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The Drama League has announced the expansion of its annual DirectorFest into a multi-week New York City event centered around the art of contemporary stage directing. Scheduled to take place…
Nickelodeon has canceled both “Nicky Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn” and “School of Rock,” Variety has confirmed. "Nickelodeon is not moving forward with production on …
James Cameron’s “Titanic” has been set for a 20th anniversary re-release in the Dolby Vision technology in 87 AMC theaters for a week, starting on Dec. 1. Dolby Laboratorie…
Disney-Pixar’s animated family comedy “Coco” has set a box office record in Mexico, becoming the top film as measured in local currency. “Coco,” which premiered…
“Wonder” writer-director Stephen Chbosky has signed on to pen and possibly helm Disney’s live-action movie “Charming,” a re-telling of the Prince Charming folk …
Center Theatre Group announced Wednesday that three Broadway productions have been added to its 2018-19 season at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s mu…
“Come From Away,” the Tony Award-winning musical hit, will be made into a feature film. The Mark Gordon Company has picked up rights to the Broadway show and has enlisted Irene S…
MGM has set an Aug. 10 release date for the untitled Anne Hathaway-Rebel Wilson scam artist comedy. The project, which has been known as “Nasty Women,” is a remake of the 1988 co…
When Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he thought: “Well, very little good can come of this.” Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” tal…
Bryan Cranston says there may be room for redemption for disgraced Hollywood figures in the wake of sexual harassment scandals. In an interview with the BBC, the “Breaking Bad” a…
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney will co-host the Spirit Awards for the second year in a row. The ceremony, which takes place in a tent on Santa Monica Beach, will be broadcast live on IFC. Th…
The medium is the message " or so they say. If Paddy Chayefsky's classic TV news satire isn't just prescient, but positively prophetic in our age of fake news, the point is pressed home by a…
"The Lion King" turned 20 this month " but that's not the only big birthday on Broadway. When it opened on Nov. 13, 1997, "The Lion King" was an integral part of the transformation of Times …
Christopher Plummer has responded to the reveal that he will replace Kevin Spacey in Ridley Scott’s upcoming thriller “All the Money in the World.” In the wake of numero…
AFI Fest has selected Jessica Chastain’s “Molly’s Game” to replace Kevin Spacey’s “All the Money in the World” as the closing film for the festival …
When Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to bring a U.S. TV news crew along for a look at Hurricane Maria's toll on his extended family in Puerto Rico, there was little doubt which network the "Hamil…
SPOILER ALERT:Â Do not read if you have not yet watched the Nov. 10 episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” entitled “I Never Want To See Josh Again.” On “Crazy Ex-…
Live, from China: It’s Bytedance. If you live outside of Asia, you’re about to get more familiar with the five-year-old internet news and video aggregator. Bytedance is already a…
Ridley Scott’s decision to fire embattled actor Kevin Spacey and replace him with Christopher Plummer comes at a financial risk and carries a significant price tag, as the director rac…
With a real estate man in the White House as America's Salesman-in-Chief, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet's crisp 1983 evisceration of the common street salesman, takes on new…
Tracy Letts is having a busy fall. The writer-actor, who's won Tonys both for a play ("August: Osage County") and a performance ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), not to mention a Pulitzer…
The head of London’s Old Vic theater said Friday that she would never have hired Kevin Spacey if she had been aware of concerns about his behavior and that no complaints about him were…
China’s giant digital content aggregator, Bytedance is poised to acquire U.S.-based social video app Musical.ly, according to reports. The deal, which is expected to be announced short…
The set's a bit grander and the music sounds richer, but success hasn't spoiled this embraceable musical fable about the surprising friendships that bloom in the middle of a political desert…
On Wednesday, director Ridley Scott announced a plan that is virtually unprecedented in the history of Hollywood: With his new film "All the Money in the World" already in the can and less t…
