Sunday, September 25, 2016
Antoine Fuqua knew what it would take to get him to remake “The Magnificent Seven,” John Sturges’ 1960 classic about a band of gunslingers. The film, which was itself a rem…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Disney chief Bob Iger said he just met with LucasFilm head Kathleen Kennedy to map out “Star Wars” movies from 2021 and beyond, signalling that the studio is plunging ahead with …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:46PMSunday, September 18, 2016
Woody Harrelson is earning some of the best reviews of his career, playing Lyndon Johnson, as a conniving, but deeply insecure wheeler-dealer in Rob Reiner’s “LBJ.” But the…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PM“La La Land,” Damien Chazelle’s musical ode to Los Angeles, captured the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival after screening to standing ovations and…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
The Toronto Film Festival is always known for its hodgepodge of big studio titles, small indies and everything in between. But this year’s gathering up north is facing more uncertainty…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28PMThursday, September 1, 2016
“Moulin Rouge!” will can-can its way onto the stage in a theatrical reimagining of the big screen musical. Global Creatures is developing the show and has tapped “Skyfall&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
For New Yorkers, going to the movies often means camping out for an hour before the show starts. Stragglers know that arriving late can be the difference between seeing the movie unfold in c…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06PMMonday, August 29, 2016
The end of “Finding Neverland’s” Broadway run took a bite out of earnings last week. Box office on the Great White Way dropped 6.6% to $21.5 million after the theater comm…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:28PMMonday, June 13, 2016
“Hamilton” triumphed at the Tony Awards on Sunday, racking up 11 statues including the Best Musical prize. But the victory was colored by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay club…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:38AMFrank Langella was so moved by the mass shootings in Orlando that he tore up the speech he planned to deliver at Sunday’s Tony Awards so he could pay tribute to the 50 people who had b…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Jessica Lange first performed the part of Mary Tyrone 16 years ago in a London stage production, but the newly minted Tony winner said that she understood the part in a fresh way starring in…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
At the Tony Awards this Sunday, Broadway musical “Hamilton” is widely expected to walk away with the top trophies. If it does, it’ll cap an extraordinary year that Lin-Manuel M…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Hot off the blockbuster success of “The Jungle Book,” Disney has been staking out several years worth of live action fairy tales. The studio confirmed that it is making “Cr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10AMSunday, April 17, 2016
“The Jungle Book” dominated the weekend box office, grossing a massive $103.6 million, and extending the Walt Disney Company’s success in making live action versions of its…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Mila Kunis has a dirty sense of humor. Having previously starred in “Ted,” the teddy bear comedy that gleefully eviscerated nearly every sacred cow, Kunis is back in the raunch w…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMMonday, April 4, 2016
The shocking and sudden departure of Thomas Staggs as Walt Disney Company’s chief operating officer Monday has blown open the race to succeed Bob Iger atop the entertainment giant. It …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06PMThursday, October 15, 2015
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” has a delivery date. The sequel to the romantic comedy hit will land in theaters on September 16, 2016, where it will face off against Sony and Scree…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AMFriday, September 4, 2015
Before there was Ovitz or Ari, there was Sue Mengers. During the peak of her clout in the 1970s, the brash barrier-breaker helped popularize the idea of the Hollywood super-agent. The media …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Rupert Pupkin’s delusions of latenight grandeur will soon be set to music. Stephen Trask, the composer and lyricist behind “Hedwig & The Angry Inch,” and Chris D’…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMFriday, June 26, 2015
George Takei has been a leading advocate for LGBT rights since he announced to the world he was a gay man in 2005. Best known for his role playing Starship Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PMThursday, May 21, 2015
The New York Times is changing its film review policies, with the paper telling distributors this week that it can no longer guarantee its critics will weigh in on every film that screens in…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
She nabbed her prince, settled down to live happily ever after, and just waltzed past an important box office milestone. “Cinderella” crossed the $500 million mark at the global …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:26PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Money worries — not gaming or YouTube — are responsible for the decline in younger moviegoers, AMC Entertainment CEO Gerry Lopez told Variety this week at CinemaCon. Over the past five y…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:23PMWalt Disney Chairman Bob Iger has shown a willingness to write big checks, plunking down nearly $16 billion to purchase Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm. This marks the first year these big bets …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Women and family audiences will help drive 2015 to record-breaking box office numbers, predicted National Association of Theatre Owners President and CEO John Fithian in a speech to exhibito…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMThursday, April 16, 2015
Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil will sell a majority stake to private equity firm TPG Capital and Chinese firm Fosun, according to multiple media reports. A spokesperson for …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:25PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Cablevision, the parent company of New York’s Newsday daily newspaper, is considering making a $1 offer for the New York Daily News. Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman told staff in F…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMMonday, March 30, 2015
Police questioned Harvey Weinstein after the indie studio chief allegedly groped a 22-year old woman in Tribeca on Friday, a NYPD spokesman confirmed to Variety. The woman accused the Weinst…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PMSunday, March 22, 2015
Broadway hit "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" will be made into a feature film produced by Tom Hanks' production company and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:41PMBroadway hit “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” will be made into a feature film produced by Tom Hanks’ production company and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PM 
