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| 'Hamilton' coming to 4K UHD in June | Disney announced on Thursday that it is releasing Hamilton in a 4K UHD Collector's Edition. The Collector's Edition will be available to own June 16. The filmed 2016 Broadway performance premiered on Disney+ in 2020. It was released in theaters in September. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the musical based on Ron Chernow's biography and stars as Alexander Hamilton. The original cast includes Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Rene Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Anthony Ramos. Thomas Kail directed the filmed performance. The Collector's edition includes a new documentary Spark Into Flame: Hamilton & Hip-Hop. |
| Movie review: Billie Eilish commanding, empowered in concert film | Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft - The Tour Live in 3D, captures the energy of Eilish's concert. With occasional peeks behind the scenes, it highlights what goes into the performance and what it means to her fans. As soon as the lights go down, thousands of phones light up, so the film already captures what it is like to go to a concert in 2026. Co-director James Cameron's cameras practically zoom in on the red record button on iPhones, but Eilish encourages people to wave their phone lights at other times. What's striking about Eilish's stage presence, compared to filmed concerts like Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, is how casual she is in front of tens of thousands of people. |
| Barack Obama faces Larry David in 'Pursuit of Unhappiness' | HBO released a teaser trailer for Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhapiness: An Almost History of America on Thursday. The series premieres June 26 at 9 p.m. EDT. Executive Producer Barack Obama introduces the series and his struggles working with Larry David. David enters and asks Obama to be his emergency contact, aiming for preferential treatment if he's ever in the hospital. "Don't you know other people who like you?" Obama asks David. Larry admits the answer is no. The series began as a celebration of America's 250th anniversary. HBO promised additional Curb Your Enthusiasm cast members and other surprise guest stars. "I have sat across the table from some of the world's most difficult leaders," Obama says. |
| 'Minions & Monsters' collide in trailer for 'Despicable Me' spinoff | Illumination has released a final trailer for the new film Minions & Monsters. The upcoming animated feature is the seventh entry in the Despicable Me franchise and the third film to focus on the Minions, first introduced as the loveable henchmen of Despicable Me's Gru. Minions & Monsters is a prequel to the 2015 movie Minions that follows the creatures as they attempt to make a monster movie in Old Hollywood. "This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created," an official synopsis reads. |
| Sam Worthington searches for son in Harlan Coben's 'I Will Find You' | Netflix is giving a glimpse of its new Harlan Coben series. The streaming service shared a teaser trailer for the mystery thriller I Will Find You on Thursday featuring Sam Worthington and Britt Lower. I Will Find You follows David Burroughs (Worthington), a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his son. The character "embarks on a truth-finding mission that leads him out of prison and into a world of deceit and despair" after learning his son might still be alive. Other cast members include Milo Ventimiglia, Logan Browning, Erin Richards, Jonathan Tucker, Chi McBride, Madeleine Stowe and Clancy Brown. Coben co-created the series with Robert Hull, who also serves as showrunner. |