Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star as an unraveling engaged couple in the first trailer for Kristoffer Borgli’s new A24 feature, “The Drama.” “The Drama” is Borgli’s fourth feature and his second English-language film, following the Nicolas Cage-starring “Dream Scenario,” which
For Sigourney Weaver, working with James Cameron on the “Avatar” films fundamentally reshaped what acting could look like. Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, the actress lauded the advanced performance capture technology used by Cameron on the long-running
Ari Aster serves as a producer for writer-director Kristoffer Borgli's movie that hits theaters next year.
The busy Irish actor, star of ‘The Paper,’ will take to the podium March 12 at the Ebell theater in Los Angeles.
“Please be great. Please be great.” That’s what Hugh Jackman, a veteran of both the screen and the stage, nervously whispers to himself every time he sits down to watch a new movie musical. But he’s finally comfortable declaring that his favorite genre is “back” after starring
Procter & Gamble’s newest soap opera doesn’t look anything like the sudsy dramas it has produced in the past. The consumer-products giant behind household staples like Tide, Crest and Pampers has been entwined with daytime serials for nearly a century, helping to produce radio
Diana Ross will ring in the new year as the 2026 headliner for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.” From Times Square, the disco legend will anchor a lineup of 39 artists appearing across New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and more. All will be part
Leslie Moonves and Katie Couric couldn’t do it. Nor could Jeff Fager and Scott Pelley. David Rhodes and Jeff Glor proved unable to make things work, as did Susan Zirinsky and Norah O’Donnell. Wendy McMahon, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois also couldn’t turn things around. And
Sophie Kinsella, the English author of the successful “Shopaholic” book series that was adapted into the 2009 film “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” has died. She was 55. As the BBC reported, Kinsella was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022. Her death was
Bernhard Wenger's Venice Critics’ Week hit starring Albrecht Schuch satirizes identity, social roles and the absurdities of modern life: “I look at life with humor — it's just more beautiful that way."
Wilfried Hauke's documentary shines a spotlight on the early years of the Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking and Ronia the Robber's Daughter.
Juliette Binoche delved into the craft of acting and her emerging voice as a director during a packed masterclass at the 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival, drawing on decades of collaborations with filmmakers including John Boorman and Krzysztof Kieślowski. “You
The 49th edition of Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival will open on Jan. 23 with a gala screening of Swede Marcus Carlsson’s “The Quiet Beekeeper2 (“Biodlaren”), hailed by Variety this year as a breakout buzz title at Göteborg’s Works in Progress strand of its Nordic Film Market.
Jennie just made K-pop history. The singer — who is part of the girl group Blackpink and released her first solo album, “Ruby,” this year — scored Vevo’s most watched premiere of the year globally with the music video for “Like Jennie,” marking the first time a K-pop visual has
Komplizen's Berlin-based trio of Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski, and Jonas Dornbach will be honored at the European Film Awards in January.
The Baz Luhrmann-directed film features long-lost footage from the singer's 1970s Las Vegas residency
CBS pulled the plug on The Late Show in July, calling the move a "purely a financial decision"
Priya Dogra has been appointed as the next chief executive of U.K. public service broadcaster Channel 4, replacing Alex Mahon who stepped down this summer after 8 years in the role. Dogra will join Channel 4 in March 2026. Current Channel 4 chief Jonathan Allan will continue in
The former Late Show host appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the new season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is extending its film and television incentive program through fiscal year 2026 with enhanced provisions designed to attract more overseas productions, the Visual Industry Promotion Organization and Japan Film Commission has
Reliance Entertainment will distribute the critically acclaimed period drama “Hamnet” across India in February 2026, as the film gains momentum during awards season. Based on Maggie O’ Farrell’s book, the film follows William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), who is in the midst of
Josh Hutcherson said during a recent appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s On Me” podcast that he “knew only success” in the early stages of his career, but after starring in “The Hunger Games” franchise, he learned how “complicated” the film industry could be. “I
Buffalo 8 has secured worldwide rights to “The World’s Happiest Man,” the Bhutanese-Nepali-American drama starring Oscar and Emmy nominee Bruce Dern. A trailer has been unveiled. Dern (“Nebraska,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) stars alongside Nepali stalwarts Haribansha
If Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” lands an outstanding cast ensemble nomination at the Actors Awards — the newly renamed Screen Actors Guild Awards — one of the film’s most essential performers will not be recognized alongside his colleagues. The official ensemble submission lists
Indian streaming giant JioHotstar is scaling its South India operations following dramatic audience growth over the past 10 months, with executives detailing the strategic rationale behind the platform’s INR4,000 crore ($445 million) content investment unveiled on Tuesday in
Nia DaCosta's sequel to Danny Boyle's '28 Years Later' opens in theaters on Jan. 16.
IMDb has unveiled its annual ranking of the most popular Indian series of 2025, with Aryan Khan’s “The Ba***ds of Bollywood” claiming the top spot among global viewers. The rankings are determined by page views from IMDb’s more than 250 million monthly visitors worldwide and
The International Film Festival of Kerala has unveiled a 14-title international competition lineup that stretches from India’s Khasi Hills to Latin America, East Asia and the Middle East, anchoring the 30th edition of the festival in Thiruvananthapuram from Dec. 12–19.
“Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,” “Ghost of Yōtei” and “Split Fiction” are among the ten titles contending for Best Game among the 64 games listed in the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards Longlist. The list is comprised of titles across seventeen different categories, selected from
“Owning Manhattan” is back on Netflix, and so is its star Ryan Serhant. But this time around, things are different. Serhant isn’t just selling Manhattan’s premium real estate. He’s still on his quest to build the number one brokerage on earth, and he’s also trying to be number
COL Group International has unveiled a first look at its newly completed studio complex designed specifically for microdrama production. The Macao-based facility, located within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, houses more than 30 fully-equipped standing sets
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Gene Maddaus discusses the opposition in the entertainment industry that has assembled to fight Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. and HBO. And Alex Ritman reports on the scene at the Red Sea Film Festival in
Streaming service Philo is hoping to win over new customers this month with a new deal that knocks $8 off the regular price of a subscription to their Philo Core plan. Philo is already a relative bargain at its regular $33 a month price point, which gets subscribers more than
A core argument of Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery is this: WBD’s cable networks like CNN and TBS are not worth as much as the David Zaslav-led company’s deal with Netflix implies, Paramount claims. It’s hard to do an apples-to-apples
Jason Bateman said in an interview with Esquire magazine that he reads all the reviews for his television shows and movies because “I am a people pleaser. I care about what people think about me.” “I read all the reviews. I am doing these projects for public consumption, so it
Laura Segura has been appointed executive director of She Is the Music, the nonprofit dedicated to gender equality and increasing the number of women working in music — including songwriters, engineers, producers, artists, and industry professionals. In her new role, Segura
Petra Costa, an Oscar nominee for 2019's 'The Edge of Democracy,' discussed her film with The Hollywood Reporter at the recent SCAD Savannah Film Festival.
The 'Lisa Frankenstein' lead also praised co-star Samara Weaving's flirting skills and thanked her for texting a potential real-life love interest on Newton's behalf: "And then I blew it."
Kevin Lewis first made a name for himself in the horror community by helming the 2021 film “Willy’s Wonderland,” in which a mute Nicolas Cage plays a janitor fighting Chuck E. Cheese-esque animatronics that are possessed by the souls of cannibal serial killers. It’s quite the
Vicente Amorim, director of “Senna,” is attached to direct “The Pilgrimage,” an adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s semi-autobiographical early novel, which reunites Amorim, Netflix and Gullane after “Senna,” the biggest Brazilian TV series ever, which Amorim also directed. At a
“Lupin,” Netflix’s French mystery thriller starring Omar Sy, will return with its fourth season in fall 2026. One of the most popular non-English-language series on Netflix, “Lupin” follows a master thief named Assane Diop navigating Paris and seeking revenge on a powerful
As Netflix and Paramount began their fight for control of Warner Bros. this week, each sought to reassure the creative community that the outcome will mean more content and more jobs. But Hollywood union leaders have seen that movie before, and have every reason to be
Daisy Ridley starred as Rey opposite Adam Driver as Kylo Ren/Ben Solo in three “Star Wars” movies between 2015 and 2019, so consider her shocked when news broke in October about the scrapped standalone “Star Wars” movie “The Hunt for Ben Solo.” Driver revealed the film’s
Lesley Walker, the BAFTA-nominated British film editor who worked on films including “Mona Lisa” and “Mamma Mia!,” died on Dec. 2. She was 80. Walker began her career as an assistant film editor in the 1960s. She worked on films such as “Funeral in Berlin” and “The Lion in
Rachel Maddow recently said on Nicolle Wallace’s “The Best People” podcast that CBS and its parent company Paramount should reconsider canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” calling the network’s post-Paramount–Skydance-merger culture a “huge embarrassment.” “Maybe you
Paul Ben-Victor has joined the cast of Netflix’s upcoming series adaptation of “The Boys From Brazil.” Ben-Victor is the latest addition to the cast, which is led by Jeremy Strong and also features Gillian Anderson, Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Lizzy Caplan, and Shira Haas. The
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” will begin its epic theatrical journey over the weekend. Audiences will be treated to the nearly six-minute prologue of “The Odyssey” on Dec. 12 ahead of Imax 70mm screenings of “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another,” which are returning to
Jeff Williams, a former top Apple executive who retired from the tech giant earlier this year, will stand for election as a new independent director of Disney at the company’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders. With the addition of Williams, the total size of the board will
Will Lewis, a pioneer of Los Angeles public radio who was known for going to prison after refusing to turn over SLA tapes to the FBI after the Patty Hearst kidnapping, died Friday at his Thousand Oaks home. His son Robert Lewis confirmed he died of natural causes. He was 94.
The Actor Awards — which returns for a 32nd edition next March with a new name — has announced its production team for the landmark ceremony. The event, formerly known as the SAG Awards (and, as always, is presented by SAG-AFTRA) will bring back Silent House Productions for the
