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The Mouse House’s reboot of venerated Gen Y cartoon “DuckTales” drew a bit of skepticism when it was announced. But Disney has just revealed the voice cast for the upcoming…
The "Resident Evil" franchise didn't start out in 3D, but as the stereoscopic format caught on as a box-office driver, the filmmakers behind the franchise decided it was time to go deep. Cin…
Looks like James Corden has spent all year planning his Christmas gift to the world. The “Late Late Show” host released a special all-star edition of “Carpool Karaoke”…
PARIS– Cinémas Gaumont Pathé, a leading theater circuit in France, Netherlands and Switzerland, has acquired EuropaCorp’s multiplex business. EuropaCorp’s exhibition acti…
A nation divided with history hanging in the balance: Robert Icke's new version of Frederich Schiller's “Mary Stuart” reflects this runaway year. With a coin toss each night dete…
There's a Broadway-bound musical now rehearsing in Toronto whose creative team boasts an impressive 12 Tony Awards and 67 nominations. It also has a producer that's served jail time for frau…
Disney Channel has renewed “Bizaardvark” for a second season, Variety has learned. The comedy series about teen vloggers follows the everyday lives of best friends Paige an…
This week, Golden Globe and SAG Awards discussion, plus director Jon Favreau discusses "The Jungle Book" and 20 years of "Swingers."
Critic Frank Rich called the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" a "seismic emotional jolt that sends the audience, as one, right out of its wits." It's taken 35 years for the shock…
“Oh, Hello on Broadway” doesn’t look much like most shows on Broadway at the moment — and neither does its audience. That’s a headturner on Broadway, where the …
Marc Webb isn't just an executive producer on the CW's “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” He is, by his own admission, “a total fanboy.” Best known for helming films like R…
John Waters, writer-director of “Pink Flamingos” and the original “Hairspray,” has been selected by the Writers Guild of America East to receive its Ian McLellan Hunt…
Taran Killam (“Saturday Night Live”) will make his Broadway debut in musical-theater megasmash “Hamilton,” joining the cast along with a handful of other new addition…
Following the success of Disney’s “Moana,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, who penned the music for the pic, has set up another animated project, “Vivo,” with Sony Animatio…
With Lionsgate's "La La Land," the big challenge for Damien Chazelle and his artisan team was to find the balance between heightened reality of the musical numbers and material that they wan…
From two adjoining townhouses on London's Bedford Square, theater mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh is fitting 10 musicals into a globe-spanning, seven-year plan that will land "Les Misérabl…
Hedda Gabler is at home. Again. Always. Ivo van Hove's stark and self-conscious staging of Ibsen's drama "Hedda Gabler," a National Theater remount of the production that played New York bac…
With the addition of 25 new films — including “The Birds,” “The Lion King,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Thelma & Louise” — the N…
This year's production design Oscar race is, as ever, heavy on period pieces, but there is variety if voters are willing to look.
The list of documentary Oscar winners over the past 60 years has included women filmmakers, demonstrating that while the world of feature narrative films remains much too largely a boys' clu…
Jake Gyllenhaal will get to Broadway this spring after all, leading the cast of a revival of 1984 Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Sunday in the Park with George” that open…
The American Society of Cinematographers has selected Denzel Washington as the recipient of its Board of Governors Award. Washington will be presented with the honor on Feb. 4 during the 31s…
You can practically smell the man-sweat dripping off director Sam Gold’s radical revision of “Othello,” whose high-profile actors, Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo, appear in…
The holiday season, plus a string of promising new productions, added up a to a nice boost at the Broadway box office last week as total receipts rose 8% compared to the previous week and…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is always full of surprises, but there was at least one pleasant one this morning: when it came to the comedy/musical category for the Golden Globes, …
