Lady Gaga’s first gig since she wowed the Academy Awards took place last week just a few blocks away from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, getting much less attention than the worldwide broadcast.
The Black Rabbit Rose, a tiny venue on nearby Hudson Street that has a speakeasy vibe and usually hosts magic shows, saw a…
Nancy Sinatra Sr., the first of Frank Sinatra’s four wives and mother of his three children, has died. She was 101 and passed peacefully, according to her daughter, Nancy Sinatra Jr., via Twitter. No cause of death was given.
Frank and the former Nancy Barbato were New Jersey natives and married from 1939-1951. “My…
EXCLUSIVE: 2BFilms has acquired distribution rights to Davi’s Way, its second pickup after the launch of its debut feature First We Take Brooklyn in February this year. The documentary will debut in theaters July 13 from 2BFilms, and the company is doing a reception at Cannes next week for international…
It is every journalist's dream: Publish an article and movie producers start chasing the film rights. That's the situation Gay Talese finds himself in, but there's a twist: He wrote the article for Esquireover 50 years ago. It was called "Frank Sinatra Has A Cold" – not a very promising title, but the piece acquired…
EXCLUSIVE: At long last, 20th Century Fox is moving forward with Guys And Dolls. The studio has set Michael Grandage to direct the picture, and casting is just getting underway on the remake of the stage and movie classic. Danny Strong wrote the script. John Goldwyn is producing the picture with Working Title. Bernie…
CBS and the Recording Academy will honor the late Frank Sinatra and the 100th anniversary of his birth with a primetime tribute special Sinatra 100 – An All Star Grammy Concert.Carrie Underwood, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Garth Brooks, Adam Levine and Usher are among the initial artists set for the special. The live…
HBO’s latest Alex Gibney documentary, Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All, premiered Sunday and out-delivered the network’s year-to-date time-slot average by 73% in total viewers – 963,000 vs 556,000. This improvement, not surprising given the subject matter, was driven by adults ages 50 and older, while younger adult…
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: I need to start off on a serious note. Deadline ran an article last week that generated controversy and hurt feelings. An…
EXCLUSIVE: To get to Tony Danza's dressing room at the Nederlander Theatre, where he stars in the new Broadway musical Honeymoon in Vegas, you walk a corridor that circles the perimeter of the ancient house, where trash cans line one wall, and graffiti scrawled by Rent cast members dominates the other. Climb a set of…
HBO today announced Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All, commemorating Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. The two night, four-hour documentary weaves rarely seen footage of Sinatra’s famous 1971 “retirement” concert in Los Angeles. The film’s narrative is shaped by Sinatra’s song choices for that concert, which director Alex G…
Alcon Television Group, the television division of Alcon Entertainment, and Frank Sinatra Enterprises are teaming to produce an as yet untitled documentary about the life and music of Frank Sinatra to premiere on HBO. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney will direct the four-hour mini-series docu described as an up…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Billy Ray to script Sinatra, the film Martin Scorsese will direct about the life of singer-actor Frank Sinatra. The film will be produced by Scott Rudin, Mandalay's Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman, Scorsese's Sikelia and the iconic singer’s daughter, Tina Sinatra. It was Guber and…
