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George Clooney’s Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck will begin performances March 12, 2025, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening date of April 3.

The Winter Garden venue will be available as of January, with the recently-announced closing of the Back the the Future musical.

Clooney announced his Broadway project last May. He’ll star at Edward R. Murrow in the stage adaptation of his 2005 Oscar-nominated film.

The stage play is co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, based on their screenplay for the film. David Cromer (The Band’s Visit) will direct. Producing will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox.

When the production was announced in May, Clooney said, “I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to.”...

George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck will open on Broadway in April.

The play, which Clooney wrote with Grant Heslov, will begin previews at the Winter Garden Theatre March 12, 2025, with an opening night set for April 3. Clooney will also make his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck in the role of journalist Edward R. Murrow.

The stage play is based on the 2005 film written by Clooney and Heslov and follows Murrow’s clash with U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy as Murrow pushes to continue reporting on McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. David Cromer, who won a Tony Award for his direction of The Band’s Visit, will direct the production.

Clooney directed the film and also played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, while David Strathairn played Murrow. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.

Heslov and Clooney have also worked...

Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play, will extend its run through January 12, 2025, a move that producers say is the production’s final extension.

Also today, producers announced that three original cast members – Sarah Pidgeon, Juliana Canfield and Tom Pecinka – will play their final performances on Sunday, September 29, with Amy Forsyth, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Benjamin Anthony Anderson taking over the roles of, respectively, Diana, Holly and Peter.

The new cast members will begin performances at the Golden Theatre on Tuesday, October 1. Anderson currently is Pecinka’s understudy for the role of Peter. Emilie Kouatchou and Denver Milord will join the production as understudies.

Producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills cited popular demand as the reason for the extension. Stereophonic began Broadway previews on April 1 and opened April 19. The run initially was to have lasted for 14 weeks, but ticket sales, widespread...

One might think that a showrunner and director would feel an intense degree of pressure heading toward the finale of a series widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies in the history of television, but Jeff Schaffer was surprisingly relaxed when heading into the home stretch on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “I think we would have felt a lot of pressure knowing this was the final season if we hadn’t had so much practice with final seasons,” Schaffer told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We have ended the show, I don’t know, seven times? I mean, the final episode of Season 5 was called ‘The End,’ and that was not ironic.”

Schaffer realized long ago that “Curb” star and creator Larry David tends to view each season as the last, for a logical reason. “He puts every joke he likes, every story he likes, into the season.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Alex Moffat is joining the cast of Off Broadway’s The Big Gay Jamboree, the much-anticipated follow-up from Marla Mindelle, co-author and original star of the wildly popular musical comedy Titaníque.

Moffat will appear alongside the previously announced Mindelle, as well as newly announced Paris Nix, Constantine Rousouli (a Titaníque co-creator and original cast member), and Natalie Walker, with Jaden Dominique, Brad Greer, Jeremiah Ginn, Amanda Lee, Jillian Mueller, Olivia Puckett, Melvin Tunstall, Clyde Voce, Cortney Wolfson, and John Yi rounding out the ensemble.

The new casting was announced today by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and LuckyChap. Directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher, The Big Gay Jamboree, features a book by Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage, with music & lyrics by Mindelle and Philip Drennen.

Preview performances begin on September 14 at the Orpheum Theatre, with an opening night set for October 1.

The Big Gay Jamboree...

Adam Driver will star in a new Off Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling this fall, producers announced today.

Neil Pepe will direct the limited 13-week engagement. Previews begin at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Tuesday, September 24, ahead of an official opening night on Wednesday, October 16.

Additional casting will be announced at a later date. The creative team will include Walt Spangler (scenic design), Suttirat Larlarb (costume design), Tyler Micoleau (lighting design), and David Van Tiegham (sound design).

Producing are Seaview, Sue Wagner, and John Johnson.

The official synopsis: On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane (Driver) finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out, he decides, is to abandon superstardom in favor of the simple life, so he moves back to his hometown in Tennessee. The simple life turns out to be anything but simple in this brilliantly observed tragicomedy,...

Adam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan’s play Hold On to Me Darling this fall.

The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre on Sept. 24, ahead of an Oct. 16 opening night. The production is currently slated for a limited 13-week engagement.

The play follows Strings McCrane, played by Driver, who faces an existential crisis after learning about his mother’s death and decides to abandon his music career to move home to Tennessee. Upon moving there, however, he finds that it is still hard to escape the trappings of fame.

Hold On to Me Darling premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2016, with Timothy Olyphant in the lead role and directed by Pepe, the theater company’s artistic director.

Lonergan also penned the plays This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero and The Waverly...

The 77th annual Tony Awards were handed out tonight in Manhattan, and Deadline posted the winners live as they were announced. Among the boldfaced names who took home trophies were Angelina Jolie, Daniel Radcliffe, Sarah Paulson and Jeremy Strong. See the full list of winners below.

Ariana DeBose hosted the ceremony for a third consecutive time, this year from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. CBS is aired the celebration of Broadway excellence live coast-to-coast.

Related: Tony Noms Snubs & Surprises: None For Big Names Steve Carell & Michael Imperioli; Little Love For Brit Hit ‘Patriots’ & Hearty Welcome For ‘Outsiders’

Here are the winners and remaining nominees for the 2024 Tony Awards:

Winners

Best Musical

The Outsiders

Producers: The Araca Group, American Zoetrope, Olympus Theatricals, Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky, Angelina Jolie, Betsy Dollinger, Jonathan & Michelle Clay, Cristina Marie Vivenzio, The Shubert Organization, Lachanze & Marylee Fairbanks, Debra Martin Chase, Sony Music Masterworks, Jamestown Revival Theater,...

George Clooney will make his Broadway acting and playwriting debut next spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow.

In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.

Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.

“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.

Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow,...

Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s Broadway play about a ’70s Fleetwood Mac-type group, has announced a six-week extension following a slew of rave reviews.

Initially set to close July 7, the play, directed by Daniel Aukin and starring Will Brill, Juliana Canfield, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, Chris Stack and Andrew R. Butler, will now play through August 18.

The extension was announced by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills.

Producers also recently announced that Stereophonic, which features songs composed by Will Butler, will release an original cast recording through Sony Masterworks Broadway. The digital album arrives May 10, 2024, with the physical CD release set for June 14.

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 12, Episode 10, “No Lessons Learned” — the series finale.]

Would you date the Bearded Lady? Midway through the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” finale, when Larry David is on the ropes — facing a loss in court for violating Georgia’s Election Integrity Act — and his old friend, Jerry Seinfeld, shows up for a last-second assist, that’s the hypothetical question the two men bat back and forth. She’s gorgeous, Larry says. She’s charming. She’s got it all. “The kind of woman you used to dream about as a teenager,” he says. But, you know… the beard. “Fly in the ointment,” Jerry says. “And this is a big fly. And he’s alive.” “What’s the worst that can happen?” Larry asks. “The worst that can happen is it’s a paper napkin,” Jerry says, “and she wipes her mouth, and part of it snags.”

Larry can barely contain his laughter,...

With Larry David, even the simple act of sitting down can raise an issue.

“This is a constant problem for me,” David said, after taking his seat in a wide, plush, yellow chair at HBO’s Manhattan screening room for a conversation on the lifespan and legacy of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “I’m a sloucher.”

Blaming the chair’s accommodating tilt, David slouched, smiled, and cordially accepted his fate. He’s a sloucher. He slouches. That’s who he is, and you know what? People love him for it.

Even when they don’t — like, say, for writing the now-infamous “Seinfeld” finale — David doesn’t let it get to him. When asked by an audience member whether the upcoming “Curb Your Enthusiasm” finale would serve as “redemption” for the last episode of “Seinfeld,” David scoffed and said:

“Yeah, like I care.”

The question didn’t come out of nowhere. “Curb...

Nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced today by Amber Iman and George Abud, two stars of Broadway’s “Lempicka.” The Lortels honor outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theater. The 2024 ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 5 at NYU Skirball Center. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

It’s common for productions to begin their life Off-Broadway before transferring to the Main Stem, so many of this year’s Tony Awards hopefuls are among the list of Lortel nominations. Chief among these contenders is “Hell’s Kitchen,” the semi-autobiographical musical from Alicia Keys. That tuner garnered five Lortel nominations. These include Best Musical, Best Choreography for Camille A. Brown, a Lead Performer bid for Maleah Joi Moon, and Featured Performer bids for Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis. All performance categories at the Lortel Awards are gender neutral.

Stereophonic, the hit Off Broadway play about a Fleetwood Mac-esque ’70s rock band, will begin its Broadway transfer a day earlier than planned, with previews at the Golden Theatre now set to start on Tuesday, April 2.

All tickets for the added performance will be priced at $40.

“When I was a small boy, my mother took me to Broadway shows every other week,” stated playwright David Adjmi. “She could afford to do this only because theatre was so much less expensive back then. And those shows changed my life. In this spirit, we are excited to offer $40 preview tickets to Stereophonic. I am thrilled to be able to share our show with as many theatergoers as possible.”

The opening date of April 19 remains the same.

The additional preview date was announced today by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills.

The play,...

There’s nothing unusual about throwing a convention in Las Vegas. But RePlatform Vegas, held at the Horseshoe hotel on the Strip this past weekend, was remarkable in its very premise: the event aimed to gather influencers and brands fixated on the problem of perceived censorship and “cancel culture,” giving them a public stage on which they could describe to an admiring audience all the ways they’ve supposedly been silenced.

But it wasn’t always clear what attendees wanted to accomplish by airing familiar grievances about the consequences of expressing or amplifying controversial views.

Photograph by John Johnson/HBO A lot of the humor on both Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm has been derived from some of the peculiar habits of ordinary people. And what do those shows both have in common? Larry David, who had a large hand in creating, producing, and writing both series. And that’s given David a bit of a reputation as someone who’s constantly watching people to get new ideas. Is that reputation deserved? According to David himself, absolutely not. (Click on the media bar below to hear Larry David) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Larry_David_people_Show_.mp3 Curb Your Enthusiasm airs Sunday nights on HBO and streams on Max.

The post ‘Curb’ Your Paranoia — Larry David Isn’t Writing About You appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

There’s a scene in the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” where Larry David (played by who else but Larry David) is on the golf course, having a pretty, pretty, pretty good day. He’s swinging the club well (thanks to a casually stolen coaching session), and he’s well on his way to a high score. But when he steps to the next tee box, there’s a group of players in the fairway ahead of him. So he waits. It’s what any good golfer would do — you don’t want to risk hitting anyone with your shot — except Larry’s friends (Richard Lewis loudest among them) don’t think he can hit it that far. They want him to swing away, egging him on until he’s basically dared to take the shot, consequences be damned. Larry being Larry, his drive is perfect: straight, long, and...

Apparently time really does heal all wounds. How else do you explain Charlie Sheen’s role in Chuck Lorre’s latest comedy?

Nearly 13 years after Sheen’s infamous meltdown led to his dismissal from CBS’ Two and a Half Men, the three-time Emmy nominee is reuniting with Lorre on Max’s Bookie, a single-camera series headlined by stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.

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Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott will find love in a Bronx bar with an upcoming Off-Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.”

The “White Lotus” Emmy nominee and “Poor Things” actor, respectively, will star in the revival of the 1984 play, set for the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village this fall. “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” will start previews on Monday, October 20 with an opening night set for Monday, November 13. Actor Jeff Ward will make his stage directing debut with the production, while Plaza will make her own stage acting debut as well.

Many know John Patrick Shanley for his Oscar-winning original screenplay for “Moonstruck,” but he also won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony for Best Play in 2005 for “Doubt,” which he adapted to the screen in 2008. “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” first premiered Off-Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre...

Aubrey Plaza, making her stage debut, and Christopher Abbott will star in an Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s 1984 classic Danny and the Deep Blue Sea this fall, with a producing team that includes Sam Rockwell.

The revival will begin previews Monday, October 20, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with an opening night set for Monday, November 13. The 10-week limited engagement will be directed by Jeff Ward, in his stage directorial debut.

Rockwell said in a statement, “My life and career have been profoundly impacted by Off-Broadway theater – like John Malkovich and Gary Sinise in True West at the Cherry Lane; Stanley Tucci in Scapin at Classic Stage Company; Phil Hoffman and Justin Theroux in Shopping and F*cking at New York Theatre Workshop; and Blasted with Reed Birney and Marin Ireland at Soho Rep, to name a few. I really do believe it’s the beating heart of this city.

During a star-studded promotional screening of “Deep Throat,” Joan Didion shares a prescient observation. She doesn’t want to — at least, not in that moment. All she wants is to enjoy the lavish party put on to promote Minx magazine. Check that: All she really wants is to be left in peace to use the restroom, but Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond), the editor-in-chief of Minx, can’t contain her giddy inquiries long enough for the acclaimed journalist to relieve her bladder. Joyce wants Joan to write for the magazine; something about “Deep Throat” and what it reflects about the shifting ‘70s culture, if not society at large. Joan isn’t all that interested, and instead encourages Joyce to pen the piece herself — but not before offering her reluctant, rushed assessment of the landmark porno being screened in the adjacent auditorium. “I don’t think it was their intent,” Joan says,...

Updated, 11:20 Am: The producers of Here We Are have announced the cast for the first production of Stephen Sondheim’s final musical.

Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O’Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos are set for the show, which opens September 28 for a limited Off Broadway engagement at The Shed.

Read details of the show below.

Previously, March 16: Stephen Sondheim’s final, long-awaited musical Here We Are will make its world premiere September 28 in a strictly limited Off Broadway engagement to be directed by two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello.

Formerly known as Square One, the final musical composed by Sondheim before his death in 2021 will be staged at The Shed, the Manhattan arts center that opened in 2019.

Additional information including specific production dates and casting will be announced soon. Producer Tom Kirdahy made the premiere announcement today.

The 76th annual Tony Awards were handed out Sunday night.

Kimberly Akimbo won best musical, Leopoldstadt was named best play, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog won best revival of a play, and Parade won best revival of a musical.

In the lead acting categories, Jodie Comer won best performance by an actress in a play for Prima Facie, while openly nonbinary actor J. Harrison Ghee made history (along with Alex Newell) for winning best performance by an actor in a musical for Some Like It Hot. Sean Hayes won best actor in a play for Good Night, Oscar, while Victoria Clark won best actress in a musical for Kimberly Akimbo.

Oscar winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose returned to host the ceremony, which this year moved to the new location of the United Palace in New York City’s Washington Heights. See the red carpet arrivals here.

The show was split into two parts,...

CNN’s Donald Trump town hall went over like a lead balloon with most viewers, judging by the overwhelmingly negative reactions.

But while viewers were put off by the debacle, the studio audience, which appeared to consist primarily or even solely of Trump supporters, was decidedly the opposite. As the disgraced former president lied nearly nonstop, with only mild, frequently shouted-down pushback from moderator Kaitlan Collins, (the exception being whenever Trump tried to lie about the 2020 election), the crowd whooped and cheered and laughed.

That was especially the case in two of the town hall’s nastiest moments. First, early in the broadcast when Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll just 24 hours after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting her and defaming her. And second, when he lost his cool and called Collins, a “nasty person.”

Trump was of course found guilty on Tuesday of sexually battering Carroll in...

Some Like It Hot, the musical comedy based on the classic MGM film, topped the Tony Awards nominations list with 13 nods.

The musical, which features a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was nominated for best musical, best original score, best book of a musical (written by Matthew López & Amber Ruffin) and best direction of a musical, as well as in the acting categories, with nominations for both Christian Borle and J. Harrison Ghee in the category of best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical and for Kevin Del Aguila and NaTasha Yvette Williams in the featured roles categories.

The plot, which has been revised from the 1959 film, sees two struggling jazz musicians, Borle and Ghee, on the run after witnessing a mob hit. The two disguise themselves within an all-female band and, as they travel across the country, they explore their own identities,...

Refresh For Udpates: The nominations for the 76th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on CBS Mornings today by Funny Girl star Lea Michele and Mj‘s Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The complete list of nominations will be posted here at 9:10 a.m. Et./6 a.m. Pt.

The nominations announced so far:

Best Musical

& Juliet

Producers: Max Martin & Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Jenny Petersson, Martin Dodd, Eva Price, Lukasz Gottwald, 42nd.club, Independent Presenters Network, Jack Lane, Library Company, Shellback, Shivhans Pictures, Sing Out, Louise!, Kim Szarzynski, Taylor/Riegler, Tenenbaum/Keyes, Barry Weiss, John Gore Organization

Kimberly Akimbo

Producers: David Stone, Atlantic Theater Company, James L. Nederlander, Lachanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo, Aaron Glick

New York, New York

Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Tom Kirdahy, Wendy Federman & Heni Koenigsberg, Crossroads Live, Playing Field, Stephanie P. McClelland, Ambassador Theatre Group, Waiting in the Wings Productions, Colin Callender, Gilbert and DeeDee Garcia/Sue Vaccaro,...

The current Broadway season schedule seemed done and dusted at the start of this month: With an opening night of April 26, the new Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York would be the final production of 2022-23, arriving just a day before the April 27 Tony eligibility cut-off date.

But on April 4, a newcomer entered the ring, with an opening night set for the very date of the Tony cut-off. Well, not exactly a newcomer. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is a rarely performed 1964 play by Lorraine Hansberry, a mostly forgotten work forever overshadowed by the playwright’s 1959 masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry died at 34 shortly after Sidney opened, and it would take nearly 50 years – and two very popular stars – before the play would return to Broadway.

The new production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window will star Oscar Isaac (the Dune and the Star...

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will bring The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window to Broadway this April in a late entry for the season.

The play, written by Lorraine Hansberry, will begin performances on April 25 and open on April 27, the final day for this season’s Tony Awards eligibility, at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Isaac and Brosnahan are reprising their roles from the play’s Off-Broadway run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which ended in March.

The play, produced by Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jeremy O. Harris and Bam, is scheduled to play 80 performances only. It was able to find a slot at the James Earl Jones Theatre after the show Room, which was meant to occupy the theater starting April 3, was unable to start performances due to a lack of funding.

This will mark the Broadway debut for Isaac, who most recently appeared on screen...

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are heading to Broadway later this month in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, producers announced today.

The production, which opened a sold-out run Off Broadway at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February, is now set to be the final production of the 2022-23 Broadway season. Opening night for the limited, 80-performance run is Thursday, April 27, at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Directed by Anne Kauffman, the revival will mark the first time the Hansberry play has been produced on Broadway in more than 50 years, and the first Bam-produced production to transfer to Broadway since The Gospel at Colonus 35 years ago.

Producing on Broadway will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, with Jeremy O. Harris and Bam.

The follow-up to Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window debuted on Broadway...

Stephen Sondheim’s final musical will have its world premiere in New York this fall.

The musical, which was formerly known as Square One and is now titled Here We Are, is inspired by two Luis Buñuel films, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel. Joe Mantello (Wicked, Assassins) directs the musical, which features a book by David Ives.

Performances will begin in September for a strictly limited engagement off-Broadway at The Shed’s Griffin Theater.

Sondheim, who died in November 2021 at the age of 91, had been working on this project for years. A production of a musical, created by Ives and Sondheim, was set to premiere off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2017, but never made it to the stage.

In September 2021, the legendary composer told Stephen Colbert that he was writing Square One with Ives and hoped to stage it in the next season. In what...

Former President Donald Trump confused author E. Jean Carroll with his second wife Marla Maples during a deposition for the sexual assault case Carroll brought against Trump. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump, who has long insisted Carroll is not his “type,” mistook his accuser for his second wife when shown a photo from the ‘90s during questioning last year.

In 2019, Carroll, the journalist and author famed for her “Ask E. Jean” Elle magazine column, accused Trump of having assaulted her in the dressing room of New...

Gravebit: A New Series by John Johnson

John Johnson has been making movies since the early 2000s. Known for his work on the “Skeleton Key” series and the “Plan 9″ remake, he has also created a bunch of web series. “Spade,” “Spooky Tales From The Dark”, “Bath Salts”, “House on the Hill”, and now “Gravebit”. From his press release:John Johnson and Darkstone ...

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Early on in Plan 9, a character complains that a remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space is the mother of all bad ideas. And really, it's hard to think of anything that could top Ed Wood's incompetent, legendary cheesefest for sheer camp value. But then again, pretty much anything can be considered an improvement.Writer/director/actor John Johnson decided to give it a shot, and wisely knew that if something isn't broke, it doesn't need fixing. Ten minutes in, and you've already got purposely bad special effects, self-aware bad acting and boobs. That should tell you all about this movie's M.O.In this update, the town of Nilbog (how's that for a bad movie reference?) is hit by an energy pulse that reanimates the dead, all part...

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A remake of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) has been completed. The remake's title has been reduced to Plan 9. And, the film has been partially developed by John Johnson (Skeleton Key 3: The Organ Trail). The film stars: Brian Krause (Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe and Matthew Ewald. As well, Monster Pictures will distribute this title on DVD in February. A preview of that release is hosted here. The remake, just like the original, deals with an alien invasion. An extraterrestrial force utilizes the recently deceased, to do the fighting for them. Now, the entire world is in peril as the dead come back to life. Few will survive this bloodbath! The first trailer for Plan 9 hosts several actions shots. The alien zombie army uses everything in its arsenal to trap and later capture the few survivors who remain. B-movieish, the full trailer for Plan 9 is hosted below.

With the post production for Plan 9 almost complete, Darkstone Entertainment held its first private cast and crew screening August 24th, 2013 at the Grandin Theater, located in Roanoke, Virginia where the film was shot. Now that director John Johnson film has successfully launched with its first screening, Plan 9 will be going to market, shopping for distribution to find it the proper home.

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In case you haven't heard, someone thought it would be a good idea to remake Ed Wood's classic sci-fi horror film, Plan 9 From Outer Space. This movie has been in production for over 3 years. It's never made sense to me as to why this movie was getting remade. I know the original film is supposed to go down in history as one of the worst movies ever made, but that's what made it so charmingly awesome.

The movie is simply called Plan 9, and I assume they are trying to capture that bad movie charm. I'm not sure though, it might just be a naturally bad looking film. Writer and director John Johnson had this to say about the clip you're about the watch,

I wanted to release this scene to kinda give a better feel of what the movie holds. We showed plenty of zombie mayhem in...

"This isn't a horror movie, boys." Despite earnest filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr.'s best efforts, his best-known film, the cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space, is generally considered one of the worst movies ever made. But even this dubious distinction isn't enough to safeguard Plan 9 from a remake. Darkstone Entertainment is giving the narrative about aliens who resurrect the earth's dead into zombies a resurrection of its own. And like Wood's zombies, Plan 9 From Outer Space has come back twisted and wrong. Ugh, I'd rather see the original in 3D. Giant Freakin Robot shares the clip of the remake's first look above, and notes that the film's writer-director John Johnson, who has a long slate of lesser-known horror titles to his credit, isn't looking to play up the campy features of the original. Basically, he's looking to strip away the major reason the poorly made movie...

The first artwork and a sneak peek of the remake of Ed Wood's all-time bad movie classic Plan 9 from Outer Space, entitled simply Plan 9, are here, and it appears to be a more serious take on the subject matter.

John Johnson directs, and Brian Krause ("Charmed"), Addy Miller ("The Walking Dead"), Conrad Brooks, Matthew Ewald, and horror personality Mr. Lobo star.

In 1959 a film was released that would live in the minds and hearts of science fiction and horror fans for years to come. That film was Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s, Plan 9 From Outer Space, a story about aliens re-animating the dead in order to kill Earth's population. Though widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made, genre audiences could not resist the exuberance and love for the art of filmmaking that showed in Wood's work. John Johnson of Darkstone Entertainment has remade the classic film.

Darkstone Entertainment has released (via Arrow) some official stills from the remake of the Ed Wood cult “classic”, Plan 9 from Outer Space (here). The film will wrap soon, but is looking for a “horror icon” to film scenes over the summer for director John Johnson.

Below are the official stills, for which, I cannot believe how kick-ass they look. Ed Wood never had this budget!

Presented in neat-o vision, Imo.

Seriously, that’s not a typo. And it’s not the first time we’ve reported on a Plan 9 from Outer Space remake (here).

Filmmaker John Johnson and Darkstone Entertainment will starting filming the remake March 25th, and The Roanoke Times asked him why, which is a very good question, when someone is about to remake the worst film ever.

The source claims: “He didn’t start out with a grand plan to remake “Plan 9.” While on the set of a different movie, Johnson was griping about Hollywood’s penchant to crank out bad remakes of well-regarded horror films. Someone asked him what film he’d like to see remade. His answer was Plan 9 from Outer Space. He sent an email to his friends in film circles sharing this thought, not meaning it as a serious commitment.

The email got forwarded. News items appeared in venues such...

Most of you would probably scoff at the very idea of remaking Ed Wood's all-time bad movie classic Plan 9 from Outer Space. That's because all you of Earth are idiots. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!

Filming on the unlikely long talked about rehash of the 1959 schlock masterpiece Plan 9 from Outer Space begins filming this Friday, March 25th, in Roanoke, Virgina. This isn't the first time we've told you about filmmaker John Johnson and Darkstone Entertainment's plan to remake what is widely hailed as the worst movie ever made, but now it is becoming a reality.

The Roanoke Times reports on how Johnson came up with the crazy plan of remaking the worst movie of all time:

He didn't start out with a grand plan to remake "Plan 9." While on the set of a different movie, Johnson was griping about Hollywood's penchant to...

It has been so long since we've reported on the supposed remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space , that I nearly forgot that it was threatening to assault to our peepers. The project was first announced back in 2008, a "teaser" struck in 2009 along with the news that the producers at Darkstone Entertainment were aiming for an April 2010 release. Since then, the official site has been updated regularly with a faux Criswell posting YouTube videos. Now, here we are in 2011 and it's getting ready to shoot in Bedford County, Virginia beginning tomorrow. From what I've gathered at the site, writer-director John Johnson is aboard with a cast of newcomers.

you ever wondered what it would be like if Sam Raimi had directed The Exorcist, then made it a Choose Your Own Adventure tale and put it on the internet, you might have a vague understanding about what you were about to get yourself into with Spade. Created by John Johnson, CEO of Darkstone Entertainment, an independent film company based out of Charlottesville, Va, Spade opens with a stark opening credits sequence overlaid with the original 1980's theme from V, which whoever runs the company's YouTube account assures a concerned commenter is "actually a YouTube friendly song. And since we are not selling this in any way or making a dime, we be safe." What follows is three parts of introduction to the world of Spade: eye-patched Jack Spade himself, who apparently saved the world fifteen years ago and has nothing to show for it but a penchant for drinking himself into a coma,...

Follow along with the adventures of Jack Spade in John Johnson’s new web series, Spade. The CEO of Darkstone Entertainment and director of the Plan 9 from Outer Space remake (Plan 9) has chronicled the life and shenanigans of hero Jack Spade in this audience participation friendly show. Jack Spade once saved the world, much to the chagrin of the Masonic Church of Rome. Now, forgotten by his peers, and left to his own devices for the last fifteen years, he is asked to once again to save humanity. But this time, he is not the chosen one. He is summoned [...]

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John Johnson, CEO of Darkstone Entertainment and director of the Plan 9 from Outer Space remake entitled Plan 9 has released Spade , a choose your own adventure web series . Each episode chronicles the life and adventures of Jack Spade, a man who 15 years ago was prophesied to defeat the forces of darkness. Having done so, the Masonic Church of Rome deemed him as no longer necessary and turned their back on him. Now, will her the efforts of his love Leena be enough to pull him from the brink when a familiar benefactor returns to make one last house call? Spade is now available to view via the official website right here . How to play? Watch each episode and vote for what you want to see happen next. After each episode airs you have 72 hours to vote on how you...

Back in 1959, Ed Wood made the sci-fi movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and it has since been known as the worst movie of all time. Fifty years later, director John Johnson decided that it's worth remaking it, but as a serious-minded retelling of the original story. The original revolves around aliens re-animating the dead in order to kill Earth's population. The new version, simply called "Plan 9," will focus on the horror and science fiction aspects of the original, but promises to be largely character-driven. "Even if Eddie was a little off in his filmmaking skills, you cannot deny his passion," said Johnson. "I feel a strong camaraderie for the man and his work, and hope that I can make a film that would be as loved by audiences today as the original was for his generation. Only this time with its true intention." Watch the promo trailer below...

"Plan 9 from Outer Space" from writer-director Ed Wood Jr. is considered one of the worst films ever made in cinema history!

Released in 1959, the film's plot is about aliens re-animating the dead in order to take over mankind! Now, this cherished cult classic is getting a remake makeover just in time for its 50th anniversary from director John Johnson and Darkstone Entertainment.

The remake is just going to be called "Plan 9" and this is going to be a serious take on the film. Johnson and company will pay homage to the spirit of Wood's film without resorting to camp or parody.

According to the "Plan 9's" official website:

The film will focus on the horror and science fiction aspects of the original, but will also be largely character-driven. Johnson's goal for "Plan 9" is to make a film that honors not only the original source material, but...

This one has been creeping up on us for a while now, but we were been holding off until we were presented with some concrete proof that we felt was worth discussing. Proof has arrived this morning in the form of a teaser trailer. Darkstone Entertainment is hard at work on a remake of the Ed Wood classic(?) Plan 9 from Outer Space. See the trailer below. From www.plan9movie.com - The Director John Johnson is going to have a live chat feed at 8pm on Sunday, September 13, 2009 Eastern Standard Time to answer questions and discuss the film and teaser trailer. It will be held at this link… I guess I'd be lying if I said that this one didn't even have me slightly intrigued. What do you think?...

It's not an easy task to remake what is universally proclaimed to be the worst movie of all time, but director John Johnson enjoys a challenge. And judging from this teaser trailer for Plan 9, it may encourage you to know that there are a handful of moments that actually look well, good. Let me know if that car scene didn’t make you jump just a little. If you had to compare it to something, the obvious choice would be Zack Snyder’s Dawn Of The Dead remake, with an added...

Ed Wood's cherished cult classic and often labeled "worst film ever made," Plan 9 From Outer Space, just got a sprucing up from Darkstone Ent. and the first trailer is here. Looking a lot more polished than I think we were all expecting, the film looks to include some decent enough re-animated corpse action, but it pays far less homage to Wood's original than I was expecting. But hey, maybe that's a good thing.

Synopsis:

Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible "Plan 9" in action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth to destroy the living.

The reboot is directed by John Johnson (who is actually directing Stephen King's Dark Tower next).

Trailer after the break.

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