Over the past year, few business sectors have experienced as much disruption as the airline and entertainment industries. In 2020, with many theaters closed and audiences wary of gathering i…
Welcome to this week's "Just For Variety"… Leslie Jones didn't exactly run to get a COVID vaccine. "When it first came out I was like, 'I'm not taking that shit,'" the former "Saturday Nig…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his $100 billion California Comeback Plan, which is aimed at helping the state bounce back from the economic impact stemming from the coronavirus pande…
While the theater industry is currently reeling from being on lockdown for the past 14 months, the curtains are about to rise again. After Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that Broadway theaters …
The latest gold rush in digital video? Short, shareable video clips " like those popularized by Vine half a decade ago, before Twitter shut down the Vine app. YouTube, the world's biggest vi…
Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, best known for his title role in Hitchcock's "Saboteur" and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC's "St. Elsewhere" and famously associated with Orson W…
The composer-performer Heather Christian describes her new movie "Animal Wisdom" as a "theater-concert-hybrid-séance-performance." And maybe after months of lockdown, that's what we all nee…
Broadway is busting out some major firepower as it looks to reopen after more than a year of COVID-related closures. Three of the most successful shows in theater history " "Hamilton," "The …
NBC started broadcasting "Saturday Night Live" live across the U.S in 2017. Now the network is preparing to live stream the show around the world. The network said tonight's broadcast, hoste…
The announcement that Maya Rudolph would be joining "Disenchanted" " the sequel to Disney's 2011 hit "Enchanted" " as a villain was exciting news, if not completely surprising. Rudolph has a…
For this smart, lockdown-era, streaming iteration of Samuel Beckett's show about nothing " and also everything, perhaps, and electric alienation for sure " director Scott Elliott and his tra…
Cinemark has reached new agreements with the five major studios that could help formalize a shorter theatrical window. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it comes as COVID-19 has resh…
Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates will moderate a live conversation about the Amazon Prime Video series "The Underground Railroad," Variety can announce exclusively. Coates will discuss t…
UPDATED: While tours and festivals for later this year are being announced every day and Live Nation's stock recently reached an all-time high based on the concert industry's anticipated ret…
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the …
Nickelodeon has emerged as one of the most popular content hubs on Paramount Plus, offering ViacomCBS a flashback to the good old days when it dominated the linear cable kids TV business. Th…
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and so…
Harvey Weinstein wants his money back. The imprisoned producer " who is awaiting extradition to Los Angeles " filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Jose Baez, one of several lawyers who brief…
After two years at the company, Walt Disney Television president of entertainment Craig Hunegs is departing the media giant at the end of May. The decision to leave was Hunegs', according to…
Over the course of her legendary career, Alice Lee "Boaty" Boatwright has cast iconic movies, served as a studio exec and repped starry talent including Joan Didion, Paul Newman and Joanne W…
In February, Stellantis' Global Chief Marketing Officer Olivier Francois fulfilled a decade-long pursuit of working with Bruce Springsteen with a Super Bowl spot for Jeep, marking the first …
More than 800 members of the U.K. entertainment industry have signed an open letter decrying a work culture that's been put in sharp relief following multiple misconduct allegations against …
A new survey conducted The Actors Fund sheds more light on COVID-19's impact on the entertainment industry. The organization surveyed 7,163 people who sought its assistance during the pandem…
The Entertainment Industry Foundation partnered with Crewvie, a global hiring platform for entertainment professionals, to establish the EIF Careers Program. Its goal is to increase the numb…
Maya Rudolph is one of six creative leaders in comedy honored for Variety's 2021 Power of Women. For more, click here. When Maya Rudolph was a kid, she'd stage one-girl musicals in her livin…