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After making a name for herself on TikTok, Charli D’Amelio took a spin through the Dancing With the Stars ballroom in 2022 before bringing those skills to Broadway with her October 2024 debut in & Juliet. While the influencer was supposed to end her run as Charmian in January 2025, it was extended twice. “I’m beyond excited to join the Broadway community—it’s a dream I’ve had since I was a little girl,” she said in a September 2024 statement ahead of her nearly yearlong run. “To be able to make my Broadway debut—especially in the cast of & Juliet, is…
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Box Office segment, Variety’s Jack Dunn unpacks another big weekend for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” as well as the art of analyzing Friday night box office numbers. And Marc Malkin brings us a Just for Variety interview with John Waters, the iconoclastic director who turns 80 on April 22. Listen to the full podcast here It was other strong weekeed for Universal and Illumination’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” which held strong to the No. 1 spot for the second week. Dunn, Variety‘s associate web editor who covers the news…
Pictures courtesy of Netflix and Dev Singh Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is a rare horror treat from Netflix. There aren’t enough horror shows, simple as that, but creator Haley Z. Boston’s show gives fans multiple styles of horror all in one season. For editor Dev Singh, he got to cut road trip horror — a couple isolated on the road, with strange and violent happenings. Then, in the penultimate episode, it’s a contained chamber piece in which claustrophobia and anxiety run rampant in long takes. The project came to Singh at a funny time. The editor, who’s…
There’s a moment early in Beast — a raw, pulse-quickening opening sequence when the film lights up the screen and tips its hat to what’s to come. Directed by Tyler Atkins and anchored by a career-defining performance from Daniel MacPherson, Beast plays like an MMA fight set in Rocky-land. For MacPherson, the transformation into Patton James — an MMA fighter nicknamed “The Beast” — wasn’t just cosmetic. “I don’t think anyone expected the guy who used to host Dancing with the Stars to play an MMA fighter called ‘The Beast,’” he tells The Hollywood Reporter with a grin that still…
Lena Dunham is looking back at her professional break-up with Jenni Konner. If you didn’t know, Lena, 39, and Jenni, 54, used to be very good friends and worked together on Girls as co-showrunners and writers. They also ran the newsletter Lenny Letter together from 2015 to 2018. In 2018, they released a joint statement where they announced that they will no longer be working together. Ahead of the release of her new memoir Famesick, Lena spoke to The New York Times where she made some rare comments about her falling out with Jenni. Keep reading to find out more…“I…
It’s a great time to work your way through your Netflix watch list because the streaming service will be adding a number of amazing new titles in the coming weeks. On top of the exciting new original series, like Beef season 2 and the Duffer Brothers’ new production The Boroughs, Netflix will also be adding exciting hits like NBC’s underrated sci-fi series La Brea and the Veronica Mars movie.But there’s also something extra special to look forward to for anime fans. If you were bummed out that Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 just ended its run and you now have to…
Welcome back to Tony Talk, where Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. In this installment, we look at another major theatre awards ceremony sleuthing for clues at to what might contend for Tonys way out in 2027. Sam Eckmann: David, some big theater news from across the pond could shake up our hometown Tony race. Winners of the 2026 Olivier Awards were unveiled at a starry ceremony at Royal Albert Hall. We’ll dive into the awards domination of everyone’s favorite marmalade-loving teddy bear, but before that we need to discuss the single show that just got a major Tony boost: Punch by James…
Rory McIlroy just made golf history — again. But honestly? His mom might have stolen the show. The 36-year-old won his second straight green jacket at the 2026 Masters Tournament on Sunday, April 13, beating Scottie Scheffler by one shot. That alone is a massive deal. He’s now just the fourth golfer ever to win back-to-back Masters, joining Jack Nicklaus (1965–1966), Nick Faldo (1989–1990) and Tiger Woods (2001–2002). But it’s the family story behind this win that has the internet in its feelings. During the final round, eagle-eyed fans spotted something special sitting next to Rory McIlroy’s mom, Rosie McIlroy.…
Studiocanal, Europe’s largest independent film studio, hit Vegas today with director Danny Boyle and the opening scene of his new film Ink, the story of British tabloid The Sun. It teased a next Paddington film and announced a reboot of John Carpenter’s iconic Escape from New York and a reimagining of 1981 horror classic The Howling. In an extended scene of Ink, Guy Pearce’s Rupert Murdoch and Larry Lamb, played by Jack O’Connell, whom the young media baron hired to run The Sun when he purchased it in 1969, are exploring the five “W’s” of journalism — who, where, when, what and why. The film is…
Nickelodeon “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is one of the best animated shows of all time. The Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko-created Nickelodeon series aced the macro and the micro of epic fantasy adventure to such an outstanding degree — with such care for the fundamentals of narrative structuring, world-building, visual storytelling, and character development — that it remains a cultural phenomenon two decades later, soon to get a Season 2 of its Netflix live-action adaptation. Given how bold, propulsive, thoughtfully-written, and just plain fun the show is for the near-entirety of its three seasons, picking out highlights is an exceptionally tough task. This list goes…