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Oscar nominee and Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. is the latest A-lister to join star Daniel Craig in "Knives Out 2," the star-studded sequel to Rian Johnson's 2019 hit whodunnit. In what has qu…
Variety has won the Webby Award for best entertainment website, the Webbys announced on Tuesday. The category " general websites and mobile sites, entertainment " considers sites that are…
Charles Grodin, best known for the neurotic comic wit he demonstrated in such films as "The Heartbreak Kid," "Heaven Can Wait" and "Midnight Run" and for his role in the "Beethoven" movies, …
Universal has released the first trailer for the "Dear Evan Hansen" movie, premiering in theaters on Sept. 24. Ben Platt returns in his Tony-winning titular role in the big-screen adaptation…
Disney Plus made the greatest progress among premium streaming platforms in Southeast Asia in the first quarter of the year, according to new research. AMPD Research, affiliated with Media P…
Reporting results fully seven and a half months after the fact, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort said that it lost nearly $1 million per day last year. For the financial year to September 2020, t…
Matthew Belloni, the former editorial director of the Hollywood Reporter, has joined the management team of a new media startup that will cover finance, politics, technology and entertainmen…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched "Zoey's Extraordinary Goodbye," the second season finale of "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist." The events of the first season finale of "…
Clive Davis has a gig as music's own new Barbara Walters, if he wants it. For the second half of his two-part virtual "Grammy gala" this year, the music mogul doubled down in Saturday night'…
With the script for Brian Baugh's "Finding You" (in theaters May 14) centering around violinist Finley (Rose Reid) traveling to the Irish coast for a semester, composer Kieran Kiely couldn't…
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can resume most typical pre-pandemic activities without wearing …
David White is stepping down as SAG-AFTRA's national executive director and chief negotiator after 12 years at the head of Hollywood's largest union. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA's chi…
A whopping amount of money that has been held in trust for potential payout to former CBS chief Leslie Moonves is going back to the company. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
For Disney Plus, maybe getting the first 100 million subscribers was the easy part. Shares of Disney were down 2.6% in midday trading Friday, after the media company missed revenue estimates…
The East High Wildcats from "High School Musical: The Musical " The Series" return to Disney Plus for a second season May 14, which opens, appropriately enough, with a big song-and-dance num…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its mask guidance Thursday, allowing Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to resume pre-pandemic indoor and outdoor acti…
Bill Maher has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing HBO to scrap Friday's scheduled taping of this week's episode. In a statement, HBO said Maher is "fully vaccinated" and "feels fine." "Bi…
The jets kept firing for Disney Plus, which reached 103.6 million subscribers worldwide as of April 3, the company reported " although the growth was not as torrid as Wall Street hoped. The …
Streaming hits like "WandaVision" and "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" failed to deliver the kind of Disney Plus subscriber numbers that Wall Street was looking for, as the Walt Disney Co…
Disney is in discussions with the NFL about possibly picking up the "Sunday Ticket" franchise that has been a pillar of DirecTV for years. Disney CEO Bob Chapek said during the company's qua…
In the space of just a few weeks, a group of Madison Avenue heavyweights " with names like General Motors, Interpublic Group and WPP " has made public guarantees of ad money for some of the …
The U.K. theater scene was vibrant, with a box office breaking £1 billion ($1.4 billion) annually, until coronavirus struck in 2020. Of this, London's famed West End theater district cont…
The Walt Disney Company is in the throes of a major leadership shift, with newly minted CEO Bob Chapek asserting more authority as the longtime leader he replaced, Bob Iger, prepares to surr…
If there's a Hollywood equivalent to a cinematic President's Day, it has to be the birthday of Katharine Hepburn, who was born on May 12, 1907. The legendary actress, who passed away in June…
Playing the main character in a biopic is a tall order for any actor, but taking on the role of influential musician Boy George in the forthcoming film "Karma Chameleon" seems even more of a…
