Set up at Nordisk Film (“Loveable,” “The Girl With a Needle” “Out of Athens,” the feature debut of Badrudin Ga’ar (“Tilt”), has won the Film Finances Scandinavia Award, granted to a title at the Göteborg Festival Nordic Film Market’s Discovery co-production platform,
Director Sam Raimi’s new horror movie “Send Help” may do just that at the sluggish winter box office. The R-rated deserted island thriller, starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, has made $2.2 million at the box office in previews. The Disney and 20th Century release is
In a major example of the anti-ICE protests reaching Hollywood, “Grey’s Anatomy” has paused production on Friday in recognition of the call for a national shutdown. In response to ICE raids in Minneapolis and a string of highly publicized killings by federal agents — hundreds
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The star spoke after the premieres of shorts by Mohammad Rasoulof and four other directors that were made with the first round of grants from a scheme she launched with the Hubert Bals Fund last year.
Nicole Scherzinger is opening up about her mom surviving two strokes. The Tony winner talked about her mother during her performance at the American Heart Association’s annual Red Dress Collection Concert gala for women’s cardiac health on Thursday night at Jazz at Lincoln
Los Angeles-based genre label Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Abu Dhabi have acquired rights to the popular found-footage horror anthology series “V/H/S” from Studio71. The deal to jointly produce forthcoming titles within the franchise — which debuted at Sundance in 2012 and
Scottish star Peter Mullan is not going to the U.S. anytime soon. “There’s a lot about it that I love, but a lot that has become so ugly and so toxic. I’d never have thought, in a billion years, that we would actively not want to go to America,” he says. “My son is autistic.
Fresh off the back of multiple Oscar nominations and a record-breaking haul of BAFTA nods, “Hamnet” lead producer Liza Marshall has extended her creative partnership with Maggie O’Farrell, the celebrated author of the book the hit film was adapted from. Marshall, who optioned
Get your piping bags and dough hooks ready: Food Network’s “The Ultimate Baking Championship” series is set to debut March 9. Hosted by Jesse Palmer with Duff Goldman as head judge, “Ultimate Baking Championship” will follow 16 pastry chefs tested on their core techniques, from
Now that the full-year numbers are in, the state of the U.S. market for streaming original TV shows and movies in 2025 can be truly understood. And as Luminate explores in depth in its newly released “Film & TV Year-End Report,” the previous 12 months saw no shortage of
The first-look photos from Sam Mendes' films were released around the band's hometown of Liverpool earlier this week — here they are in hi-res.
After 27 years at Morgan Stanley, Benjamin Swinburne has landed a new gig with the Walt Disney Co. Disney hired Swinburne as executive VP of investor relations and corporate strategy. He will report directly to Disney CFO Hugh Johnston and will join the company “in the near
World premiering at the Berlinale’s Perspectives sidebar, black & white Chilean drama “The Red Hangar” (“Hangar rojo”) chronicles little-known events behind the military takeover that ousted the country’s president, Salvador Allende. It takes place over the first three days of
People are really falling for Bud Light this year. A new 30-second Super Bowl ad for the Anheuser-Busch mainstay aims to get viewers laughing as Shane Gillis, Post Malone and Peyton Manning attend a wedding where the entourage and guests tumble down a steep hill in pursuit of a
Netflix is spicing up its documentary slate with a new film about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, set to premiere on March 20. Directed by Ben Feldman (“Bug Out,” “Rich & Shameless”), “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers” examines the gritty, formative years of the Los Angeles
Gad will play Kurt Gerron, a Jewish actor/director forced to direct a Nazi propaganda film whitewashing the horrors of the Holocaust.
Grammy winner and Tony nominee Josh Gad (“Murder on the Orient Express,” “Frozen”) is set to star in “Gerron’s Last Film” for BAFTA and Emmy nominated director Simon Curtis (“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” “Woman in Gold”) and inspired by the true story of Kurt Gerron. CAA
Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor who is now an independent journalist, was taken into custody in Los Angeles by federal agents Thursday night, according to his lawyer. Lemon was in L.A. covering the 2026 Grammy Awards, according to his attorney Abbe Lowell. His arrest comes
Marijana Jankovic’s feature directorial debut, premiering at Rotterdam, is inspired by her own family's experience: "The film is really asking, what is home, what is happiness, and what is family?"
Mediawan, the award-winning studio behind “Adolescence,” “F1” and “Miraculous,” has finalized its acquisition of Peter Chernin’s North Road. Together, Mediawan and North Road will operate nearly 100 individual production companies representing over $2 billion in annual
BFI-supported initiative Escapes is designed to make cinema more accessible by showing movies for free across Britain each month.
The audience inside Beverly Hills’ Fine Arts Theatre included Chappell Roan, Joachim Trier, Sean Baker, Simon Rex, Meg Stalter, Troye Sivan, Demi Lovato, Gabbriette, Eli Roth and rocker Matt Healy.
Paris‑based sales company Charades (“Urchin”) has boarded “Bloodsuckers,” a family thriller that marks the sophomore feature of Elin Grönblom (“Ella and Friends”). Currently in post-production, the film is being showcased today at Göteborg Film Festival’s Works in Progress and
The creative duo of Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine reconstructs memories of Australian floods in 2022 for their immersive virtual reality documentary project, currently part of the Rotterdam film fest.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is heading to London’s West End, with Adrian Lester returning in the title role for a limited summer engagement. The show will play the Noël Coward Theatre from June 13 through Sept. 5. The transfer follows the
BayView Entertainment has secured North American distribution rights to a catalog of vertical video titles from FlareFlow, the microdrama platform operated by COL Group International, marking the first time the mobile-first content will be available beyond its native app. The
Ivo M. Ferreira's new movie, premiering in IFFR's Big Screen Competition, is a fictionalized chronicle of the "years of lead" in Portugal, 1980-1987.
The producers of S.S. Rajamouli’s action-adventure epic “Varanasi” have revealed the strategic thinking behind the film’s April 7, 2027 release date and its marketing campaign, which began with a cryptic installation in the titular Indian city. The project is being produced
It’s a pun that never gets old: Hilary Duff’s mini-tour is what dreams are made of. The singer performed the final set of her four-stop “Small Rooms, Big Nerves” mini-tour — her first headlining show in over a decade — on Thursday night, but announced that much more is on the
Disney+ has confirmed that “Made In Korea” has become the streamer’s most-viewed Korean original premiere of 2025 across Asia-Pacific markets, based on viewership figures recorded 28 days after its Dec. 24 debut. The crime noir series, set in 1970s Korea, stars Hyun Bin as Baek
The Oscars only have time for two songs. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that only two of this year’s best original song nominees will be performed live during the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, citing time constraints and broader structural
Japanese sales and distribution company Bitters End has acquired international rights to “All the Lovers in the Night,” Yukiko Sode’s feature adaptation of Mieko Kawakami’s celebrated novel starring Golden Globe winner Tadanobu Asano (“Shōgun”) in a key supporting role. Japan
Earlier this week, news broke that the actor had been placed on life support due to a blood infection
The Amazon MGM Studios film, which follows the First Lady in the days leading up to Trump's second inauguration, debuted with support from the president and much of his cabinet.
In the wake of the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, non-profit organizations and small businesses across the country are participating in a nationwide shutdown and general strike to show solidarity with the people of Minnesota and activism against ICE. In
During a promo stunt, images of Harris Dickinson as John Lennon and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison were also revealed
Stand-up comedy is best live — and often lived. Judd Apatow and comedy appreciator Neil Berkeley know this. In their admiring, at times achingly funny documentary “Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the co-directors celebrate a
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Strip That Down,” the 10th episode of Season 22 of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” streaming on Hulu. Kate Walsh will always make time to return to “Grey’s Anatomy.” From the moment Addison Montgomery first strutted into the lobby
The group of creatives acknowledged controversy that ensued after Odessa A’zion was cast in Sean Durkin’s A24 film as character Zoe Gutierrez, who is described in the book that the film is based on as half Mexican and half Jewish.
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “The Black Banquet,” Season 4, Episode 7 of “The Traitors,” now streaming on Peacock. For weeks now, Alan Cumming has been raving about “The Traitors” episode 7, namely, “The Black Banquet,” and how it makes history. And, it did
NBC has ordered two pilots: a rom-com called “Newlyweds” and an untitled comedy about therapists-slash-best friends played by Jane Lynch and Katey Sagal. “Newlyweds” is written by Gail Lerner, who executive produces alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum
The staff of the Writers Guild of America West has voted to authorize a strike, just weeks before the union is due to sit down with the major studios. The union staffers, who organized last spring, have been demanding better wages and job protections in their first contract.
“Are you getting in?” ”No, are you?” On Thursday afternoon, in the lobby of the Trump Kennedy Center, reporters whispered in hushed voices to each other to see which journalists, if any, would be allowed entry to a screening of Melania Trump’s documentary “Melania.” In the
More than 100 Latino creatives have signed an open letter to Hollywood after widespread controversy broke out over Odessa A’zion’s casting in the A24 adaptation “Deep Cuts” as the character Zoe Gutierrez. The letter asks decision-makers to increase Latino voices in development
The rapid-fire announcement of Grammy performers continues as Tyler, the Creator and Rose, both of whom were honored at Variety’s 2025 Hitmakers event in December, will perform at the show on Sunday (not together). Grammy-winner Tyler, who was named Variety’s Hitmakers
The Lionsgate feature tells the origin story of the character Sylvester Stallone initially played in 1982's 'First Blood.'
Sydney Sweeney is drawing a firm line when it comes to discussing her political views. The “White Lotus” and “The Housemaid” actress told Cosmopolitan in a recent cover story that she has no plans to become a voice on political issues, despite public pressure to do so. “I’m in
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Bridgerton” Season 4, Part 1, now streaming on Netflix. If “Bridgerton” Season 3’s big Part 1 cliffhanger was defined by the rush from that iconic carriage scene between Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke
