Netflix is lacing up its cleats for a new project about the 1999 U.S. Women's Soccer team.
25.04.2020 - 00:47 / variety.com
By Gene Maddaus
Senior Media Writer
A handful states are starting to reopen for business, but theaters around the country remain closed. The major chains are not expecting to open until July at the earliest.
But in Oklahoma, one theater is making plans to open well before then.
Gov. Kevin Stitt — who stirred controversy in March when he posted a photo of himself and his kids at a crowded restaurant — announced on Wednesday that many businesses, including theaters, will be allowed to reopen on
Netflix is lacing up its cleats for a new project about the 1999 U.S. Women's Soccer team.
The Aussie trio will help host the “virtual guided tour”
Close your eyes and imagine the happiest thing in the world. What did you come up with? Betty White starring in a ? What a coincidence, me too! And get this: It's actually happening.Yup, you read that right: Betty White, the undisputed queen of joy, will be the lead of a new , another pinnacle of joy.
Jamie Lee Curtis is bringing a passion project to life at Lifetime.
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are quarantined in Oklahoma with her three kids (Kingston, 13, Zuma, 11, and Apollo, 6), and Blake is making big plans for the kids to shower their mom with love on Mother’s Day (May 10). “Blake is looking to go the chivalrous route for Gwen during Mother’s Day,” a source told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.
By Gene Maddaus
MGM has acquired the rights to the Ron Howard-directed Thai cave rescue movie Thirteen Lives. The film tells the true story of the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded, impenetrable cave system in Thailand, which gained international attention.
EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline.
By Gene Maddaus
May has officially arrived and brought with it plenty of sunshine and blooming flowers and probably even worse seasonal allergies. But that also means a new month full of great TV shows and films hitting streaming services, and there are some great options to soak up while you wait out the coronavirus.
is still going live during social distancing!
Imax on Wednesday unveiled its first-quarter results, which were hit hard by movie theater closures due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The large-format distributor on Wednesday posted a loss of $49.4 million, compared with a year-earlier profit of $8.3 million, as overall revenue tumbled 56.5 percent to $34.9 million from $80.2 million in the year-ago period.
By Greg Evans
Kevin Bacon revealed that he’s willing to play Joe Exotic in the event a movie based on Netflix’s breakout docuseries hit “Tiger King” is ever made. Like everyone else who's stuck inside self-quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic, the 61-year-old actor has been binge-watching the documentary about the former Oklahoma zookeeper, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage.
By Marc Malkin
By Gene Maddaus
If you're missing the experience of seeing a movie in a theater during your coronavirus quarantine, you're not alone. With social distancing in full swing, there's no telling when public gatherings will resume, and one of the many work-arounds we've seen has been more and more studios choosing to release movies early on-demand, or in the case of Trolls World Tour, bypassing theatrical release entirely.