?Emmy and Tony Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Ellen Barkin will guest star in the SHOWTIME comedy pilot HAPPYISH, playing "Dani Kirschenbloom," a headhunter who works closely with Thom Payne (Steve Coogan).
From Broadway debuts to stage veterans, this season is swarming with big screen stars. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you the backstory on this year's film-to-stage transplants. Scroll down to learn more, and be sure to let us who you're most excited to see on the Great White Way, plus which actors you'd like to make the leap!
The Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar makes its Broadway premiere tonight, October 23, starring Hari Dhillon (star of the acclaimed London's Bush Theatre production), Gretchen Mol ('Boardwalk Empire'), Karen Pittman (Domesticated) and Josh Radnor ('How I Met Your Mother'). Scroll down to learn more about the full cast and watch interviews with the company below!
Jane Fonda leads a star-studded cast playing a newly widowed mother in the new film 'This Is Where I Leave You.' Below, the legendary actress talks about her role on GOOD MORNING AMERICA.
The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing, continuing through September 14, 2014. A total of 393 films are scheduled to be shown, including 143 world premieres. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the red carpet arrivals for THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU.
Actor Jason Bateman stopped by this morning's TODAY and opened up on directing and starring in his new comedy 'Bad Words', in which he says his character crashes a spelling bee to exact some revenge.
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, handed out top honors to 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club and Nebraska at this afternoon's 29th Film Independent Spirit Awards. Blue Jasmine, Fruitvale Station, Blue is the Warmest Color, Short Term 12, This is Martin Bonner and 20 Feet From Stardom also received awards at the ceremony, which is held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.
A representative for the Showtime network spoke to Zaptoit.com today regarding the fate of what would have been Philip Seymour Hoffman's first TV series.
Talented young comedian and actor, Mo Mandel, will take over the Comix At Foxwoods stage January 30 through February 1 at 8 p.m., followed by a 'Nasty'-themed show to end the weekend on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 10:30 p.m.
Noted British actor and BAFTA Award winner Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man, Notting Hill) is the most recent actor to join the cast of the SHOWTIME comedy pilot TRENDING DOWN.
The Film Arcade and Cinedigm (CIDM) are proud to announce the acquisition of AFTERNOON DELIGHT, a provocative comedy about sex, marriage and finding yourself again.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the legendary director, who previously helmed CLOSER and CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, is in talks to take on the film adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's novel ONE LAST THING BEFORE I GO. J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot is set to produce for Paramount Pictures.
Annapurna, by award-winning playwright Sharr White, is a funny and surprising exploration of love and loss. Emma and Ulysses haven't laid eyes on each other in twenty years. Now she's back, lugging her matching suitcases into his squalid Colorado motor home for a final reckoning that neither of them saw coming. Annapurnabrings husband-and-wife stars Megan Mullally ('Will & Grace') and Nick Offerman ('Parks and Recreation') to the Odyssey Theatre under the guidance of director Bart DeLorenzo, winner of the 2012 TCG Alan Schneider Award.
IFC today announced it is developing 11 new comedy projects for 2014 series consideration. Among them, the network has ordered three pilots and eight scripts, in line with the network's 'slightly off' sensibility that attracts a male skewing, adults 18-49 audience.
Annapurna, by award-winning playwright Sharr White, is a funny and surprising exploration of love and loss. Emma and Ulysses haven't laid eyes on each other in twenty years. Now she's back, lugging her matching suitcases into his squalid Colorado motor home for a final reckoning that neither of them saw coming. Annapurnabrings husband-and-wife stars Megan Mullally ('Will & Grace') and Nick Offerman ('Parks and Recreation') to the Odyssey Theatre under the guidance of director Bart DeLorenzo, winner of the 2012 TCG Alan Schneider Award.
FX Networks has ordered two comedy pilots: How And Why from Academy Award winner Charlie Kaufman and Chozen from Grant Dekernion, Danny McBride and the team behind Eastbound & Down, announced John Landgraf, President and General Manager, FX Networks.