Paramount Pictures has released the trailer for “Heart of the Beast,” a new survival thriller film starring Brad Pitt. Pitt plays James Belmont, a former Army Special Forces soldier who must find a way to return to civilization after his small plane crashes deep in the Alaskan
This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 pm ET. Josh Hutcherson and Elizabeth Banks first met making the first four “Hunger
Plex and ATX TV are taking “Friday Night Lights” on the road to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the drama. Across five cities, cast members will come together for screenings and live conversations, hosted by Adrianne Palicki, who portrayed Tyra Collette in the series. All
Rodrigo Teixeira, producer of 2025 Oscar winner “I’m Not There” and James Gray’s 2026 Cannes contender “Paper Tiger,” are in development on their fourth film together, to be made in 2027. “It talks about the U.S. now, not the best moment they have, with probably the worst
The Slow Horses are galloping towards their sixth season. Apple TV has confirmed the hit TV series, which follows a group of misfit MI5 agents demoted to the Gary Oldman-governed Slough House, is set to return to the streamer on Sept. 16. The six-episode season will drop
Sitting at a beautiful rooftop overlooking the sprawling streets of Italy’s Taormina, Oscar-nominated Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres still can’t quite believe she has finally made it to Sicily. Torres, who is in town to receive the Taormina Film Festival Achievement Award,
Jinkx Monsoon will make her London West End debut this summer, stepping into the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” at Trafalgar Theatre for a six-week run from Aug. 17 to Sept. 26. Monsoon, the first and only drag queen to win “RuPaul’s Drag Race” twice, previously
Screen Producers Australia has lodged a 22-recommendation submission to the Australian government’s National Cultural Policy consultation, putting the market power of streaming platforms over independent producers at the center of its push for structural reform. The body’s
British actress Emily Watson will serve as president of the jury for the Feature Film Competition Program at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival. She will also receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the festival, in recognition of her contribution to world cinema. Jovan
Charlie Burn and Ashley Gilmour are set to lead the cast of “Jane Eyre,” the musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, when the show makes its U.K. premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in London. The play opens Aug. 28 and plays through Oct. 24. Burn, who recently starred as
Canadian filmmaker Michael Zelniker, who will receive the Taormina Film Festival’s Special Sustainability Award on Thursday evening, is on a mission to try and heal the damages humanity is inflicting on planet Earth. Zelniker, who previously helmed the acclaimed 2022
Copenhagen-based DR Sales, sales rep of the Oscar-winning “Mr Nobody Against Putin” and Sundance hit “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has closed a raft of deals on the Norwegian wildlife documentary “Frost Without Snow and Ice” (“Frost uten Snø og Is”) on the heels of its world
Watson, who most recently starred in Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet,' has left "a profound mark on contemporary cinema," according to Sarajevo director Jovan Marjanović.
The film from Irish director Oisín Mistéil, premiering at Sheffield DocFest, follows four Irish teams on their journey to the Mixed Ability Rugby World Cup, where "inclusion isn't an aspiration but the starting point."
London-based sales, production and distribution company Dogwoof has closed a raft of international deals on Sundance prizewinning documentary “Birds of War,” which has been lined up for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run in the U.S. as Dogwoof launches the film’s trailer ahead
Thespian Tony Leung Chiu-wai has three productions in the pipeline: a film to be directed by Johnnie To, a separate India-set project and a six-or-seven-episode streaming series in which he will play a serial killer. The Hong Kong screen legend disclosed the projects while
K-pop group BigBang will reunite for a 31-show stadium world tour celebrating the group’s 20th anniversary, marking its first trek since 2017. The group – G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung – announced Thursday that the run will begin Aug. 21 at Goyang Stadium in Goyang, South
Before Nottapon Boonprakob made “The Evil Lawyer,” he had never spent much time thinking about the justice system. That changed the moment he started sitting in on courtroom proceedings – watching judges, lawyers and prosecutors move through rituals that, from the outside, look
It was a who’s who on the sidelines of Madison Square Garden as the New York Knicks fronted a miraculous comeback against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. NYC staples like Spike Lee, Larry David, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, David Zaslav, Timothée Chalamet,
At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, just hours before Game 4 of the Knicks vs. Spurs NBA Finals, several New Yorkers were spotted outside Madison Square Garden cleansing the air with copal and sage to manifest better luck for their hometown team. “We’re saging the Madison!” said Deisy, a
Australian production company Titantale Film is mid-shoot on “Tanabata: The Evening of the Seventh,” a supernatural romance drama starring Japanese actor Yamada Takayuki. The project, fully funded out of Australia with production service partners in Japan, spans three
Following her surprise performance at last night’s “Toy Story 5” premiere in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift has made it all the way to Madison Square Garden in New York City on Wednesday in time to watch the New York Knicks face off against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the NBA
Tadka, the microdrama platform within leading Indian streamer JioHotstar, has crossed 100 million users, establishing premium short-form content as a mainstream entertainment category in India. Since launch, daily watch time per viewer on Tadka has grown fivefold, reflecting
The tale of two heroic stewardesses who team up with RuPaul Charles, the President of the United States, to stop a train on a collision course with a once-a-century weather event, “Stop! That! Train!” is billed as a “true story” where every scene unfolds “exactly as it happened
Steven Spielberg joined “The Rest Is Entertainment” podcast on his “Disclosure Day” press tour and opened up about his repeated failed attempts to direct a James Bond movie. The Oscar winner made a personal plea to franchise producer Cubby Broccoli after “Jaws” became a
The star pairing of “Happy Hours” isn’t just its selling point, but its audience filter. If the words “Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson together again” make your heart go a little soft, then congratulations: This equally soft-hearted romantic comedy has been made directly for
Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy will collide with Radiohead’s 2003 album “Hail to the Thief” when “Hamlet Hail to the Thief” opens at London’s Barbican Theatre on Oct. 31, running through Jan. 23, 2027. The production marks the London premiere of the show, which played to
Italy’s Taormina Film Festival kicked off with a double dose of ancient firepower on Wednesday evening as the first episode of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Season 3 was unveiled on a gigantic outdoor screen to a cheering crowd of 5,000 spectators in the Sicilian resort’s Greek
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from the Season 2 finale of “Criminal Record” now streaming on Apple TV. In the second season of Apple TV’s captivating crime drama, “Criminal Record,” Detective Sergeant June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) finds herself
The upcoming film awards season has its first official entry. Variety has learned exclusively that Paris Barclay’s documentary “Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It” is the first film uploaded to the Academy Screening Room. On the members-only platform, Oscar voters can
Rodney Rothman is set to helm the latest sequel for Sony, with previous directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller on board to produce.
‘ “Give Me The Ball!,” an upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, will open the third annual Croatia International Film Festival on July 24 in the coastal city of Sibenik. Oscar nominee and Primetime Emmy winner Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff directed the doc about American tennis
“24 Jump Street” is in the works, and stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube are in talks to return for the third installment in the R-rated crime comedy franchise. Rodney Rothman (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) will direct the film and wrote the script with Hill
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma outlined several “surprising and even frustrating” realities facing the Microsoft-owned gaming business in a memo to staff Wednesday, which included forward looking statements about reshaping the company. The note, which was published by Xbox on Xbox
While the overall future of the James Bond video game franchise is up in the air, the next 12 months have been laid out for the IO Interactive-published “007 First Light.” With more than 2.7 million copies sold in the first week after its May 27 launch, the popularity of “007
The fourth season of “Bridgerton” could have easily been a filler season if it weren’t for Yerin Ha. The “Cinderella”-themed season focused on Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson), the spare to heir Anthony (Jonathan Bailey). His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a
Entertainment veteran Amanda Farrand has a new gig — where she’s in charge of sparking joy on the internet, and, ideally, making some money from it. Upworthy, a digital aggregator and producer of viral uplifting stories, has hired Farrand as its new CEO. She officially joined
Nick Offerman has a strong work ethic. When he signed up to play former pro wrestler James “Jinx” Millet in “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” he worried he’d have to train as hard as other Hollywood gym rats. “I’ve seen Mark Wahlberg’s social media,” he says. He thought, “I guess I
Ellen Barkin and Homer Gere, the son of Richard Gere, is also in the feature that shot in Italy.
“Toy Story 5” star Tim Allen says a “Home Improvement” reboot is not likely at the moment due to “personality problems” with the actors who played his on-screen sons on the classic ABC sitcom. “They keep talking about how it could move forward, but they get stuck [because]
Many of the biggest names in Hollywood are lending their star power to Audible titles — from Harris Dickinson and Marisa Abela in “Pride and Prejudice” to the bold-faced cast attached to the upcoming “Harry Potter” series, starring Hugh Laurie, Matthew McFayden and Riz Ahmed,
If Donald Trump is the leader of the MAGA-verse, what happens after the credits roll on his presidency? At an intimate FYC event in New York on Tuesday, the hosts of “The Daily Show” got to comparing POTUS’ universe to the MCU. That makes Jordan Klepper, who often interviews
The latest 'Toy Story' premiered in L.A. on Tuesday, as Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack unveiled the new story of toys versus tech.
AMC Theatres is postponing plans to simulcast a series of live concerts from performers like Bebe Rexha, Paris Hilton, Kim Petras and Maren Morris. The cinema chain revised its plans after a series of summer releases such as “Backrooms,” “Scary Movie” and “Obsession”
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety‘s Michael Schneider discusses Variety’s plans to take a long look at NBC’s centennial and its role in advancing mass media in the electronic age with the creation of the first radio network. And we have highlights from Kate
Cassie Howard’s story has concluded. But Sydney Sweeney isn’t quite ready to let her go. Sweeney, already an Emmy nominee for the second season of “Euphoria” in 2022, dove even deeper into the character for the recent third and final season, and she tells Variety that she still
Edgar Ramirez is the latest addition to the cast of “Task” Season 2 at HBO. Ramirez joins returning Season 1 star Mark Ruffalo as well as previously announced new additions Mahershala Ali, Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis, and Aminah Nieves. The official logline for the new season
Comedian Adam Friedland is set to bring “The Adam Friedland Show” to Spotify in July. The talk show will relaunch with its third season and partner with the streaming service for ad sales and distribution across all podcast platforms. “I couldn’t be more excited. I asked my
