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 01:00PMWomen 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 01:51PMCanadian 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 01:25PMCablevision, 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 11:33AMPolice 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 01:35PMBroadway 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 03:02PMWalt 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 03:23PMMovieTickets.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 10:34AMJ.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 08:47PM“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 09:31PMWithout 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 01:45PM“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 11:19AMJohn 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 12:15PM“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 12:20PMMovieTickets.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 11:21AMRoger 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 11:52PMAt 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 04:50PM“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 02:42PMThe 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 08:54PMA 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 05:23PMMention 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 03:25PMMarvin 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.
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