Hints and tips:
...The FT’s review of Mariame Clément’s production of Don Giovanni from this summer deemed it muddled. Rather than trying to find logic to it — who are these cheerleaders in pink tutus?...
...Wayne Eagling’s 2010 production has been repeatedly tweaked in a bid to make sense of its confusing narrative but it remains a strangely unlovable reading despite some fine dancing....
...Production, Tann Services. Special thanks to Corner Studio...
...It recently launched Aggretsuko, an animated comedy television series that is streaming on Netflix after airing in Japan....
...Film production has returned slowly, on a state-by-state basis, over the following months....
...The commercial production arm last year made £1.4bn in revenues and returned £243m to be used by the BBC....
...Despite this testosterone rush, there are moments when the production feels a little big for the company....
...“The treehouse is very much a culmination of my career in design and craftsmanship,” Mallinson says....
...The BBC has clung on with smart co-productions such as The Night Manager, but it needs to invest serious money in drama — and, crucially, retain the production and commissioning talent that can create a...
...The network has its own production capability — ABC Studios — which Disney could keep....
...Still, Mr Agrawal views the US groups’ arrival as an exciting potential source of new funding for Ultra’s expansion into production....
...Now a lavish new production has been funded by the philanthropist David Packard....
...Rupert Enticknap and Christopher Lowrey as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, here a Tweedledum and Tweedledee pair of counter-tenors, inherit most of the comedy....
...Great Wall, a fantasy epic starring Matt Damon and an all-star Chinese cast, See You Tomorrow produced by Jack Ma's start-up film studio Alibaba Pictures Group, and Railroad Tigers, a Jackie Chan action comedy...
...I have seen none of The Faction company’s annual seasons at the New Diorama Theatre, but on the basis of this production of Shakespeare’s comedy they are a modest bunch, perhaps more so than intended....
...The comedy veers towards clockwork operetta — not nice. A fine cast does what it can to salvage some wit and humanity....
...Perhaps that is why so many of the operas in this year’s festival are comedies....
...It’s the perfect setting for this sumptuously silly comedy and Danielle de Niese, as the wily Concepción, is the perfect soprano to guide us through it, reminding us how good she is at playing seductresses...
...It is a good idea to brace oneself before going in to see a new production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail these days....
...Alibaba’s film division, Hong Kong-listed Alibaba Pictures, co-invested in a low-budget comedy called Breakup Buddies last year....
...Last May when it announced the QED deal, Huayi said it would be involved in two Hollywood movies slated for 2015: the political thriller John Wick featuring Keanu Reeves, and the Lions Gate action comedy...
...Meituan last year became the co-distributor of Breakup Buddies, a comedy in which Alibaba invested....
...The awakening came in the unlikely form of Austin Powers, the innuendo-laden spy comedy starring Mike Myers, which scraped to $54m in total ticket sales at the US box office....
...No “Ride of the Valkyries” here, however: Phil Willmott’s playful production for Gods and Monsters Theatre Ltd will tell the Norse saga in four short plays adapted from the opera librettos – The Rhine Gold...
...“The US industry is more stable because it has a broader production base,” said Ms Enders....
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