Ricky Gervais wasn't at the Golden Globes, where he won the award for best comedy special, so presenter Wanda Sykes took the opportunity to thank "God and the trans community" while acceptin…
Rose Byrne took home the first Golden Globe of her career for portraying a mother on the brink in the psychological genre-bending "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You." Byrne seemed genuinely surpris…
"I swear to God. I'm going to kill myself," Kristen Stewart says, ribbing her longtime friend Jesse Eisenberg for watching her directorial debut, "The Chronology of Water," on his laptop. Â…
Timothée Chalamet is officially the king of the Christmas box office. It's the third consecutive holiday season where the A-list star has dominated at the box office, a reign that began wit…
Disney is developing a live-action film about Gaston, the boastful, brawny antagonist in "Beauty and the Beast." Luke Evans played Gaston in Disney's 2017 live-action "Beauty and the Beast" …
"Titanique," a campy Off Broadway hit, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show is a low-fi musical parody of James Cameron's disaster epic "Titanic" that uses Céline Dion's music to r…
Actors on Actors is ready for its closeup. Variety and CNN have revealed the star-studded lineup for the 23rd season of Actors on Actors, the Emmy-winning franchise that pairs the year's bes…
Theater industry veteran Sean Cercone is launching The Licensing House, a boutique theatrical licensing imprint that will provide representation for plays and musicals. Cercone is the founde…
Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will return to Broadway in the Arthur Miller classic "Death of a Salesman." A revival of the acclaimed play will run for 14 weeks at the Winter Garden Theatre,…
Hollywood is giving thanks for "Zootopia 2" and "Wicked: For Good," two Thanksgiving offerings that kept movie theaters stuffed over the holiday weekend. Disney's animated sequel "Zootopia 2…
Get ready for a box office feast. Disney's animated "Zootopia 2" is poised to dominate the Thanksgiving holiday with projections of $135 million to $150 million over its first five days in t…
More than a few eyebrows were raised around Hollywood when Universal decided to turn "Wicked" into two separate films. Yes, the stage show has been a sensation on Broadway for decades. But i…
"Wicked: For Good" is flying high at the box office. The movie musical has collected $150 million in North America and $76 million overseas for a dazzling $226 million global tally. It's a b…
This weekend, the languishing box office has been changed for the better with "Wicked: For Good," which powered to $226 million globally. Those ticket sales rank as the fourth-biggest worldw…
Glinda and Elphaba remain "very very popular" at the box office. "Wicked: For Good," Universal's rendition of Act Two of the musical sensation, was No. 1 with $150 million from 4,115 North A…
Colleen Hoover isn't happy with how it ended. Hoover, who wrote the bestseller "It Ends With Us," has addressed the controversy surrounding the 2024 film adaptation of her novel, starring Bl…
Actors on Actors is getting a bigger stage. Variety's Emmy-winning series, which pairs the best performers of the year in unscripted interviews, will air on CNN for the first time. Under a n…
In the opening number of "Wicked: For Good," Glinda sings the celebratory song "Thank Goodness" to quell the anxieties of the citizens of Oz. Cinema owners will be humming a similar tune ove…
Before "Wicked" landed on the big screen a year ago, Universal told cinema owners of its simple goal for promoting the movie musical. It planned to be, per chief marketing officer Michael Mo…
Cynthia Erivo rushed to the rescue of her "Wicked: For Good" co-star after Ariana Grande was charged by a fan at the film's Singapore premiere. Grande was walking the yellow brick carpet on …
Jane Krakowski felt a pang of jealousy the first time she saw "Oh, Mary!," the hit comedy that imagines former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as a deranged wannabe cabaret star. The Tony-winni…
Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola are joining forces to give Miss Piggy the movie-star treatment. A film about the temperamental diva puppet is in early development at Disney, wh…
Newcomer Mae Schenk is readying to check into the Plaza hotel. She'll star in the live action "Eloise" film, based on the beloved children's book about a mischievous young girl who lives on …
Paul Dano is set to star in A24's drama "The Chaperones." He's joining the already-announced cast of Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, two young actors who recently shared the screen in Lion…
Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway this spring in the solo play "Every Brilliant Thing." The actor, who became famous for playing the Boy Who Lived in eight wildly popular "Harry Pott…