musical will be debuting on the streaming service on March 21. In addition to the movie, Peacock will also have the sing-along version and bonus material, including deleted and extended scenes.
The film, starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, is nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture, actress in leading role for Erivo and actress in a supporting role for Grande.
Wicked hit theaters in November, debuting at #1 at the box office with $114 million, the best opening for a Broadway adaptation.
Yellowjackets season 3 is in full swing. The show, which debuts new episodes weekly on Paramount+ with Showtime, finds the teens of the past surviving in the woods, while the women of the present day find long-buried secrets from their past boiling to the surface.
Christina Ricci stars as adult Misty in the Emmy-nominated series, and she told ABC Audio the first four episodes of the season were nothing compared to what fans can expect from the latter half of the season.
“It’s really intense,” Ricci said. “There were a couple of scenes in the scripts that I audibly gasped while I read them. I can’t tell you about those scenes because you know I can’t. But yeah, there are lots of scenes and moments in this season that are shocking.”
Misty is still reeling from the death of her friend Natalie, played by Juliette Lewis as an adult and Sophie Thatcher as a teenager, back in season 2. This affects her throughout all of season 3, Ricci said.
“When we find Misty in this season, she’s obviously very disturbed by her part in Natalie’s death and the fact that Natalie is dead,” Ricci said. “But she’s having trouble connecting to her grief. She’s very much numb and in shock and all that stuff, and eventually does find a way to connect to her grief. And then that leads her on a path of, well, I lost my best friend, who are my friends now?”
Peaky Blinders fans may have even more reasons to celebrate. A Netflix movie version of the Cillian Murphy-led series is already in the works, but creator Steven Knight has now hinted there are plans to continue the story beyond that.
In an interview with BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, Knight confirmed that production on the film concluded in December and based on early footage, fans won’t be disappointed.
“It’s a very fitting way to end this part of the Peaky story,” he said, putting emphasis on “this part.”
Knight teased, “I’m not allowed to announce it, but I’m just saying that the world of Peaky will continue.”
In the upcoming film, Murphy reprises his role as British gangster Tommy Shelby. Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth are among the new cast members.
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Jon M. Chu is setting the record straight on casting rumors for his Britney Spears biopic.
After reports claimed Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter and Millie Bobby Brown were competing for the film’s leading role, Chu took to the social platform X on Sunday to shut down the rumor mill.
“None of this is true,” he wrote. “Sounds exciting but have not had one conversation about casting this movie yet. We are way too early in development. Sorry.”
The biopic, based on Spears’ bestselling memoir The Woman in Me, was announced last year, with Universal Pictures securing the rights.
Chu, known for Crazy Rich Asians and the Wicked film adaptation, is set to direct. Producer Marc Platt is developing the project.
Though casting has yet to begin, Chu has expressed excitement about bringing Spears’ story to the big screen.
“I’m very excited about it,” he told E! News in November. “I think there’s huge potential about telling a great story, one that she deserves.”
Spears first teased the project on social media in August, writing on X at the time, “Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with #MarcPlatt. He’s always made my favorite movies … stay tuned.”
The Woman in Me was released in October 2023 and became an instant New York Times bestseller, selling more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. as of August 2024.
