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"Trial & Error" should not be as funny as it is. The sitcom is kind of a tea-cozy murder mystery with a bemused affection for its rural setting that is reminiscent of NBC's departed "Par…
With “Beauty and the Beast” debuting next weekend, Disney continues to ramp up its live-action reboot game. “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Emma Watson as Belle, fol…
Parents who’ve had to deal with energetic and rambunctious kids inside a movie theater will suffer no longer. At least, that’s one intended effect of Cinepolis USA’…
The heat is on in Saigon: “Miss Saigon,” one of the few megamusicals from the British invasion of the 1980s and 1990s not to have yet received a Broadway revival, has come in for…
“My Fair Lady,” the well-known musical that hasn’t been seen on Broadway in almost 25 years, has set dates for a Broadway return next year in a Lincoln Center Theater produ…
You can soon experience the music of “La La Land” live in concert. Lionsgate is launching a worldwide concert tour that will premiere May 26 and May 27 at the Hollywood Bowl. The…
The Quad Cinema, the Greenwich Village theater that was New York City’s first multiplex, will reopen in April with upgrades and renovations to its facilities, tech, seats and branding.…
It may be as old as rhyme, but the “Beauty and the Beast” theme song has gotten a fresh take courtesy of Ariana Grande and John Legend. Disney debuted the music video for the …
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End megahit that will apparate on Broadway next year, earned 11 nominations for the 2017 Olivier Awards, racking up a record haul fo…
Disney celebrated its newest animated Disney Channel show “Tangled: The Series” with an intimate premiere of its kick-off movie “Tangled: Before Ever After” at …
The Russian government is coming under pressure to ban Disney’s live-action movie “Beauty and the Beast” for allegedly contravening a 2013 law that prohibits “gay pro…
Puerto Rican actress Miriam Colon, best known for playing Al Pacino’s mother in the 1983 film “Scarface,” has died. She as 80. Her husband told the AP that Colon died on Fr…
Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Meghan Trainor, Kelsea Ballerini, and DNCE lead the nominations for the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. Bieber nabbed the most nods with five (inc…
Disney is in early talks with Jared Leto for the actor to star in and produce a live-action “Tron 3” movie. No writer has been hired. If the project moves forward, Justin Springe…
This week marks the 50th anniversary of CBS's airing of the Hal Holbrook "Mark Twain Tonight!" The March 6, 1967, TV special was the first national telecast of the one-man show, which Holbro…
Moviegoers at a drive-in theater in Alabama won’t be able to see a retelling of the “tale as old as time.” The Henagar Drive-In Theatre in DeKalb County has canceled its sc…
Poor wallflowers. They’re the ones no one asks to dance, to go to the prom, to get married. The wallflower in “Significant Other,” Joshua Harmon’s bittersweet play ab…
Prepare for some more quackingly good adventures: Not only is the “DuckTales” crew returning summer, they’re getting a second season order before the first even premi…
TV's annual upfront sales season isn't child's play to the executives who run Nickelodeon. The kids-focused media unit, the largest division of parent Viacom, moves into the TV industry's ad…
While the luminaries of the African film world descended on Burkina Faso last week for the start of Fespaco, the biannual pan-African film festival holding its 25th edition Feb. 25-March 4, …
Disney dominated the box office last year thanks to several big franchises among its 13 releases. In fact, Disney has been the most profitable studio for the last three years, with the other…
Ben Pyne, Disney’s longtime head of TV distribution, is exiting his post after a 25-year run at the Mouse House. Pyne has served as president of Disney Media Distribution since 2007. H…
And the winner for best Oscar joke is… … a theater in London, whose staff began showing “La La Land” instead of scheduled feature “Moonlight” on Tuesda…
The Tooting Arts Club, a site-specific London community theater, has scored the ideal New York venue for its audience-pleasing version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Stree…
The season was bookended by controversy, starting with a scandal surrounding a would-be contender and ending with a mishandled envelope.
