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Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and James Corden cram 22 musicals into just 12 minutes

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

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How many musicals can you get into a 12 minute sketch? 22. If you are Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and James Corden, that is. 

The stars of Mary Poppins Returns joined Corden on The Late Late Show for a 22-song medley of songs from famous musicals – choreography and all. 

La La Land, Fame, and Moulin Rouge are just some of the musicals featured in this 12-minute musical extravaganza. 

And there’s also a sneak peak of Mary Poppins Returns in there.  Read more…

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Practically imperfect? Critics are divided on ‘Mary Poppins Returns’

sudshr47 December 12, 2018

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Ranging from “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” to “meh,” critical reactions to Mary Poppins Returns are all over the place.

Some early audience members delighted in the revamped world of color, propriety, and nostalgia. While other critics, like Mashable’s Angie Han, say the sequel feels contrived, forced, and thoroughly unimaginative.

Starring Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns takes viewers back to Cherry Tree Lane where Michael and Jane are all grown-up with children of their own. When Michael’s wife dies, Mary returns to the Banks’ home to set things right—with help from a newly imagined Bert-type, played by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Read more…

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‘Mary Poppins Returns’, but the magic’s gone

sudshr47 December 12, 2018

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To ask why Mary Poppins Returns exists would be to ask why Disney would want a license to print money. The studio has been on a tear remaking, remixing, and revisiting its old classics, to great box-office success; Mary Poppins Returns, with its nostalgia-inducing premise and family-friendly holiday release date, will surely be no different.

Now that Mary Poppins has returned, though, it seems worth asking: Did we really need her to?

The Banks family seems toReturns picks up in the 1930s, with the Banks children now grown. Jane (Emily Mortimer) is an activist like her suffragette mother, while Michael (Ben Whishaw) is a struggling artist with three little moppets of his own—John (Nathaneal Saleh), Annabel (Pixie Davies), and Georgie (Joel Dawson).  Read more…

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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ producer answers all of your burning questions

sudshr47 November 20, 2018

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It’s been 54 years since Mary Poppins came into the world in movie form. And now, five decades on, we’re getting a second helping in the form of Mary Poppins Returns — a sequel to the beloved classic. 

Of course, we have many burning questions about this hotly anticipated film. But fear not: Mashable spoke to the film’s producer Marc Platt during a set visit to Shepperton Studios, near London. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Mary Poppins movie. 

Is Mary Poppins Returns based on a book? 

Marc Platt: We went right to the source. We went to P.L. Travers. And, it turns out that P.L. Travers wrote eight books, and the original film really capitalises on only one of the books. And what we found in her books was really a treasure trove of new characters and episodes. We realised that we could bring the sequel our own version and our own story. An original story of Mary Poppins all these years later in a very exciting way, but that we could draw upon the original source, P.L. Travers. Read more…

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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ is proof that Dick Van Dyke hasn’t aged a day in 50 years

sudshr47 September 18, 2018

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The world may be a terrible place right now, but the sequel to Mary Poppins will soon be with us. Albeit, five decades after the original movie came out in 1964. 

While the movie *might* have aged a little in the 54 years since it first graced cinema screens, Dick Van Dyke hasn’t. He hasn’t aged a single day by the looks of things.

Allow us to explain. In the 1964 movie, Van Dyke plays Mr Dawes Senior — a board member at the London bank where George Banks works — in addition to his role as chimneysweep Bert. Read more…

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Lin-Manuel Miranda shares what starring in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ means to him

sudshr47 September 17, 2018

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Half a century ago, back in 1964, a film came out that would shape the childhoods of not just one generation, but pretty much every generation that came thereafter. 

Mary Poppins, since first it graced cinema screens, became a firm fixture on family television sets. I recall my grandmother posting me a card with a pound coin taped to it with the strict instruction to rent Mary Poppins from the video shop. For my father, the film marks his very first trip to the cinema, age six. 

But mine was not the only home filled with the sounds of “chim chimney chim chimney” being played on a loop. Lin-Manuel Miranda, star of Mary Poppins Returns — the upcoming sequel to the beloved original film — says the movie was “on regular rotation” in his childhood home.  Read more…

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The magical ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ trailer is here, dancing penguins and all

sudshr47 September 17, 2018

After a long wait, the official first trailer for Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns is finally here. 
The trailer outlines the oddball nanny’s much needed visit to the grown up Banks children, who now have children of their own. In homage to the…

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