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Although most of Greg Wells' professional life has involved producing or writing for big pop artists (including Adele, Katy Perry, OneRepublic & Timbaland, Twenty One Pilots and John Leg…
Mel Brooks, who helmed the classic "Star Wars" parody "Spaceballs," has not returned to the franchise since his 1987 feature. And at a pitch meeting for the "Spaceballs" sequel, it was up to…
December 2024 delivered a robust close to the year for the U.K. and Ireland box office, generating £115.5 million ($143.5 million), a 21% increase compared to December 2023's £95.5 mil…
The Palm Springs International Film Awards was an evening brimming with emotion, highlighted by a heartfelt tribute from Nicole Kidman, who received the International Star Award for her perf…
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are revealing which scenes cut from "Wicked" left them most heartbroken to see deleted from the Jon M. Chu-directed movie. Several of the scenes are featured …
Back in 2019, Cynthia Erivo received the Palm Springs International Film Festival's Breakthrough Performance Award. Just six years later, she will be lauded with Variety's Creative Impact in…
It's become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are…
Bruce Springsteen is providing more insight to his upcoming biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, saying that "The Bear" star "sings very well" in the film. Titled "Deliver Me From Nowhere," t…
Not even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights.…
Spotlighting Oscar hopefuls and international heavy hitters, the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival kicks off its 36th edition with "Better Man," an audacious crowd-pleaser in which the charac…
Seeing Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in action is a remarkable study in contrasts. Even after months of their omnipresence on social media and TV screens " as fans have consumed every mors…
From thrillers like "Babygirl" and "Love Lies Bleeding" to genre-bending horror flicks like "The Substance" to inspirational sports dramas like "The Fire Inside," women directed some of last…
Jennifer Lopez keeps having to remind Judy Robles that she deserves all the attention she's been getting as the pair promote "Unstoppable." The inspirational sports drama has been earning aw…
Stephen Schwartz will see you now. The worthier wizard of "Wicked" is the one who wrote one of Broadway's all-time top song scores and now, a little over two decades later, has overseen the …
After Linda Lavin died on Sunday at the age of 87, tributes have poured in from her co-stars and collaborators in the industry. Lavin became known as a character actor for her Emmy-nominated…
Buddy the Elf is back…although not like anyone could imagine. Will Ferrell unexpectedly dressed up as his iconic character from Jon Favreau's 2003 Christmas comedy "Elf" while attending th…
Disney's "Mufasa: The Lion King" and Paramount's "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" are duking it out for first place at the North American box office with each of the family friendly films bringing in …
Universal's "Wicked" is officially the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in global box office history, overtaking 2008's "Mamma Mia" to notch the harmonious milestone. "Wicked" has genera…
Linda Lavin, star of CBS' long-running sitcom "Alice" and a Tony winner for Neil Simon's play "Broadway Bound" who remained active in TV and on stage, died Sunday. She was 87. A representati…
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 9…
America loves a parade. America also loves to learn from Oprah, to rock with Ryan Seacrest on New Year's Eve and to belt out the hits with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden. The list of th…
If you're one of the many who caught "Wicked" in a theater, you've probably attended a sing-along screening " albeit unintentionally. As a theater kid, I understand both sides; it's hard not…
Disney's "Mufasa: The Lion King" is reigning over the holiday box office. The family film, which is a prequel to "The Lion King" (both the 1994 animated classic and the less canonical 2019 p…
Mark O'Meara, a Virginia-based movie theater owner, wonders and worries constantly about what exactly his customers will buy tickets to see on any given weekend. It's not that people have fa…
Cynthia Erivo knows how to do this. Erivo has already dazzled audiences with her powerhouse performances on stage and screen. Still, her turn as Elphaba in Jon M. Chu's "Wicked" has cemented…