By Variety Staff
Kenny Baker, the man who brought the iconic “Star Wars” character R2-D2 to life, has died. He was 83. The Guardian, which confirmed the death, issued a statement from Baker’s niece, Abigail Shield…
By Lawrence Yee
The following 2016 Olympic events will be shown on NBC networks Saturday, August 13, 2016. Highlights from the Olympics schedule include Michael Phelps competing in his final swimming event, the…
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By Jay Weissberg
A hospitalized young man in a partial body cast spends years striving to hold on to some quality of life in Radu Jude's 1930s-set distancing drama.
By Arya Roshanian
“Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins responded to an open letter allegedly written by a former Warner Bros. employee that slammed the production company for releasing an array of subpar superhero…
By Cynthia Littleton
It was the third strike in five years that led to Thomas Gibson's ouster from "Criminal Minds" on Friday, according to multiple industry sources with knowledge of the situation. The actor was fired…
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By Arya Roshanian
Glenn Yarbrough, one of the founding members of the folk group The Limeliters, died in his Nashville home on Thursday evening, according to The Tennessean. He was 86. Yarbrough was best known for his…
By Variety Staff
With “Stranger Things” a bonafide, nostalgia-riddled hit for Netflix, and series creators Matt and Ross Duffer eager to tie up the “dangling threads” left at the end of season one as the streaming…
By James Rainey
David Thornton, a senior executive in Paramount Picture’s licensing division, died earlier this week of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound near his home in Valencia, Calif., according to the…
By Gordon Cox
The 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival launches tonight, and somewhere in this year’s crop you might find the next “Urinetown,” the 2002 Tony Award winner that launched at the 1999…