| ‘Beauty and The Beast’ Trailer: Timeless Animation Classic Goes Live-Action
Tale as old as time. True as it can be. We all know the lyrics to that Academy Award-winning titular song. We all know the animated story. Now, Disney has released the first trailer for Beauty and the Beast starring Emma Watson as strong and independent bookworm Belle and Dan Stevens as the ferocious Beast. The film isn’t due out in theaters until 2017, and we’ve seen a very quick snippet of the action through D23 and some social media, but now Disney has released their first teaser trailer for the live-action adaptation. Check it out below.
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| Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza Join FX’s X-Men Spinoff ‘Legion’
We’re not likely to see the X-Men join the Avengers anytime soon. But the success of the X-Men film franchise has got Fox to explore other ways to expand on the property. Deadpool and Wolverine already have spinoffs set within the X-Men universe, and now the studio is looking to compete with other Marvel shows like Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. with their own Marvel programming. During the summer TCAs, Fox and Marvel negotiated a deal for two live-action series based on characters from the X-Men. A few months later it was announced that Fargo creator Noah Hawley and Fargo executive producer John Cameron will be behind one spinoff called Legion. And now it looks like the show has found its cast. According to a new report, Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Parks and Recreation‘s Aubrey Plaza will be joining Legion. And a Fargo alum will also be joining the cast as well. More on their characters below.
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| Ewan McGregor Cast As Lumiere In ‘Beauty and The Beast’; Stanley Tucci Joins Too
The excellent cast for Disney’s upcoming live action remake of their 1991 animated classic Beauty and the Beast just keeps on getting better and better. The latest actors to be cast are Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci, rounding out a cast that already includes Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Emma Thompson, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Ian McKellen, and Audra McDonald. McGregor is set to play Lumiere, the maître d’ who is transformed into a talking candelbra. Tucci will play a new character, a grand piano named Cadenza who is described as a “neurotic maestro.”
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| ‘Beauty and The Beast’ Adds Emma Thompson and Kevin Kline
Following Cinderella‘s huge box office success over the weekend, Disney is making a few new announcements for their live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. The Bill Condon-directed film will be adding Emma Thompson and Kevin Kline to the cast. The two actors will be joining Emma Watson (Harry Potter) as Belle; Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) as Beast; Luke Evans (The Hobbit, Dracula Untold) as the brutish Gaston; and Josh Gad (who voices the snowman Olaf in Disney’s animated hit Frozen) as Lefou, Gaston’s sidekick.
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| ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Release Date Set For Live-Action Film
Disney has set a 2017 theatrical release date for their live-action version of Beauty and the Beast. The studio had slotted Beauty and the Beast to hit theaters on March 17, 2017, according to Variety, who reported the news today. The film is the first one set for that day so far, with Lionsgate’s The Allegiant Series, Part 2 opening a week later.
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