Jennifer Hudson is joining the producing team for Dreamgirls on Broadway. Hudson joins the team of the revival after winning an Academy Award for her role as Effie White in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls. The musical is planned for Broadway this fall, with direction and choreography by Camille A. Brown, choreographer of Hell’s…
Sturla Holm Lægreid’s spectacular on-air confession of infidelity didn’t win him any points with his ex-girlfriend. The Norwegian biathlon athlete went viral Tuesday for winning a bronze medal and then tearfully admitting to cheating on his girlfriend in his post-win interview. Lægreid pleaded with the unnamed woman to give him another chance. In a Wednesday…
What is it like to grow up in a fishing community where a man’s worth is more often defined by strength than not? And what can the lobsters that this community revolves around tell us about life on the shore? Pete Muller navigates such questions in the documentary Bucks Harbor, his feature directorial debut, world…
Activist investor Ancora Capital, led by CEO Fred DiSanto, has revealed a major stake in Warner Bros. Discovery and is pressuring the studio to abandon its deal to merge with Netflix. Holding a WBD stake at around $200 million, Ancora said it will vote against the proposed merger between Netflix and the rival studio as…
Paging Dr. Kay Scarpetta — we’re gonna need you to scrub back in for this one. Nicole Kidman is up to the task in the trailer (below) for Amazon’s Scarpetta series, which debuts on Prime Video March 11. The adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling novels unfolds across two timelines. The first tracks a young Kay…
WASHINGTON — A handful of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote Tuesday night that would have kept intact a ban on congressional action against President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs. Republican Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Kevin Kiley of California joined all Democrats in a214-217 vote blocking language to continue a…
Harmony Korine doesn’t do anything by the book. In fact, he doesn’t even read books. “Oh, I haven’t read a book in two or three decades,” Korine says, not proudly but matter-of-factly, but maybe also a little proudly. The iconoclasticGummoandSpring Breakersdirector may be associated with earlier eras of outre cinema. But provocateurs never go away…
ATG Entertainment, a leading theater producer and theater owner in the U.S. and the U.K, has appointed Melanie Smith as its new CEO. Smith takes on the role, effective Wednesday, after serving as CEO of the NEC Group, the U.K.’s largest live events venue operator and serving as deputy chair at the dance organization Sadler’s…
