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Billy Crystal will star in a regional stage production of his new, in-development musical adaptation of his 1992 feature film comedy Mr. Saturday Night. Set to debut at the Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshire town of Pittsfield, Massachusetts – a theater that launched such eventual Broadway productions as The 25t…

Right on the heels of Anthony Hopkins’ Best Actor Oscar win for playing an elderly man slipping deeper into dementia in The Father comes another movie with another veteran star in a very different but similarly affecting approach to the same subject. Although Billy Crystal’s greatest success in movies has come from…

Charlie Burnz is a veteran comedy writer with family issues. Emma Payge is a singer whose ex is a fan of Charlie, so he bid on lunch with him at a charity auction. Winning bid: 22 bucks. But she goes instead, and one awkward allergic reaction later, an unlikely friendship is born. When Charlie’s analyst asks them…

EXCLUSIVE: The Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal dramedy Here Today has been picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions' Stage 6 Films and will open in theaters on May 7. Crystal directed the movie, repping his eighth time directing and his third on a feature film. Crystal co-wrote the screenplay with his…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. A little less than four months to the Oscars. Are you counting the days, folks? You actually have to wonder how the astounding and constantly unfolding events in America and the world are going to impact Hollywood’s favorite guessing game: who will…

Some of the biggest names in comedy are coming together tonight on NBC for a Byron Allen-driven special to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The two-hour broadcast titled the “Feeding America Comedy Festival” will be co-hosted by Allen, Tiffany Haddish, Billy Crystal, and Kenan Thompson. The special will feature…

2ND UPDATE, 10:45 AM: NBC, Byron Allen Entertainment Studios and Funny or Die have added Tina Fey, Michael Che, Will Smith, Will Ferrell, Wanda Sykes, Stephen Colbert and Colin Quinn to the lineup for the Feeding America Comedy Festival. The event today also set its co-hosts for the event: Kenan Thompson, Billy Crystal…

It has been about eight years since Billy Crystal toplined a feature film, 2012’s Parental Guidance, but now he’s back and going all indie on us in the modest but touching Standing Up, Falling Down. Even though this story doesn’t center on Crystal’s character, an alcoholic dermatologist named Marty, this fine human…

Comedian and nine-time Oscar host Billy Crystal and Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the show twice, commiserated about being made obsolete during a less-than-promotional segment on Kimmel’s ABC late-night show Thursday. (Click above for the full segment, which starts with a few minutes of Oscar talk.) “This year is another…

Gossip Girl alum Penn Badgley, who currently stars on the Netflix series, You, and Tony-winning actress Laura Benanti have been added to the cast of Here Today along with Anna Deavere Smith (Black-ish, The West Wing, Nurse Jackie) and Nyambi Nyambi (The Good Fight, Blindspotting). Emmy winners Billy Crystal and…

Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal will star together in the Astute Films’ comedy Here Today, a project that the latter Saturday Night Live alum will co-write and direct. Here Today is billed as a May/September romantic comedy – but without the romance. Crystal plays veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly…

There’s a wonderful reminiscence in Matt Ratner’s dramedy Standing Up, Falling Down to the Henry Winkler-directed 1988 dramedy Memories of Me: Yes, both star Billy Crystal, however, both pics pair younger and older generations of comedy. Memories of Me starred Crystal as a responsible middle age guy who tries to mend…