CANNES, France — Disney's ABC Studios International looks set to drive significantly more into local production outside the U.S. as it seeks to leverage the distribution muscle of Disn…
Actresses love to play Madame Ranevskaya, the enchanting idiot who dithers away the family estate in Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Film star Diane Lane (best rememb…
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has named Robert De Niro the recipient of its 44th annual Chaplin Award, which honors major industry talents. De Niro will take home the 2017 trophy for a …
The latest edition of the Animation Show of Shows is opening in Southern California on Oct. 21 at the Sundance Sunset in West Los Angeles, Laemmle's Playhouse 7 in Pasadena and the Frida Cin…
LYON, France —Â Walt Disney's "Alice Comedies," a series of cartoons made before Disney went to Hollywood, have been freshly restored and re-packaged for global distribution by Franc…
The Manhattan Theater Club production of "The Encounter" opened on Broadway Oct. 13, following well-received Off Broadway run last year. Marilyn Stasio’s review of that ear…
The Walt Disney Company held a graduation ceremony for its in-house accelerator program on Thursday, giving nine companies the chance to pitch their plans to change the entertainment industr…
“Hunger Games” and “Captain Phillips” scribe Billy Ray has come on to develop and pen the script for an adaptation of “Don Quixote” sources confirmed to V…
“War Paint,” the new musical about dueling titans of the cosmetic industry, has staked out a spot in the 2016-17 Broadway season, snagging the Nederlander Theater for an April…
Jeff Nathanson has been tapped to write Disney’s live-action “Lion King”, the latest animated classic being reworked. Jon Favreau is already attached to direct. The animate…
Disney Theatrical Productions has made profit-sharing offers to the actors slated to appear in an upcoming developmental lab of “Frozen,” the Broadway-bound stage musical adaptat…
Comedy Central has given an eight-episode order to “The Comedy Jam,” an unscripted series that offers comedians the chance to rock out with their favorite tunes. “Comedy…
TV is experiencing all kinds of fascinating growing pains: Half-hour shows can be tragic, hourlong shows can be comedies, and people from a wide range of classes, cultures, and backgrounds c…
Tony-winning theater director Sam Gold is looking to make the leap to the big screen as he is in negotiations for the Rosemary Kennedy film “Letters From Rosemary.” Stev…
The long Columbus Day weekend gave the Broadway box office a nice jolt last week, with overall sales shooting up 13% as tourist-magnet titles posted major gains and the one new a…
Bryan Cranston had played numerous roles " on screen (soap operas, "Seinfeld," "Malcolm in the Middle") and in life (paperboy, security guard, family man) " before landing the part that woul…
“Spy” actress Miranda Hart has joined the cast of Disney’s new retelling of “The Nutcracker.” The British actress joins Keira Knightley, who will play the Su…
The comedy crowd turned out on Broadway Monday night to celebrate two of its own, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. The two comic veterans and longtime friends officially opened their show "Oh, H…
“Clue,” the Hasbro board game and 1985 movie it inspired, is headed to the stage in a new play penned by the movie’s writer-director, Jonathan Lynn, and bowing regionally a…
Imagine it: You're standing in front of 850 people, and you can't get your words out. The moment might provoke awkwardness or discomfort in a lot of audiences, but not the one that gathers t…
John Mulaney have taken their cult hit, “Oh, Hello,” to mainstream Broadway's Lyceum Theater, a “famously haunted theater,” according to the new residents. Their pre-…
The Broadway debut of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland is long, long overdue — at least according to Gil and George, the 70-something Upper West Siders played by Nick Kroll and John …
Disney is in talks with Guy Ritchie to direct its live-action “Aladdin” movie. Dan Lin, who produced Ritchie’s two “Sherlock Holmes” movies for Warner Bro…
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures has signed a five-movie distribution agreement in India with Lionsgate, starting with Mark Wahlberg’s “Deepwater Horizon.” The exclusive deal will…
“I don’t know what’s going on but I’ll just go along with it,” a character says in Steve Martin’s “Meteor Shower,” opening at New Haven’…