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Brief 8/28: MEAN GIRLS Celebrates Vinyl With Signing, and More!

By: Aug. 28, 2018
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Today's Call Sheet:

-MEAN GIRLS cast will celebrate the release of their cast album on vinyl with a signing at Urban Outfitters today!

Set Your DVR...

-The Cast of Broadway's "SpongeBob SquarePants" will appear on The View this morning!

-Mandy Patinkin will appear on THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH James Corden tonight!

-Kristin Chenoweth will appear on CONAN tonight!

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And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Armie Hammer, who turns 32 today!

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Armie Hammer made his Broadway debut recently in Straight White Men.

Armie Hammer has received critical praise and an Independent Spirit Nomination for Supporting Actor for his role in Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me By Your Name, opposite Timothee Chalamet. Hammer will next star in Stanley Tucci's film Final Portrait as American art critic James Lord. The film premiered to rave reviews at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in early 2018. He will also be seen in Boots Riley's film Sorry to Bother You. Next year, which was just announced to screen in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Hammer will also star in Anthony Maras' film, Hotel Mumbai, alongside Dev Patel. He recently wrapped production on Mimi Leder's On The Basis Of Sex, opposite Felicity Jones. The film is the story of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and he portrays her husband, Martin. Earlier this year, Hammer voiced the role of "Jackson Storm" for Pixar's Cars 3, and starred in Ben Wheatley's film Free Fire alongside Cillian Murphy and Brie Larson. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, earning the People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness. Hammer's other film credits include Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, Birth of a Nation, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, The Lone Ranger, The Social Network and J. Edgar, for which he received a SAG Award Nomination.

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