Breaking Baz Archives

Breaking Baz: Renée Zellweger, As Irresistible Rom-Com Heroine Bridget Jones, Is Getting A Statue In Central London

Topnewsplus2 weeks ago09 mins

EXCLUSIVE: Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding’s beloved madcap heroine immortalized in four celebrated romantic comedies by Oscar winner Renée Zellweger, will be monumentalized with a statue in London’s Leicester Square, as Working Title co-chairman Eric Fellner tells Deadline that a fifth Bridget Jones movie would be “a wonderful idea.” “Unbelievably and a first for Working Title, we’re getting a…

Breaking Baz: Jon M. Chu On How The Breathtaking ‘Wicked: For Good’ Took Flight With New Songs For Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande, Plus A Secret Guest Star As Cowardly Lion

Topnewsplus3 weeks ago040 mins

EXCLUSIVE: Jon M. Chu says he “tweaked and tweaked” Wicked: For Good, the second part of his breathtaking movie musical about Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West who fled Oz, and Glinda the Good who remained. Getting the film to gleam involved bringing back stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to film new lines for the…

Breaking Baz @ Telluride: Jeremy Allen White, Jesse Buckley & Colin Farrell Find Poetry & Artistry In The Mountain Air

Topnewsplus2 months ago08 mins

Poetry courtesy of The Boss and The Bard is filling the mountain air at the Telluride Film Festival. Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics can be as potent as William Shakespeare’s verse. When Jeremy Allen White performs ‘Born In the USA’ during Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the audacity of it sends a charge of electricity right through you. And listen:…

Breaking Baz: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Star Leonie Benesch Scrubs In For Medical Feature ‘Late Shift’

Topnewsplus3 months ago021 mins

German actress Leonie Benesch (September 5, The Teachers’ Lounge) feels that we’ve been inundated with medical dramas on television that offer unrealistic depictions of what actually occurs in a hospital. The glamorized flights of fantasy of such shows are a far cry from what Berlin-based Benesch experienced making director Petra Volpe’s feature Late Shift, where she plays Floria,…

Breaking Baz: Gurinder Chadha Reveals ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Sequel In Works With U.S. Women’s Soccer Manager “Collaborating” & Hope For Original Cast’s Return

Topnewsplus4 months ago011 mins

EXCLUSIVE: Gurinder Chadha reveals to Deadline that a sequel to her celebrated 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham, which starred Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, is officially in the works. “I’m excited to revisit the original characters and revive the enduring story and build on the legacy we helped to create for the women’s game,” the London-based…

Breaking Baz: ‘My Father’s Shadow’s Akinola Davies Reunites With Element’s Rachel Dargavel For New Feature ‘Delta Force Six;’ Thriller Will Shoot In Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Region

Topnewsplus4 months ago027 mins

EXCLUSIVE: Element Pictures’ Rachel Dargavel, producer of Akinola Davies’s My Father’s Shadow, Nigeria’s first Cannes entry, tells Deadline that she and the filmmaker are in very early stages of development for his sophomore feature, Delta Force Six, which will be filmed on locations in the vast southern region of the West African nation. The producer is eager…