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Giant, a play about Roald Dahl and antisemitism, will transfer to Broadway this spring. The play, starring John Lithgow, transfers to Broadway after an Olivier Award-winning run on the West End at the Royal Court Theatre. Lithgow, who won an Olivier for his performance as Dahl, will transfer with the production. The play follows the…
Shari Redstone isn’t exiting the media business just yet. A few months after handing over the keys to Paramount, the mogul has been named chair of the board for the global entertainment studio Sipur (it means “story” in Hebrew), best known for its Emmy-winning Oct. 7 documentaryWe Will Dance Again and the Netflix drama series…
Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy and Sundance Film Festival founder who starred in such movies asButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,The Way We WereandAll the President’s Men— and who won an Academy Award for directingOrdinary People — died Tuesday. He was 89. Redford died in his sleep at his home outside Provo, Utah, his…
Iran‘s official selection committee has picked Ali Zarnegar’s thriller Cause of Death: Unknown to represent the country for the 2026 Oscar race in the best international feature category. The drama follows a group of strangers traveling through Iran’s Lut Desert. When one of them suddenly dies in the middle of the night, emergency services refuse…
For much of the past decade, the Toronto International Film Festival has struggled to hold its ground in the global awards-season sweepstakes. Once the launchpad for Oscar juggernauts from Slumdog Millionaire to La La Land, TIFF has in recent years watched rivals Venice and Telluride siphon away its prestige premieres, while buyers grumbled about thinner…
The start of the college football season, and a large cohort of streaming-first viewers returning to school, put a stop to several months of declines in cable and broadcast TV viewing in August. Streaming still outdrew the combined TV use of cable and network outlets for the month, according to Nielsen’s Gauge numbers, but for…
If there was any lingering doubt regarding Bob Odenkirk‘s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the task after Nobody and Nobody 2, he wildly ups the ante with an unapologetically over-the-top small-town crime thriller. Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John…
Tom Brady is coming out of retirement and returning to the football field … the flag football field. The NFL legend will headline a new event called The Fanatics Flag Football Classic, the brainchild of Brady, Fanatics, Fox Sports and OBB Media. The event will be held Saturday, March 21 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh,…
Paula Shaw, the veteran character actress who portrayed Jason’s mother in the horror crossover film Freddy vs. Jason and appeared in a string of heartwarming Hallmark Channel holiday movies, has died. She was 84. Shaw, who led a workshop called “The Max” at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, for nearly 30 years, died…
Some claims in a novel lawsuit from a production company for Blade Runner 2049, accusing Tesla of feeding images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials and Warner Bros. Discovery of facilitating the alleged infringement, have been dismissed. Tesla’s partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to promote its robotaxi…
