The box office success of “Moana” confirms Disney’s status atop the pecking order of major studios. It owes its apex predator status to the way it has deftly bolstered and …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:23PMDisney’s “Moana” topped the Thanksgiving eve box office, picking up $15.7 million in its first full day of release, and leaving the competition in its wake. The animated ad…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34AMDisney has been drawing a lot of aces lately. From “Doctor Strange” to “Zootopia” to “Finding Dory,” the studio has amassed an impressive streak of blockb…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PM“Zootopia,” “Captain America: Civil War,” and “Finding Dory” has pushed Walt Disney Studios to its biggest year ever at the global box office with two mon…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:48PM“The Incredibles 2” will hit theaters a year before it was originally slated, while “Toy Story 4” will move from 2018 to 2019, Pixar said Wednesday. The two animated …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMHaving become king of the jungle, Jon Favreau is heading to the African Savannah. Disney has tapped the filmmaker to oversee its upcoming live-action remake of “The Lion King.” F…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49AMAntoine 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 03:03PMDisney 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 12:46PMWoody 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 01:51PMThe 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 07:28PM“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 09:00AMFor 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 05:06PMThe 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 08:28PM“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 12:31AMJessica 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 11:21PMAt 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 10:06PMHot 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 12:10AM“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 01:50PMMila 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 07:30PMThe 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 08:06PM“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 10:52AMBefore 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 09:28AMRupert 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 03:02PMGeorge 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 03:47PMThe 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 02:33PMShe 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 04:26PMMoney 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…
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