You can act with Dan Radcliffe on Broadway
And author signs unprecedented film & TV deal
You have a chance to act with Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway
Yes you, the person reading this. In case you’re not aware, Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway on February 21st, performing in the one-man show Every Brilliant Thing, in which “a man looks back at his life and the glimmers of hope that carried him through.”
Written in 2013 by Duncan Macmillan and performed all over the world since. The play examines the things that make life worth living, like sex, roller coasters, and ice cream. On the surface, Radcliffe returning to Broadway doesn’t seem like a big deal But there’s one wild thing that sets this play apart: It has a ton of audience participation.
In fact, the production is selling seats on the stage, where people will be asked to join the play. According to a Times UK summary of the show, which ran in London last year, “At least 50 audience members are given lines to shout out and some make it on to the stage, to play the lead character’s father, school counsellor and first love”
If you take a look at the script for Every Brilliant Thing, which is available online, you can see the passages where an audience member performs with the actor. Anyway, Every Brilliant Thing is running on Broadway for 13 weeks starting Feb 21. Tickets on the stage start around $150 but act fast, because they’re already selling out.
Author signs a TV deal that not even JK Rowling and George RR Martin could get
Fantasy fans get excited — because a major book series is finally coming to the screen. In late January, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Apple TV is going to be making shows and movies based on Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe, which is a collection of 18 top selling novels published over the last 20 years.
The Mistborn series is being developed for film, while Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive books could become a TV series. But what’s so crazy about this is the deal Sanderson got from Apple.
He reportedly shopped his books all around town, but Apple won out because it gave him an unprecedented level of control of the movies and shows. The Hollywood Reporter says “Sanderson will be the architect of the universe; He will write, produce and consult [on the projects]” And get this he “will have cast approval” power as well.
That gives him more control over this screen franchise than JK Rowling has on Potter and that George RR Martin has on Game of Thrones. Sanderson explained on his YouTube page he picked Apple because he likes the streamer’s work and its “vibe.” But also because of the control it was willing to give him.
The lady who owns the Breaking Bad house just took a huge L
Are you familiar with the saga of the Breaking Bad house? Located on Piermont Dr in Albuquerque, this real house served as the exterior for Walter White’s home. When the show was filming, the owners, the Quintana family, had a good relationship with the crew, but in the years after, things turned sour when fans started showing up in droves.
They reportedly threw pizzas on the roof and in one case left a package for Walter White. Things got so bad that home owner Joanne put up a fence and numerous warning signs telling people to stay away. But still they kept coming and Joanne would occasionally argue with them. A video shot last year shows her mocking fans and spraying them with water.
Anyway, in January 2025, she decided she was done with it and so she put the home up for sale — for a whopping $4 million dollars. Other comparable homes in this are in the $400,000 thousand dollar range, so Joanne was asking for about 10 times the home’s value on the hope that a new owner could turn it into a Breaking Bad museum.
Unfortunately, the house is in a residential area and local zoning laws wouldn’t allow for that kind of business. So a year later she’s admitted defeat and reduced the asking price to a reasonable, much more accurate $400,000. And as TMZ points out, that would make for a perfectly affordable AirBnB rental.
Tom Cruise’s mysterious new movie throws back to Tropic Thunder in the best way possible
One of the most exciting new movies of 2026 has to be DIGGER. From Oscar winning director Alejandro Innaritu, who made The Revenant and Birdman, the poster calls it a “Comedy of catastrophic proportions.” And besides Tom Cruise in the lead role, it also features Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, Riz Ahmed, Emma D’Arcy, Robert John Burke and Burn Gorman.
It reportedly about the most powerful man in the world, who tries to prove he is humanity’s savior before his own disaster destroys everything. So yeah all of that is pretty vague. But Tom Cruise doing an original comedy is pretty exciting.
And recently we learned, thanks to Deadline reporter Justin Kroll that Cruise will be wearing heavy prosthetics in the film. “He’s basically another Les Grossman-like character … He’s not going to look like the movie star Tom Cruise.” Cruise was so good as Les Grossman, so this could be a very good thing.
Inarritu himself has been quoted as saying Cruise will “surprise the world” with his performance and Michael Stuhlbarg said the movie is “the craziest thing I’ve ever been a part of.” And he was in Bones and All. Anyway, Digger hits theaters October 2, 2026 via Warner Brothers.