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"Manchester by the Sea," "Hell or High Water" and "Lion" also had strong showings.
Naturally, there’s a virtual-reality companion for the “Assassin’s Creed” movie starring Michael Fassbender based on Ubisoft’s popular video-game franchise. To …
Set in hip Silverlake, "Icebergs," now making its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, offers plenty of laughs with witty dialogue and a knowing scenario about a showbiz couple, an indie …
ROME – Fox Italy has announced that Paul Zonderland, a former head of Disney in Italy, has been appointed its managing director just as Osvaldo De Santis is retiring after 33 years as …
Unveiling a rough-cut of his buzzed-up feature debut "Arpón" (Harpoon) at Ventana Sur, Caracas-born Tom Espinoza is developing his second directorial outing, "No crecerás" ("You Won't …
Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in the World War II drama “Atlantic Wall” as an American paratrooper operating behind enemy lines. Gavin O’Connor will direct from a Bl…
MGM has tapped Jessica Rothe (“La La Land”) as the female lead in MGM's musical adaptation of the 1983 comedy “Valley Girl.” The new “Valley Girl” is prod…
Lionsgate has tapped “Hamilton” star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to serve as creative producer and musical mastermind of feature film and TV series adaptations of “The K…
Denzel Washington has been selected to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at the 32nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Feb. 2 at the Arlington Theatre. Washington will…
U.K.-based theater chain Ambassador Theater Group has named new executive leadership to its North American arm — including Kristin Caskey, the Broadway producer who was one of the lead…
Loton Corp’s LiveXLive, Kaos Connect and Screenvision Media are partnering for theatrical screenings of the "Best of the Fest" music festival series starting next year, Variety has lea…
The annual bounty of Thanksgiving week gave the Broadway box office a record $35 million to be thankful for last week, with the hottest ticket on the street, “Hamilton,” blowing …
MADRID – HBO España, HBO’s video streaming service for Spain, launched on Monday, offering not only its most popular shows such as "Game of Thrones" but also content from reno…
The box office success of “Moana” confirms Disney’s status atop the pecking order of major studios. It owes its apex predator status to the way it has deftly bolstered and …
David Hamilton, the British photographer known for taking sensual pictures of young women who directed films including “Bilitis,” was found dead in his Paris home on Friday…
Stephen McKinley Henderson stars with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in "Fences," which opens Christmas Day. He and most of the principals " including Washington, who directed the film " …
Disney’s “Moana” topped the Thanksgiving eve box office, picking up $15.7 million in its first full day of release, and leaving the competition in its wake. The animated ad…
How far we've come. Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeares were dismissed as "gimmicky" (and worse) four years ago. Today, genderblind casting is not the norm, but normalized: “King …
Kicking off the Thanksgiving holiday break with gusto, Disney’s animated adventure "Moana" opened with plenty of box office power and took in $2.6 million at Tuesday night preview show…
The ten-year old Hong Kong Disneyland theme park is to get a $1.4 billion expansion. New attractions will include new Frozen and Marvel Super Heroes areas. The plans call for the expansion t…
“La La Land” writer-director Damien Chazelle admits that he’s got a serious romance going with jazz. As with Chazelle’s two previous films, “Guy and Madeline on…
Bob Iger's tenure as CEO of Disney has been nothing less than stellar for investors. But there is an area of concern for Wall Street: the television division. Disney has not significantly ex…
The case for building a Disney theme park in Shanghai is obvious on paper. With a population equivalent to the entire U.S. living within a three-hour drive, the opportunity was simply too bi…
It has been just over a decade since Bob Iger engineered the deal that brought Steve Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios to Disney, negotiating a $7.4 billion stock purchase that raised eyebrows a…
Before the opening of Shanghai Disney last June, Robert Iger sampled every item on every menu throughout the sprawling theme park. When the Walt Disney Co. needed a voice artist to put words…
