Friday, April 10, 2015
Fox is developing an event special around “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the enduring midnight-movie classic that has been playing for 40 years. Kenny Ortega is on board to dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PMMonday, March 30, 2015
TEL AVIV – Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his performance as Tevye the milkman in “Fiddler On the Roof,” has been awarded Israel’s highest honor: The Israel Prize for Life…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38AMFriday, March 13, 2015
The hefty three-year pact calls for Leight to develop new projects exclusively for the studio. But the deal also allows Leight to continue as showrunner on “SVU” for the coming 2015-16 s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Disney’s long corporate runoff has come to an end with the promotion of Tom Staggs to chief operating officer. The Walt Disney Parks and Resort chairman has long been seen as the front-run…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:16PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Disney shares shot up more than 7% in early trading Wednesday to top the $100 mark, thanks to the tailwind from Tuesday’s stellar quarterly earnings report. The Mouse House’s str…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51AMSunday, January 25, 2015
Joe Franklin, the New York media fixture who hosted one of TV’s first and longest-running talk shows, died Saturday. He was 88. “The Joe Franklin Show” was a Gotham latenig…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07AMWednesday, December 31, 2014
Time Warner and Disney were the showbiz’s biggest gainers in the stock market in 2014. Discovery Communications and Viacom were the biggest losers in what was generally a solid year fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMFriday, December 5, 2014
NBC’s three-hour “Peter Pan Live” telecast, starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, scored a solid but unspectacular 2.3 rating/7 share in adults 18-49 and about …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:27AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Allison Williams has taken wing on NBC’s “Peter Pan Live.” So far, so good with the first flight over London and a safe landing in the children’s room at the Darling …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Stephen Colbert has been tapped to host the Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 7. “He is best in class and will no doubt undue any solemnity that might otherwise attend the occasion,” said Ho…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AMFriday, November 7, 2014
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In its pursuit of audience-grabbing event programming, NBC is said to be eyeing a live staging of Aaron Sorkin's play "A Few Good Men."
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:33PMIn its pursuit of audience-grabbing event programming, NBC is said to be eyeing a live staging of Aaron Sorkin’s play “A Few Good Men.” The Peacock is in the early stages of working ou…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:34PMThursday, October 23, 2014
ABC is developing a contemporary take on “The Phantom of the Opera” shepherded by “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry. The ABC Studios project is described as …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Seizing a moment when diversity is being embraced by the small screen, prolific playwright Josefina Lopez is trying TV again with a dramedy about four sisters set up at ABC and ABC Studios. …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Disney has unveiled a $1.25 billion bailout plan for Disneyland Paris as the park struggles with an attendance slump and a high debt ratio. Disney confirmed late Sunday that it has set a 1 b…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26AMFriday, September 19, 2014
The New York Times found itself in an Internet dust-up with uber producer Shonda Rhimes on Friday following the online publication of a story by TV critic Alessandra Stanley assessing Rhimes…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Playwright Samuel Hunter, docu filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, musician Steve Coleman and cartoonist Alison Bechdel are among this year’s picks for the MacArthur Foundation’s geni…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:47AMFriday, September 5, 2014
As the premiere of “Homeland” approaches, conflict and terrorism in the Middle East once again dominate the headlines. The horrors of beheadings of journalists and other acts by …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18AMMonday, August 11, 2014
The shock of Robin Williams’ death on Monday spread far and wide through the showbiz community, a reflection of the actor’s long career in movies, television, stage and standup c…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58PMSunday, July 13, 2014
NBC topper Bob Greenblatt opened the Peacock’s portion of the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour on Sunday by touting the network’s strength so far this summer and confir…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMMonday, June 9, 2014
In the hands of Hugh Jackman, being inside Radio City Music Hall for the Tony Awards ceremony was like being at a party with an incredibly gracious host. Jackman impressed during his on air …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:03AMSunday, June 8, 2014
If Neil Patrick Harris was nervous about being up for a Tony Award, he didn’t show it as he walked the red carpet outside Radio City Music Hall on Sunday. Harris was all smiles as he p…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:56PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Bryan Cranston’s Moon Shot Entertainment is getting down to business in developing television projects through his Moon Shot Entertainment banner. The “Breaking Bad” star&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
“The View” will bring all 11 co-hosts in the show’s 17-year history together for the first time on May 15 for a farewell salute to series matriarch Barbara Walters. The liv…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51AMMonday, March 17, 2014
CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years. Winfrey filmed “The Oprah Winfr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:27AMSaturday, March 1, 2014
If there’s a sudden worldwide shortage of Swarovski crystals in the coming weeks, blame the Oscars. Oscar producers have trucked in hundreds of thousands of Swarovski crystals to decor…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AMSunday, February 2, 2014
The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman is a big blow to Showtime’s new series roster for 2014. The actor was to take on his first TV series role in the pay cabler’s comedy “Ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35PMSunday, January 19, 2014
NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt came to the Television Critics Assn. session on Saturday with a slew of programming announcements, none more anticipated than the decision to make…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
“I’m 82,” Rita Moreno kept mentioning in her backstage remarks after receiving her SAG Awards life achievement kudo. Nobody bought it. She’s too vivacious, too electric and way too s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10PMMonday, December 23, 2013
Disney CEO Bob Iger earned $34.3 million in fiscal 2013, a 15% drop from his 2012 compensation. Disney released details of Iger’s compensation Monday as part of the proxy filing for it…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMSunday, December 22, 2013
Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., the billionaire businessman who led Seagram Co. at the time of its acquisition of Universal Studios parent MCA, died Saturday. He was 84. The Canadian-born Bronfman d…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AM 
