Sony/ATV’s Jon Platt Joins Berklee College of Music’s Board of Trustees

Hugh Jackman‘s musical revival is being pushed back even further.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: With Broadway dark at least until next summer, The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman has set a new opening night for 2022.The highly anticipated musical revival, costarring Sutton Foster, now will begin previews at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre on Monday, December 20, 2021, with Opening Night scheduled for Thursday, February 10, 2022.The new dates fall eight months past the most recent targets of Spring 2021.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLess than two months after Beirut was blasted by one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, director Nadine Labaki has taken to the streets of the Lebanese capital with her camera. “I don’t know where it’s going to lead, or if it will ever lead anywhere,” says Labaki, whose latest film, the Oscar-nominated “Capernaum,” shed light on Beirut’s preexisting desperation.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWarner Music Group has elected Ceci Kurzman to the company’s Board of Directors, including the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, effective Thursday (October 1). Kurzman is founder and President of Nexus Management Group, a former talent-management and current investment company.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorNetflix and MGM’s Gato Grande are underway on the second season of popular Spanish-language show Luis Miguel: The Series about Mexican superstar singer Luis Miguel, we can reveal.

Jordyn Woods celebrated her 23rd birthday in style, and with a special someone. The reality star enjoyed turning a year older in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, this week, where she was photographed getting cozy with her rumored boyfriend, Karl-Anthony Towns.Woods and the American-Dominican NBA player wore Chicago Bulls jerseys while they cuddled onboard a yacht.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFormer WME Head of East Coast Music Samantha Kirby Yoh has joined UTA Music as co-head. She’ll work together with David Zedeck in leading the firm’s worldwide music operations.“Sam and David see eye-to-eye on how to build a great music business and will be strong partners in leading UTA Music,” said UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer.

 Tom Cruise  is teaming up with business magnate  Elon Musk  for a massive project that involves the 58-year-old actor going to space, as part of the narrative scripted for a new film.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and “American Idol,” which aims to transform young unknowns into internet superstars.That may seem a grandiose ambition during a global pandemic.

scripted adaptation of “Not Without Hope” is also being developed with Miles Teller as Schuyler and NFL star Russell Wilson attached as executive producer with his wife, Ciara.George ForemanForget the Thrilla in Manilla, the former Heavyweight Champion of the World made the most of his money selling Lean, Mean Grilling Machines -- raising the bar for celebrity-backed products the world overOscar De La HoyaA retired professional boxer who has won 10 world titles in six different weight

Supermodel Kaia Gerber and Kissing Booth star Jacob Elordi are having fun in the sun. The duo, who have been spending time together in recent weeks, decided to jet set off to Cabo, Mexico.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBarcelona’s Gadea Films, co-producer of Laura Herrero Garvin’s Mexico City-set documentary “La Mami,” a hit at IDFA, is reaching across the Atlantic once more, linking to Colombia’s Rara Colectivo Audiovisual on the production of Cordelia Alegre’s “La Unión.”Put through this year’s Screen-Incubator at the Madrid Film School (ECAM), “La Unión” marks yet another feature debut from a Barcelona-based female director, this time a fiction film.“La Unión”

Dade Hayes Finance EditorSony Interactive Entertainment said the PlayStation 5 console will go on sale November 12 at $399 or $499 with an Ultra HD Blu-ray player.In a blog post, interactive division CEO Jim Ryan said the console will go on sale first in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. A week later, it will arrive everywhere else in the world.

Chris Willman Music WriterKanye West took a break from his presidential campaign to make some declarations about his music career Monday, saying that he will refuse to release any new music until his record company, Universal Music Group, and his publisher, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, free him from their deals.He quickly followed that up by saying that Drake and J.