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The Olivier Awards will be available to stream on Britbox this year, alongside its regular UK broadcast on ITV1. The Olivier Awards will take place on Sunday, April 14, and will be available…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:37AMThursday, March 21, 2019
The BBC and Masterpiece adaptation of “Les Miserables” will play on a numerous international channels after a raft of deals were sealed for the series, which features Dominic West, David…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
“Frozen” the musical is coming to London and will open in the West End in fall 2020. The Michael Grandage-directed Disney Theatrical Productions stage show has been on Broadway for a yea…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Toni Collette (“Hereditary”) is set to star as Jan, a woman who starts a racing syndicate in her small Welsh village and attempts to raise a champion racehorse, in “Dream Horse.” Dam…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Broadcasters around the world have acquired “Leaving Neverland,” the Channel 4 and HBO documentary about alleged abuse by the pop superstar. Kew Media Distribution is selling the two-par…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:13AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Cornerstone Films has boarded sales on Josephine Decker’s “Shirley,” the psychological drama starring Elisabeth Moss as famed horror author Shirley Jackson, whose “The Haunting o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08AMElisabeth Moss and Susan Sarandon have signed on for “Call Jane,” set in the U.S. in the 1960s and following an underground abortion movement. Sian Heder (“Tallulah”) will helm the p…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27AMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Brits don’t just like going to the movies; they’re heading to the theater in greater numbers than before, too. “Hamilton” and other hits, particularly musicals, helped drive an u…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:57AMMonday, September 10, 2018
In its latest big-screen move, curated streaming service MUBI has landed U.K. theatrical rights to Gus Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.” The deal comes on the hee…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47AMFriday, August 31, 2018
Ariana Grande is returning to the BBC and will perform songs from her latest album and earlier hits in a one-hour special. It will be filmed September 7 and go out on BBC One this fall. Gran…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Having scooped awards for its West End and Broadway runs, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will premiere in Germany in 2020, marking the first non-English-language production of the h…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:43AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Vue International is buying Cinema3D in Poland and Showtime in Ireland, adding 16 sites to its portfolio. The deal will take Vue Entertainment in the U.K. and Ireland to 89 sites and 855 scr…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13AMMonday, April 23, 2018
Event cinema specialist Trafalgar Releasing has recruited Kymberli Frueh who will join its North American operation as senior VP, programming and acquisitions. Frueh is well-versed in event …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:29AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Laura Linney will make her London theater debut in June in “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” the stage play adapted from the Elizabeth Strout novel of the same name. Theater veteran Richard Eyre…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17AMMonday, January 8, 2018
The U.K. box office saw its highest-grossing year ever in 2017, fueled strongly by Disney films, three of which landed in the top five. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which is still on rele…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24AMFriday, December 22, 2017
The London stage production of “An American in Paris” will light up the big screen around the world next year. Trafalgar Releasing has landed theatrical rights to the West End musical, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, December 7, 2017
YouTube’s strategy of working up original programming from international markets moved a step forward Thursday with the appointment of Luke Hyams as the first head of originals for the EME…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PMFriday, November 10, 2017
The head of London’s Old Vic theater said Friday that she would never have hired Kevin Spacey if she had been aware of concerns about his behavior and that no complaints about him were…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:33PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
London’s Old Vic theater said Tuesday that it was deeply dismayed by the allegations of sexual misconduct against Kevin Spacey, who was theater’s artistic director from 2004 to 2015.…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Aaron Sorkin will receive the Career Achievement Award at this year’s Zurich Film Festival. “The Newsroom” scribe will be in town accept the accolade and present his directorial debut,…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMThe hotly anticipated West End run of “Hamilton” has been delayed by two weeks because renovation work on London’s Victoria Palace Theater is taking longer than expected, the play&…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:17AMThursday, August 3, 2017
Former Disney chief Michael Eisner has joined the elite ranks of English soccer team owners, completing a deal for Portsmouth Football Club through his Tornante investment group. Eisner’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:17AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
The need for recognizable properties, writers, and talent is more important than ever to cut through the thousands of hours of scripted TV out there. Getting the right rights, the right writ…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:09PMFriday, June 2, 2017
The world’s leading social media networks are all set to live-stream Ariana Grande’s upcoming One Love benefit concert. The event will be streamed on the main Twitter site as well as via…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMABC will air Ariana Grande’s One Love benefit concert Sunday, one of a host of international broadcasters that have signed up to air the live event dedicated to helping victims of the …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
U.K. broadcaster ITV has moved the upcoming finale of “Britain’s Got Talent” to avoid a clash with TV coverage of Ariana Grande’s “One Love Manchester” benefit concer…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Ariana Grande’s scheduled concerts in Europe through June 5 — including two in London on Thursday and Friday — have been canceled in the wake of the deadly terrorist bombi…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:11PMThe O2 arena, one of London’s most popular entertainment venues, said Wednesday that Ariana Grande’s scheduled concerts this week could still go on as planned – although ti…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:18AM 
