Thursday, May 29, 2025
The largest crew union in New York was hit with a class action lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that it has excluded hundreds of film and TV workers while reserving jobs for insiders. Ronald Bis…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PMFriday, May 9, 2025
After a monthlong delay, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved a state budget that expands the film subsidy to $800 million. The state is facing a downturn in production work, and competit…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
A jury on Monday sided with Disney in a copyright trial involving “Moana,” clearing the company of an infringement suit brought by a screenwriter. The plaintiff, Buck Woodall, filed suit…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMMonday, February 17, 2025
Harvey Weinstein, who is jailed at Rikers Island and in failing health while he awaits his third rape trial, has filed an unusual lawsuit accusing his brother of siphoning funds from their c…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:12PMFriday, July 9, 2021
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office told a judge on Wednesday that it is ready to bring Harvey Weinstein to trial within four months on charges of rape and sexual assault. We…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
AMC is close to taking over the Pacific Theatres locations at two popular Los Angeles shopping malls, a source confirmed to Variety on Tuesday. Pacific Theatres, founded in 1946, announced i…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PMOn April 12, Pacific Theatres issued a terse, five-sentence statement announcing that it would not reopen its theaters, which include the much-loved ArcLight Cinemas chain. On one level, it …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:05PMWednesday, June 2, 2021
The California Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that encourages film and TV productions to diversify the entertainment workforce. The bill creates an incentive for productions to hire the g…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:23AMWednesday, May 26, 2021
SAG-AFTRA made it official on Wednesday, appointing longtime general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland as the group’s new national executive director. Crabtree-Ireland takes over for David W…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMMonday, May 24, 2021
Harvey Weinstein is still fighting his extradition to Los Angeles to face rape and sexual assault charges, as his attorney filed a second motion on Monday claiming that the paperwork is out …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59PMThursday, May 6, 2021
Harvey Weinstein wants his money back. The imprisoned producer — who is awaiting extradition to Los Angeles — filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Jose Baez, one of several lawyers who b…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:11AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Since reopening at the end of 2020, movie theaters have been trying to keep patrons safe from COVID-19 by disinfecting after every screening. They bought up misters and foggers, along with u…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PMTuesday, May 4, 2021
Michael Jackson’s image was worth just $4 million at the time of his death in 2009, a U.S. tax court judge ruled on Monday, far below the $161 million valuation sought by the IRS. The ruli…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
The owner of the Santa Monica Place mall has filed a lawsuit seeking to evict the ArcLight Theatre for non-payment of rent. Macerich, the real estate investment trust that owns the mall, ser…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Endeavor has set a share price of $24, the final step before the media conglomerate goes public on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The company had previously announced that it would…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:03PMFriday, April 23, 2021
Novelist Michael Chabon has issued a lengthy apology for not speaking up sooner about producer Scott Rudin’s abuses, saying that he witnessed Rudin mistreat his staff but kept quiet about …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Scott Rudin has had a public reputation as an abusive boss for decades. But this week, for the first time, he began to experience some consequences for it. A24 let it be known that it was c…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
In the wake of Kevin Graham-Caso’s suicide last October, his friends pored over his old emails, looking for answers. Klodiana Alia found one from 2009, when Graham-Caso was working as an a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:16AMTuesday, April 13, 2021
The workers at the ArcLight Hollywood have been on furlough for more than a year, and have been waiting eagerly for the venue to reopen. On Monday, they got word that the theater would remai…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PMMonday, April 12, 2021
Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys objected on Monday to the paperwork submitted to seek his extradition to face sex assault and rape charges in Los Angeles. A judge in Buffalo, N.Y., set an Apr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMFriday, February 5, 2021
Former president Donald Trump has resigned from SAG-AFTRA, after the union announced last month that it would move to expel him for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. SAG-AFTRA anno…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PMMonday, January 25, 2021
Nearly three years after the Weinstein Co. declared bankruptcy, a judge on Monday confirmed a liquidation plan that provides a $17.1 million fund for Weinstein’s sexual misconduct victims.…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
SAG-AFTRA said Tuesday that it will consider expelling President Donald Trump from membership over his role in inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago. Union president Gabriell…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PMMonday, December 14, 2020
An appeals court on Monday handed a victory to the estate of Michael Jackson in its battle over the 2019 HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which accused the late singer of sexually ab…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:47PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
A New York State appeals court on Thursday unanimously upheld a judge’s decision to bar the public from a critical hearing in the Harvey Weinstein rape case. On April 26, Justice James Bur…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15AMFriday, April 5, 2019
After 47 years, the Aretha Franklin concert documentary “Amazing Grace” finally arrives in theaters Friday. Alan Elliott has told the story of how he rescued the unreleased footage from …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
A Los Angeles city councilman proposed on Wednesday that the city require movie theaters and sports venues to serve vegan food. The law would make Los Angeles the first city in the nation to…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:38PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Howard Kagan, the Broadway producer who placed a Hail Mary bid for the Weinstein Co. on Tuesday, told Variety that he was shut out of the process because the company refused to turn over inf…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PMThe Weinstein Co. declared Tuesday afternoon that Lantern Capital was the winning bidder in its bankruptcy sale, turning away a late bid from Broadway producer Howard Kagan. The company anno…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:45PMThe Weinstein Co. sale is not settled yet, as a second buyer submitted a late bid for the company on Tuesday. A source told Variety that the bidder is Howard Kagan, a former partner at Harbi…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
The son of playwright Paul Zindel filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that “The Shape of Water” was based on Zindel’s 1969 play, “Let Me Hear You Whisper.” Da…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM 
