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The West End hit musical Back to the Future will, as widely expected, get a Broadway staging in 2023, producers confirmed in a tweet today. “Synchronize Your Watches — The Future’s coming to Broadway in 2023!!!,” the tweet, which includes a brief teaser clip, says. Production details, including casting and dates, were…

Elsa Raven, a character actress whose memorable turns were highlighted by her role as the “Save The Clock Tower” lady in the original Back to the Future, died Tuesday at home in Los Angeles. Her death was confirmed by her agent, David Shaul. Raven, whose real name was Elsa Rabinowitz, was born September 21, 1929, in…

Cartoonist and Back to the Future DeLorean production designer Ron Cobb has died at the age of 83. Mark Hamil and Star Wars officially confirmed Cobb’s passing on Monday. He died of Lewy body dementia in Sydney, Australia. “We were saddened to learn of the passing of conceptual designer Ron Cobb, who designed one of…

No one really knows what the future holds. But the two stars of the Back to the Future franchise at least can hold each other. Christopher Lloyd, who played Emmett “Doc” Brown in the film, had an Instagram reunion with protege Michael J. Fox, who played Marty McFly, who manned a time-traveling DeLorean automobile to…

Summer lovin’, had me a blast. There will be a double dose of movie nostalgia in Los Angeles this summer as the Grove is set to launch the Level 8 Drive-In, an outdoor theater that will launch with a screening of Grease on June 26. The facility atop the mall’s parking structure will offer park-and-dine ordering with…

Michael J. Fox and Denis Leary took to the stage at the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday for an hour-plus of joking banter, self-deprecation, and insight on Back to the Future, Family Ties and Fox's Parkinson's disease activism. Leary kicked things off noting Fox’s appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada. The…

Upstart publisher Ahoy Comics launched in 2018 with a comics magazine format that harkened back to the days of the early 1980s when the medium still had a presence on national newsstands and some publishers dabbled in magazine-sized publications with edgier content, painted covers and/or pages of prose content. This…

Great Scott! Back to the Future stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas Wilson reunited in 2018 to give a boost of nostalgia for fans at the Fan Expo in Boston this weekend. It’s been 33 years since the Robert Zemeckis-directed time-traveling sci-fi comedy was released in theaters. The actors…

Esquire Network bagged its best primetime and total day with a Back To The Future marathon on Wednesday to mark the date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled in the original movie. Esquire aired all three Back To The Future films throughout the day and night. The stunt clocked its best numbers in…

Despite the huzzah of Wednesday’s “Back to the Future day” for Universal, sources tell Deadline that there aren’t any plans by the studio or director Robert Zemeckis to reboot or remake the franchise in the near future. Zemeckis is notorious for not wanting to make the same picture twice. One person in the Zemeckis…

UPDATED, 12 PM with overseas numbers: Universal Pictures re-released the Back To The Future trilogy in theaters on Back To The Future Day on Wednesday and grossed $4.8M worldwide. The trio of films played on 1,815 domestic screens making $1.65M and posted $3.2M abroad. The trilogy will continue to play throughout the…

Marty McFly and Doc Brown apparently wound up at Jimmy Kimmel Live! when they time traveled to October 21, 2015 in Back To The Future. Learning he hosted a late-night talk show, they naturally wondered what happened to Johnny Carson. Kimmel didn’t go into the whole The Late Shift story, telling them simply that he was…