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EXCLUSIVE: On the basis of a script and four-minute promo reel, Netflix has won an auction and acquired world rights to The Starling, the Ted Melfi-directed drama that stars Melissa McCarthy, Kevin Kline, Chris O'Dowd and Timothy Olyphant. Sources said the deal is in the $20 million range and while that might not be…

After starring together in Ivan Reitman’s Dave and Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver and Oscar winner Kevin Kline will headline Amblin Partners’ adaptation of the New York Times bestseller The Good House, which begins production this week in Canada. The film will be directed by Emmy nominee Maya…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Kline has been set to star opposite Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd in The Starling, the Ted Melfi-directed drama that is being fully financed by Limelight. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood‘s Timothy Olyphant, Daveed Diggs (Hamilton), Skyler Gisondo (Booksmart), Loretta Devine (Grey’s Anatomy), Laura…

Nearly 10 years ago, Billy Crystal and writer Quinton Peeples started work on a screenplay they’d eventually call Have A Nice Day. Not terribly long in Hollywood development years, but eons removed from our current political climate. Performed and recorded (by Amazon’s Audible) as a staged Off Broadway reading last…

Stephen Colbert, presenting the award for best revival of a musical at tonight’s Tony Awards, took a moment to maul President Donald Trump. It has been a “great year for revivals in general – especially that one they’re reviving in Washington D.C.” Colbert began. “It started way off Broadway, in the 80’s, on 5th…

At the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, a small and personal comedy titled Dean slayed the competition and won a top prize for its writer-director-star Demetri Martin. CBS Films wisely picked it up and is now opening it right in the heart of summer blockbuster season. If you are looking for a little respite from the…

Sara Bareilles’ stint in the title role of Waitress continues to pay dividends for the holdover from last season, which brought her a Tony nomination for the score. Last week the show sold $1.3 million worth of tickets at the Nederlander Organization’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, almost 30 per cent above its gross…

UPDATE, 2 PM: Adds comments from Mary Beth Piel and Denée Benton in last paragraphs. EARLIER: Blame Canada: Come From Away, a long-aborning musical about the Newfoundland town that hosted some 7,000 travelers diverted there when U.S. airspace was closed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, came away with…

And they’re off. Eligibility for this season’s Tony Awards began last spring with the opening May 25 of Paramour, Cirque du Soleil’s first made-for-Broadway venture (it closed April 16) and ending with last night’s opening of A Doll’s House, Part 2. The season included 13 new musicals, six revivals of musicals, 10 new…

Kevin Kline has loomed, larger than life, over Broadway for more than four decades: as the preening, prat-falling Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance; the proboscoid panache-flaunting poet Cyrano de Bergerac; the narcissistic hunk Bruce Granit in On The Twentieth Century, among other choice…

Music is in the air as the Broadway roster fills up with new shows, especially the tuners that have been circling the airspace over Times Square looking to land as close as possible to the April 27 Tony Awards cut-off date. Four new shows began previews last week, including two big new musicals that enjoyed strong…

“I want to stop talking about how I’m not grieving right.” Here is the first trailer for Dean, which scooped the top narrative award at Tribeca last year. Written, directed by and starring Demetri Martin, it follows a son and father as they come to terms with the recent loss of the family matriarch — in diametrically…