Anonymous Content manager Kassie Evashevski helped Shelby Van Pelt's novel make it to the screen: "It was one of the few things at the time that I read that made me just feel good."
Cohen Media Group has bought U.S. distribution rights to “Lady,” the debut feature from Nigerian-born writer-director Olive Nwosu, being sold by HanWay Films. The acquisition follows the film’s world premiere in the World Dramatic Cinema Competition at this year’s Sundance Film
YouTube has long been known as a place popular among younger viewers, but what happens when those people get older? For Brian Albert, the executive who represents the Google video-sharing service in its negotiations with Madison Avenue, the answer is simple: They keep watching
A+E Global Media, AMC Global Media, Fox, Hallmark Media, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Scripps Networks, TelevisaUnivision and Warner Bros. Discovery have struck a partnership with Open AP that aims to introduce a single, standardized way to connect exposure to TV commercials with
Gillian Anderson had a “panic attack” when she watched a particular scene in “Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma” in a cinema for the first time. “That blood day,” as she calls it, “was pretty serious… just remembering the amount of liquid and how to not drown while shooting
The Oscar-winning 'Lord of the Rings' filmmaker, in Cannes to accept an honorary Palme d'Or, likened AI tools to the stop-motion craft behind the original 'King Kong,' while insisting that actors must approve any AI re-creation of their likeness.
Hollywood owns the UFO genre and has actual standards for this sort of thing. The government needs to step it up.
A coming-of-age drama that gradually turns morose, Blerta Basholli’s sophomore feature “Dua” follows up her Sundance-winning 2021 debut “Hive” as a reflection of Kosovan women in the late 1990s. This time, however, the director draws from her own experiences as a girl who came
Ahead of this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes, former festival distributor Moritz Schneider is launching Miralot, a data-driven film festival matching and submission platform aimed at helping filmmakers navigate the increasingly fragmented global festival landscape more
“Lord of the Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson doesn’t “dislike” AI being used in film — but he thinks it’s a shame that the debate surrounding it is partly why Andy Serkis will never win awards for his motion-capture performance as Gollum. Speaking at a Cannes Film Festival
An immersive theatrical experience based on “Pirates of the Caribbean” is coming to the U.K. Produced by Secret Cinema and TodayTix, and licensed via Disney Theatrical Group, “Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Immersive Adventure” will sail into London in Feb. 2027 with an
The French actress, star of the 2026 Cannes opening night film 'The Electric Kiss,' discusses her first festival red carpet – for Michael Haneke's 'Time of the Wolf' (2003).
Macaulay Culkin recently told Gentleman’s Journal that part of the reason why Catherine O’Hara’s death hit him so hard earlier this year is because “I felt that we had unfinished business.” O’Hara played Culkin’s mother in the comedy classics “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2:
The boom is real. The ambition is bigger. When the Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man” needed to recreate Stoke-on-Trent – a gritty English industrial city with little obvious resemblance to the Pacific – the production simply decamped to Queensland. “Nothing looked like
Lío Mehiel (“Mutt,” “After the Hunt”) and Emily Carey (“House of the Dragon”) are set to star in “Camino,” a neo-Western feature from Beso and Pucci Productions that will be introduced at the Cannes Market this week via Breaking Through the Lens. Written and directed by
The London company has promised its "most ambitious production ever" as they prepare to invite audiences aboard the Black Pearl in the first-ever theatrical experience adaptation of the Disney blockbuster.
European Film Promotion is playing host at the Cannes Film Festival to up-and-coming European producers, selected for its Producers on the Move program. Variety invited the producers to share details of their upcoming projects, which include “Vanda,” Clémence Poésy’s debut
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stopped by Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” for one last interview before the CBS late night franchise comes to an end on Thursday, May 21. While she was on to promote her new movie, “The Sheep Detectives,” Louis-Dreyfus had a ruthless surprise in store for
Indonesian-Australian producer Intan Kieflie will present a focused genre slate at the Cannes Film Market through her companies Kraken Entertainment and Anak Negeri Films, including the market launch of “Ibu: Mother of the Lost,” a bilingual maternal horror project in
A doomed love story, especially one based on real-life young people braving their own “The Fault in Our Stars”-style tale, is bound to shatter even the coldest of hearts. Earnest, disarming and unapologetically conventional, prolific graphic artist Phuong Mai Nguyen’s elegantly
Vietnamese sales and distribution company Mockingbird Pictures is bringing a commercial slate to the Cannes Market anchored by “Zero Meets Hero,” a multigenerational comedy-drama from Huỳnh Lập, director of “The Ancestral Home,” one of the highest-grossing Vietnamese films ever
Bangkok-based sales and distribution outfit Fearfolks has acquired world sales rights to “Someone Special,” a Thai-Chinese thriller co-directed by Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Cheng, and will represent the title at the Cannes Market. Sirat Intarachote (“4 Kings,” “4 Kings 2,”
French producers Richard Grandpierre and Olivier Delbosc on their $47 million bet with Studiocanal that audiences are ready for a reimagining of Victor Hugo’s epic as a propulsive action thriller — with the original politics very much intact.
“Elephants in the Fog,” which will world premiere in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, has landed its first distribution deals. It is sold internationally by Best Friend Forever. The trailer debuts below. The film will be co-distributed in France by Arizona Distribution and
In 2018, Saudi Arabia removed its religious ban on cinema and revealed its intentions to transform itself from an oil-based economy into an entertainment powerhouse. The goal was to use the country’s wealth to not only invest in media companies, but to lure studios to the
Luxbox has closed a French distribution deal and shared an exclusive first trailer with Variety for Katharina Rivilis’ “I’ll Be Gone in June,” which has its world premiere in Cannes Un Certain Regard. Nour Films will release the film in France, with a release date to be set for
"I guarantee you, you will utter to yourselves, ‘Oh my God!'" the actor confirmed
The animated feature, the directorial feature debut of Nicolas Athané and Marco Nguyen, world premieres in the Cannes Film Festival's Midnight Screenings program.
London-based sales and impact outfit Together Films has picked up international rights to the Swedish love drama “Lisa & Lilly,” produced by Fifth Season’s Scandi production powerhouse Nordic Drama Queens. The project, due to start lensing in August, marks the feature length
The Cannes Film Festival’s Blood Window Showcase has announced its lineup of eight feature films representing among the best of contemporary Ibero-American genre cinema. Set to unspool on May 14 at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film and staged in collaboration with the
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's competition title, produced by David Thion ('Anatomy of a Fall'), also stars Mélanie Thierry as a young novelist who meets Gabrielle, who has a carefully constructed life and career.
There are 12 rules of karma in eastern philosophy. In Hollywood, there’s an unofficial 13th: Marion Cotillard will inevitably return to the Cannes Film Festival. The Oscar-winning actress hits the Croisette this year with two new projects, representing her 14th and 15th
"Your cancellation gave Donald Trump so much pleasure I always think of you as the Stormy Daniels of late night"
London-based The Mise En Scène Company has unveiled Human Provenance in Film, a no-cost AI disclosure standard for the film and TV industry, opening consultation at the Cannes Film Market and inviting participation from producers and distributors through to insurers, platforms,
The feature debut of Sarah Arnold, starring Alexis Manenti and Ella Rumpf and premiering in the Directors' Fortnight, sees boars ravaging crops, sparking an open war. And there are turkeys, too!
Donald Trump. Elon Musk. Tim Cook. And Brett Ratner? Yes, the “Rush Hour” and “X-Men: The Last Stand” auteur is reportedly hitching a ride with President Trump and his delegation of business and technology moguls as they make the trek to China for a high-stakes summit with Xi
With Kore-eda, Hamaguchi and Fukada in competition and a new generation pitching at the market, the country of honor is making the most of its moment.
“Babygirl” writer/director Halina Reijn is continuing to expand the cast for her next film with A24, this time adding a BAFTA winner into the mix. David Jonsson, who won the BAFTA Rising Star award in 2025 for his breakout turns in “Rye Lane” and “Alien: Romulus,” has joined
Dennis To will reprise his role as the legendary Wing Chun grandmaster in “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legacy,” the next installment of the martial arts franchise. All Rights Entertainment has launched presales at the Cannes Film Market for the new feature. Production is scheduled to begin
L.A.-based Myriad Pictures has snapped up “A Silent Death,” the latest psychological crime thriller from Sebastian Schindel. The deal, hammered out between Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico and FilmSharks’ Guido Rud and Federico Pascua, targets a North American release in the third quarter
Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to competition at Cannes with “Sheep in the Box,” a thorny yet sensitive meditation on the encroachment of AI on our ability to let go of those who are no longer with us. In the film, Otone (Ayase Haruka) and Kensuke (Yamamoto Daigo)
Italy’s RAI Cinema Intl. Distribution has scored a batch of sales on “The Sound of Something New,” the new film by “Perfect Strangers” director Paolo Genovese, which is being sold at the Cannes Marché du Film. “Something New,” which is produced by Lotus Production, a Leone Film
Garret Dillahunt (“No Country for Old Men”), Michelle Hurd (“Star Trek: Picard”) and Henry Ian Cusick (“Lost”) are set to lead upcoming psychological thriller “Bloodwood.” The film marks the feature directorial debut of Robert Menzies, who also wrote the original screenplay
Foreign Concept Entertainment is developing “The Ideal Man,” a thriller centered on Jim Thompson — the former CIA operative who built one of Thailand’s most recognized lifestyle brands before vanishing without explanation in 1967. The script is set during the Vietnam War, with
Gibb was best known for his memorable role as the towering "Ogre" in the beloved Eighties cult classic
Director-actress-producer Sadie Frost and producer Simon Jones have launched Frost & Jones, a production company developing premium documentary and scripted film and television. The venture follows the critical and commercial performance of Frost’s documentary “Twiggy” and is
Skyline Media, a Vietnam-based international sales agent, is heading to the Cannes Film Market with a five-title slate led by “The Scourge,” one of the first feature film adaptations of a Vietnamese video game IP. The source game has topped China’s Steam Early Access chart,
Having joined forces on WWII drama-thriller “Frontier,” a Menemsha Films U.S. pickup, Catalan director Judith Colell and Barcelona-based studio Filmax are reuniting on another war tale. This time, however, it will be told through an animated feature and the story of the
Academy Award winners Amy Madigan (“Weapons”) and Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”) are set to star in “I Passed This Way,” a Western from two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles (“Passion Fish,” “Lone Star”) that marks his first feature in more than a decade. “I Passed This
Leading German producer Martin Moszkowicz has teamed up with Philipp Keel, the owner of Europe’s largest independent fiction publisher, Diogenes, and a filmmaker in his own right, to adapt titles from Diogenes’ catalog. Among Diogenes’ authors whose works have been adapted in
