Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Actors on Actors is ready for its closeup. Variety and CNN have revealed the star-studded lineup for the 23rd season of Actors on Actors, the Emmy-winning franchise that pairs the year's bes…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2025
Theater industry veteran Sean Cercone is launching The Licensing House, a boutique theatrical licensing imprint that will provide representation for plays and musicals. Cercone is the founde…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:21PM[SHARE]Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will return to Broadway in the Arthur Miller classic "Death of a Salesman." A revival of the acclaimed play will run for 14 weeks at the Winter Garden Theatre,…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2025
Hollywood is giving thanks for "Zootopia 2" and "Wicked: For Good," two Thanksgiving offerings that kept movie theaters stuffed over the holiday weekend. Disney's animated sequel "Zootopia 2…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Get ready for a box office feast. Disney's animated "Zootopia 2" is poised to dominate the Thanksgiving holiday with projections of $135 million to $150 million over its first five days in t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
More than a few eyebrows were raised around Hollywood when Universal decided to turn "Wicked" into two separate films. Yes, the stage show has been a sensation on Broadway for decades. But i…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
"Wicked: For Good" is flying high at the box office. The movie musical has collected $150 million in North America and $76 million overseas for a dazzling $226 million global tally. It's a b…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]This weekend, the languishing box office has been changed for the better with "Wicked: For Good," which powered to $226 million globally. Those ticket sales rank as the fourth-biggest worldw…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:47AM[SHARE]Glinda and Elphaba remain "very very popular" at the box office. "Wicked: For Good," Universal's rendition of Act Two of the musical sensation, was No. 1 with $150 million from 4,115 North A…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
Colleen Hoover isn't happy with how it ended. Hoover, who wrote the bestseller "It Ends With Us," has addressed the controversy surrounding the 2024 film adaptation of her novel, starring Bl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]Actors on Actors is getting a bigger stage. Variety's Emmy-winning series, which pairs the best performers of the year in unscripted interviews, will air on CNN for the first time. Under a n…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2025
In the opening number of "Wicked: For Good," Glinda sings the celebratory song "Thank Goodness" to quell the anxieties of the citizens of Oz. Cinema owners will be humming a similar tune ove…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
Before "Wicked" landed on the big screen a year ago, Universal told cinema owners of its simple goal for promoting the movie musical. It planned to be, per chief marketing officer Michael Mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]Cynthia Erivo rushed to the rescue of her "Wicked: For Good" co-star after Ariana Grande was charged by a fan at the film's Singapore premiere. Grande was walking the yellow brick carpet on …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:14AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
Jane Krakowski felt a pang of jealousy the first time she saw "Oh, Mary!," the hit comedy that imagines former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as a deranged wannabe cabaret star. The Tony-winni…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola are joining forces to give Miss Piggy the movie-star treatment. A film about the temperamental diva puppet is in early development at Disney, wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
Newcomer Mae Schenk is readying to check into the Plaza hotel. She'll star in the live action "Eloise" film, based on the beloved children's book about a mischievous young girl who lives on …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:39PM[SHARE]Paul Dano is set to star in A24's drama "The Chaperones." He's joining the already-announced cast of Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, two young actors who recently shared the screen in Lion…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway this spring in the solo play "Every Brilliant Thing." The actor, who became famous for playing the Boy Who Lived in eight wildly popular "Harry Pott…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2025
Rocky Balboa is (kind of) returning to the big screen. Amazon MGM has revealed the first look at "The Offer" actor Anthony Ippolito as a young Sylvester Stallone in "I Play Rocky," a true st…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
"How do you have sex onstage?" That's the central question of "Good Sex," an unconventional play that spotlights intimacy coordinators. Here's the unorthodox part: The show pairs together tw…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Huntr/x is returning to movie theaters near you. Netflix is bringing "Kpop Demon Hunters," an animated fantasy adventure about a fictional Kpop girl group who protect the world from demons w…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
English actor James Norton will play Brian Epstein, the influential manager of the Beatles, in the upcoming four-part musical biopic by director Sam Mendes. He'll star in "The Beatles …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
Filmmaker Nancy Meyers has paid tribute to her longtime friend and frequent collaborator Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star who died on Saturday at age 79. Meyers described Keaton as "fear…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2025
"Shogun" star Anna Sawai and "The White Lotus" breakout Aimee Lou Wood are circling the roles of Yoko Ono and Pattie Boyd in the upcoming four-part "Beatles" biopic by director Sam Mendes, V…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
"The Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Kandi Burruss is returning to Broadway in the musical "& Juliet." She'll join the cast as Angélique for a limited run starting on Dec. 11 and concl…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney, the wife of Sir Paul, in the upcoming four-part Beatles biopic by director Sam Mendes. The four-time Oscar-nominated actor will star alongside Paul M…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2025
Monday is usually a day of rest for Broadway. But instead of catching up on sleep, this season's biggest stars were out in force at Variety's Business of Broadway Breakfast to preview the fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
Ethan Slater is in the calm before the "Wicked" storm. After a monthslong respite, the Broadway actor " who plays the Munchkin Boq in the screen adaptation " is preparing to embark on a publ…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2025
If you've heard anything about the '80s musical "Chess," it's probably this: catchy songs, nonsensical story. When I posit as much to Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, the s…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Amanda Seyfried's sweeping musical drama "The Testament of Ann Lee" has found distribution after its Venice film festival premiere, where it was embraced with a rousing 15-minute standing ov…
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