Monday, January 29, 2018
Kaya Scodelario will play Carole Ann Boone, the ex-wife of serial killer Ted Bundy, in the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” Zac Efron is starring as Bundy …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMThursday, January 25, 2018
MoviePass has withdrawn its subscription service from several high-traffic AMC theaters without revealing the reason why. The service, which costs $9.95 per month, was no longer available on…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:36PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Months after leaving multiplexes, “Get Out” and “Dunkirk” are returning to movie theaters in the wake of scoring best picture Oscar nominations. “Get Out,” which …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:36PMThe Walt Disney Company will give more than 125,000 employees one-time $1,000 cash bonuses, amounting to a $125 million allocation by the entertainment giant. Chairman and CEO Bob Iger made …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:38PMFriday, January 19, 2018
Disney is in talks with director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to helm its live-action reimagining of the 1963 animated movie “The Sword in the Stone.” Fresnadillo, a native of Spain, …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMThursday, January 18, 2018
Disney-Pixar has hired Stephany Folsom as the screenwriter on “Toy Story 4,” which is set for release on June 21, 2019. Folsom is filling the slot left vacant by Rashida Jones an…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PMFriday, January 12, 2018
Walt Disney Co. Chairman-Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger received $36.3 million in compensation during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, down 17% from the previous fiscal year. Disney made th…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:02PMJohn Malkovich has joined the cast of the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” as Judge Edward Cowert in the 1979 murder trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. Cowart…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33AMTuesday, January 2, 2018
With the new year comes a major reveal in the latest trailer for Universal’s “Fifty Shades Freed” — Anastasia Steele is pregnant. The reveal came Tuesday in the fina…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMWednesday, December 27, 2017
For the second year in a row, Disney has nabbed the domestic box office crown, with $2.27 billion already banked in 2017 thanks to its one-two punch of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PMFriday, December 22, 2017
Walt Disney Studios is expected to cross the $6 billion mark at the 2017 worldwide box office on Friday, with “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” providing the final push to reach the mil…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:28PMThursday, December 21, 2017
The Writers Guild of America East has selected Hamilton Nolan as the recipient of the Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to the Guild. The honor will be presented at the 70th annual…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Warner Bros. has moved back “A Star Is Born,” starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, back nearly five months from May 18 to Oct. 5. Cooper is also helming the film, which will ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36PMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Paramount Pictures has moved the third SpongeBob SquarePants movie back a year from Aug. 1, 2019, to July 31, 2020. The animated project, now called “The SpongeBob Movie,” had be…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:41PMThursday, December 14, 2017
The Writers Guild of America West has issued a blistering attack on Disney’s proposed $52.4 billion, all-stock deal to acquire 20th Century Fox and other entertainment and sports asset…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMFriday, December 8, 2017
The ritual of Star Wars fans lining up at the TCL Chinese Theatre well before the first showing of the movie has started in earnest. About 50 fans were in line Friday afternoon at the back o…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:41PMA week before the opening of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the TCL Chinese Theatre unveiled a revamped auditorium that will help immerse audience members in a galaxy far, far away.…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:18PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Disney has offered Rob Marshall the job of directing its live-action version of “The Little Mermaid.” The studio tapped Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken last year to write the …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMThursday, November 30, 2017
“Thor: Ragnarok” has pushed Disney past the $5 billion mark at the 2017 worldwide box office for the third year in a row. Disney said Thursday that it’s become the first an…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:23PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Sony has released a new trailer for its thriller “All the Money in the World” with Christopher Plummer having replaced Kevin Spacey in the key role of J. Paul Getty. The new foot…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:33PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
James Cameron’s “Titanic” has been set for a 20th anniversary re-release in the Dolby Vision technology in 87 AMC theaters for a week, starting on Dec. 1. Dolby Laboratorie…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33PMDisney-Pixar’s animated family comedy “Coco” has set a box office record in Mexico, becoming the top film as measured in local currency. “Coco,” which premiered…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PM“Wonder” writer-director Stephen Chbosky has signed on to pen and possibly helm Disney’s live-action movie “Charming,” a re-telling of the Prince Charming folk …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:51PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
MGM has set an Aug. 10 release date for the untitled Anne Hathaway-Rebel Wilson scam artist comedy. The project, which has been known as “Nasty Women,” is a remake of the 1988 co…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMNick Kroll and John Mulaney will co-host the Spirit Awards for the second year in a row. The ceremony, which takes place in a tent on Santa Monica Beach, will be broadcast live on IFC. The …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:22PMSunday, November 12, 2017
AFI Fest has selected Jessica Chastain’s “Molly’s Game” to replace Kevin Spacey’s “All the Money in the World” as the closing film for the festival …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:56PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Following a growing backlash, the Walt Disney Co. has ended its ban on the Los Angeles Times from press screenings of its movies. “We’ve had productive discussions with the newly in…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMFour critics groups have blasted the Walt Disney Co.’s media blackout of the Los Angeles Times and pledged to disqualify Disney’s films from awards consideration until the blacko…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Citing lousy box office performance, AMC Entertainment Holdings has reported a third-quarter loss of $42.7 million, compared with earnings of $30.4 million for the 2016 quarter. AMC made the…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Lily Collins will star opposite Zac Efron as the former girlfriend of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” Voltage is h…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMThursday, October 26, 2017
In today’s film news roundup, Disney Channel star Mollee Gray lands the lead in “A Night to Regret,” Sentient Entertainment signs an output deal with Italia Film, and Bleec…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PM 
