Gaza-born twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s “Once Upon a Time in Gaza,” their riff on the Western genre that premiered last year in Un Certain Regard, won best film at the 10th Critics Awards for Arab Films during an event held on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival.
Julianne Moore reflected on her decades-long career in a conversation with Variety‘s Angelique Jackson during a Kering Women in Motion Talk at Cannes on Saturday, discussing everything from female representation in film to how she selects her roles. The Oscar-winning actor, who
The screen legends discuss fashion, fame and female survival while unveiling My Duchess, a decades-in-the-making drama about the tragic final years of Wallis Simpson.
Jaime King and Natasha Lyonne are to star in and produce “Darlene,” a dark-comedy thriller from director Mary Lambert, best known for helming the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary.” King is attached to play the title role of Darlene, a trailer-park influencer
The Dogma 25 movement is spreading. Tom Tykwer, Kurdwin Ayub, İlker Çatak, Nora Fingscheidt and Helene Hegemann have joined forces as a group to create five independent films under its umbrella, in order to create “free and unpredictable cinema.” This was announcement comes
Steven Spielberg and other "special guests" also on tap for the late-night series' last four episodes
Tom Tykwer, Ilker Çatak, Nora Fingscheidt, Helene Hegemann, and Kurdwin Ayub pledge to make films without artistic interference, using found materials, and without the use of the internet.
Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen's feature directorial debut, premiering in style in Midnight Screenings, takes us inside Paris' queer scene, and face-to-face with the "Gaystapo," in a race against time to save the LGBTQIA+ community from extinction.
Two original sci-fi features built around generative AI across their entire production pipeline have been unveiled at the Cannes Film Market, as filmmaker Chuck Russell and his company Neumorphic AI set a production partnership with generative video platform Higgsfield. The
Jordan Firstman’s first Cannes premiere began with him gleefully twerking on the red-carpeted steps of the festival’s Debussy theater, before expressing in his onstage intro how thrilled he was to be “in de bussy.” So far, so expected from the most recognizable gay comedian of
Nicolas Bary (“Trouble at Timpetill”) is gearing up for his next feature, “Increase,” an English-language futuristic thriller starring an international cast led by Matilda Lutz (“Revenge”), Suzanne Clément (“Mommy”), Holt McCallany (“Mindhunter”) and Fernanda Urrejola (“Cry
Fresh off the success of “Mother Mary,” starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Cole, German production company Augenschein is stepping up a level with more Hollywood projects and higher budgets. The company, heading by Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo, started the year by
After 73 editions, SSIFF has quietly become one of the most respected names on the global film fest circuit, and as its longtime director prepares to step down, it has never looked stronger.
“Carte Blanche” is a harrowing thriller that explores Spain’s seemingly forgotten Rif War in Morocco, the innate dehumanization of conflict that spurs rampant killing and its impact on the country’s subsequent Civil War. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Gerardo Herrero and
Michael Jordan is an icon. Not just on the basketball court, but in pop culture too. In fact, even his shoes are iconic. And now in unisex sizes, Nike is rereleasing the Nike Air Jordan 3 sneakers, the iconic sneakers that MJ wore when he won his first MVP, with new “Brazil”
Italy’s Taormina Film Festival will host the world premiere of Australian action thriller “Bear Country” that reunites Russell Crowe with “Unhinged” helmer Derrick Borte, with Crowe expected to make the treck to the storied fest in the Sicilian resort known to U.S. audiences as
Christmas will never be the same again after the premiere of “Red Snow,” directed by Finnish filmmaker Ilja Rautsi and boasting the world’s first vampire Santa Claus. Charades has sold the upcoming horror comedy to Selecta Vision (Spain) following the film’s presentation at
Michael Fassbender is in negotiations to join Brady Corbet’s mystery-shrouded next feature, Variety has learned. Rumoured to be called “The Origin of the World,” the film marks Corbet’s followup to his highly acclaimed 2024 epic “The Brutalist,” which landed 10 Oscar
From the way he lines up upcoming projects, one would think Selton Mello has 72 hours in the day. But the crunched-up schedule is a joy, not a burden, to the Brazilian actor, who is hungry to capitalize on the continuous momentum of Walter Salles’s Oscar-winning “I’m Still
Mina Kimes’ degree in English from Yale served her well in the finale of “Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars”: The ESPN football analyst correctly answered the show’s game-deciding trivia question to win the $1 million top prize for her charity. The show’s final episode, which aired
The Emirates FA Cup (Football Association Challenge Cup) is England’s primary soccer cup, while its final match concludes the 145th annual season. In the cup match, Chelsea FC takes on Manchester City FC to compete for the top of the association. Want to livestream the FA Cup
All Rights Entertainment has boarded international sales on “The Cop and the Assassin,” an action thriller starring Olga Kurylenko and Nina Bergman set to begin production in Thailand this November. Kurylenko, whose credits include “Black Widow,” “Quantum of Solace,” “Oblivion”
When Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Film Heritage Foundation first wanted to restore “Amma Ariyan,” he could not get permission. The 1986 Malayalam film directed by John Abraham was not the property of a studio or a single estate. It had been made collectively – funded village by
Annecy Presents selection “Dudley and the Invasion of the Space Slugs,” the animated family feature from Fabrique d’Images, is at the Cannes Film Market this week with eight territory deals already in place. All Rights Entertainment, based across Paris, Hong Kong, and Los
Cloud11 Studios and Les films du Sillon board Stepan Burnashev's road movie.
James Franco has joined the cast of “John Rambo.” The actor — currently at the Cannes Film Festival — has a small role as a villain in the film, Variety understands, joining Noah Centineo as Rambo and the recently announced David Harbour as Rambo’s commanding officer Major
The contemporary Franco-Belgian cinema certainly does not lack for films about toxic relationships and domestic abuse, with Xavier Legrand’s “Custody” and Valérie Donizelli’s “Just The Two of Us” among the recent best. An impressively shot, tension-filled drama about a woman
Portuguese director-producer Leonel Vieira, the filmmaker behind Portuguese box office hit “The Courtyard of the Ballads” (“O Pátio das Cantigas”), is moving ahead with “The Night” (“A Noite”), a José Saramago adaptation set on the night the Carnation Revolution reached a
Donald Trump’s defense secretary Pete Hegseth was widely mocked in April after he read a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 classic “Pulp Fiction” during a Pentagon worship service. It turns out Colin Jost sort of saw it coming. During a recent visit to “The Tonight
"Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world" in the Russian auteur's new competition film.
Indonesia is officially targeting Country of Honor status at Cannes in 2028. Culture Minister Fadli Zon, speaking to Variety at Cannes, laid out a sweeping strategy to move Indonesia from the margins of the international screen industry toward what he describes as a central and
Bruno Santamaría Razo‘s first fiction feature, debuting in the Cannes Critics’ Week, explores how having to navigate a father's illness and growing feelings for a best friend transform an innocent childhood.
Pijama, the TVOD platform just launched by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín, director and producer of “Jackie,” “Spencer” and “Maria,” has cut its first major commercial deals with MK2, Alpha Violet, Visit Films, Les Films du Losange, Electric Shadow and Utopia Films. Pijama’s
France’s Urban Factory and Mexico’s Fidelio Films have boarded Colombian filmmaker Mauricio Leiva-Cock’s psychological thriller “Los Eastman,” selected for the Fantastic Round Robin at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion. According to Urban Factory’s Frédéric Corvez, they discovered the
Iman Vellani, who broke out as the lead of Marvel’s “Ms. Marvel,” is set to headline the climate thriller “Suffering Is Optional,” a Canadian co-production written and directed by Zarrar Kahn for CityLights Media. Vellani will play Noor Rahman, a 20-year-old drama student who
Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to “Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day,” which stars Haley Bennett, Lily Allen, Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders, Timothy Spall and Elyas M’Barek. U.S. domestic rights are co-represented by WestEnd and WME Independent, while
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved” (“El ser querido”), which world premieres in Cannes competition on May 16, begins in a plush Madrid restaurant. The scene lasts 20 minutes. In it, a world-famous film director, Esteban Martínez (Javier Bardem) reencounters his estranged
Adrià Monés’ Fasten Films, producer of Cannes-selected “The End of It,” “Strawberries” and “Rehearsals of a Revolution,” has announced a new slate of films led by Catalan talent Mar Coll, Maria M. Bayona, Adrià Garcia and Nely Reguera. Fasten is also developing debut features
Guy Ritchie is a filmmaker and series creator whose prodigious busyness in terms of both workload and story approach has its compensations. It’s foolish to expect what is so rarely a part of Ritchie’s subset of heist movies, from early ones like “Snatch” a generation ago,
More than 120 Indian filmmakers and producers have united to establish the Independent Filmmakers Assn. of India, a not-for-profit collective designed to improve theatrical access, distribution pathways and streaming visibility for the country’s independent sector. IFAI made
Recent weeks of “Real Time with Bill Maher” have seen the acerbic comic grill probable Democratic presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom for suing Fox News, comparing the California governor’s litigiousness to Trump, and joking that the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s
Fifth Season and HarbourView Equity Partners have set a multi-picture financing pact that will help the indie film and TV production outfit bring to life a number of projects including Dev Patel’s “The Peasant” and the Mila Kunis thriller “Nightwatching.” The deal adds to the
Yeon Sang-ho’s “Colony” premiered in the Midnight Screenings section at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, marking the “Train to Busan” director’s return to the zombie genre. This time, he infuses it a distinctly contemporary twist that reflects anxieties about artificial
Marie Kreutzer's follow-up to 'Corsage' could also factor in to the best international feature Oscar competition, though it remains to be seen which country would have the strongest claim on it.
Director Jeff Fowler has wrapped filming on “Sonic the Hedgehog 4.” Fowler, who directed all three “Sonic” films, shared the news via X. He wrote, “On behalf of this amazing cast/crew, we have filmed the BEST Sonic Movie yet and can’t wait to share.” He also shared a photo of
"Propeller One-Way Night Coach" is sometimes funny in a light way, but it's mostly sincere. Travolta wants to share how much he loved being on this plane: the wide-eyed wonder of it all — and, underneath that, the feeling that he was protected. (That’s the feeling 1962 could
Tony Seiniger, known as “The Godfather of Movie Advertising” for his work on campaigns for films including “Jaws,” died May 11 in Atlanta. He was 87. Born in New York City, he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. He got his start at EUE/Screen Gems in New York, working
Drake is already making history following the release of his trio of albums — “Iceman,” “Habibti” and “Maid of Honour” — as he’s smashed three Spotify records in under a day. As of Friday afternoon, Drake became the most-streamed artist in a single day on Spotify in 2026, while
Kristen Bell joins Ben Schwartz and Jim Carrey for Jeff Fowler's fourth film in the Paramount franchise that adapts the Sega video game property.
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the two-episode series premiere of “Dutton Ranch,” “The Untold Want” and “Earn Another Day,” which are now streaming on Paramount+. “Yellowstone” fans, rejoice! We’ve missed the primetime soap since it wrapped in 2024. Sure, we’ve
