Scott Rudin

Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced. "The Jungle Book," a Goodman production enhanced by the...

Nathan Lane, one of Broadway's most bankable names and the original star of "The Addams Family" and "The Producers," will appear alongside Brian Dennehy next spring at the Goodman Theatre.The storied duo will star in a new production of Eugene O'Neill's...

"Whoa." That's what the guy who sat behind me said as I settled into a matinee performance of "The Motherf***er With the Hat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre recently: "Whoa, will you look at that? That is something. That is large. I wonder what that'll do?...

Broadway fell fast for "Once," the melancholy but moving movie-to-musical about a lovelorn Irish street musician and his Czech guardian angel, which scooped Disney's chirpier "Newsies: The Musical" for the award for best musical at the 2012 Tony Awards....

In a blockbuster scoop this morning that had Broadway people choking on their cornflakes, New York Post columnist Michael Riedel reported that the powerful New York producer Scott Rudin had angrily pulled the plug on his upcoming Broadway production of...

Here's major late-night news: Jon Stewart will be taking a hiatus from “The Daily Show” this summer, and John Oliver will sub as host for eight weeks. Stewart is taking a break to direct his first film, ”Rosewater.” It will be ...

The Oscar silly season has officially begun. That's the only way to look at the new Motion Picture Academy rules governing how studios and filmmakers can promote their movies during Oscar season, a period that these days lasts longer than winter in...

Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "The Social Network" will aim to help bring the life of the legendary tech icon Steve Jobs to the screen in a film for Sony Pictures that will reunite him with his "Social Network" producer Scott Rudin....

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The pissing match between 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' producer Scott Rudin and New Yorker critic David Denby: Who's in the right?...

If it were up to David Fincher he'd never show his movies to anyone before they were released....

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close": Do voters from the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. have enough time to see "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" before Monday's nomination deadline?...