The A-lister participated in a career-retrospective conversation and then collected the fest's Outstanding Performer of the Year Award from his costar and fellow first-time Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo.
Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat,” opening in theaters Feb. 13, is an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world and centered on the high-stakes sport of roarball — a version of basketball that’s co-ed, full-contact and dominated by the biggest, fastest and fiercest
Stephen Amell has landed a lead role in Fox’s upcoming “Baywatch” reboot, Variety has learned. This is the first confirmed casting for the series, which was picked up for the 2026-2027 broadcast season by Fox back in September 2025 with a 12-episode order. Fox is set to host an
“WWE SmackDown” is getting a temporary new home on Friday nights thanks to the 2026 Winter Olympics. “SmackDown” normally airs on the USA Network, but the channel has switched over to 24/7 Olympic programming until Feb. 22. Most scripted shows on USA Network are on pause during
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the first three episodes of “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette,” now streaming on FX and Hulu. Born in Sun Valley, Idaho, Dree Hemingway spent most of the ’90s living between her home state and her mother’s film
A new trio of crime fighters might utter the trademark greeting “Good morning, Charlie” on the big screen once again. Sony Pictures is in early development on a new feature version of “Charlie’s Angels,” the female-fronted 1970s TV crime drama turned big-screen action movie
In the high-concept world of Sony Picture Animation’s, “Goat,” what happens off the court is just as important as the game played on it. In this case, that game is roarball, a co-ed, enormously intense version of basketball that Will Harris (Caleb McLaughlin), a Boer goat with
“Heated Rivalry” star Hudson Williams got an early start on his birthday festivities Thursday night, celebrating at Gold House’s inaugural Lunar New Year party in New York City. Williams, a co-host of the lavish event at Chinese Tuxedo, hit the dance floor with “The Summer I
Blumhouse-Atomic Monster has teamed with Behaviour Interactive to adapt the Canadian gaming studio's hit horror video franchise
The scribe behind 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'The Proposal' is working to revive the 1970s TV hit for the big screen.
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” in theaters now. Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” has just been released in theaters, but there have already been weeks of discourse surrounding her adaptation (or “reinterpretation”) of
The lore of why Emerald Fennell decided to adapt “Wuthering Heights” for the big screen is almost as well-worn as the copy of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel that the Oscar-winning filmmaker has read a hundred times. Fennell discovered the classic tome when she was a teenager — 14
The rolling grasslands of Slovakia stand in for the plains of 19th-century Wisconsin in “A Prayer for the Dying,” though the spiritual setting of Dara Van Dusen’s unforgiving western lies in some remote outpost between anywhere and nowhere. As a small rural settlement is
In the riveting family drama “Yellow Letters,” German-born Turkish director İlker Çatak employs a culturally tilt-shifted backdrop for his tale of authoritarian crackdowns. The film announces, upfront via enormous on-screen text, that its setting is “Berlin as Ankara,” with the
As David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance continues to pursue its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the company has hired a new leader for its public policy and regulatory teams: Rene Augustine, a former attorney in President Trump’s White House and one-time deputy
SAG-AFTRA is joining the industry condemnation of ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, for releasing a new video model that has enabled widespread copyright infringement online. SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin is among those whose likeness has been used in videos generated by
Shay Mitchell‘s first major role in Hollywood was in “Pretty Little Liars” as Emily Fields. In 2018, she starred in the first season of Netflix’s “YOU” as Peach Salinger. That same year, she launched BÉIS, a brand that has since redefined the luggage market. Eight years later,
The common layman’s shorthand for the BAFTA Awards is that they’re the “British Oscars,” in the way that the César Awards are the French Oscars or the Goya Awards are the Spanish Oscars. Yet the comparison isn’t quite correct: Where the Césars and Goyas exclusively recognize
“Love Story” showrunner Connor Hines is defending the decision not to consult the Kennedy family for the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, which explores the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette. “As a writer, it’s more
There are different ways to say “I love you” in Norwegian and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas is teaching us. It wasn’t in the script for her to say it to her co-star Renate Reinsve in one of the most pivotal scenes of the best picture nominee “Sentimental Value.” Some versions are
Now in its 29th edition, the European Shooting Stars platform, run by European Film Promotion and supported by Creative Europe’s Media Programme, brings another 10 promising European acting talents to the Berlin Film Festival, to help them build their careers internationally.
Shelly Desai, a character actor whose work spanned generations of television and film, died Feb. 10 in Los Angeles. He was 90. His family announced the death but did not disclose a cause. Desai built a decades-long career appearing in dozens of shows and movies, earning
It’s time to raise a glass to the Disney+ “Muppet Show” special. Per the Mouse House, the revival of the beloved variety series has delivered 7.58 million multiplatform viewers across Disney+ and ABC since it debuted on Feb. 4. That viewership comes on top of rave reviews for
Every episode of the HBO docuseries “Neighbors” begins with the camera zooming in from outer space. But before the action alights in the location of the latest dispute between adjacent property owners to catch the eye of directors Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford (yes,
Zazie Beetz spoke out against the proliferation of AI at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for Gore Verbinski’s new film “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” which tackles the hot topic with humor. The sci-fi adventure, premiering on Friday night as a Berlinale Special
Also opening over the long Presidents Day/Valentine's Day weekend is Amazon MGM's star-packed heist pic 'Crime 101,' which has earned a combined $1 million in Thursday previews and previous sneaks.
Rupert Grint is fully aware that he’s hasn’t exactly been supplying his 5.5 million Instagram followers with gold. Having joined the platform in late 2020 with a photo of his newborn daughter, he broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to reach one million
Co-founded with his brother and producing partner, Juan de Dios Larraín, the new TVOD platform offers filmmakers pricing control, 80 percent revenue share and global territory flexibility.
There are few books as compelling to Hollywood as Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic, “Wuthering Heights.” The Victorian era novel has been adapted, yet again, for the big screen by “Saltburn” filmmaker and British actress Emerald Fennell. The latest in a long list of adaptations,
The jazz piano of Bill Evans was characterized by grace and poise, a lightness of touch yielding a plaintive depth of feeling, that belied a life beset with chaos and tragedy. It would be easy for an Evans biopic to lean into the latter, as music biopics tend to do — turbulent
Creative Artists Agency has made six key promotions, upping staff to agent or executive roles inside the company in divisions like motion picture talent and sports broadcasting. Casey Fraser, Kevin Goldfinger, Jonathan Granville, Joy Jiu, Katherine McConnell and Chris Meyer all
Morgan Neville's feature boasts unprecedented access to the 'SNL' creator.
Lorne Michaels, the legendary creator of “Saturday Night Live,” has allowed Morgan Neville behind-the-scenes of his television empire. The resulting film, “Lorne,” is getting released by Focus Features on April 17. Neville, an Oscar-winning filmmaker, is no stranger to TV
The first race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series is the Daytona 500. Going into race day, all eyes are on Connor Zilisch, who’s racing full-time for Trackhouse Racing, as he grows in the ranks of NASCAR. In fact, some have compared the 19-year-old to the next Jeff Gordon or Kyle
Spain is in the middle of a two-pronged talent revolution, with big-name name filmmakers leveraging festival prestige into bigger movie packages and global renown and new voices sporting first features that use genre and emotional uplift to travel faster, without surrendering
On the eve of Berlin’s European Film Market, Spanish sales agencies are priming slates that focus on genre, animation and breakout auteurs — and which are still in demand. Expectations remain high for Berlin. “Berlin has been the best market in the last two years,” says Iván
Spain produces some 150 fiction features a year. Here’s a selection of some of the titles to track at the European Film Market. 9 Moons Director: Patricia Ortega From Ortega, director of Sundance hit “Mamacruz,” “9 Moons” stars Jorge Sanz (“El hombre bueno”) in a comedy about
Jude Law stars as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano as his behind-the-scenes advisor in the political thriller from French director Olivier Assayas.
Matt Johnson knows his way around the law protecting fair use and parody. Johnson’s “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” opens in theaters Friday via Neon, and it’s a true labor of love. The lore of the film goes back to 2007, where Johnson and his real-life best friend Jay
Jane Schoenbrun is back with their third feature, the amazingly-titled “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” Schoenbrun, who previously wrote and directed 2021’s “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and 2024’s “I Saw the TV Glow,” wrote and directed “Camp Miasma” as well.
The Booker Prize-winning author said Wenders' comments, that filmmakers "have to stay out of politics," were "jaw-dropping" and "a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time."
Hulu has ordered a series version of the Jack Jordan novel “Conviction” with Elisabeth Moss attached to play the lead role, Variety has learned. David Shore is adapting the book for the small screen and will also serve as showrunner and executive producer. Moss is also
Singer Evan Dando, founder of the alternative-rock band the Lemonheads, was hospitailzed Thursday after sending a fan unwanted pornography, the latest in a long series of setbacks for the musician, who has struggled with mental illness and substance abuse for decades. “Evan
The upcoming Bitcoin biopic from director Doug Liman and producer Ryan Kavanaugh has disclosed in a U.K. casting notice that the indie film may use AI to “adjust” some performances. Actors will also perform on a “markerless performative capture stage and not in any locations,
Little Spark Films is making an expansion into becoming a full genre studio based in Arlington, Texas, with plans to release original content, acquire new material for production and join outside productions as co-producers. “There are a lot of projects we’ve wanted to tackle
As a young executive at New Line Cinema and recent Los Angeles arrival from the U.K., Donna Langley recalls becoming a BAFTA member for the first time and attending numerous special screenings put on by the British Academy. One of these was for Ang Lee’s 2000 hit “Crouching
Chile continues to hold its own against major players from Latin America, far exceeding what its size (pop. 19.7 million) would suggest, with a presence on a par with Mexico and Brazil. This year, Chile weighs in with three films and three series – led by Prime Video’s
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are heating up the Valentine’s Day weekend box office with their new take on “Wuthering Heights,” an R-rated romantic drama directed by Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn,” “Promising Young Woman”). “Wuthering Heights” has made $3 million at the box
If you work in entertainment, you’ve definitely seen a Funko Pop figure. The modern, more sophisticated versions of bobble-head toys are among the first consumer products that an IP secures a deal for if it wants to engage a proper fandom. From Star Wars to “KPop Demon Hunters”
The Foo Fighters have released a whole batch of new music on their website — in miniature. The landing page for the band’s site contains 10 new riffs… which, for those hoping for actual new songs from the group, definitely counts as a start. No context is offered for the music
