J.J. Abrams News

SHOWTIME is celebrating music's unsung heroes at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music, Film and Interactive Festival, in honor of Oscar® winner Cameron Crowe's new music series ROADIES, premiering on the network this summer.

Today, in its 50th day of release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is expected to cross the $900 million mark at the domestic box office. It is the only film in history to reach this milestone.

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o is best known for her breakout role as Patsey in '12 Years a Slave,' and now she's heading to Broadway for the first time ever, with a starring role in ECLIPSED.

Following a sold-out run at The Public Theater, ECLIPSED will begin previews on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, with opening night set for March 6, 2016 on Broadway at the Golden Theatre (252 W. 45th Street). Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o will reprise her role on Broadway for this strictly limited engagement. She just chatted with BroadwayWorld about preparing for her big Broadway debut and you can check out what she had to say below!

Sundance Institute's feature film lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival features the highly anticipated narratives, documentaries, episodic work and events in the Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Spotlight, Sundance Kids and Special Events sections. The Festival takes place today, January 21, through January 31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Sundance and Ogden, Utah.

This morning, The Walt Disney Studios announced new release dates for upcoming films from two of its major franchises.

Disney today revealed details of new Star Wars: The Force Awakens products kept under wraps to preserve surprises for fans. With the film now breaking box office records and storylines officially revealed, new toys, collectibles and more are rolling out at Disney Store locations and mass retailers nationwide.

FilmRise announced today that it has acquired from The Works the exclusive North American distribution rights in all media for ELSTREE 1976.

FROZEN star and Broadway alum Josh Gad gave props to STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS on Instagram today after the film surpassed FROZEN's all-time box office record with $1.29 billion globally over the Disney animated musical's impressive $1.28 billion in 2013. Scroll down for Gad's post!

Three truly exclusive items have been acquired by Chenango River Theatre's Gala Committee as featured items at the 2016 Winter Gala on Jan. 23.  These three items are not available for purchase anywhere except at this event, which supports the theatre's 2016 season. 

In honor of the iconic film, Postmodern Jukebox recorded this special medley of famous Star Wars themes, featuring tap dance sensation Sarah Reich.

The original motion picture soundtrack for the record-breaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens, featuring new score conducted and composed by five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams, has entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 5, scanning over 100,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release.

It's not officially a Disney franchise until it's part of DisneyLand, right?

STAR WARS has been breaking records ever since its release, just over a week ago, and they're not slowing down.

More viewers have watched CBS News than news on any other broadcast network twelve weeks into the 2015-16 television season, according to Nielsen most current ratings for the week ending Dec. 13, 2015.

The Walt Disney Studios announced today that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a new all-time domestic debut record with an estimated $238M. With a five-day international debut of $279M, the film has taken in $517M globally.

Below, watch as Abrams shares how the team posthumously added the voice of Alex Guinness as Obi Wan, how Ewan McGregor proved to be the 'coolest voice over actor ever,' and more!

Yesterday, a sharp-eyed fan of the film franchise and the HAMILTON composer caught a shot of the closing credits of the film, which not only display Miranda's writing credits, but also reveal the titles of the songs

The cast of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and director J.J. Abrams stopped by last night's CONAN on TBS. Watch all the clips below!

Below, watch the actor perform "On Broadway" as well as Bill Murray’s iconic SNL lounge singing rendition of the theme song to STAR WARS.