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Andrew Lloyd Webber is speaking out against the untenable costs of Broadway after the early closure of Cats: The Jellicle Ball. “The painful truth is that, with things as they are, bringing almost any new show to Broadway makes little financial sense,” the Cats composer wrote on X Tuesday. “The costs are immense. Creators, writers…
Sam Rockwell is bringing a new revival of A View from the Bridge to New York. Rockwell will star as Eddie, alongside Marin Ireland as Beatrice and Alfred Molina as Alfieri in Arthur Miller’s tragic family drama, directed by Neil Pepe. Rockwell is also producing the play, alongside partner Mark Berger, at La MaMa’s Ellen…
It’s been clear for months that David Ellison is a supporter of the idea of a federal film tax incentive, which has been gathering support in the legislature. Why wouldn’t he be? As the head of one studio and the aspiring leader of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, his entertainment empire stands to benefit from…
The acclaimed Netflix limited series The Beast in Me received nominations for nine Primetime Emmys on July 8, including best limited or anthology series, as well as best actress (Claire Danes) and actor (Matthew Rhys) in a limited or anthology series or movie. Another of its noms came in the category of best original main…
Nansun Shi, the pioneering Hong Kong producer and executive who helped shape the territory’s cinematic golden age as the co-founder of Film Workshop and who later produced Infernal Affairs — the cult crime thriller Martin Scorsese would remake as the Oscar-winning The Departed — died Monday at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. She was 75….
Disney‘s live-action Moana did not make the summer splash that the studio had hoped, leading to questions about not only what might be in store at the box office for the Dwayne Johnson-led title but also the potential for developing remakes of other animated favorites. After last year’s Lilo & Stitch had a record-breaking $183…
Venice has picked the juries for its main sidebar Orizzonti (Horizions) and for its best first feature honor. French director Valérie Donzelli (The Queen of Hearts, Marguerite & Julien) will chair the Orizzonti jury, overseeing a five-person group that will include Criterion Collection/ Janus Films president Peter Becker; U.S./Hong Kong director Elizabeth Lo (Mistress Dispeller),…
After fans waited more than three hours for the finale in Jay-Z‘s three-night stand at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, the rapper addressed the extensive delay early in the show, telling those in the crowd there were thousands of people outside and that the show was pushed back to back to avoid crowd safety issues. “Let…
The Tom Hollands have come together for a search engine-confusing conversation about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and broken the internet. British actor Tom Holland, playing Telemachus in the film, joined his fellow countryman, the historian andThe Rest Is Historyco-hostTom Holland,to discuss the extraordinary scale of the adaptation, acting in Imax, and balancing the movie’s…
Sam Neill, the Kiwi actor who cemented his place in Hollywood history playing Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park franchise, died Monday. He was 78. In a film, television and theater career spanning six decades, Neill played several characters outside of Dr. Grant, for which he is most widely known for. After a rich…
