The Universe

Photo: Columbia Pictures You bring up Across the Universe in conversation with a few friends, and they all have an opinion. Either it was too "all over the place" or too "Moulin-Rouge-y," but ask your dear friends when they saw the movie -- Was it with you? Or with someone else? -- and they'll have to confess: they downloaded it on their iPod Touch, or worse, they haven't even seen it. They just have their smacking loud opinions. You and I both know it -- and if you don't know it, I'm here to tell you: Across the Universe was great. If you haven't seen it yet, please, my dears, update your queue. And here are five reasons why I wholeheartedly recommend you get that sh*t. 1. Historical relevance: Atu portrays an era that, at the time of its release and even now, is historically relevant. It borders on preaching a bit,
Amy J. Aniobi

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Rumors abound that actress Evan Rachel Wood has been cast as "Mary Jane" in the upcoming Broadway Spiderman musical. There is also word that her 'Across The Universe' co-star Jim Sturgess, is being sought to play the leading role of Peter Parker/Spiderman. Maybe Wood will discuss the musical when she appears on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight? You'll also find a handy list below of other late night talk guests, check local listings are excat times.

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Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the new stage musical that follows the origin story of everyone's favorite spider-themed Marvel-owned superhero, has finally set an opening night.
The musical, which is directed by Julie Taymor and features music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge, will go into previews January 16th of next year, and then open to the public on February 18.
Thus far, it has not been revealed whether or not anyone has been cast in any roles, nor, for that matter, what roles are going to appear in the musical at all.
I spent three whole sentences without mentioning that I think this is going to be a disaster. See how I did that? It probably doesn't help that we're in a recession, and the 'would-spend-money-on-a-Spider-man-musical' crowd probably isn't as excited about spending up to $100 on a musical brought to us by the director of Frida and Across The Universe
Anders Nelson

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