“Finally, a Show About Men!,” an Australian short-form animated sketch comedy satirizing modern masculinity, premieres Sunday on Aunty Donna’s Grouse House YouTube channel from Gold Coast’s Sad Man Studio. The series is produced by husbands Samuel Leighton-Dore, who also serves
The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk is calling for the “immediate and unconditional” release of Egyptian director and screenwriter Omar Salah Marei who is being held behind bars in Cairo reportedly on trumped up charges of “deliberately spreading false news,”
“Jim Queen” is a film that very much sells itself (or very much does not, depending on the potential viewer) on its one-line elevator pitch. A cartoon about two gay men — one a vapid, brawny influencer, the other a shy, closeted slip of a thing — drawn together to fight
Quiver Distribution has acquired writer-director Jeffrey Scott Collins' feature that premiered at Sun Valley and also stars Reno Wilson, Jamie Lee and Dylan Playfair.
Paul McCartney is a master of the fake-out. The first feint around his new album, “The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” came when he released “Days We Left Behind” as the first single, an exceedingly gentle and wistful ballad that allowed for the possibility that the whole LP might be a
The team behind Prime Video’s limited series “Bait” — which follows a British-Pakistani actor as he auditions for the role of James Bond and faces backlash from the public and his family —came together for a panel discussion at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to offer
Creative Artists Agency’s 11th annual CAA Moebius showcase, a two-day screening series of undergraduate and graduate student filmmakers, will take place May 27 to May 28. Accompanying this year’s showcase is the launch of Moebius Labs, a series of workshops and moderated
Jake Picking and Rodney J. Hobbs also star in writer-director Jenna Milly's feature about a valedictorian whose last day before graduation does not goes as planned.
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the third episode of “Dutton Ranch,” “Act of God Business,” which is now streaming on Paramount+. After last week’s pair of series premiere episodes, we’re deep into the thick of this season’s action. Rip (Cole Hauser) has already
Showrunner and director John Marks recalls the first time he set foot in Epic Universe. It was late October 2024, six months before the theme park opened to the public. “It was bewitching,” he says. That very feeling is what he wanted to capture for viewers when he was pitched
Jeff Probst is slamming prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket for allowing users to make trades about who won “Survivor” Season 50, saying that the companies are “incentivizing people to lie, cheat and steal to get ahead.” “They have figured out a way to
Disney insiders break down how the feature will end up in the black. But if it can't also broaden out the audience, do the optics further hurt a franchise whose core fandom has become increasingly discontent?
Zach Braff remembers the moment that the original run of “Scrubs” might have veered too far in its flights of fancy. “There’s an episode where JD and Turk are pushed into a tree by ostriches who are guarding Jason Bateman’s house,” Braff recalls. “He has an ostrich farm and he
Josh and Spencer Marentette, who also have an action feature set up at Amazon, penned the screenplay.
It marks the show’s most-watched weeknight episode of all time
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Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59. The rapper, who celebrated his 59th birthday just four days ago, died on May 22 while surrounded by family after a private battle with cancer. “Rob’s music, energy,
Kitty Bruce, the daughter of comedian Lenny Bruce and Harriett “Honey” Bruce, died May 13 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, following complications from a surgical procedure, her family confirmed to Variety. She was 70. “On November 7, 1955, Kitty was born into a life that was
For the first time ever, you can play as Robert Pattinson’s Batman, drive around in the tank-like Tumbler from “The Dark Knight,” team up with Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman from “The Dark Knight Rises” and take down Jack Nicholson’s Joker from Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” — all in
Dick Parry, who created some of the most indelible saxophone solos in rock music history through his association with Pink Floyd and lifelong friend David Gilmour, died Friday at age 83. Parry was particularly lionized for his unforgettable solos on the albums “The Dark Side of
The series finale of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” pulled off the series’ most-watched weeknight episode of all time, according to early data from CBS. The Eye network reports that the finale of “The Late Show” posted 6.74 million viewers on Thursday night. That’s up
Earlier this year, Phil Collins spoke out about his health issues, sharing that he’s undergone five knee surgeries and developed kidney problems from drinking. But in a recent interview with BBC Breakfast, Collins shared that he’s “healthier now than I have been for quite a
Director Jon Favreau knew there was a responsibility in being the director who would bring “Star Wars” back to movie theaters after seven years. Favreau told Variety, “People care a lot about ‘Star Wars’. ‘Star Wars’ has been around for 49 years; it’s about to be the 50th
Sandra Wollner's Austrian drama takes the top prize at the Cannes sidebar, Nepalese transgender feature wins the jury prize.
Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival is set to return for its fourth annual edition, with the lineup including feature films from Steven Soderbergh and Gus Van Sant, joined by star performances from Angelina Jolie, Al Pacino, Bill Skarsgard and more. The 2026 festival will be held
The 2026 student filmmaker event will take place May 27-28 and feature 10 short films by graduating storytellers.
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It was Un Certain Regard, the second most prestigious section at the Cannes Film Festival, that brought arguably the event’s biggest surprise hit this year. Jordan Firstman’s directorial debut “Club Kid,” which played to thunderous applause on the first Friday of the festival,
Ben Stiller and Mike Judge are developing a comedy series at Apple TV, Variety has learned. Currently titled “Protective Custody,” the series would star Stiller as a “a disgraced financier accused of massive fraud who is thrown into protective custody, where he must navigate
The general consensus along the Croisette at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was that it felt like a quieter fest than usual: fewer big-name American titles, as festival director Thierry Frémaux himself admitted in his opening-day press conference, and slightly lower-key star
The winner of CBS’ “Survivor 50” was announced live on air on May 20. But traders on prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket — and “Survivor” fans exposed to reports of the fluctuating odds — saw Aubry Bracco’s payday coming before the season even began. When a
After garnering a rapturous reception and a 16-minute standing ovation in Cannes, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s “La Bola Negra” (“The Black Ball”) has sparked a multi-studio bidding war for U.S. rights. Among the bidders are A24, Mubi and Netflix. Thursday night’s premiere
TV actor Stewart McLean has been missing for one week, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have turned the missing person’s case into a homicide investigation. On May 18, the Squamish RCMP received a missing person report after McLean had not been seen since May 15. It was
Like “Funny Games” if it were somehow more pointless, “The Birthday Party,” a rustic home invasion thriller by writer-director Léa Mysius, is a head-scratching letdown considering its cast, a murderer’s row of European stars that includes Hafsia Herzi, Benoît Magimel and Monica
Fifty years ago, a young woman named Hannah pleasured herself in a erotic magazine photo spread. This week, thanks to generative AI, she did it again – this time with a voiceover. The first volume of “Sh(AI)ved” — a collection of AI-generated short films drawn from erotic
International filmmakers have joined a petition opposing Canal+ shareholder Vincent Bolloré and his expanding French media empire.
"Maverick," which is full of singular stories, stunning films clips, and extraordinary insights from a panoply of film directors (Francis Ford Coppola and Alfonso Cuarón to Paul Greengrass and Celine Song, Wes Anderson and Nia DaCosta to Denis Villeneuve and Brady Corbet), is a
Xavier Becerra, the leading Democrat in the race for California governor, on Friday called for a summit of studio, labor and tech leaders to address the sharp drop in Hollywood jobs. Becerra became the latest candidate to offer a proposal to revive the entertainment industry,
Sometimes, a movie sneaks up on you, sidling in like a lamb and striding out like a lion, revealing its brilliance only after you’ve brushed away the sand and grit of first impressions. Much more rarely — in fact, corresponding exactly to the release rate of movies by visionary
Hollywood is giving Miley Cyrus her flowers. On May 22, the Grammy winner and former Disney icon will receive a star on the Walk of Fame. The honor comes a couple months after the “Hannah Montana” 20th anniversary special, in which Cyrus suited up once again as the fictional
The Jon Favreau-directed feature is the first Star Wars title to play in theaters in seven years, and is already earning high audience scores after getting mostly dissed by critics.
On today’s episode of Variety’s “Strictly Business” podcast, Havas Play executives Andrea Isaac and Juliet Tierney discuss insights on reaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha consumers — and the differences that distinguish them. The senior leaders of the branded content and experiential
Patrick Wachsberger's 193 also racked up territory sales on Doug Liman’s upcoming feature 'Bitcoin.'
Ms. Rachel has urged her fans to send prayers to fellow chidren’s entertainer Danny Go, whose 14-year-old son Isaac has died of cancer. “Hi wonderful parent and caregiver community — Please send so much love and so many thoughts and prayers to Danny Go and his beautiful
It’s time to go back to a galaxy far, far away. “Star Wars” returns to the box office for the first time in seven years with the release of “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which has made $12 million in previews. The last time “Star Wars” hit theaters was in 2019 when Episode IX
As rumored, Ed Sheeran has left Warner Music after 15 years and eight full-length albums, the singer announced via a statement to fans in his newsletter. The news was confirmed by the company in a statement to the U.K. publication Music Week. “This isn’t a ‘disgruntled artist
“The Man I Love,” Ira Sachs poetic and tender gay drama about love, lust, death and art set in late 1980s New York, received a rapturous response after its premiere in Cannes. For all the critical acclaim being thrown the way of lead star Rami Malek, playing an amateur theater
Musician and frequent Lady Gaga collaborator, Brian Newman has released his first single, “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” The track is the first release from Newman’s upcoming album. Newman, a Grammy Award winning producer, trumpeter, musical director, and bandleader for
Tom Hardy is out of “Mobland.” Variety has confirmed with sources that Hardy will not appear in a third season of the Paramount+ crime drama. Production has already wrapped on Season 2, which finished filming in March. Sources say that Hardy was not asked to return to the
“The Boys” may have ended with its fifth and final season this week, but there’s still more left to explore in the Vought Cinematic Universe. Prime Video’s prequel series, “Vought Rising,” released its first trailer Friday morning, going back to 1950s New York City to show the
