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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Stiller has been set to direct London, a Lionsgate feature film based on a new short story/high-concept thriller by bestselling crime writer Jo Nesbo. Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth is adapting, and Oscar Isaac will star and produce with Stiller. Stiller is coming off winning a DGA Award for…

Madonna has canceled the first stop in London of her Madame X tour, telling fans she’s “deeply sorry” but was forced to bow out because of an injury. The music legend was scheduled to perform the first of 15 shows Monday at the London Palladium. In an Instagram post Saturday, the Material Girl said she’s been “plagued&#8221…

Whoopi Goldberg can’t shake the habit: The View moderator will reprise her starring role as Deloris Van Cartier – “a little older, a little seasoned” – in Sister Act: The Musical, this time bringing her signature film role to the London stage in a newly adapted revival of the 2006 musical. Goldberg, previously…

Stevie Wonder will undergo a kidney transplant later this year, the legendary singer announced Saturday at a concert in London. Wonder told fans he had found a donor and would soon be taking time off from performing. “I’m going to have surgery. I’m going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year,” he said…

James Corden is heading home for a week this summer. CBS said today that The Late Late Show will air four shows from London on June 17-20. The third round of Late Late Show Britcasts will feature guests including Gillian Anderson, Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks…

The new stage musical version of DreamWorks’ The Prince of Egypt will make its London premiere next year, with a West End production set to begin previews Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at the Dominion Theatre. The 32-week limited engagement will officially open Tuesday, February 25. Announced today by producers DreamWork…

Broadway hit Waitress will make its London bow next spring, producers announced today, with performances beginning February at the Adelphi Theatre on the West End. Casting was not announced, but the production will have an all-female creative team, a first for a West End musical, according to producers. The same…

Some 1 million Brits applied for tickets to watch The Late Late Show with James Corden, which has just finished a successful week in London, with Corden and exec producers Ben Winston and Rob Crabbe telling Deadline how much fun the run in the British capital has been. No surprise, really, when the Gavin & Stacey…

Paul McCartney will join James Corden in an all-new Carpool Karaoke during the London broadcasts of CBS’s The Late Late Show next week. Corden’s show will broadcast from Central Hall Westminster, but McCartney will give Corden’s viewers a tour of his hometown of Liverpool as they sing a medley of McCartney’s hits and…

Magic Mike Live is finally heading to London after creator and star Channing Tatum revealed the news live on the final of Britain's Got Talent. The high-profile live show, which is based on the 2012 film starring Tatum and Matthew McConaughey and directed by Steven Soderbergh, will land in London in November at the…

UPDATE: London police say they are standing down at a scene of panic Oxford Circus earlier today, with reports of shots fired apparently unfounded. “Additional officers remain on duty in the West End to reassure the public,” the Metropolitan police have tweeted. There was some confusion as to what exactly happened at…

Donald Trump this morning took to Twitter to demand ESPN “apologize for untruth,” saying the Disney-owned sports network “is paying a really big price for its politics” and claiming viewers are dumping the network in “RECORD” numbers. It appears to be a reference to ESPN host Jemele Hill’s recent Twitter tirade in…