James Tolkan, best known for roles in “Top Gun” and the “Back to the Future” franchise, died on Thursday in Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was 94. News of Tolkan’s death was announced by a spokesperson for the family as well as by writer-producer Bob Gale and on the franchise’s
“Talamasca: The Secret Order” has been canceled at AMC after just one season, Variety has learned exclusively. “While we are not proceeding with another season of ‘Talamasca: The Secret Order,’ we are proud of the series and grateful for the efforts of everyone involved,” an
He also appeared in 'Dick Tracy,' three Sidney Lumet movies and on Broadway in the original 'Glengarry Glen Ross.'
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for all nine episodes of “Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole,” now streaming on Netflix. There may not be many sex scenes in “Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole” but the body count is high. From fire irons to swords, guns to clothes airers,
Ed Bernard, an actor best known for roles on the TV series “Police Woman” and “The White Shadow,” died on Jan. 23 in Northridge, Calif. He was 86. News of Bernard’s death was confirmed by his son, Edward B. Bernard. “While the world knew him as a star, his family knew him as
CBS has canceled “Watson” and “DMV.” “Watson” premiered in January 2025 and will soon conclude its second season. The drama series stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson in a modern Sherlock Holmes story that sees Watson, per the official description, “turn his attention from
“Scott Pilgrim” fans got another hit of their favorite world earlier this month with the launch of new beat-em-up video game, “Scott Pilgrim EX.” And there might be more where that came from. BenDavid Grabinski, who produced the Tribute Games video game in collaboration with
“Project Hail Mary” directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller recently appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and revealed they showed a nearly four-hour cut of their space movie to a group of director friends. However, the results were “embarrassing.” “Our first official test
Indie distributor Watermelon Pictures is putting Lee Mosa-Peterkin's film on its service, with the filmmaker now writing a feature-length script.
Just when he thought he was out…they pull him back into the crypt. John Hannah, who played an erudite thief in 1999’s “The Mummy” and its two sequels, will return to the scene of the tomb raiding in the upcoming franchise reboot. He joins Brendan Fraser, who played a daring
Bruce Feldman, a veteran publicist and awards strategist, reacts to the announcement that the Oscars ceremony will be moving from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to L.A. Live downtown.
The microdrama industry is moving fast — sometimes from concept to camera in 48 hours — and the executives building it say Hollywood is only beginning to pay attention. At a Hollywood Radio and Television Society Associates panel held Thursday evening on the Warner Bros. lot in
Tensions are starting to boil over between the Writers Guild of America West and its striking staffers, who have been without paychecks for going on six weeks. The Writers Guild Staff Union has been picketing outside SAG-AFTRA headquarters, where the WGA is holding negotiations
At Free Eden, a Dallas mall boutique, four young women sell overpriced clothes, burn sage and run a secret after-hours coven. “Forbidden Fruits,” the horror-comedy from first-time feature director Meredith Alloway, is now open in theaters. Adapted from playwright Lily
The original 2016 horror movie cost under $5 million to produce and scared up over $149 million worldwide.
“Proud,” a show that came out of nowhere at Series Mania to become one of its leading crowd-pleasers yet may still be controversial in its native Poland, walked off Friday night at the French TV festival’s top Grand Prix. Created by Karol Klementewicz, “Proud” also won lead
'Ready or Not' filmmakers Radio Silence are are helming the Universal feature.
The actor, known for playing Colossus, also appeared in Miller's Netflix show 'Love, Death & Robots.'
Golf star Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car accident in Florida on Friday afternoon, according to local outlets. The crash happened in Jupiter Island, Fla., near 281 Beach Road just after 2 p.m., according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. It is unclear if Woods
Golf star Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car accident in Florida on Friday afternoon, according to local outlets. He was later charged with driving under the influence. The crash happened in Jupiter Island, Fla., near 281 Beach Road just after 2 p.m., according to the
“Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” and “Chicago Med” have all been renewed at NBC, Variety has learned. The renewals will bring “Chicago Fire” to its 15th season, “Chicago PD” to its 14th, and “Chicago Med” to its 12th. All three shows are slated to return for their new seasons in
The “Trump Kennedy Center” earlier this month followed through on its threat to sue acclaimed jazz musician Chuck Redd, after he backed out of a Christmas Eve 2025 concert over the Washington, D.C., cultural institution’s name change to add President Donald Trump. A lawyer
“The Salt Path,” an acclaimed drama starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, has set a theatrical rollout for the U.S. and Canada via Rialto Distribution International. The film is coming off a successful box office run in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, where
To mark the upcoming release of “Disclosure Day,” the Jacob Burns Film Center is unveiling the Steven Spielberg Sci-Fi series. The event will kick off on May 9 with a screening of “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” a dark futuristic story that Spielberg took over following the
Ryan Gosling might be heading to Salem. The three-time Oscar-nominated actor said yes to Deidre Hall’s invitation to visit the set of “Days of Our Lives,” capping off a weeklong exchange sparked by his praise of the longtime soap star. Gosling, speaking on the “Happy Sad
Falcon Scout Media distributes director Michael Lazovsky's feature about a leading voice behind the push for UAP disclosure.
Unlike their flawed first album, Queen’s second effort was nearly perfect to begin with. “’Queen II’ was the single biggest leap we ever made,” guitarist Brian May has said. “That’s when we really started making music the way we wanted to.” Where the band’s debut suffered from
Survival horror game “Poppy Playtime” launched its fifth installment Feb. 18, breaking records set by the video game franchise’s previous debuts with 110,000 units sold in the first three hours, 175,000 on Day 1 overall and 275,000 by the end of its first week of availability.
When veteran film producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson decided to turn their lens to TV, their first effort turned out to be 2016’s “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson” in partnership with Ryan Murphy and FX. A decade later, the pair are riding high on the
After the excitement of opening day, the MLB 2026 season is here. It’s going to be a tough season for all 30 MLB teams to win their divisions and make into the playoffs for a chance to hoist the Commissioner’s Trophy at the end of The World Series. For the regular season, MLB
Nikki Glaser will not be roasting Kevin Hart. The comedian and Golden Globes host tells me that has been offered a spot on the dais for Netflix’s upcoming live Hart roast hosted by Shane Gillis. “I do not have the time right now in my schedule to commit to giving it what I want
Netflix released a behind-the-scenes photo from its upcoming drama series “Kennedy” showing Michael Fassbender playing Joe Kennedy Sr. Along with the photo, the streamer has added 13 recurring stars to cast. The new additions join Fassbender as well as Laura Donnelly as Rose
The Disney+ special celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Hannah Montana” reached 6.3 million views in its first three days of streaming. Additionally, the anniversary drove a massive surge for the original Disney Channel series. Viewership of “Hannah Montana” itself was up
French-Canadian director Éric Gravel, whose latest film “Full Time” won prizes at Venice and the Cesar Awards, is revving up his next feature, “Before the Storm,” a social thriller powered by a French cast including Mélanie Thierry (“Mariana’s Room”), Ludivine Sagnier (“Lupin”)
Bleecker Street and World of Wonder have released the first trailer for the action-comedy “Stop That Train!” Directed by Adam Shankman, “Stop That Train!” stars RuPaul as President Gagwell who has to save the day. “Drag Race” alumni lead the cast. Best friends Tess (Ginger
Antonio Banderas said in a recent interview with The Times of London (via The Independent) that he was warned upon arriving in Hollywood that Latinos and Blacks could only play villain roles, a stereotype he would later shatter by playing the swashbuckler Zorro in 1998’s “The
Melanie Martinez may be the most reluctant star ever to sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden. Even as she rose to stardom as a teenager on “The Voice” a dozen-plus years ago and platinum status with her early albums, she never seemed comfortable with the trappings of
Starting on Thursday, Apr. 2, all Sony PlayStation 5 gaming consoles will get an up to $150 price increase across the board. The increase in prices, which is the second increase in less than a year, comes ahead of the busy summer season, so it’s best to get a PS5 now before
Fresh off Paris Fashion Week, Lola Tung, the actress who became a household name playing Isabel “Belly” Conklin in Prime Video’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” sat down for the inaugural episode of Variety’s “Up Next” podcast, where she opened up about the show’s upcoming film
Charlie Puth is, objectively, busy these days. In October, he released the Phil Collins-indebted “Changes,” the delectable first taste of his fourth album “Whatever’s Clever!,” out today. He chased it with a pair of eight-show residencies at the Blue Note in Los Angeles and New
CineLink Drama, a flagship program of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days, dedicated to supporting drama series in development, has unveiled seven projects from Southeast Europe selected for this year’s edition. Two are directed by Danis Tanović, the helmer of Oscar
Andrew Garfield took a brief detour during his recent Hits Radio interview to reveal that he only recently just watched the “Harry Potter” movie franchise, which he’s aware is a controversial decision given author J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views. The Oscar nominee wouldn’t even
With Tift Merritt revealing that she has an album of new material on the way after nine years without one, fans may have an instinctual reaction to the fact that it’s titled “Sugar,” as if to say, of course — because they’ve had a sweet tooth for what she has to offer that has
It’s been said countless times that for a new artist, especially a successful one, the second album is exponentially more difficult than the first. There’s the constantly looming threat of the sophomore slump, and the old saw that the artist has had their entire life to write
The anchor will return to the show on April 6, more than two months after her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was reported missing
Why did Netflix just impose a price increase across U.S. plans? As the “KPop Demon Hunters” Oscar-winning hit song “Golden” says: “We’re goin’ up, up, up.” It’s not rocket science. The formula is pretty simple: Invest in more content (Netflix is eyeing $20 billion in content
It’s no overstatement to say that a lot of today’s pop music would not sound the way it does without Robyn. Her self-titled 2005 album and its follow-up “Body Talk” paved the way for and contextualized a genre once called “intellipop” — a cringe and condescending term that has
“Heavyweight,” Christopher M. Anthony’s debut feature starring Jordan Bolger, Nicholas Pinnock and Jason Isaacs, has set its U.S. release. The British boxing drama is getting a limited theatrical release as well as a VOD release starting July 21 in the U.S. Meanwhile, it’s
Josh Duhamel appeared on a recent episode of Megyn Kelly’s podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and shared his opinion that actors should stay silent on politics. “I have real strong opinions about things but I don’t really talk about it because it’s like, ‘Why would I alienate
