Sunday, 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. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMSunday, March 15, 2015
Walt Disney Studios has been in the happily-ever-after business since 1937’s “Snow White” ushered in a golden age of feature film animation. Over the past decade, the Magic…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:23PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
MovieTickets.com will sell tickets for Regal Entertainment Group, the country’s largest theater chain. As part of the pact, the online ticketer will service 572 theaters, boasting 7,35…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34AMSunday, February 22, 2015
J.K. Simmons scored the first major award of the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a demanding jazz instructor in “Whiplash.” Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:47PMMonday, February 9, 2015
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I,” “Gone Girl” and “Maleficent” are powered by indelible female protagonists and rank among the biggest films …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:31PMThursday, January 1, 2015
Without Iron Man, Batman or James Bond to bolster ticket sales, the overall box office plunged 5.2% in 2014, topping out at $10.3 billion domestically. Audiences cooled to Hollywood offering…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45PMSunday, December 28, 2014
“Unbroken,” “Into the Woods” and the final “Hobbit” film gave Hollywood something to be merry about over Christmas weekend. The success of these films and…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:19AMThursday, November 20, 2014
John Cameron Mitchell is strutting back to the role that made him famous in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” He will break out the pumps, blonde wig and East German accent playing th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMMike Nichols, the Oscar-winning director of “The Graduate” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” was remembered by friends and colleagues as an artist, a mentor…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMSunday, November 16, 2014
“Maleficent,” “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” pushed Walt Disney Studios past $4 billion at the global box office at a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PMMonday, October 27, 2014
MovieTickets.com will begin offering mobile tickets that can be validated without scanners. The company will begin rolling out a pilot edition of the technology by the end of the year and ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:21AMSaturday, September 6, 2014
Roger Waters is bringing one of his greatest artistic triumphs to the screen at a time when war and armed conflict is consuming broad swaths of the planet. At the Toronto Film Festival premi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52PMWednesday, September 3, 2014
At the box office, there’s horrible — and then there’s the weekend after Labor Day. It’s hard to get audiences to hit up the multiplexes when they’re consumed w…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:50PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
“Maleficent” will cross $600 million at the global box office Wednesday, becoming the fourth film of the year to hit that mark. The Walt Disney Studios release is now in its fift…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PMSunday, June 8, 2014
The winners of the 2014 Tony Awards converged backstage with their glittering new hardware in hand. Here’s a look at the emotional outbursts, moments of hilarity and off-the-cuff confe…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:54PMMonday, June 2, 2014
A pop-rock revival of “Twelfth Night” starring Brian Dennehy may soon be coming to a theater or living room near you. Broadway Near You has nabbed nearly all worldwide rights to …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:23PMSunday, June 1, 2014
Mention James Earl Jones and the actor’s dramatic baritone instantly begins resonating in the mind. It’s a voice that announced it was CNN the world was watching, taught “T…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Marvin Hamlisch, the composer and conductor best known for the torch song "The Way We Were," died in Los Angeles Monday. He was 68 years old.
SOURCE: The Wrap at 10:18AM 
