Amanda Seyfried News

Seattle Center Movies at the Mural returns this summer with a line-up of five outstanding films shown outdoors on a 45-foot screen at Mural Amphitheater at Seattle Center, Saturday evenings, Aug. 1, 15, 22, 29; and Friday, Aug. 28.

Amanda Seyfried has found her pursuit of a stage career discouraging; The 'Mamma Mia!' film star has not been able to get past auditions for a Broadway show.

Summit Entertainment's film adaptation of 'Letters to Juliet' will star 'Mamma Mia!' darling Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal and Franco Nero. The film will be directed by Gary Winick and is produced by Mark Canton, Ellen Barkin and Caroline Kaplan. Production on the movie will begin June 25th in Italy.

Seattle Center Movies at the Mural returns this summer with a line-up of five outstanding films shown outdoors on a 45-foot screen at Mural Amphitheater at Seattle Center, Saturday evenings, Aug. 1, 15, 22, 29; and Friday, Aug. 28.

Entertainmnt Weekly is reporting that Amanda Seyfried's, best known for her singing-and-dancing role in Mamma Mia, has been force to drop out of Zack Snyder's 1960s-set, fantasy Sucker Punch for Warner Bros. Seyfried was offered the lead role of Baby Doll, a young woman who has been committed to an insane asylum and fantasizes about escaping with the help of her fellow inmates.

Zack Snyder ('300,' 'Watchmen') revealed to IESB.net that 'Mamma Mia!' star Amanda Seyfried is in talks for one of the five lead female roles in Snyder's upcoming action film 'Sucker Punch'.

The celebrity info website Just Jared have gotten exclusive shots of Hugh Jackman rehearsing for the 2009 Oscars telecast.

Mamma Mia!, one of the biggest hits of 2008, gets its final release in Japan on January 30. Currently worldwide the movie is at $573,093,048. Mamma Mia is directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson. It stars Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth. Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. http://www.mammamiamovie.com/

ComingSoon.net is reporting that Mamma Mia! The Movie lead Amanda Seyfried will star in Myriad Pictures' adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy A Woman of No Importance opposite Annette Bening and Sean Bean. Seyfried will play an American who finds herself falling in love with the womanizing Lord Illingworth (Bean) in the English countryside until his mother (Bening) throws a wrench in his plans. Donald Zuckerman will produce and Bruce Beresford will be directing from a script by Howard Himelstein.

Mamma Mia!, one of the biggest hits of 2008, gets its final release in Japan on January 30. Currently worldwide the movie is at $573,093,048. Mamma Mia is directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson. It stars Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth. Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. http://www.mammamiamovie.com/

The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards took place Sunday, January 11 2009 at The Beverly Hilton with a live telecast that aired on NBC at 8 PM (EST) and produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Mamma Mia! The Movie is hosting a virtual conga line that stretches worldwide online. There are already over 1000 participants. You simply insert your photo and join the other 'conga dancers', it is a fun way to be your very own 'Dancing Queen'.

Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! will end its record-breaking engagement at Mandalay Bay Theatre this Sunday, January 4, 2009. After nearly six years on The Las Vegas Strip, MAMMA MIA! set the precedent for musicals in Las Vegas celebrating more than 2,200 performances and 2 million guests.

The Abba stage hit big screen transfer is the first disc to sell more than 5 million copies placing it in one in four UK households. Its closest rival was The Dark Knight with 1.5 million sold. The previous top seller was Pirates of the Caribbean.

Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! will end its record-breaking engagement at Mandalay Bay Theatre this Sunday, January 4, 2009. After nearly six years on The Las Vegas Strip, MAMMA MIA! set the precedent for musicals in Las Vegas celebrating more than 2,200 performances and 2 million guests.

Perez Hilton is reporting that the moive musical Mamma Mia! has just become the top-selling DVD in the United States, as of Wednesday. The big screen transfer of the stage hit bested projected champ The Dark Knight, both films were holiday shopping favorites.

Actor Dominic Cooper has been cast in the role of Hippolytus in the National Theatre's upcoming revival of Ph?dre. Co-starring Helen Mirren in the title role and directed by Nicholas Hytner, Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Jean Racine's 1677 classic tragedy is based on a Greek myth about a queen who falls passionately in love with her stepson in her husband's absence.

Universal is reporting that consumers said 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' to Mamma Mia! The Movie, the most successful film musical of all time worldwide, as first day domestic DVD and Blu-rayTM consumer spend totaled over $30 million.

Variety reports that Universal confirmed Tuesday that 'Mamma Mia!' has become the highest grossing release of all time at the U.K. box office.

Two-time Oscar? winner Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) and Pierce Brosnan (Die Another Day) lead an all-star cast in the most infectiously fun movie of the year, Mamma Mia! The Movie, was released on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def on December 16th, 2008 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.