Thursday, April 3, 2025
Disney has put the live-action version of the 2010 animated hit “Tangled” on hold, according to sources. The story based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Rapunzel was in active develo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51PMSunday, March 2, 2025
David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to become a lounge singer under the name Buster Poindexter and act in films such as “S…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:12PMWednesday, December 4, 2024
Marvin Laird, the award-winning Broadway and film composer who also conducted concerts for big stars like Diana Ross and Bernadette Peters, died Monday in Connecticut from natural causes. He…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:42PMSunday, December 1, 2024
Marshall Brickman, who won an Oscar for writing “Annie Hall” alongside Woody Allen and also collaborated with him on “Sleeper,” “Manhattan” and “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” di…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:10AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, the home of the Academy Awards ceremony, has been sold to Jebs Hollywood Entertainment, led by Elie Samaha. The acquisition of the 3,400 seat theater was announc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Patti Yasutake, who was a regular on “Beef” and played Nurse Alyssa Ogawa on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” died Aug. 5 in Santa Monica of cancer. She was 70. Her manager Kyle Fri…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PMSunday, July 21, 2024
Westwood Village’s Bruin Theatre and Fox Village Theatre will screen their last films — for now — on Thursday as Regency Theatres’ lease comes to an end at the two historic Los Angel…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13PMFriday, February 2, 2024
Don Murray, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance opposite Marilyn Monroe in the 1956 film adaptation of William Inge’s play “Bus Stop,” has died. He was 94. His son Chr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:23PMSaturday, December 30, 2023
Maurice Hines, an actor, dancer and choreographer who starred with his brother Gregory Hines in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” died Friday. He was 80. Friends including Debb…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:29PMFriday, December 8, 2023
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal, who came to prominence on TV’s “Peyton Place” and became a top star of the 1970s in films including “Love Story,” “What’s Up, Doc?,” “P…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Frances Sternhagen, a Tony-winning actress with many decades on the stage and screen, died Monday of natural causes in New Rochelle, N.Y. Her son Tony Carlin confirmed her death to the New Y…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Ned Eisenberg, a stage and screen actor who played defense attorney Roger Kressler on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Detective Hauser in “Mare of Easttown,” has died. He…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMThursday, January 13, 2022
Theater, film and television writer-director Robert Allan Ackerman died Jan. 10. He was 77. Nominated twice for Golden Globes and five times for Emmys, Ackerman also received numerous theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PMSaturday, April 10, 2021
Chief film critic Peter Debruge took the trophy for theater criticism for several works: Isabelle Huppert and Dimitris Papaioannou in Paris,’ ‘A Play Is a Poem,’ ‘The Night Before Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
George Segal, whose long career included playing Albert “Pops” Solomon on “The Goldbergs,” and garnering an Oscar nom for supporting actor for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:41PMFriday, March 12, 2021
Liza Minnelli was born into show business royalty on March 12, 1946, and pressed into service onstage at the tender age of 14 months by her singer mother Judy Garland and director father Vin…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AMSunday, January 17, 2021
James Earl Jones, who turns 90 on Jan. 17, has one of the most famous voices of all time — not just as Darth Vader and Mufasa, but as the voice of CNN and hundreds of other programs. But t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMFriday, January 15, 2021
Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch and Alisha Weir will join Netflix’s musical adaptation of the beloved children’s story “Matilda,” directed by Matthew Warchus. Thompson will play Miss Tr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07AMPeter Mark Richman, who made numerous film and TV appearances including recurring roles in “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Three’s Company,” and toplined the early 1960s series “Cain�…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07AMBob Iger and Willow Bay will be donating $5 million to small businesses throughout Los Angeles that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday. “We…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
The 73rd Tony awards are under way in Manhattan. Winners in each category are bolded. Best Musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations Beetlejuice Hadestown The Prom …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMFriday, April 19, 2019
Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam” in the 1942 Oscar-winning classic “Casablanca.” In fact, no one says it in the movie. And the mysterious voice in the adored 1989 fan…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Director Michael Lehmann was shocked when he looked at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times entertainment sections and saw there were no ads for the second week of dark high school comed…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:59PMFriday, March 22, 2019
Barbra Streisand only met Michael Jackson a few times, but she definitely has some opinions about his alleged molestation of several young boys. Streisand shared her thoughts with the Times …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
There was only one Carol Channing, and her outsize personality was a source of delight to many fans — and imitators. Gerard Alessandrini’s stage spoof “Forbidden Broadway” had ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Lady Gaga was among the many entertainment figures who had to evacuate during the catastrophic Woolsey fire a week ago, and she still hasn’t been able to return to her house. Though ev…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Craig Zadan and his producing partner, Neil Meron, are responsible for one of the most meaningful professional experiences in my career. They brought the magic of Broadway to primetime telev…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the arrogant surgeon Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on “MASH,” died Saturday. He was 75. His agent, Mitchell K. Stubbs, tweet…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:38PMFriday, December 15, 2017
With Fox and Disney announcing their anticipated multi-billion dollar mega-merger on Thursday, the movie industry is poised to experience the impact of consolidation and potential ripples to…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMThursday, December 14, 2017
Movies weren’t yet talkies and the headquarters were located in New Jersey when Fox Film was founded in 1915. William Fox couldn’t have imagined that his modest film company woul…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMFriday, November 24, 2017
Before Disney’s animated blockbuster “Aladdin” had its premiere in Japan, directors Ron Clements and John Musker were told not to worry if the audience didn’t laugh. And it wasn�…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM 
