Theater

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that the 2020 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre – to be presented in September – will go to Fred Gallo, President of PRG Scenic Technologies; Broadway press agent Irene Gandy; stage manager Beverly Jenkins and New Federal Theatre founder Woodie King, Jr. “We are thrilled to recognize these deserving individuals and organizations with Tony Honors this year,” said Heather Hitchens, President of the American Theatre Wing and Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League. “New Federal Theatre, Fred Gallo, Irene Gandy, and Beverly Jenkins have made immeasurable contributions to the theatre community, and their impact will be felt for years to come.” The Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre were established in 1990 and are awarded annually to institutions, individuals and/or organizations that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in theater, but are not eligible in any of the established …

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MTV talked with director Jon Favreau who is already in development on Iron Man 3 , and admits that he has no idea what the film will look like until after Thor , Captain America: The First Avenger , and The Avengers come out in theaters. Favreau does confirm he would still like to have Iron Man's arch-nemesis The Mandarin be the film's villain. Favreau also admits that the character from the comics will require some reworking, even though he's been setting up Mandarin's presence in the Iron Man and Iron Man 2 . Topics: Avengers , Iron Man , Iron Man 3 …

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The surprising battle between Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson and Disney continues to rage on, with the actress's talent agency now firing back at the studio's claims that the lawsuit is "especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects" of the ongoing global situation. Bryan Lourd, the co-chairman of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), has now released a statement, believing that Disney is mischaracterizing Johansson as being insensitive to the issue. "They have shamelessly and falsely accused Ms. Johansson of being insensitive to the global COVID pandemic, in an attempt to make her appear to be someone they and I know she isn't. ... Disney's direct attack on her character and all else they implied is beneath the company that many of us in the creative community have worked with successfully for decades." The lawsuit filed by Johansson relates to the release of the latest Marvel outing, Black Widow , to Disney+ …

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Chadwick Boseman can be heard as the voice of T'Challa in four different episodes of Marvel's What If...? . Sadly, Boseman passed away last year as he was preparing to reprise the role in the upcoming sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever . It's since been confirmed he'd be heard one more time as the voice of T'Challa in What If...? , and better yet, we now know that he will be featured in four different episodes rather than just one story. "He's in four episodes, actually," series executive producer Brad Winderbaum told ComicBook.com. "He plays different versions of the character . I wouldn't say that anything changed drastically. We wanted to honor, frankly, his performance and his eagerness to be a part of the project. In retrospect, he recorded this episodes for us knowing what we all know now. We wanted to honor what he did, so we actually didn't change a lot of it." He adds: "There were certain things, in the context of his passing, especially musically...Lauren …

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Since Black Widow kicked off the MCU's Phase Four, it seems like the Marvel bandwagon has been constantly churning out teases for more and more of their upcoming movies, many of which would have already been in cinemas if not for the Covid pandemic. Among the biggest and most anticipated is Eternals , with its ensemble case, mystery plot and epic scale, and Kit Harington has been sharing, in the usual, tight-lipped Marvel way, some information about the movie and his Black Knight character. He particularly touched on the previously mentioned narrative that the movie will be doing something that has never been seen before in the MCU. "I'm a big fan of the MCU. So when they come knocking it's very exciting," Kit Harington said. "The character, I won't go into why he interests me, because it's more than my life is worth to tell you. But what did interest me about that piece was that it as Chloe Zhao directing. I met her and spoke with her and was so impressed by her. The …

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In Birds of Prey , Mary Elizabeth Winstead played Huntress (a.k.a. the crossbow killer), wilding out alongside Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, and now she’s back with some extreme John Wick -ish fight choreography in Kate . Check out the first trailer that we’re debuting exclusively here. Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, the movie follows an assassin named Kate who blows an assignment in Tokyo, and then discovers she’s been poisoned by a Yakuza organization. She realizes she has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her killers as her body swiftly deteriorates, so Kate forms an unlikely bond with the “spunky teenage daughter” of one of her past victims, who says at one point: “Kate, you’re like that person in a nightmare. Take no shit from no dudes,” she says. “Just total killer, babe.” The cast also includes Tadanobu Asano, Miyavi, Michiel Huisman, Miku Martineau, Jun Kunimura, and Woody Harrelson. Along with applauding Winstead on the “visceral and extremely raw …

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Matt Damon ’s new movie, Stillwater , opens by building up to a gentle but pointed bit of misdirection, the subtle sort of deviation from our expectations meant to say as much about the audience as it does about the man at the story’s center — something of an running theme for this particular movie. When we first see Bill Baker (Damon), he’s waist-deep in rubble, the recognizable but devastated remains of what used to be someone’s home. Bill is a roughneck from Oklahoma, a state squarely, oft-tragically at the center of that mid-U.S. stretch known as Tornado Alley. His main line of work used to be oil rigs; when that labor dried up and he got laid off, he turned to construction. In the wake of a tornado, construction skills are easy to repurpose for demolition and recovery. So that’s what Bill does. He is, at this stage of his life, a maker of things. Yet thanks to that tornado, he’s getting his hands dirty in the remains of utter mess, the wreck of lives painfully …

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