Friday, March 18, 2016
A movie about the work of a book editor seems on paper as promising as a movie about the drudgery of investigative reporting — until a Spotlight or an All The President’s Men co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMEXCLUSIVE: From the day Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, the consensus was nearly universal: Political commentators on the right and the left …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMThursday, March 17, 2016
She Loves Me is probably the best Broadway musical you’ve never heard of (unless you’re a Broadway nerd). It’s an unassuming, Old World charmer, testament to craft, witc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:22PMMaking good on its pre-auction warning, the Justice Department today filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in Los Angeles seeking to block the acquisition by Tribune Publishing Company of Freedom …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:16PMThe 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) today announced the inaugural Tribeca Digital Creators Market and Special Screenings program. A marketplace for digital and online content on Apri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PMAs if timed for St. Patrick’s Day, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Langley Park Productions and Neal Street Productions announced Thursday that multiple Tony Award-winning director Jack…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Sylvia Anderson, co-creator of the hugely popular science-fiction puppet series Thunderbirds and the voice of the show’s Lady Penelope, has died at the age of 88 after a brief illness,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: The chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee introduced legislation this week that would categorize magic as a "rare and valuable art form and national treasure" and to r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:27PMEXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred.
ROTH: I&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:56PMThe Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked has grossed over $1 billion at the Nederlander Organization’s 1,807-seat Gershwin Theater, one of Broadway’s largest houses. It joins The Lion K…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMThe National Geographic Channel is “the #1 non-celebrity brand on Instagram,” Courtney Monroe, CEO of the company’s Global Networks, told reporters this morning as she unve…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Family shows were the name of the game during Week 42 of the Broadway season, with big gains for Aladdin (up $246K over the previous week), Fiddler On The Roof (up $87K), Matilda (up $137K),…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:28PMThe Tribeca Film Festival said today that Oprah Winfrey will join fellow executive producers and cast members for the world premiere next month of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network's original dra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMComic-Con International and Lionsgate today announced the launch of Comic-Con HQ, a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform slated to have its debut shortly before San Diego Comic-Con t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AMSunday, March 13, 2016
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s exceptionally charming revival of The Robber Bridegroom is exactly the kind of intimate extravaganza you would expect from Alex Timbers, among the m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:09PMCall me Grand Union, because the grosser Kate McKinnon gets, the more I’m buying. The funniest sketch on last night’s less than great SNL was “True Tales From The Sea,̶…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:34AMOne of the season’s dreariest SNL outings was at least partially salvaged by — surprise! — host and musical guest Ariana Grande, who was not only game for any mediocrity …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49AMTonight’s SNL saw the return of Larry David (again) as Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, in an opening sketch that recapped some of the, well, less mo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:08AMFriday, March 11, 2016
The press is quite literally having a field day, poring over videos of an incident at a Donald Trump event Tuesday in Florida. Michelle Fields, a reporter for conservative news site Breitba…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:54PMThursday, March 10, 2016
Broadway loves a fine romance and nowhere are the sparks showering down more heat and crackle than the ones being thrown off by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in Blackbird, which opened…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:19PMEXCLUSIVE: Atom Egoyan’s Remember, a revenge drama you won’t easily forget, opens Friday in limited release. The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christophe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:47PMUPDATES with more information throughout.
Ken Adam, whose hi-tech Aston Martins for James Bond and retractable wings for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang helped make him one of the most celebrated pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PMSimon & Schuster has acquired My Own Words, a compendium of essays and speeches by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the CBS-owned publisher announced today in New York. The book will be released pri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:42AMWednesday, March 9, 2016
Returning to the White House, where he first performed the opening number from Hamilton for the First Family and friends, Lin-Manuel Miranda will try out his latest show for the Obamas next …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Just in time for the unveiling of her TBS late night quiz show Separation Anxiety, comedian Iliza Shlesinger has signed with Weinstein Books for the October 4, 2016 publication o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMUPDATE Wednesday morning, adding Paul McCartney’s tribute and more detail throughout.
George Martin, a semi-retired producer of classical music recordings until he became “th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
Disaster! is the Nick The Lounge Singer of Broadway musicals. A cast of extraordinarily gifted stars appears to have been tricked into stretching a three-minute parody of movies that wer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMLast in, first out: nerds, a long-aborning musical about the rivalry between Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced Tuesday that a planned late-April openi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMEXCLUSIVE: With Broadway’s spring season revving up before the crush of openings to make the Tony Awards cutoff date of April 28, one more musical has been added to the mix, though it …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:54AMMonday, March 7, 2016
It was only a few seasons back that Rocky Balboa made his Broadway debut in a very expensive and not too terrible musical based on the movie about the Phillie beefsteak with a mug’s he…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:14PMEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer that piqued the creepy-loving part of our brain: A teaser for the world premiere of Pet at the SXSW Film Fest on Friday at midnight. Directed and produced b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PM 
