AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan has a keen eye for shrewd business deals. So was he seeing straight in 2004 when he bought the Village Cinema in Greenport, N.Y.? "I would not call it a lucra…
Rita Moreno will be honored with the Career Achievement Award, presented by Mercedes Benz, at this year's Peabody Awards, Variety has learned. This honor puts Moreno in the extremely rare ca…
Kelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles are starring in medical thriller "The God Committee." Austin Stark is directing from his own script. Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya are co-st…
Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, and Richard Madden have joined Sam Mendes' World War I drama "1917." DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced Thursd…
The ASCAP Screen Music Awards has announced several honorees to be feted at a May 15 ceremony in Beverly Hills, with "Captain Marvel" composer Pinar Toprak, "Incredibles 2" scorer Michael Gi…
Disney's upcoming adaptation of "Dumbo" is taking flight this weekend. Directed by Tim Burton, the studio's live-action re-imagining of the 1941 cartoon is expected to earn roughly $50 milli…
The Writers Guild of America, which is threatening to require members to fire their agents, has posted a scathing video attacking how major agencies conduct packaging. Titled "Agency Conflic…
The dealmakers appear to be getting nowhere. Negotiators for Hollywood agents and the Writers Guild of America have achieved little progress at their seventh session on Tuesday, with a chaot…
WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump intends to appoint actor Jon Voight, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Broadway producer Daryl Roth to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy …
Both onstage and onscreen, the title character in "Fleabag" says things that are pretty outrageous " even to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the woman who created her. Listen to this week's podcast be…
Toni Collette, Jessie Buckley, and David Thewlis are joining the cast of Netflix's film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," sources tell Variety. Charlie Kaufman is writing and directing the mo…
We know next to nothing of the "Dark Lady of the Sonnets" " nothing beyond what Shakespeare tells us in 26 stanzas of overblown verse. Her eyes were nothing like the sun, of course " "raven …
"Guys and Dolls," the venerable Broadway musical, is set to return to the big screen. TriStar Pictures has purchased remake rights to the original Damon Runyon short stories about gamblers a…
Greta Gerwig's "Little Women," Cate Shortland's "Black Widow," Patty Jenkins's "Wonder Woman 2," and Elizabeth Banks's "Charlie's Angles" are among the ten most tracked projects on IMDbPro. …
Nestled at the foot of a large hill on the edge of downtown Providence, R.I., Cable Car Cinema was known to local moviegoers as "the one with the couches." That was a charitable description.…
Dr. Dre's attempt to throw shade on the recent celebrity college admissions scandals backfired after he apparently belatedly realized that he'd donated $70 million to the college his daughte…
If you missed the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" last year, fear not. The full cast of the acclaimed production of Tony Kushner…
"The Music Man" has found its Marian, the librarian. Sutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner, will star opposite Hugh Jackman in the upcoming revival of "The Music Man." She will play …
Bette Midler and Judith Light will guest star on "The Politician," the first series Ryan Murphy will launch on Netflix after he inked a deal with the streamer last year. Murphy made the anno…
"Pose" co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed that Broadway legend Patti LuPone will guest star on the upcoming second season of the FX drama, and that the series will jump ahead to 1990. Murphy ma…
Barbra Streisand has released a statement clarifying remarks she made about the recent allegations of underage sexual abuse against Michael Jackson. "To be crystal clear, there is no situati…
What function do superhero stories play in American society? Are they merely escapist distractions for head-in-the-clouds teens, or could those same formats actually serve a practical functi…
Barbra Streisand only met Michael Jackson a few times, but she definitely has some opinions about his alleged molestation of several young boys. Streisand shared her thoughts with the Times …
Elton John movie "Rocketman" dares to portray the singer's personality early in his career to have been, at times, "ugly," Taron Egerton " who plays the pop star " told an audience at London…
Danielle Brooks earned a Tony nomination when she made her Broadway debut as Sofia in the 2015 revival of "The Color Purple," but now the "Orange Is the New Black" star is working behind the…