The late Ann Reinking is being honored with a scholarship in her name. The $5,000 grant from Off the Lane will be awarded annually to a young dancer moving to New York City to help them in t…
Brian Robbins walked into a meeting where executives were deciding whether kids-media giant Nickelodeon should pick up "SpongeBob SquarePants" for a twelfth cycle, and asked what he thought …
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources,…
This year's SAG Awards are keeping it short and sweet in recognition of this socially distanced age of COVID-19. Executive producers Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and Kathy Connell have revealed…
The $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant " the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages " isn't exactly a new Federal Theater Project. But according to Nataki Garrett, the ar…
Sister, the upstart studio from Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider, has signed esteemed production company Market Road Films to a first-look film and TV deal. Comprised o…
Nearly six months after "Tenet" was released in the United States, Warner Bros. announced that the Christopher Nolan sci-fi spectacle will open in five New York City movie theater locations …
Hollywood has always adapted to world changes, and Oscar campaigning this year has effectively adjusted to COVID. But one part of the awards season is missed more than the others: seeing a c…
Sacha Baron Cohen, Lee Isaac Chung, Chloé Zhao and many others virtually won Golden Globes on a night filled with technical hiccups and awkward Zoom moments. One of the notable things missi…
Jake Gyllenhaal is nominated for three Tony Awards, one as an actor in the play "Sea Wall/A Life" and two as a producer (with his company Nine Stories) of "Sea Wall/A Life" and "Slave Play."…
BBC Three, the U.K. public broadcaster's youth-skewing brand and the home of shows like "Fleabag" and "Normal People," is returning as a broadcast channel. The BBC on Tuesday confirmed that …
The company that usually talks to advertisers about properties like "Grey's Anatomy," "Get Up!" Â and Goofy spent some time last week chatting with them about technologies that will probab…
Roku will add a fat stack of ad tech to its streaming platform under a deal to buy Nielsen's Advanced Video Advertising business, putting Roku in position to offer a fully addressable advert…
After a week that exposed the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s own lack of diversity within its membership, the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place from both coasts on Feb. 28…
The Golden Globes are facing down a scandal that has felt, in moments over the past week, practically existential, with Los Angeles Times reporting indicating both a systemic and corrupt sel…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) addressed their controversial diversity issue, namely the fact that the organization currently has no Black members, during Sunday night's broa…
Being in the entertainment industry is challenging but comes with rewards, so when I was asked to talk about what Black history meant to me, I couldn't start the conversation without mention…
Warner Bros.' animated family film "Tom and Jerry" debuted to $13.7 million at the domestic box office, one of the biggest opening weekend hauls of the coronavirus era and a signal that movi…
Here's a vintage Spongebob moment, the kind that makes some of us who are years past the demo feel like we can't get enough of him. In "The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run," our hero, voi…
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron received a $3.75 million bonus at a time when many of the company's employees have been laid off and several of its theaters are closed due to COVID-19, accor…
Capturing the right musical ambiance for Billie Holiday in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" was the product of a year-and-a-half of research and planning, even before shooting began in…
Netflix unveiled its first comprehensive study of diversity and inclusion in its film and series programming, from Dr. Stacy Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative research team. M…
Live Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K. summer festival…
Disney Television Studios mounted a panel Thursday at the TCA press tour entitled "Inclusion is Not A Spectator Sport" " a panel on which five of the participants were white and two were Bla…
In its earnings reports for the last quarter and full year of 2020, the year of the pandemic, Live Nation shows remarkable optimism for the projected return of live entertainment. Despite a …