Warner Bros. has won the bidding war over several other studios for the movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "In the Heights," which won the 2008 Tony Award for best musical. The pr…
Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, and Dylan Gelula have joined the cast of Bow and Arrow Entertainment's music drama “Her Smell,” starring Elisabeth Mos…
Fathom Events is adding more than 200 theaters to its live digital broadcast network in North America over the next 12 to 18 months, Variety has learned exclusively. Fathom, which is jointly…
John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, and Paul Walter Hauser have joined the cast of Mindy Kaling’s comedy “Late Night,” directed by Nisha Ganatra. The film stars Kaling an…
Domhnall Gleeson is in final talks to join Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, and Melissa McCarthy in the mob drama “The Kitchen” for New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment. “S…
In today’s film news roundup, Margo Martindale becomes a mob boss, Kevin Tsujihara is selected as a commencement speaker and the homeless woman project “Landing Up” gets di…
Elisabeth Moss will star with Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in the mob drama "The Kitchen" for New Line Cinema and DC Entertainment. "Straight Outta Compton" writer Andrea Berloff wil…
Variety and iHeartMedia have announced a joint venture to co-produce “Playback,” a film-focused podcast hosted by Variety Awards Editor Kristopher Tapley, and relaunch the weekly…
SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris has blasted a federal judge’s recent ruling barring California's legislation requiring that subscription entertainment database sites remove an a…
Lupita Nyong'o will star in the Trevor Noah biopic “Born a Crime,” portraying the mother of the host of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.” The movie is an adaptation …
Bette Midler and Sharon Stone are starring in a movie version of the play “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” Andy Fickman, whose credits include “Parental Guidance&#…
SAG-AFTRA has released a “Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment” instructing its 160,000 members how to deal with the issue. The union made the announcement Saturday night fol…
In today’s film news roundup, Brandon Routh will star in “Anastasia,” a Chuck Berry documentary is in production, and “Birthright” is in the works as a feature …
Sony has hired Oscar-nominated writer Virgil Williams to adapt Dana Canedy’s “A Journal for Jordan” into a film. Todd Black from Escape Artists is producing with Denzel Was…
Elisabeth Moss will produce and star in Bow and Arrow Entertainment’s “Her Smell,” with Alex Ross Perry directing from his own script. Moss will lead an ensemble cast and p…
Kaya Scodelario will play Carole Ann Boone, the ex-wife of serial killer Ted Bundy, in the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” Zac Efron is starring as Bund…
MoviePass has withdrawn its subscription service from several high-traffic AMC theaters without revealing the reason why. The service, which costs $9.95 per month, was no longer available on…
Months after leaving multiplexes, "Get Out" and “Dunkirk” are returning to movie theaters in the wake of scoring best picture Oscar nominations. “Get Out,” which open…
The Walt Disney Company will give more than 125,000 employees one-time $1,000 cash bonuses, amounting to a $125 million allocation by the entertainment giant. Chairman and CEO Bob Iger made …
Disney is in talks with director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to helm its live-action reimagining of the 1963 animated movie “The Sword in the Stone.” Fresnadillo, a native of Spain, …
Disney-Pixar has hired Stephany Folsom as the screenwriter on “Toy Story 4,” which is set for release on June 21, 2019. Folsom is filling the slot left vacant by Rashida Jones an…
Walt Disney Co. Chairman-Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger received $36.3 million in compensation during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, down 17% from the previous fiscal year. Disney made th…
John Malkovich has joined the cast of the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” as Judge Edward Cowert in the 1979 murder trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. Cowart…
With the new year comes a major reveal in the latest trailer for Universal’s “Fifty Shades Freed” — Anastasia Steele is pregnant. The reveal came Tuesday in the fi…
For the second year in a row, Disney has nabbed the domestic box office crown, with $2.27 billion already banked in 2017 thanks to its one-two punch of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”…