ANYONE BUT YOU Will Be Available to Watch at Home Tomorrow
In the edgy comedy Anyone But You, Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia.
Centricus Acquires Majority Stake in CRAZY RICH ASIANS Studio SK Global Entertainment
Centricus will provide additional capital to accelerate SK Global’s growth strategy through IP ownership and financing strategic acquisitions of complementary businesses. SK Global acquired Critical Content, a premier production company focused on unscripted television series including MTV’s Catfish and Netflix’s Get Organized with The Home Edit.
Debra Lew Harder Named Metropolitan Opera Radio Host
The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it has appointed Debra Lew Harder as the new host of its radio broadcasts, the longest-running classical music program in American radio history, which began 90 years ago in 1931.
More Stars Join Stand Up To Cancer Roadblock Fundraising Telecast and Streaming Event
Celebrities lending their support to help raise funds for cancer research include Alison Sweeney, Candice Patton, Cecily Strong, Chandra Wilson, Ciara, Deon Cole, Ed Helms, Italia Ricci, Jaime Camil, Jennifer Garner, Kate Del Castillo, and more.
Holiday Rock & Roll Bash Raises More Than $1 Million For The Lustgarten Foundation
On Tuesday, Dec. 3, The Madison Square Garden Company (NYSE: MSG) and AMC Networks (NASDAQ: AMCX) hosted the 19th Annual Holiday Rock & Roll Bash benefitting the Lustgarten Foundation, the world's largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research. The Foundation's premier fundraising event, the Bash raised more than $1 million this year. Thanks to separate funding to support administrative expenses, 100 percent of every dollar raised goes directly to pancreatic cancer research.
101 Studios Adds to Executive Ranks With Leadership In Distribution And Finance
The recently announced 101 Studios has brought on Michele Newman as Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategy, Laurent Ouaknine as head of US Distribution and Ennis Hensley as head of International Sales & Distribution. Newman will helm financing, strategic planning, business development and operations. Ouaknine will be tasked with overseeing all facets of domestic theatrical rollout for the studio's films while Hensley will oversee international distribution in addition to managing the studio's rapidly growing number of international relationships.
SWEAT Opens Tonight At Goodman Theatre
Powerful drama: still made in America. Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat opens tonight in its Chicago premiere at Goodman Theatre. Ron OJ Parson directs the collision of race, class and friendship at a pivotal moment in America-hailed as 'extraordinarily moving' (The New York Times) and 'passionate and necessary...a masterful depiction of the forces that divide and conquer us' (Time Out New York). Sweat marks the fourth Nottage play to be produced at the Goodman, following Crumbs from the Table of Joy (2006), Ruined (a 2008 world-premiere Goodman commission that earned the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2013). Sweat appears through April 14 in the Albert Theatre. Tickets ($20 - $80; subject to change) are available at Goodmantheatre.org/Sweat, by telephone at 312.443.3800 or at the box office (170 N. Dearborn).
Sidney Kimmel Will Finance Jessica Sanders-Directed PICKING COTTON
Deadline reports that Sidney Kimmel Entertainment will finance and produce Picking Cotton, an adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson, and Erin Torneo. Jessica Sanders will direct and David Birke & Tony Mosher will write the script.
Lantern Theater Company Presents The Philadelphia Premiere Of THE HEIR APPARENT
Lantern Theater Company continues its 25th anniversary season with the Philadelphia premiere of The Heir Apparent by David Ives, adapted from Jean-Francois Regnard's 1708 comedy Le Legataire universel. Lantern resident director M. Craig Getting will direct a cast that includes Lantern veterans Chris Anthony, Leonard C. Haas, Adam Hammet, Dave Johnson, Mary Martello, Lee Minora, and Ruby Wolf. Theater critics and members of the press are invited to request tickets for opening night on Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. by contacting Anne Shuff at ashuff@lanterntheater.org. The expanded six-week performance schedule runs Thursday, November 8 through Sunday, December 16, 2018; a full schedule of performances and special events is included in the fact sheet below.