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A 1976 film might not be expected to translate seamlessly to Broadway in 2018, but for the cast and creative team behind "Network," which premiered Thursday night with Hillary Clinton in the…
Imagine finding yourself in a Victorian-era mystery, complete with dark spirits and a haunting quest of self-discovery. Now imagine you're doing all of that while wearing a virtual reality (…
The 1976 film "Network" won four Academy Awards, including best original screenplay for writer Paddy Chayefsky, for its blistering portrayal of an American society fueled by greed and bloate…
Since Bill Duke the Sundance Special Jury-prize winning film "The Killing Floor" (1984), the multi-hyphenate talent has rarely been out of sight on screens big and small. In the '90s, Duke d…
SAG-AFTRA has brought on Bryan Cranston to back its “Ads Go Union” campaign to persuade advertisers to stop using non-union actors. “Whether you’re working on a Broad…
A Los Angeles city councilman proposed on Wednesday that the city require movie theaters and sports venues to serve vegan food. The law would make Los Angeles the first city in the nation to…
Emily Blunt and Hugh Jackman sat down for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here. Anyone who's ever seen "The Greatest Showman" or "Les Misérables," or the Broadway m…
Twitter has unveiled its top-trending topics and tweets of 2018, with Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, and BTS commanding the most popular posts. Leave it to Gaga to write a tweet six years ago that…
If you thought the idea of Bruce Springsteen following his grueling run on Broadway with an E Street Band tour sounded too good to be true, now it’s official: it was. Springsteen " who…
Arthouse specialist Landmark Theatres has been sold by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban to Cohen Media Group for an undisclosed price. The sale ends months of speculation about Landmark’s…
Kanye West may have caused some unwanted drama at the opening of Broadway’s “The Cher Show” on Monday in New York, but thankfully his alleged bad behavior didn’t come…
Entertainment One's Alex Hamilton is stepping down from his post as president of international film at the end of March. Hamilton joined eOne in 2008 to launch the company's film business in…
Cher has been famous for so long, it’s tempting to think there’s nothing new to know about her. But on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater pod…
Since Drake shattered virtually every streaming record with his "Scorpion" album, released in June, it's no surprise that his 8.2 billion streams in 2018 make him not only Spotify's most-str…
Kanye West attended the first night of Broadway musical “The Cher Show” alongside Kim Kardashian West, but it’s up in the air whether he actually got anything out of the pe…
Choosing to recreate the spirit of the television variety shows that Sonny and Cher " and then Cher sans Sonny " headlined in the '70s is a choice that lands as flat as the jokes in Broadway…
In today’s film news roundup, “A Star Is Born” gets an Imax release, Oscar winner Stephen Flick gets an honor and Jeremy Renner’s “Arctic Dogs” is set for…
On a rainy Saturday in New Jersey, Meryl Streep expressed her admiration for "A Star is Born” and “The Rider” as well as “First Reformed" and her aversion to Presiden…
Late Friday night Eminem dropped the latest in his recent string of surprise releases, this one a fiery 11-minute freestyle that covers a multitude of topics including the 2017 terrorist bom…
Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” video is a bona fide overnight sensation: It has smashed YouTube’s all-time record for most views in the first 24 hours of release. Th…
Anyone who loves musical theater owes it to themselves to see "Bathtubs Over Broadway," a delightful deep-dive documentary into one man's obsession with the obscure world of industrial music…
Lady Gaga has set the record straight about her text exchange with Kesha in which she made critical remarks about fellow pop artist Katy Perry. Gaga tweeted Friday that the texts were outdat…
Four days after teasing out a clip of the music video for her latest single “Thank U, Next,” Ariana Grande has delivered in spades. Now it’s finally here, in all its early …
Bradley Cooper’s friends and colleagues gathered at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday night to salute his career as he was presented with the American Cinematheque’s 2018 Sid Grauma…
As with anyone who gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda's journey is the result of hard work and inspiration, along with influences and confluences that shaped and c…
