Sunday, March 23, 2025
“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” a musical remake from director Bill Condon and star Jennifer Lopez, is finally close to finding a buyer after its buzzy Sundance Film Festival premiere in Jan…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:47PMDisney executives might feel more aligned with the dwarves known as Grumpy or Bashful rather than one called Happy after a Sleepy box office start for “Snow White.” The studio’s live-a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:22PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Don’t cry for Rachel Zegler. As has been rumored for some time, the actor will make her West End debut in a revival of “Evita,” Variety has confirmed. “Evita” is being directed by …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:21AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
When you wish upon a shooting star, you might just end up with an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature. At least, that’s what happens in the first full-length trailer for Disney’s “…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PM“Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” a sequel to the 1984 music mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” will rock and roll into theaters this fall. Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo brought Oz to the Oscars, kicking off the 97th annual ceremony with a musical medley from “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Wiz” and “Wicked.” After a trib…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34PMMonday, February 24, 2025
Jane Fonda is urging Hollywood to fight these fraught times with empathy. “What we, actors, create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AMTuesday, February 18, 2025
Broadway favorite Sutton Foster will portray the late country music icon Loretta Lynn in the upcoming stage adaptation of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Sam Gold, the Tony-winning “Fun Hom…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMSunday, February 9, 2025
“Mufasa” is still showing box office strength, with the photorealistic “Lion King” prequel clearing $671 million in global ticket sales. Over the weekend, the film added another $8.5…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:58PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone help plan a sham wedding in the first trailer for “The Wedding Banquet,” a modern retelling of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer comedy of errors. Set in Seattle, “T…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:40PMMonday, January 27, 2025
Jennifer Lopez, outfitted in sparkling, webbed-up gown and sky-high black heels, fought back tears as “Kiss of the Spider Woman” was embraced at Sundance Film Festival with a standing ov…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:26AMTuesday, January 21, 2025
It’s a Broadway smash! It, of course, refers to “Bombshell,” the fictional musical-within-a-musical at the center of “Smash,” a new stage adaptation of the beloved cult favorite, m…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMSunday, January 19, 2025
Heading into the long weekend, Universal’s “Wolf Man” reboot was projected to climb to No. 1 on domestic box office charts. Yet Sony’s “One of Them Days,” an R-rated buddy comedy…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:35PM“Moana 2,” originally conceived as a television show for streaming, is officially a billion-dollar box office smash. The animated sequel has generated $445 million domestically and $56…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:35PMSunday, January 12, 2025
Two Disney tentpoles, “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Moana 2,” are crossing major box office milestones. “Mufasa” has surpassed $500 million globally after four weeks of release, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMFriday, January 10, 2025
“Wicked” is “very very popular” — on the big screen, and now on video-on-demand. In a rare display of transparency for downstream revenues, Universal reported the big-budget musica…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37PMTuesday, January 7, 2025
Disney’s head of theatrical distribution Tony Chambers is leaving his current role to serve as president of the Walt Disney Company in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will replace J…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMThursday, January 2, 2025
Not even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights.…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMMonday, December 30, 2024
Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” and Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” are duking it out for first place at the North American box office with each of the family friendly films …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28AMUniversal’s “Wicked” is officially the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in global box office history, overtaking 2008’s “Mamma Mia” to notch the harmonious milestone. “Wick…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
“Hold on to Me Darling,” an Off Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play starring Adam Driver, has recouped its initial investment. The show was capitalized at $1.8 million. During …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2024
“Grey’s Anatomy” actor T.R. Knight is returning to Broadway in “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a stage play based on the massive Netflix television series. The show, which ope…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMTuesday, December 3, 2024
Mattel is being sued for mistakenly printing the URL for a pornographic site on the packaging for special-edition “Wicked” dolls. According to court documents, a South Carolina resident …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM“GLOW” actor Betty Gilpin is replacing Cole Escola in “Oh, Mary!” on Broadway. Escola, who wrote and starred in the deranged comedy since it debuted Off Broadway in January, is depar…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:10AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
“Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were paid the same amount for leading the movie musical, Universal Pictures said in a rare statement on such a matter, to dispel online rum…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58PMMonday, November 25, 2024
So if you care to find “Wicked,” look… just about anywhere. You’d have to be flattened by a farmhouse to miss the “Wicked” promotional onslaught. From Starbucks drinks (Elphaba c…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMCole Escola’s unconventional smash “Oh, Mary!” has recouped its entire production costs on Broadway. The play, capitalized at $4.5 million, is the first show of the 2024-25 season to d…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, November 21, 2024
Marla Mindelle, the star of Off Broadway’s Golden Age fantasia “The Big Gay Jamboree,” gets anxiety during every performance. Sure, the delightfully ridiculous show — in which she pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Moviegoers can channel their inner Glinda and Elphaba during sing-along screenings of “Wicked.” But they’ll have to wait. Interactive showings of Universal’s upcoming movie musical w…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PMSunday, November 10, 2024
Jon M. Chu had a pretty good excuse for missing the premiere of “Wicked.” The director of the two-part musical epic couldn’t make the starry Los Angeles event because his wife gave bir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06PMThursday, November 7, 2024
Delia Ephron invented a term — discardia — for indulging without guilt at New York City’s too-many tempting eateries. “It’s a game you play with yourself. You can buy anything you …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:22PM 
