Wednesday, August 3, 2016
STX Entertainment has backed away from financing Barbra Streisand’s remake of “Gypsy” with Barry Levinson directing and Joel Silver producing. STX had no comment about the project.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15PMThursday, July 28, 2016
Sony is in talks with Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn to write the screenplay for the movie reboot of “Charlie’s Angels.” Auburn’s play “Proof” won the 2001 Pulit…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49AMMonday, July 18, 2016
Paramount has given an awards-season December release to Denzel Washington’s “Fences” with a limited opening in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 16 and a wide release on De…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07PMSaturday, July 16, 2016
“Hamilton” co-star Daveed Diggs is in talks to join Julia Roberts, Jacob Tremblay and Owen Wilson in Lionsgate’s drama “Wonder.” Diggs, who departed the Broadway production…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Misty Copeland is joining Disney’s “Nutcracker” movie project and will play the lead ballerina role in the sole dance sequence in the film. She made the announcement via he…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PMSunday, July 10, 2016
Michelle Williams is in talks to join Hugh Jackman in the P.T. Barnum biopic “The Greatest Showman on Earth.” The project has been in development since 2009 with Jackman attached. The co…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PMThursday, June 30, 2016
Paramount Pictures is developing a movie adaptation of “Clifford the Big Red Dog” — a live-action/CG hybrid. Paramount has tapped Justin Malen to write the screenplay abo…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
Gravitas Ventures has secured all worldwide rights to Aaron Tveit’s dating comedy “Better Off Single,” Variety has learned exclusively. Gravitas has set an Oct. 7 date for…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Fox is in negotiations with Zac Efron to join Hugh Jackman in the P.T. Barnum biopic “The Greatest Showman on Earth.” Fox had no comment on Efron’s possible attachment. The project…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:54PMFriday, June 10, 2016
Jon M. Chu is in early talks to direct The Weinstein Co.’s movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. Chu has…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
BBC Worldwide North America has acquired U.S. rights to the musical thriller “London Road,” starring Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman and Anita Dobson. The film, directed by Rufus Norris…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:26PMMonday, June 6, 2016
DreamWorks has hired Krysty Wilson-Cairns to write the screenplay for its adaptation of Gay Talese’s “The Voyeur’s Motel” with Sam Mendes directing and producing. Steven Spie…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35PMFriday, June 3, 2016
Staffers at Minnesota Public Radio have voted to join performers union SAG-AFTRA, with 39 voting yes and 17 voting no, along with 18 challenges. The new bargaining unit will cover employees …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46AMThursday, June 2, 2016
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers have reached a deal for a new three-year successor agreement to their master …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
The Weinstein Company is in development on a movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” which won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical. Miranda is prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:34PMThursday, May 26, 2016
Disney has acquired the feature film rights to Tony Cliff’s graphic novel series “Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant.” The studio is developing a live-action film with…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:25PMJake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories and Bold Films are bringing Jo Nesbo’s crime novel “The Son” to the big screen. “Sicario” director Denis Villeneuve is atta…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:55PMMonday, May 23, 2016
The Orchard has acquired all North American rights to Julia Hart’s directorial debut “Miss Stevens,” starring Lily Rabe in the title role. Rabe (“American Horror Story…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PMDisney has released the first trailer for its live-action “Beauty and the Beast” with just a glimpse of Emma Watson as Belle arriving at the Beast’s castle, saying “H…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:13PMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Brenda Chapman, who directed the Academy Award-winning animated film “Brave,” will make her live-action directing debut in “Come Away,” a prequel to “Alice in W…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMThursday, May 5, 2016
Tom Hooper will direct and produce a movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” for Universal and Working Title. Producers are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Lionsgate has moved its “My Little Pony” movie forward from November 3, 2017, to Oct. 6, 2017, and dated Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society” for a July 15 limited laun…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
Rachel Leigh Cook, Paz De La Huerta, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe and Finn Whitrock are starring in a modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s D…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
Disney has given the Lupita Nyong’o chess drama “Queen of Katwe” an awards-season release date with a limited launch on Sept. 23, followed by a Sept. 30 expansion. “Q…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Momentum Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to the coming of age drama-comedy “Hard Sell,” starring Kristin Chenoweth, Katrina Bowden and Skyler Gisondo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:38PMFriday, February 19, 2016
Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Cross Creek Pictures are teaming with writer Tony Kushner to develop medical research drama “He Wanted the Moon.” The project is a co-production with…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in an untitled musical comedy for Universal. The studio outbid rivals in acquiring an untitled pitch for the project, based on an original i…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Fox has cast Megan Mullally in the Bryan Cranston-James Franco comedy “Why Him?” to portray the wife of Cranston’s character. John Hamburg is directing from a script he co-…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:38AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. The below-the-line union, which has about 125,000 members, cited …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:51AMSaturday, December 26, 2015
Thanks to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Disney’s total domestic gross for 2015 has passed the $2 billion milestone for the first time. Disney’s previous domestic re…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:29PM 
