Candid Broad Productions and 222 Pictures have signed a transatlantic multi-picture co-pro deal. Candid Broads Productions is a female-pioneering prod-co based in London and founded by Oriane Pick while 222 pictures is led by creative producer Sean Patrick Burke and executive
“The Apprentice” director Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over the movie, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Monday night. “Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi
Relations between Spain and Argentina are said to be at their historical lowest after Argentina's populist president Javier Milei hurled accusations at Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez and his wife Begoña Gómez at a far-right rally in Madrid on Sunday.
[DW] Russia has beefed up efforts to build stronger relations with Portuguese-speaking African nations, positioning itself as a military power without a colonial past.
With hit dramas including “The Shrink Next Door” and “WeCrashed” having been based on podcasts in recent years, the format has become increasingly popular for screen adaptation. It’s something Jason Carter, director of The Podcast Show, knows well. Carter, who was head of
South Africa's constitutional court has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma, one of the most divisive political figures in the country, is not allowed to participate in next week's election.
The Syrian first lady has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, the presidency office has announced. She was previously treated for breast cancer.
New York-based production, sales and distribution company The Dazey Phase has picked up Sundance and Thessaloniki winner “Desire Lines,” Variety has found out exclusively. The company will be shopping it at Cannes’ Marché du Film. The hybrid doc, directed by Jules Rosskam,
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly
Of 36 hospitals in Gaza, four have not been damaged by munitions, raided by the Israel Defense Forces or gone out of service, according to a Post analysis.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the president's office said on Tuesday. "First Lady Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia," an aggressive cancer of
The first trial in France of officials from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad opened on Tuesday, with three top security officers to be tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Paris Criminal Court will hear cases against three
The White House on Tuesday announced that more than 1 million claims have been granted through the PACT Act, a landmark law passed in 2022 that gave veterans expanded access to apply for compensation and relief related to toxic exposures during service. More than 880,000
In today’s job market, young professionals have to consider a number of factors when they decide to embark on their professional journey — and that could mean changing where they work. Read more...
Top U.S. labor unions are saying they’ve had enough of the Trump tax cuts and want them repealed. Unions including the United Auto Workers (UAW), the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), and the National Education
Prosecutors said Heinrich XIII, Prince of Reuss, and his co-conspirators planned to violently overthrow the German government and impose a new state order.
On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida spent 10,000 Bitcoin — the current-day equivalent of $670 million — on pizza. The event, which marked the first digital currency transaction ever made for a physical item, is now celebrated annually as Bitcoin Pizza Day . Read more...
"Raisi was a cleric like all the others who have destroyed our lives. Why should I be sad about his death?" a 38-year-old engineer who lives in Iran told TNA.
For one of this year’s Variety Global Conversations Summit at Cannes, a group of leading women actors and filmmakers from around the world joined Variety’s Nick Vivarelli to discuss how they got into the business, what motivates them and some of the groundbreaking roles they’ve
By Salvatore Nigro, CEO of JA Europe, who have partnered with UNICEF to deliver ‘UPLIFT’. In a move crucial to rebuilding its education system derailed by the ongoing conflict, Ukraine has passed a bill that adapts the country’s education policy to match EU standards. This law
As part of this year’s Variety Global Conversations at the Cannes Film Festival, representatives from the Czech Republic engaged in a lively discussion about the industry’s state of affairs and celebrated 20 years of involvement at the Marché du Film. Markéta Šantrochová, head
For crisp tension or thematic clarity, nothing in “The Balconettes” quite outdoes the nearly self-contained, minutes-long short that opens actor-director Noémie Merlant’s frenzied, heatstruck genre mashup. On a 115-degree summer afternoon in a wilting, AC-challenged Marseilles
More aid has been facilitated into the Gaza Strip through the US-built floating pier, as Israel continues its relentless war on the Palestinian enclave.
More aid has been facilitated into the Gaza Strip through the US-built floating pier, as Israel continues its relentless war on the Palestinian enclave.
Robert Thorogood’s “The Marlow Murder Club” has been renewed for a second season, Variety has learned. Samantha Bond, Jo Martin and Cara Horgan are all set to return as amateur sleuthing trio Judith, Suzie and Becks while Natalie Dew will reprise her role as police inspector
Dialogue is still open, but new attempts by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU to find compromise have struggled with divisions over privacy among member states.
Earlier this month, Malaysia’s plantation and commodities minister Johari Abdul Ghani had suggested giving orangutans to major palm oil importers to bolster relations.