58 stories by "Andrew McGowan"
"Wicked: For Good" is flying its broomsticks and bubble chairs into homes, as the musical blockbuster will become available to stream on Peacock on March 20. It will include a sing-along ver…
Marissa Bode, the actress who made her feature film debut playing Nessarose Thropp in "Wicked" and reprised the part in "Wicked: For Good," has found her next role. She will play a mycologic…
GLAAD has unveiled the nominees for its 37th annual GLAAD Media Awards, with Variety securing two noms for outstanding print article (awards editor Clayton Davis' emotional intervie…
"Hamnet" and "The Testament of Ann Lee" screened during this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival, and following each of the films, directors Chloé Zhao and Mona Fastvold, as wel…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers for the series finale of "Stranger Things," now streaming on Netflix. After five seasons and nearly a decade of anticipation, the "Stranger Thi…
Jovan Adepo has been having a busy year. He's hopped around the world filming for Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," and now he's back in Europe working on the second season of Netflix's "3 …
The award-winning documentary "Who in the Hell Is Regina Jones?" will have its television premiere across three Weigel Broadcasting-owned channels simultaneously. The film will air concurren…
Awards season is upon us, as the nominees for the 83rd annual Golden Globes will be revealed on the morning of Monday, Dec. 8. All 28 categories will be announced at 8:15 a.m. ET/5:15 a.m. P…
Drag superstars The Boulet Brothers are getting ready to spook the holiday season. "The Boulet Brothers' Holiday of Horrors," their new anthology of four original shorts, will premiere on Sh…
Tuesday, November 25 Education Through Music-Los Angeles is set to honor songwriter Diane Warren. It will host the 20th Year Benefit Gala at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Ja…
While shooting "The Smashing Machine," Dwayne Johnson pitched himself to join co-star Emily Blunt in "The Devil Wears Prada 2" as a character "who knew fashion" and "was cool." Johnson and B…
Eddie Murphy has been selected to receive the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award. The American Film Institute will honor him at a gala tribute at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on April 18. Con…
Over a Zoom call with author Katherine Center about Netflix's upcoming adaptation of her bestselling novel "The Bodyguard," lead actors Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki called on the rea…
"KPop Demon Hunters," "Wicked," "Sinners" and "F1" were among the honorees at the 16th Hollywood Music in Media Awards on Nov. 19 at The Avalon in Hollywood. "KPop Demon Hunters" took home t…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers "Amsterdam Empire" now streaming on Netflix. Even though Famke Janssen was born in the Netherlands, she began acting only when she moved to the…
Timothée Chalamet and Adam Sandler joined for a conversation about their careers and crafts in the Fairfax High School gymnasium in Los Angeles, where Chalamet praised Sandler as "one of th…
Glen Powell is known for his confident charisma and star power, but early in his career, he found himself so starstruck by Dustin Hoffman that he bombed a script reading with the legendary a…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers from Season 1, Episode 3 of "It: Welcome to Derry," now streaming on HBO Max. When Chris Chalk first appeared in Episode 2 of HBO's "It: Welcom…
Although it has been a few years since actor-comedian Pete Davidson was last seen on "Saturday Night Live," he recently said that if series creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels aske…
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the non-profit organization that provides assistance and education to actors, has established the Diane Ladd Fund to help performers in need of critical health and …
Ethan Hawke had a memorable first visit to Miami on Nov. 2, where he accepted the Miami Film Festival's Variety Virtuoso Award and sat down with Variety's co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh f…
Craig Thomas, the co-creator of "How I Met Your Mother" is now a novelist. His debut book, "That's Not How It Happened," releases Nov. 4 from Hanover Square Press. Told from four different p…
Julia Fox has received criticism for attending a Halloween party dressed as former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis on the day of her husband, President John F. Kennedy's assassination. The…
Tchéky Karyo, the French actor who starred in the BBC's "The Missing" and "Baptiste" and appeared in "La Femme Nikita," "Addicted to Love," "Bad Boys" and "GoldenEye," died of cancer on Oct…
If you've ever wondered what happened to Alice after she grew up and left Wonderland, or had a sneaking suspicion that the Lewis Carroll fantasy takes place in the same universe as "Peter Pa…