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Dec 01, 2021

Peter Dinklage was the musical guest last night on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where he was backed by Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National on guitar. They performed “Your Name,” a song featured in the upcoming musical Cyrano, which stars Dinklage and was scored by the Dessner twins. More

May 22, 2015

As we reported earlier in the week, a “Game of Thrones: The Musical” skit was produced for Red Nose Day, the charity special that aired on NBC last night and was set up by Comic Relief to mirror the annual charity TV specials that air on the BBC in England. More

May 19, 2015

Red Nose Day, an annual charity special airing on the BBC and set up by Comic Relief, has been a fixture of British television for decades. Basically various comedians get together and have a good time and raise money for charity. More



Interviews

Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Peter Dinklage on “X-Men”

The stars of X-Men: Days of Future Past Discuss the Superhero Franchise's Latest Entry

May 22, 2014

The new X-Men: Days of Future Past—the blockbuster superhero sequel opening in theaters this week—takes place across two timelines. The film opens in a Hellish post-apocalyptic future where sentient robots have run amok and massacred or enslaved much of the Earth’s population. Most of the film, however, takes place in the early 1970s, as Wolverine is sent into the past to prevent this bleak future from coming to be.

“I think Wolverine never wanted to leave the 1970s,” says Hugh Jackman, who has appeared as the clawed superhero in all seven X-Men films. “The hair, the mutton chops, the clothes… I think the moment that Tears for Fears, A Flock of Seagulls, Wham!, Duran Duran came along Wolverine was like, I’m out.” More