Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Launches Online Reading Series Of Overlooked Black Plays

A Beautiful Noise, the new name for the previously untitled Broadway-bound musical about the life and songs of Neil Diamond, will stage its world premiere at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre in June 2022, producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio announced today.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has launched its first-ever initiative focused on providing tools and resources to empower Black women to own their health in 2021 and beyond. The network’s OWN Your Health campaign seeks to bring awareness, education, resources, and a sense of community to address the unique health concerns facing Black women today, encouraging them to put their health and well-being first.

The team behind the widely-popular Serial podcast will take on election fraud with the limited audio series The Improvement Association.

More good news for the arthouse scene, Laemmle Theatres is reopening six of its eight Los Angeles-based cinemas on April 9.

Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade) has been tapped to play Boston Celtics icon Larry Bird in Adam McKay’s Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, Deadline has learned. HBO declined comment.

NEW YORK -- New York City is taking steps toward the reopening of the city's theaters, creating vaccination and testing sites for stage workers in a bid to restore a key part of New York's draw.“It’s time to raise the curtain and bring Broadway back,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a virtual press conference Thursday.

On March 26 1969, on a quiet country road outside Biloxi, Mississippi, John Kennedy Toole took his own life. Aged just 31, the literary professor and author left behind two unpublished novels.

Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock are about to be co-stars!

Angelique Jackson Daniel Radcliffe is the latest to join the cast of Paramount’s “The Lost City of D,” taking on a villainous role in the romantic adventure.Radcliffe joins Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in the film, which follows a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock), who was was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model (Tatum), until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Radcliffe is set to play the villain Paramount’s romantic action adventure comedy The Lost City Of D starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. Patti Harrison and Da’Vine Joy Randolph are also on board. Bullock is producing through her Fortis Films banner with Liza Chasin and her company 3dot Productions. Seth Gordon is also attached to produce via Exhibit A.

Ilana Glazer is pregnant!The 33-year-old star and her husband, David Rooklin, are expecting their first child together.

EXCLUSIVE: Da’Vine Joy Randolph has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures romantic action adventure comedy The Lost City Of D starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. Patti Harrison is also on board. Bullock is producing through her Fortis Films banner, with Liza Chasin and her company, 3dot Productions. Seth Gordon is also attached to produce via Exhibit A.

Ilana Glazer is going to be a mom! The Broad City alum shared her pregnancy news on Wednesday, March 17.

Omar Sy broke out in the 2011 box office smash The Intouchables and quickly made a name for himself worldwide as the French film rolled out to global acclaim. Now, as the 10th anniversary of that award-winning $427M grosser approaches, he’s back on the international stage with Netflix’s Lupin.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired mob crime-drama The Birthday Cake for UK-Ireland and Australia/New Zealand.

Vivienne Chow Swiss art fair giant Art Basel is venturing into online streaming with a new digital film program featuring artist-made films.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne of the nation’s most colorful sports advertisers says it plans to launch its own sports-talk show because consumers are growing wary of the commercials that have helped it capture so much attention over the decades.Anheuser-Busch and Panay Films will launch “Not A Sports Show,” a six-episode series that features host and comedian Lil Rel Howery chatting with athletes like former Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce, snowboarder Shaun White and Los Angeles Sparks

Also Read: 'Bird Box' Star Sarah Paulson Is Apparently the One Person in America That Hasn't Watched 'Bird Box' (Video)Susanne Bier directed Bullock in 2018’s “Bird Box,” which imagined a world in which unseen forces caused people to spontaneously commit suicide, leading all of society into a post-apocalyptic world. Bullock played a mother who blindfolds herself and her children in an attempt to reach safety.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorA Spanish movie spin-off of Netflix 2018 sci-fi horror hit “Bird Box,” which starred Sandra Bullock and was directed by Susanne Bier, is in the works.The as yet to be titled movie will start production toward the end of this year in Spain.Alex and David Pastor, whose credits include “The Occupant,” “The Head,” “Carriers” and “Los Últimos Dias,” will write and direct the project.The producers are Dylan Clark (“Bird Box,” “The Batman”), Chris Morgan