The struggle that independent music venues have been undergoing for the past 14 months has gone on for so long that even supporters have begun to grow numb to it " but the reality is that th…
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Shane Allen, BBC's director of comedy, is leaving the broadcaster to team with recently departed head of comedy commissioning Kate Daughton to launch a new outfit. Boffola Pictures Limited w…
Since reopening at the end of 2020, movie theaters have been trying to keep patrons safe from COVID-19 by disinfecting after every screening. They bought up misters and foggers, along with u…
Oscars producer Steven Soderbergh has opened up about the decisions made to change the show order of the 2021 ceremony and whether he regrets not allowing Zoom acceptance speeches. In an int…
The show will go on. Broadway theaters will reopen at full capacity on Sept. 14, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced via Twitter on Wednesday. Tickets will go on sale on Thursday (though a …
Welcome to this week's "Just for Variety." Emma Stone may be taking on the role of Cruella de Vil in Disney's "Cruella," but that doesn't mean Glenn Close is done playing the Disney villain.…
Michael Jackson's image was worth just $4 million at the time of his death in 2009, a U.S. tax court judge ruled on Monday, far below the $161 million valuation sought by the IRS. The ruling…
As Julie Andrews' character says in "The Princess Diaries" sequel: "A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early." So it's only fitting that the American Film Institute's annual Life…
Ever since Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, audiences have created a plethora of new "Star Wars" content. The sequel trilogy " 2015's "The Force Awakens," 2017's "The Last Jedi" and 2…
United Talent Agency has promoted more than 100 employees across 30 departments, marking its largest-ever class of promotions. The promotions " which encompass employees at all levels of the…
Sir Howard Panter, one of the leading forces in live theater, is so convinced that Broadway, the West End and other stage hubs are poised to come back in a big way post-pandemic, that he's b…
Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman and Naomi Osaka will co-chair the 2021 Met Gala, Vogue announced on Monday. The Met, which delayed the event that typically takes place in th…
Olympia Dukakis, who died on May 1 at 89, had a face like no one else's. Stern but perpetually amused, with a warm leer of a grin that could light up a scene, she looked like the comedy and …
New York will lift capacity restrictions beginning on May 19, a move that potentially sets the stage for a Broadway and live theater revival. The new guidelines will also help cinemas in the…
"I love you more than my luggage," Olympia Dukakis' Clairee Belcher says to Shirley MacLaine's Ouiser Boudreaux in the beloved 1989 movie "Steel Magnolias." With the news of Dukakis' death, …
Olympia Dukakis, a character actress best known for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in Norman Jewison's "Moonstruck" and for her role as the wealthy widow in "Steel Magnolias," has died. S…
New York City is aiming to fully reopen on July 1, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio, nearly a year-and-a-half after COVID-19 restrictions on movie theaters, restaurants and most businesses …
Punters across the U.K. can claim 200,000 free tickets to watch any film screening at 500 sites on the weekend of June 19 and 20, as part of the National Lottery Cinema Weekend. The weekend …
The owner of the Santa Monica Place mall has filed a lawsuit seeking to evict the ArcLight Theatre for non-payment of rent. Macerich, the real estate investment trust that owns the mall, ser…
After shuttering for 13 months amid a devastating global pandemic, Disneyland is reopening " and David Vaughn, for one, is excited. Before COVID-19 hit, the 36-year-old would visit theme par…
The Recording Academy announced today that it has made significant changes to the Grammy Awards process " including the elimination of nearly all of the controversial "secret" nominati…
Jon M. Chu's "In the Heights" will kick off the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival with a special preview screening on June 4 at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre. The film adaptat…
The extension of an popular immersive exhibition that retraces the memories of one of Hong Kong's most iconic cinema buildings, and the past glory of the local film and entertainment industr…
Joseph Masher, a New York-based movie theater operator, understands that audiences may be reluctant to return to the movies. After all, it's been at least a year since most people have stepp…