When the lights go up on Broadway, “Mean Girls” won’t be returning to the stage. Producers announced Thursday that the musical, based on Tina Fey’s modern cult classic, will not reop…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMParamount Pictures is getting in on the business of Monty Python. The studio has acquired “Spamalot,” the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The film was previously s…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMBryan Cranston took a moment to get political during Sunday night’s Tony Awards, blasting the president’s stance on the state of journalism. “The media is not the enemy of the people. …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AM“Hadestown” director Rachel Chavkin, who won her first Tony Award on Sunday night, used her acceptance speech to make a call for greater diversity and representation on Broadway. “Ther…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMHakuna Matata, indeed. Disney debuted all-new footage of the highly anticipated remake at CinemaCon, the annual exhibition trade show in Las Vegas. The roughly five minute clip followed a yo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:08PMJennifer Hudson delivered an anthemic rendition of “Memory” to cap Universal Pictures’ CinemaCon presentation on Wednesday. Universal and Working Title didn’t release any footage fro…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:31PMDisney’s “Dumbo” had an underwhelming liftoff at the domestic box office. Tim Burton’s live-action remake of the 1941 cartoon debuted with $45 million from 4,259 North American theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMDisney’s upcoming adaptation of “Dumbo” is taking flight this weekend. Directed by Tim Burton, the studio’s live-action re-imagining of the 1941 cartoon is expected to earn roughly $…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMYou ain’t never had a friend like Will Smith’s Genie. Disney released the first full-length trailer for the studio’s live-action remake of “Aladdin,” starring Smith as the Genie, M…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:27AMElsa, I have a feeling we’re not in Arendelle anymore. Everyone’s favorite ice queen is braving a new element in the newest teaser trailer for Disney’s “Frozen 2,R…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19AM“BlacKkKlansman,” Spike Lee’s crime drama about a black detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, is heading back to theaters after picking up six Oscar nominations. The …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:10PMThanks to the smash successes of “Aquaman,” “A Star Is Born,” and “The Meg,” Warner Bros. capped off 2018 with a new milestone. The studio had its biggest…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:18AMReports of the death of movies are greatly exaggerated. The exhibition business came roaring back in 2018, as blockbusters such as “Black Panther,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PMThe wait never bothered us anyway, but “Frozen” fans will get to see Anna and Elsa back on the big screen a little sooner than expected. Disney announced “Frozen 2” h…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PM“Venom” remains a force to be reckoned with overseas as the Tom Hardy superhero movie topped the foreign box office for the third weekend in a row. Sony’s “Venom̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMLady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, and Tom Hardy are injecting a little star-power into multiplexes. Following a lackluster September at the box office, “Venom” and “A Star Is Born…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:19PMOctober should start strong as two releases targeting vastly different audiences will open at the box office. One stars a shocking otherworldly being. The other is “Venom.” Early…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:50PMSamantha Barks didn’t watch Julia Roberts and Richard Gere’s iconic “Pretty Woman” in preparation for her starring role in the new Broadway musical adaptation of the …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PMKeri Russell is Broadway bound. The award-winning actress is joining Adam Driver in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.” Tony Award winner Michael Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:24PMBryan Cranston will return to Broadway in his Olivier Award-winning role of Howard Beale in “Network.” Lee Hall and Ivo van Hove are adapting the play, which is based on the 1976…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12AMWhile introducing the first Tony nominee for best revival of a musical, “My Fair Lady,” Amy Schumer paused to throw some general shade at the state of women’s right in Amer…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04AMBroadway actress Ruthie Ann Blumstein, whose stage name is Ruthie Ann Miles, is in the hospital and her 4-year-old daughter Abigail has died after they were struck by a car in Brooklyn, acco…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMThe 90th Academy Awards are taking place on Sunday, honoring the best in film from the past year. Nominees to look out for include Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” which…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42PMDisneyland suffered a power outage on Wednesday afternoon, Variety has confirmed. At least a dozen rides and attractions appear to have been shut down at the Anaheim, Calif., park. According…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMVariety has tapped Aaron Sorkin for the 2018 creative impact in screenwriting award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The award will celebrate Sorkin’s prolific screenwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PMIn today’s roundup, Alice Cooper joins the cast of “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!,” while Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” announces a new Fab Five. CASTING Alice Coo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:56PMTwitter has released its top-trending topics and tweets of 2017, with Barack Obama and Ariana Grande dominating the most popular posts. The former president’s response to violence in …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AMGeraldo Rivera apologized to Bette Midler on Friday in the wake of recently resurfaced sexual harassment allegations against the Fox News contributor. Midler took to Twitter on Thursday to …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMCenter Theatre Group announced Wednesday that three Broadway productions have been added to its 2018-19 season at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PMChristopher Plummer has responded to the reveal that he will replace Kevin Spacey in Ridley Scott’s upcoming thriller “All the Money in the World.” In the wake of numerous…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PMLongtime Boston television journalist Heather Unruh has accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting her son at a Nantucket, Mass., bar last summer. During a press conference Wednesday, Unruh…
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