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By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) – The Disney-backed stage adaptation of the hit film “Shakespeare in Love” won nearly across-the-board rave reviews in London this week, to the relief of its creators who are pleased that their big gamble looks set to pay off. The show, based on the 1998 Hollywood movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, received a standing ovation from its opening night audience on Wednesday at the Noel Coward theatre in London’s West End theatre district. With the backing of the Disney organisation, which is behind money-spinners like the “The Lion King”, and co-production by leading British producer Sonia Friedman, the stage revamp has gone straight to a commercial theatre instead of having the benefit of a first run at a government-subsidised venue, as is common in British theatre. “Obviously something like this was such a huge production which is probably the biggest play that has even been put on in the West End,” playwright Lee Hall, who did the adaptation from the movie script that was in part written by Tom Stoppard, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Wellington, July 24 (ANI): Kim Kardashians has denied that her new game ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’ app was programmed to include racist greetings.

Washington, July 24 (ANI): Denzel Washington will be receiving the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, which will be held in September. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the ‘Flight’ star will also open the Spanish festival with the European premiere of his latest movie ‘The Equalizer’, which is directed by Antoine Fuqua. The festival organizers cited Washington’s past roles in such films as ‘Glory’, ‘Malcolm X’, ‘Philadelphia’, ‘Inside Man’ and ‘Flight’, as well as his many acting awards and nominations while announcing the lifetime achievement award. Other events at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival will be announced soon.

Washington, July 24 (ANI): Tommy Lee Jones has been added to the upcoming movie ‘Criminal’ cast, a thriller from Millennium Films with Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman.

By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) – The 1998 hit movie “Shakespeare in Love” wove the Bard’s famous words into a Hollywood romantic comedy. Now it’s back in a stage version that retains the sly humour of Tom Stoppard’s script while making it all seem a bit more Shakespearean. The play that opened at London’s Noel Coward theatre on Wednesday night, backed by Disney and leading British producer Sonia Freedman, inevitably lacks the star power of Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare, Gwyneth Paltrow – who won an Oscar for best actress – as Viola de Lesseps and Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I. But Tom Bateman as Shakespeare and Lucy Briggs-Owen as Viola bring an engaging and youthful energy to a script adopted from the screenplay by Stoppard and co-writer Marc Norman.

Washington, July 23 (ANI): Idris Elba may sign up for Warner Bros.’ new take on the English myth which will be directed by Guy Ritchie, ‘Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur’.