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Disney has given its operations in Asia a major revamp. At Walt Disney International it is merging its operations in Japan, South Korea and Greater China into a new regional hub covering Nor…
X Atencio, the legendary Disney animator and Imagineer who worked on “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia” and helped bring the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion attr…
In today’s roundup, “Andi Mack” gets a Season 2 premiere date and Jane Seymour joins the cast of Pop’s “Let’s Get Physical.” PREMIERE DATES The …
The annual post-Labor Day downturn took a bite out of the Broadway box office last week, with overall sales dropping 15% as locals shifted out of vacation mode and city tourism slowed. The b…
Denzel Washington is a great actor, but as varied as his performances can be, he doesn't change his aspect very much. The talky boastful energy and toothy sunburst smile, the defiant alertne…
Now a Category 3 hurricane, Hurricane Irma made a second landfall in Florida on Sunday, hitting Marco Island on the southwest coast, near Naples, after inundating the Florida Keys. Packing 1…
The last time Dan Gilroy brought a film to the Toronto Film Festival he had “Nightcrawler” in tow, a dark urban drama focused on a nocturnal bottom-feeding stringer who peddles h…
Michael Friedman, a New York theater veteran whose “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” made a rockstar out of the seventh president, died on Saturday due to complications of HIV/AIDs.…
Florida’s Walt Disney World is closing for at least two days due to Hurricane Irma, shutting down early on Saturday and re-opening on Tuesday at the earliest. “Resort hotels will…
When Jane Campion‘s series “Top of the Lake” debuted in 2013, it was initially presented as a one-and-done series about a detective, played by Elisabeth Moss, investigating…
In her new documentary, Lady Gaga shares the highs and lows of her life as a world-famous pop star — from performing at the Superbowl to struggling with chronic pain. The scenes with t…
Aaron Sorkin will receive the Career Achievement Award at this year's Zurich Film Festival. "The Newsroom" scribe will be in town accept the accolade and present his directorial debut, "Moll…
The hotly anticipated West End run of "Hamilton" has been delayed by two weeks because renovation work on London’s Victoria Palace Theater is taking longer than expected, the play̵…
Disney’s internet-media group on Friday is debuting “Club Mickey Mouse,” which puts a social-media spin on the 62-year-old “Mickey Mouse Club” franchise, and in…
With the massive Hurricane Irma expected to reach South Florida this weekend, movie chains in the region began shutting down Thursday night. Gov. Rick Scott has directed the closure of all p…
A car hit and killed a Disney employee who was walking in a marked crosswalk near Disney’s studio lot in Burbank on Thursday morning, police said. The fatal crash occurred shortly afte…
“Red Roses, Green Gold,” a new musical featuring the music and lyrics of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, has set the dates for a fall opening Off…
Disney and the largest cable operators saw their share prices take a hit on Thursday as investors seemed to renew concerns about long-term trends in the traditional media sector. Disney shar…
Guess that's why they call him God. Stephen Sondheim's paean to old Broadway, "Follies," hasn't had a full-bodied British revival since its West End premiere 30 years ago. With a cast that i…
The National Theater’s revival of “Angels in America,” with a cast that includes Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, will land on Broadway this season, with the production boo…
In today’s film news roundup, Melanie Laurent joins “Operation Finale,” “Game of Thrones” actor Eugene Simon is on board the drama “Resonance,” and …
Elisabeth Moss has had quite a year. In the spring, in "The Handmaid's Tale," she gave uncanny immediacy to the plight of her character, Offred, who was defined " unwillingly " by her potent…
Chaos and the awkward aftermath of a sexual encounter are featured in Magnolia’s new trailer for Swedish drama “The Square,” which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Fi…
The hacker was nervous. Not to meet me; she was worried about getting caught passing secrets as we huddled together in the reading room of the New York Public Library. After a brief, silent …
“Mean Girls,” the Broadway musical co-written by Tina Fey and produced by “Saturday Night Live” impresario Lorne Michaels, has locked in a Broadway run that opens in …
