Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor and Lena Hall will be joining a cast of Broadway greats next week in honoring stage legend Elaine Stritch, Variety has learned. The event, “Everybody, Rise! A Celebration…
This year's director race is all about the Oscar virgins. Most of the contenders in the running — starting with Richard Linklater ("Boyhood") — have never been nominated in the category before. But…
Even with Andrew Garfield attached to star and a ripped-from-the-headlines plot, a challenging film like "99 Homes" barely made it to the screen. It took prolific producer Ashok Amritraj and his Hyde…
There are no bathrooms in outer space. That's what the cast of "Interstellar" learned working on Christopher Nolan's latest sci-fi epic, which premiered in New York on Monday night at the AMC Loews…
If you believe the awards season chatter, the Oscar race is practically over—even though the season is only beginning. There's already been a lot of talk about the frontrunners this year (from "The…
For 18 seasons, "The View" has been one of the crown jewels of ABC Daytime programming block. But in a significant restructuring that could foreshadow the management style of incoming president Ben…
COVER STORY: Eddie Redmayne always knew that the toughest critic of "The Theory of Everything" would be the man he portrays onscreen — Stephen Hawking. The 72-year-old physicist recently made the…
Eddie Redmayne appears on the cover of this week’s Variety for his performance as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” which is shaping up to be one of the major contenders in this year’s…
Focus Features "The Theory of Everything" hosted its U.S. premiere at MoMA on Monday night, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house following the screening of the Stephen Hawking biopic starring…
For this week’s Variety cover story on Bill Murray, we reached out to director Cameron Crowe about what it was like working with the legendary comedian on his upcoming, as-yet untitled film, which is…
