Lupita Nyongo's children's book "Sulwe" will be adapted into an animated musical for Netflix. Written by Nyong'o and illustrated by Vashti Harrison, the book follows a young Kenyan girl name…
With this week's launch of streaming service BBC Select, one of the world's most recognizable media brands is joining North America's streaming ranks on its own terms for the very first time…
Disney Plus has greenlit a six-episode unscripted docuseries from Blumhouse Television, Maniac Production and Campfire centered on "America's Got Talent" finalists, the Detroit Youth Choir. …
NYU Tisch School of the Arts has established a scholarship in honor of alumnus Philip Seymour Hoffman. The $50,000 grant will support Tisch drama students who demonstrate financial need, aca…
Universal Music Group has announced the launch of Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, a "new global network delivering premium and flexible artist and label services to the industry's …
⊗ Film is supposed to be inclusive. But if you can't see yourself on-screen, do you feel as if you even exist? One-third of our lives is spent at work, and the artists who express t…
The Second City, a legendary theater that has nurtured generations of top comics, has sold to ZMC, a private equity firm run by Strauss Zelnick. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Variety…
Ring them bells! Liza Minnelli will be celebrating her 75th birthday on March 12 with a dancing and singing streaming shindig. The virtual "Love Letter to Liza: A 75th Birthday Tribute Celeb…
In today's TV news roundup, Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy have joined the cast of Tracy Oliver's comedy series "Harlem," and "RuPaul's Drag Race" will air special documentary "RuPaul's Dra…
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas is the first-ever winner of "The Masked Dancer," having scored the show's diamond mask trophy after being revealed as Cotton Candy. Douglas was vi…
The first time I saw myself on-screen was in 1972. The film was "Lady Sings the Blues," a cinematic masterpiece about jazz icon Billie Holiday. At 13 years old, I could not believe I was see…
I've been lucky enough to play women who have marked history with their brilliance, and at the same time have somehow changed the way we see the world. Like many of the Black women in histor…
The Hong Kong Disneyland theme park will reopen on Friday (Feb. 19, 2021) after being closed due to a fourth wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the city. All visitors will have to provide t…
Longtime Disney executive Jenny Cohen has been named head of social responsibility for the company. Cohen, a veteran brand management executive, will report to CEO Bob Chapek in her role as …
There are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in "Mike Nichols: A Life," the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of them…
Variety has been nominated for 99 National Art and Entertainment Journalism awards, a record-breaking number of nominations for the publication. "This is an amazing achievement by our stella…
Jamie Dornan is happy to get silly, even showing up for an interview sporting a bikini t-shirt, swag from his new film. The film in question is "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar," Kristen W…
It's become clearer that Taylor Swift is making her re-recordings of her older catalog as close to the originals as possible, but the question arises: How difficult is that to pull off witho…
Lynn Stalmaster, the legendary casting director who worked on nearly 200 movies ranging from "West Side Story" to "Harold and Maude" to "Tootsie," has died. He was 93. Stalmaster died Friday…
Of all the words of wisdom my mother has passed on to me, the earliest ones I remember have been the most useful. She told me I could achieve any goal I set for myself, but being Black, I wo…
"My Little Pony," an animated movie aimed at family audiences, is heading to Netflix. Paramount Pictures was originally set to distribute the film, which had been scheduled to open in the…
Live from New York or Beverly Hills, it's the 78th Golden Globe Awards. While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC announced earlier this month that the Globes would be broadcast …
Disney Plus had the wind at its back to close out 2020: The streaming service notched 94.9 million customers worldwide as of Jan. 2, 2021, the company announced. That's up more than 8 millio…
Coronavirus took a big chunk out of the Walt Disney Company's profits during its most recent quarterly results, but the popularity of Disney Plus helped cushion the blow of the pandemic. It …
Hollywood's major unions have signed on with the AFL-CIO's push to advance public policy initiatives involving diversity, equity and inclusion issues. The broad goal is to strengthen collect…