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A lawsuit in Los Angeles Federal Court seeks to strip the hit Broadway musical “The Buena Vista Social Club” of its trademarked rights to the name, The Post has learned.The suit, filed Thursday by touring company Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos & His Buena Vista Orchestra, was a counter-attack to cease-and-desist warnings by powerful music agency BMG’s label World Circuit, which licenses its “Buena Vista Social Club” trademark to the Broadway production — and wants the orchestra to drop the similar-sounding title.BMG has controlled the trademark since 1999, but the orchestra’s producers claim in the suit the that the agency used “fraud” to have it renewed in 2023.The orchestra’s suit alleges BMG used “misrepresentations” in its trademark renewal application by saying it was for “live [concert] performances” — though the Broadway show is a stage musical based on a book, or script.The show has played to full houses at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Post critic Johnny Oleksinski praised it as “practically a jumbo jet to Havana” full of “transportive and intoxicating” music.The feud, which began last year, turned into a legal mess when BMG lawyer Jonathan S.

“Othello” opens next Sunday on Broadway. But The Post has decided to review the show a week early after the production rescinded critic Johnny Oleksinski’s ticket because he wrote a column blasting their $921 prices. That’s OK. We bought our own.Two hours and 35 minutes, with one intermission.

surprising wins and its fair share of controversy, but most importantly, it’s been a season of great movies. Tonight’s nominated movies had to be released during the 2024 calendar year and include “Anora,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez,” and “The Brutalist” — all of which won at least one top prize during a precursor award ceremony like the BAFTAs or Golden Globes.RELATED: Johnny Oleksinski’s Oscar predictions 2025: Who will win vs. who should win this yearThis year, the ceremony will air on streaming and cable for the first time in its 97-year history.

the nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric!” by Elijah Wald, “A Complete Unknown” charts Bob Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame, beginning in 1961 and culminating during the night that changed everything four years later: the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where Dylan went electric. Dylan is played in the film by Timothée Chalamet, who took home the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor on Sunday. Chalamet is also nominated for his performance at the upcoming Academy Awards, and a win could make him the youngest person to ever win Best Actor (breaking the record set by Adrien Brody, also nominated this year).

director Brady Corbet‘s large-scale American epic about a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates after the war. László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Bauhaus-trained architect struggling to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy industrialist (played by Guy Pearce) enters his life and changes it forever. Even if you didn’t know what “The Brutalist” was about until right now, you’ve probably heard about the run time.

according to The Numbers.The third standalone “Captain America” film co-stars Hollywood legend Harrison Ford as both President Thaddeus Ross and the character’s alter ego, Red Hulk.The is the second Marvel film within the last year to enjoy impressive day-one sales: last summer’s highest-grossing hit, Marvel’s “Deadpool and Wolverine,” opened with $38.5 million in sales its first day in theaters.Paddington Bear is also back in theaters — this time, on an all-new South American adventure. “Paddington in Peru” was also released on Friday, and sold $5.1 million in tickets to finish at No.

the 2024 DC sequel completely flopped in a new interview with Elle.“People just sometimes don’t like some things. It’s that simple,” Gaga, 38, said in the cover story, published Tuesday.“And I think to be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it,” she explained.

cancelled due to the Los Angeles wildfires, “Unstoppable,” a new sports drama starring Jennifer Lopez, is now streaming on Prime Video. Emmy award winner, Jharrel Jerome stars in “Unstoppable” as Anthony Robles, a wrestler who was born with one leg and overcame the odds to become a NCAA champion. Lopez plays Judy Robles, his supportive single mother.The Post’s entertainment critic Johnny Oleksinski saw the film during its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (where Lopez made headlines for having an “intimate chat” with the film’s producer — and her ex-husband Ben Affleck‘s best friend — Matt Damon).

Hulu, just one week before 2025 Oscar nominations are announced. The movie premiered at the 2024 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and has since racked up accolades including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance.

“The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical,” the 77-year-old musician revealed that he’s lost his eyesight after developing an infection.“As some of you may know, I have had issues and now I have lost my sight,” John said to the audience while onstage at the Dominion Theatre, according to the Daily Mail.“I haven’t been able to see the performance, but I have enjoyed listening to it,” the EGOT winner added.John was joined on stage by the cast of the musical, as well as his husband, David Furnish, who reportedly helped John get down from the stage.Thanking Furnish, 62, during his speech, John said, “To my husband, who’s been my rock, because I haven’t been able to come to many of the previews because as you know, I’ve lost my eyesight, so it’s hard for me to see it, but I love to hear it.”“And, boy, it sounded good tonight!” John added. “Okay, thank you for coming!”John wrote the score for “The Devil Wears Prada,” which failed to make a splash during its Chicago tryout in 2022.

Elle.“We were all honored that she asked us to be a part of that film, a story about women produced by women, written by a woman, directed by a woman and starring primarily women, a rare thing in 1995 and a true gift,” added O’Donnell, 62.Wilson, 68, recalled how Moore appeared naked on the cover of Vanity Fair when she was seven months pregnant in 1991, as the group drew attention to Moore’s other popular ’90s projects like “Ghost,” “A Few Good Men” and “If These Walls Could Talk.”“And now she’s experiencing a renaissance,” Griffith said. “A Demi-ssance, if you will,” O’Donnell added.Moore recently starred in “The Substance,” which The Post’s Johnny Oleksinski gave 3.5 stars.

Venom: The Last Dance” earned another $6.6 million in ticket sales during its second week in theaters, and holds steady at No. 1, according to The Numbers.The film stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, a journalist forced to share his body with a demonic-looking alien symbiote that feasts on human brains.

Joker: Folie a Deux” didn’t make the final cut of the movie — and now, director Todd Phillips is revealing why. While filming the sequel in March 2023, the singer-turned-actress, 38, was photographed sharing a same-sex kiss with a female protester. In the deleted scene, Gaga’s character, Lee, a grittier version of Harley Quinn, stops while walking up the courthouse steps and grabs a woman in the crowd before planting a fat one on her.

“Job” at the Helen Hayes Theatre.Writer Max Wolf Friedlich’s play tells the story of Jane (Lemmon), an overworked employee who goes viral after an on-the-clock meltdown at her California tech job. As a result, she has to meet with laid-back company therapist Loyd (Friedman).To say any more would spoil the fun of the twisty drama that unfolds over the 80-minute runtime.“’Job’ will grab you as soon as the lights come on and never lets go with its darkly comedic yet anxiety-inducing insight,“ screenwriter Charlton Villavelez raved.“Friedlich’s smart and often very funny script actually shares a lot in common with those of Emerald Fennell, the writer-director of the films ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘Saltburn,’” the New York Post’s Johnny Oleksinski said.If this sounds like the mind-bending corporate satire for you, tickets are available for all upcoming performances.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets was $83 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows have seats anywhere from $84 to $337 before fees on Vivid Seats.For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about “Job” on Broadway below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.Based on our findings, “Job” has an unconventional Broadway schedule.The show sometimes goes dark on Sundays; other weeks on Mondays.

The Numbers.The film, which The Post called the franchise’s “best sequel in years,” was produced by original “Alien” director Ridley Scott, and co-written and directed by Fede Álvarez.The $80 million film goes back to the basics of isolation, paranoia, survival and tactile creatures, instead of “unwieldy” extraterrestrial mythology, movie critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote.Tthe sci-fi/horror flick follows space colonizers in a derelict space station coming face to face with “the most terrifying life-form in the universe” and stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.The hit is another win for Disney, which has dominated the summer box office with films including “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Inside Out 2.”Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which had a three-week run in the No. 1 slot, was knocked down to No.

BBC wrote that a movie “needs to have a plot, a bit of credible characterization, and a structure that preferably includes a beginning, middle and end. ‘Horizon’ doesn’t have any of those.”Variety slammed Costner’s film as “meandering,” and said it “seldom seems to aim in a clear direction,” while IndieWire said, “These aren’t characters so much as the spokes of a plot in human form, each of their storylines moving as if being pulled by horses across the entire span of the American West.”The Post movie critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote, “I could not fathom committing another 540 minutes of my time to this bloated ego trip,” referring to how “Horizon” was planned to be four parts.

JD Vance, 39, is back in the spotlight after Donald Trump announced on Monday that Vance would be his running mate in the VP spot on his ticket in the 2024 Presidential race. Vance first rose to fame for his bestselling controversial 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” about his life growing up in Appalachia, which Ron Howard adapted into a movie in 2020 (now streaming on Netflix). Its views have gone up 1000% since Monday.

Jennifer Lopez's latest Netflix project has been panned by critics, despite it currently sitting at the top of the streamer's film charts globally.

Anne Hathaway only heard crickets when she asked the audience a question during her appearance Monday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”The Oscar winner, 41, was promoting her new rom-com, “The Idea of You,” when she inquired: “Has anybody here read the book?”Spoiler alert: No.The crowd went silent as Fallon interjected, “No, we don’t read. This is ‘The Tonight Show.’ You want to go to Stephen Colbert if you want to get people to read books.

“Stereophonic” is making a lot of noise.On Tuesday, April 30, the explosive behind the music ’70s rock drama nabbed a record 13 Tony nominations including Best Play, Best Original Score and Best Direction.

according to Box Office Mojo.The impressive premiere puts it on track for a debut of around $26 million, Variety reported.The $50 million film, from director Alex Garland, follows a team of military-embedded journalists racing against time to reach Washington, D.C. before rebel factions descend upon the White House.Starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman and Jesse Plemons, the thriller has been dubbed a “a terrifying premonition of American collapse,” though critics say its political message was “muddled.”The Post’s Johnny Oleksinski went as far as to call it “a torturous, overrated movie without a point,” bashing its script as lousy and the acting as monotonous.Behind “Civil War” was “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” which topped the charts when it premiered two weeks ago.