Monday, April 4, 2016
The 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[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
“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 10:52AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Before 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 09:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Rupert 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 03:02PM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2015
George 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 03:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
The 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 02:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
She 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 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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 years…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:23PM[SHARE]Walt 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Women 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 01:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
Canadian 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 01:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Cablevision, 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 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Police 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 01:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
Broadway 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 03:41PM[SHARE]Broadway 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 03:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2015
Walt 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 03:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
MovieTickets.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 10:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
J.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[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
“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 09:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 1, 2015
Without 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[SHARE]Sunday, December 28, 2014
“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 11:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
John 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 05:47PM[SHARE]Mike 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[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
“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 12:20PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
MovieTickets.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 11:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
Roger 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 11:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
At 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[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
“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 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2014
The 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 08:54PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
A 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 05:23PM[SHARE] 
