Tuesday, September 18, 2018
AMC Theatres is launching “A Star Is Born” two days early for 7 p.m. shows on Oct. 2 at 115 of its Dolby Cinemas. AMC announced the promotion on Tuesday. The chain said ticket pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PMThursday, September 13, 2018
Major movie theater chains, including AMC, Regal, and Cinemark, began closures in the Carolinas as Hurricane Florence started battering the North Carolina coast with hurricane-force winds …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
John Carpenter’s original “Halloween” is returning to theaters beginning on Sept. 27 on more than 1,000 screens — three weeks before the reboot arrives. The announcem…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
The Producers Guild of America has already determined that Jon Peters is not part of the certified producing team for “A Star Is Born” and won’t be eligible for the PGAR…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PMFriday, September 7, 2018
AMC Theatres is bringing back Burt Reynolds’ 1977 comedy “Smokey and the Bandit” for a nine-day run as a tribute to the late actor, who died on Thursday. The chain announce…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMThursday, September 6, 2018
STX Entertainment has set a Jan. 11 release date for the comedy-drama “The Upside,” starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman. “The Upside” premiered a y…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:09PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation will present this year’s Artists Inspiration Awards to Harrison Ford and Lady Gaga at its third annual Patron of the Artists Awards. The event will be held on Nov.…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Hollywood studios are bidding for the movie rights to a recorded version of a live performance of the smash hit musical “Hamilton,” with the price as much as $50 million, accordi…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:50PMThursday, July 19, 2018
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will make his feature film directorial debut with “Tick, Tick…Boom!” for Imagine Entertainment. The movie will be based on…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:22PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Denzel Washington offered a bemused reaction as to why Sony’s “The Equalizer 2” was his first sequel. “People keep talking about it, but it’s not that big a dea…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PMThursday, June 28, 2018
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) has named Ellis Jacob, president and CEO of Cineplex, as chairman. NATO made the announcement on Thursday. Its executive board also filled t…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:38PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
AMC Theatres is aiming a shot across the bow at MoviePass, saying its new monthly movie subscription plan, which goes into effect Tuesday, is “simple and sustainable.” The world&…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Lucy Liu and Thomas Sadoski will star in the independent romantic drama “The Last Weekend in May” from director Matthew Lillard. Producers Gabriela Revilla Lugo of Revek Entertai…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMThursday, June 7, 2018
Warner Bros. has set a June 26, 2020, release date for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. Warner Bros. won a bidding war for…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Bradley Cooper falls in love with Lady Gaga in Warner Bros.’ first trailer for its remake of “A Star Is Born.” Cooper, who also directed, stars as veteran singer Jackson Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:34PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Warner Bros. has won the bidding war over several other studios for the movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights,” which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, and Dylan Gelula have joined the cast of Bow and Arrow Entertainment’s music drama “Her Smell,” starring Elisabeth M…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Fathom Events is adding more than 200 theaters to its live digital broadcast network in North America over the next 12 to 18 months, Variety has learned exclusively. Fathom, which is jointly…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMMonday, April 16, 2018
John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, and Paul Walter Hauser have joined the cast of Mindy Kaling’s comedy “Late Night,” directed by Nisha Ganatra. The film stars Kaling an…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07PMDomhnall Gleeson is in final talks to join Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, and Melissa McCarthy in the mob drama “The Kitchen” for New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment. “S…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:50PMThursday, March 29, 2018
In today’s film news roundup, Margo Martindale becomes a mob boss, Kevin Tsujihara is selected as a commencement speaker and the homeless woman project “Landing Up” gets di…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22PMMonday, March 19, 2018
Elisabeth Moss will star with Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in the mob drama “The Kitchen” for New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment. “Straight Outta Compton” writer Andrea Ber…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMThursday, March 1, 2018
Variety and iHeartMedia have announced a joint venture to co-produce “Playback,” a film-focused podcast hosted by Variety Awards Editor Kristopher Tapley, and relaunch the weekly…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, February 23, 2018
SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris has blasted a federal judge’s recent ruling barring California’s legislation requiring that subscription entertainment database sites remove an…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:04PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Lupita Nyong’o will star in the Trevor Noah biopic “Born a Crime,” portraying the mother of the host of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.” The movie is an adaptatio…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:15PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Bette Midler and Sharon Stone are starring in a movie version of the play “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” Andy Fickman, whose credits include “Parental Guidance&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:03PMSunday, February 11, 2018
SAG-AFTRA has released a “Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment” instructing its 160,000 members how to deal with the issue. The union made the announcement Saturday night follo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32AMMonday, January 29, 2018
In today’s film news roundup, Brandon Routh will star in “Anastasia,” a Chuck Berry documentary is in production, and “Birthright” is in the works as a feature …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37PMSony has hired Oscar-nominated writer Virgil Williams to adapt Dana Canedy’s “A Journal for Jordan” into a film. Todd Black from Escape Artists is producing with Denzel Was…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMElisabeth Moss will produce and star in Bow and Arrow Entertainment’s “Her Smell,” with Alex Ross Perry directing from his own script. Moss will lead an ensemble cast and p…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMKaya 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 11:15AM 
