EXCLUSIVE: When Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted the news Monday that the movie adaptation of his groundbreaking Broadway show Hamilton was set for release by Disney in fall 2021, he omitted one o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:04PMEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Spike Lee has signed on to direct a filmed version of the acclaimed Broadway show David Byrne’s American Utopia. Participant adds another title to its portfolio of�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10PMA24, IAC and Scott Rudin and Eli Bush are producing a film adaptation of the four-time Tony-winning play The Humans by Stephen Karam. Beanie Feldstein, Jayne Houdyshell (reprising her Tony-w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:09AMEXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is closing a $50 million deal to score film rights to In the Heights, the Tony-winning musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes. The property been the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:27PMEXCLUSIVE: Gary Lennon has signed on to write the book for a new untitled stage musical informed by the professional and personal accomplishments of rock stars Pat Benatar and her guitarist/…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AMEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set Ritesh Batra to direct Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in Our Souls At Night, an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel. Batra is best known for directing The Lunchbox…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PMEXCLUSIVE: Jason Moore, the Pitch Perfect helmer whose Universal comedy Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opens December 18, has just closed a deal for what he hopes will be his next fil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:37PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and author Frank D. Gilroy died last night from natural causes at age 89. Gilroy leaves behind his wife Ruth of 62 years, his three …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:49PMEXCLUSIVE: Dan Halsted's company Manage-ment has hired former CAA theater agent Corinne Hayoun to run its New York based headquarters. Hayoun spent eight years at CAA repping stage talent, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:49PMBREAKING: Exclusive Media Group chairman Guy East and Nigel Sinclair are teaming with Cross Creek Pictures president Brian Oliver to finance The Ides of March, the drama that is based on the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:58PMJohn Leguizamo, who launched his career writing and performing one-man stage shows, has transferred that voice to the big screen. Leguizamo just wrapped Fugly!, a comedy he wrote and stars i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:58PMEXCLUSIVE: To get to Tony Danza's dressing room at the Nederlander Theatre, where he stars in the new Broadway musical Honeymoon in Vegas, you walk a corridor that circles the perimeter of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PMUpdates with more information: Here's a clip from the docu Jane, in which a not yet famous Jane Fonda readies for her Broadway bow as a star in The Fun Couple. Although she'd appeared on Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22AMHere, Nichols discusses a play which wears out its cast nightly but clearly has reinvigorated its director.
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PMI’m hearing that Warner Brothers Theatrical Ventures is in for a major shakeup, one that will put former studio chief Alan Horn atop the studio’s theatricals division.
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:11PMEXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the playwright and comic book writer who was brought on to rewrite and hopefully save Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, has booked several projects…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:55AMEXCLUSIVE: In its first original project for the stage, Kennedy/Marshall has optioned Columbine, the 2009 book by journalist Dave Cullen. First published in 2009, the book won the Edgar Awar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:54AMArthur Laurents, one of the great Broadway writers and directors and best known for West Side Story, Gypsy and the film The Way We Were, has passed away. He was 93 and died in his sleep.
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