Mon Dieu. Fox has officially greenlit a contemporary primetime soap based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. The good news? It's being developed by Veronica Mars/Party Down showrunner Rob Thomas. The bad? Every other single thing about this project.

I realized the other day that 100% of my familiarity with Les Mis comes from Joey Potter squirming through "On My Own" at the talent show or fundraiser or whatever-TF it was on Dawson's Creek (seez 1 ep 12, bitchez!). But I am intrigued by the film (not saying I'm going to see it, just saying I'm intrigued), and the…

Friends, comrades, children of the barricade: We've done it. We've waited months, suffered through misleading previews and hype-building featurettes and dug out our dusty CDs of the original cast recording. The time has finally come. The wait and the torture is over. Les Miserables has hit cinemas and we can finally…

I wasn't exactly a tween when I was first exposed to Les Miserables, but I still was hanging on to my tween sensibilities. I was 15 and on a trip with my grandparents to London where we went to see it on the West End. The next week, we were in Paris where I spent the whole time not-so-subtly belting "On My Own" and…

Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, and Samantha Barks at tonight's Les Misérables New York premiere at Ziegfeld Theatre. Can we just talk about how hot that Redmayne is? Even his name is hot. If you don't want to be the mayonnaise in that hot, hot, sexy sandwich, I'm not sure I want to know you/ew I apologize.

Les Miz purists beware: The folks behind the upcoming film adaptation of the musical have been fiddling around with your favorite story and have even gone as far as to add a brand new song. Sacrebleu!

That Hugh Jackman, what a sport! If you had a talk show and he was a guest, I have a feeling you could be like, "So, for this segment, I'm gonna dress as a Christmas cat and you're gonna take me from behind in front of a live studio audience whilst singing the State Farm jingle." And he'd be like, "OK, just let me…

Although it certainly raises the question of precisely what kind of roles Megan Fox will get that involve keeping her clothes on, Megan Fox will be keeping her clothes on in movies for awhile so that her baby son Noah doesn't get teased about it when he gets older:

Last night Real Live Movie Stars™ hit the red carpet at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, for the world premiere of Lay Miz. 'Twas a black tie affair, which means there were tuxedoes, but also: Weird bustlines, bare shoulders and crumpled taffeta.

Recently Ashley Judd spoke to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about possibly running for Senate in 2014. Alternatively, she might wait until 2016 to go up against Kentucky Republican and spawn of Ron Paul, Rand Paul. State Democratic senator Rep. John Yarmuth says that Judd's beyond your average pompous Hollywood liberal:…

I'm pretty sure this flash mob was born of a wet dream I had in '92, the year I listened to the Broadway cast recording on repeat for the entire summer. I had to share because of my precog powers, and because of the big screen clusterfuck that is Les Misérables set to crash into theaters on Christmas Day.

Anne Hathaway had to lose weight in order to play Fantine, the consumptive factory worker-turned-prostitute in Tom Hooper's forthcoming film adaptation of Les Misérables. Notice of her transformation has not escaped Vogue magazine, which profiles the actress for this month's cover story and asks all of the important…

In which Melissa McCarthy, undoubtedly for the umpteeth time, is asked about her weight and how she feels about it: "Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds…

Fellow musical theater nerds, rejoice...or get angry — I'm not sure how we're all feeling about Les Mis these days — because the film's studio has decided to whet your appetite with a featurette in which the producers and leading actors talk about the joys of singing live during takes as opposed to lip syncing to a…

While we've seen bits and pieces from the set of Les Misérables, Perez Hilton seems to have gotten his hands on some video which appears to be an early trailer with Anne Hathaway singing "I Dreamed a Dream." And, umm, to put it gently, her singing doesn't sound that great. Yes, it's hard to tell exactly how bad it is…