BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Rocket Man is a bit too cheeky for Hollywood
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures have demanded that Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher and producer Matthew Vaughn cut a 40-second scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden.
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures have demanded that Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher and producer Matthew Vaughn cut a 40-second scene between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden.
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Donovan returned to the London Palladium for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 28 years after he played Joseph. He passed on the baton to Jac Yarrow.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Petula Clark, a singing sensation for eight decades, is heading uptown to perform eight times a week in Mary Poppins.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Ralph Fiennes pulled off a stunning cultural feat by winning access to the hallowed Rembrandt Room at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
I can reveal that production will begin in October on her next big project: the long-awaited film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Jeanna de Waal, an actress from Solihull who has based herself in New York for the past decade, plays the people's princess in a new musical about Diana, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Thanks to the benevolence of producers Jonathan Church and Danny Moar, Everett will get his chance to take the title part in Anton Chekhov's great comedy.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Time was on Chiwetel Ejiofor's side when he embarked on what would become his directorial film debut. The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind (pictured) will be launched on Netflix.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The Oscar-winner will star in the film adaptation of The Old Guard, a five-issue comic book series by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernandez.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Townsend was a superb anchor as DeWitt, but the women " Anderson, James and Monica Dolan (as Karen Richards, Margo's best friend) " ruled.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Hundreds queued " in the pouring rain " for open auditions in London for the acclaimed musical Dear Evan Hansen.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, had no doubts about choosing KiKi Layne to star in his film of James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Elton John and long-time writing partner Bernie Taupin have penned a new song for Rocketman, the film follows their friendship, and the pop icon's career and private life.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Gemma Arterton will play the firm but fair nanny who helps shape a hero in a prequel to the successful Kingsman movies.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Leaving Neverland previews under massive security at the Sundance Film Festival. It is said to document how Michael Jackson abused two young boys.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: 'Justin Hurwitz, who wrote the score for the picture La La Land told me Lionsgate studio and Marc Platt, one of its key producers 'want to do' a stage version of the film'.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Saoirse Ronan told me portraying Mary Queen Of Scots, the sovereign who lost her head, helped her to keep hers intact.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: 'It's clear Patti LuPone has been enjoying her time in London. She will remain here until Company closes on March 30'
BAZ BAMIGBOYE:'If the creatives get the balance right, my hunch is Frozen the musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane could be a bigger hit here than on Broadway'.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Olivia Colman played snaggle-toothed Nanny McPhee in a test run of Emma Thompson's new stage musical about the stern-looking but soft-hearted nursery nurse.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: It is entitled The Favourite " and now the all-star British royal drama also seems sure to be a front-runner in the awards season.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Lea Seydoux, 33, will be returning for the next James Bond movier after the actress, from Paris, was asked to come back by Daniel Craig and film-maker Cary Joji Fukunaga.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: EastEnders star Shane Ritche is to take over the role of dress hire shop owner Hugo Battersby " who by night becomes drag queen Loco Chanel in a West End musical.
Based on the successful film starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, the show " directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw " is looking to open in the West End about autumn 2020.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Lily James and Dominic Cooper, who starred in the Mamma Mia! sequel, are collaborating on a film about an illicit love affair have been meeting at a London restaurant.