Rock of Ages (movie)

Broadway's 'Legally Blonde' to set sail

2013-05-14 07:30:00

"Legally Blonde" is headed for the high seas. Norwegian Cruise Lines will bring the Tony-nominated Broadway musical on board its Getaway, a 4,028-passenger ship set to debut in January 2014. And "Blonde" isn't the only musical to sail. CHEAT SHEET:...

Review: 'Flashdance the Musical' breaks out leg warmers and '80s camp

2013-05-09 06:00:00

This review has been corrected. See below for details. "Flashdance the Musical" has its way over "Flashdance" the movie in at least one critical regard: The show's plucky heroine — as you'll recall: welder by day! nonstripping stripper by night!...

Tom Cruise proves his box-office worth with No. 1 'Oblivion'

2013-04-21 08:51:00

After suffering a couple of box-office disappointments, Tom Cruise posted his first No. 1 film opening in years at the multiplex this weekend. The 50-year-old's science fiction flick "Oblivion" was the only new movie to hit theaters this weekend and...

Tom Cruise will be back on top of box office with 'Oblivion'

2013-04-18 14:26:00

Even the most oblivious of moviegoers will be well aware of�"Oblivion"�this weekend, as the Tom Cruise flick is set to claim No. 1 at the box office. The "Mission: Impossible" actor's latest film, the only picture debuting nationwide this weekend, is...

'American Idol' alum Crystal Bowersox to be Patsy Cline on Broadway

2013-03-27 07:23:00

Jessica Lange played singer Patsy Cline in the 1985 movie "Sweet Dreams" and received an Academy Award nomination. Starting in July, "American Idol" finalist Crystal Bowersox will incarnate the country singer in the Broadway-bound musical "Always…...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Rock of Ages' on HBO

2013-03-22 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 24 - 30, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Monsters vs. Aliens The former are...

Julianne, Derek Hough team with Starz for ballroom dancing drama

2013-02-26 11:32:00

Dancing with the Starz? The network announced Tuesday that it has partnered with dancer/singer/actress Julianne Hough and her dancer/actor brother Derek Hough--both of whom have graced the "Dancing With the Stars" stage--to develop the new original...

Review: 'Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical' runs amok

2013-02-13 16:30:00

Hollywood Boulevard is home to both the Pantages Theatre and Madame Tussauds, and there were times during the new production of "Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical" that I wondered if the two institutions had arranged a secret merger. This pre-Broadway...

'Argo,' 'The Hobbit' in contention for Golden Reel awards

2013-01-17 19:15:00

"Argo," "Life of Pi," "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"; "Skyfall" and "Lincoln" earned multiple nominations Friday morning for the Motion Picture Sound Editors 60th annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Nominations were announced�for 22 categories in...

Las Vegas: 'Rock of Ages' hits Sin City's stage

2013-01-11 07:00:00

“Rock of Ages,” the Broadway musical that’s also been made into a movie starring Tom Cruise, has landed in Las Vegas as the latest in a line of productions to be formatted for the Sin City stage.� Its website says the two-hour...

'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals

2012-12-24 13:36:00

This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Mis�rables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...

'Hobbit' rules again as Cruise, Apatow, Streisand post soft debuts

2012-12-23 09:26:00

It was a ho-ho-ho-hum weekend at the box office, as five new releases failed to draw moviegoers to the multiplex in droves. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was the No. 1 film for the second consecutive weekend, collecting an additional $36.7...

The movie production that brought Hollywood glamour (Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Giamatti and Julianne Hough) to Fort Lauderdale's Himmarshee District and employed hundreds of locals as extras in shoots all over South Florida finally premiered to lackluster

2012-12-27 00:00:00

His marriage to Katie Holmes ends not long after Cruise stars in "Rock of Ages," a completely unwatchable disaster of a movie. His next effort "Jack Reacher" looks pretty good, but the guy's probably not in the best place right nowMatt Pais

2012-08-29 00:00:00

Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages" tour is a 25th anniversary celebration of the band's "Hysteria" album. The set list covers most of the biggies from "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and "Armageddon It" to "Women" and "Gods of War." Poison, another hair metal favorite from the '80s, opens.

2012-07-12 12:32:00