Michael Keaton News

Tyne Daly has signed on to the cast of Jon Watts' SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios.

Aimee Garcia joins the cast of LUCIFER on FOX in series regular role of 'Ella'. Ella Lopez is the department's new forensic scientist... and she sure does love her job. Ella is a bit of a walking contradiction.

Aimee Garcia, just coming off of CBS' now-cancelled RUSH HOUR, has joined the cast of Fox's LUCIFER, starring Tom Ellis.

Writers Theatre, under leadership of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, announces a second two-week extension of Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody created by Tim Ryder and Tim Sniffen, written by Tim Sniffen and directed by Stuart Carden and Michael Halberstam. Due to demand, the production now runs through August 14, 2016, as the inaugural production of the Gillian Theatre at Writers Theatre's new theater center at 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe.

Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films, today announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to the animated feature film PLAYMOBIL

Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a premier global content leader, is storming the Croisette with one of its strongest film slates ever as the 2016 Cannes Film Festival kicks off this week, the Company announced today.

The George Eastman Museum will honor actor Michael Keaton with the George Eastman Award, the museum's highest honor in motion pictures, on Thursday, June 9.

Abingdon Theatre Company will present a special one-night only engagement of THE DORK KNIGHT, written and performed by Jason O'Connell, on Monday, May 16 at 7pm in the June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street). Eric Tucker is set to direct.

USA Today has shared an exclusive first look at Michael Keaton starring as McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in the upcoming film THE FOUNDER. Check it out below:

Something Rotten and Spotlight star Brian d'Arcy James along with this season's break-out and genuflecting sensation Jennifer Simard from Broadway's Disaster will announce the The Outer Critics Circle nominees for the 2015-16 season this morning, April 19th (11 AM) at New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel (59 W 44th Street.) Outer Critics Circle will post a new award entitled 'Outstanding Video/Projection Design' to increase award nominations to 25 categories. Outer Critics Circle nominations are the first major Broadway/Off-Broadway award nominees of the New York theater season.

Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, announced today that two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts will star in the 10-episode season of the one-hour psychological thriller GYPSY,

Michael Keaton may soon join the Marvel Universe.

On Tuesday, April 5th, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) presented 'An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis,' author of the hit Broadway play The Motherf***er with the Hat, which featured a reading of excerpts from several of his plays, a discussion, and signing of his newly published play, Between Riverside and Crazy, for which he received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, at the Drama Book Shop in New York, now celebrating its 99th year. Scroll down for photos from the event!

The Weinstein Company has released the first still from THE FOUNDER, starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, Linda Cardellini, Laura Dern, BJ Novak, John Carroll Lynch. Check it out at left. 

The Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, is proud to announce Broadway's 'Something Rotten' and Hollywood's 'Spotlight' star Brian d'Arcy James along with this season's break-out & genuflecting sensation Jennifer Simard from Broadway's 'Disaster' will announce the nominees for the 2015-16 season on Tuesday, April 19th (11 AM) at New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel (59 W 44th Street.) Outer Critics Circle will post a new award entitled 'Outstanding Video/Projection Design' to increase award nominations to 25 categories.  Outer Critics Circle nominations are the first major Broadway/Off-Broadway award nominees of the New York theater season.

CBS Films and Lionsgate announced that Academy Award-nominee Michael Keaton (Birdman, Spotlight) will star in the adaptation of Vince Flynn's massive bestseller AMERICAN ASSASSIN.

Brian d'Arcy James, currently starring in Broadway's SOMETHING ROTTEN!, is taking a break from performances this weekend to represent SPOTLIGHT at tonight's Academy Awards ceremony. d'Arcy James plays Spotlight Team Member Matt Carroll. The film is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Watch the cast of SOMETHING ROTTEN! wish their co-star good luck and offer him advice here!

The riveting true story of the dedicated investigative team that blew the lid off a monumental cover up, Spotlight is now available on Digital HD, and comes to Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and On Demand today, February 23, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

?Lookingglass Theatre Company continues its 28th Season with Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, translated by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata, and directed by Ensemble Member Daniel Ostling. Blood Wedding runs March 2 - April 24, 2016 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson.

The riveting true story of the dedicated investigative team that blew the lid off a monumental cover up, Spotlight is now available on Digital HD, and comes to Blu-ray combo pack, DVD and On Demand on February 23, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.