Mariska Hargitay. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images When casting directors put out a call for a “Daniel Radcliffe type,” it seems unlikely that Mariska Hargitay’s agents would send it her way. But that’s what is happening in the Broadway revival of Every Brilliant Thing. Radcliffe now stars in the interactive dramedy about a man struggling…
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Mary Beth Hurt — who appeared in such films as The World According to Garp and Woody Allen’s Interiors — has died at the age of 79. According to Variety, the cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Molly and husband Paul Schrader announced her death in a joint…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — “Project Hail Mary” stayed aloft in its second weekend, holding strongly with $54.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, and adding to the long-term prospects of the year’s biggest hit thus far. The Phil Lord and Chris Miller sci-fi adventure, starring Ryan Gosling, dipped only 32% after notching…
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The new play “Giant,” on Broadway, dramatizes the scandal around Roald Dahl, the beloved children’s-book author who, in the nineteen-eighties, began making antisemitic statements and invoking stereotypes about…
The Ryan Gosling-led “Project Hail Mary” rocketed to the top of the box office this weekend, marking a big win for Amazon MGM Studios. The film — which stars Gosling as a science teacher who embarks on a space mission to save humanity — hauled in $80.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, making it…
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images I guess this is what they mean when they say LDS is a faith of continuing revelation. Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez have been reworking The Book of Mormon for 2026. That includes stuff like making sure the current head of the Church of Latter Day Saints gets a…
Universal Pictures will now keep its new films in theaters for at least five weekends, a reversal from the studio’s previous policy of at least 17 days that was set during the pandemic. The change takes place immediately, the studio said Thursday. That means it will apply to its newest film, the Colleen Hoover romance…
Broadway baby. Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage Why would Mary Todd Lincoln want to flood my basement and rust my bowflex? To what end? To what end? Six-time Emmy Award winner Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! She’s the latest in a fabulous line of Marys, a role most…
A playwright. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Quentin Tarantino just might have been chased out of the United States by a group of crazed Paul Dano defenders. The filmmaker’s next project will be The Popinjay Cavalier on London’s West End. Tarantino will both write and direct the “swashbuckling” new play. Sonia Friedman Productions is producing and…
