AMC Theatres is offering a new perk to its loyalty program members: Customers who pay a monthly fee for A-List or Stubs Premiere will get priority access to the best seats in the house. The program is expected to launch in 2026, the company’s chairman Adam Aron on Tuesday’s
The U.S. men’s national hockey team made headlines over the weekend when it defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal final at the Winter Olympics, and now, Nike has dropped a new line of merch to commemorate the occasion. The U.S. men’s win marked the first Olympic gold medal for
Hilary Duff appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast amid her press tour for her new album, “Luck… or something,” and confirmed a long-standing rumor that she crashed the August 2003 premiere of “Freaky Friday” amid a rivalry with fellow Disney star Lindsay Lohan. The duo’s
Paramount Skydance leaders steered clear of any discussion of the company’s latest bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery as it unveiled fourth-quarter 2025 earnings report on Wednesday that reflected declines in the company’s core linear TV business but momentum for Paramount+
Comedian Nate Bargatze’s new game show, titled “The Greatest Average American,” premieres tonight. The show, which celebrates the power of “being perfectly average,” arrives on ABC on Feb. 25 at 9 p.m. ET. Cable-cutting viewers can stream the new season on Sling TV using their
NBA standouts Steve Kerr, John Stockton and Chet Holmgren are among those featured in the Tubi Original film that focuses on head coach Mark Few's impressive run at the college hoops powerhouse.
After a somewhat similar pilot program received backlash three years ago, AMC has come up with a new strategy to reward their most spend-y customers with the best seats.
Donald Trump lashed out at Robert De Niro in a Truth Social rant amid their ongoing public feud. The president slammed the Oscar-winning actor as “a sick and demented person” after De Niro fought back tears in a recent interview on “The Best People With Nicole Wallace” podcast
Viewers of “Today” are going to see a little more of Hoda Kotb. Kotb is expected to continue to fill in at the NBC morning franchise opposite Craig Melvin while regular co-anchor Savannah Guthrie continues to monitor the search for her mother, Nancy, in Arizona, according to a
After premiering with “Survivor: Borneo” in May 2000, the reality competition has been one of the best and influential TV shows of the 21st century. And now, 26 years later, Survivor goes into season 50 as one of the top TV shows with millions of viewers and multiple Emmy Award
For nearly a century, the Academy has handed out the best director award without ever placing it in the hands of a Black filmmaker. This year that streak, long reduced to a footnote, may move from the margins of history to the center — and Ryan Coogler is the reason why.
A petition in support of Tricia Tuttle, festival director of the Berlin Film Festival, has now grown to almost 700 film business insiders including directors, producers and actors. Among the signatories are Oscar winning director Sean Baker, Oscar nominated filmmaker Todd
James Cameron’s return to Pandora with “Avatar: Fire & Ash” meant big business for Imax. Revenue at the exhibition technology company climbed 35% to $125.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, compared to $92.7 million in the year-ago period. The company said that the third
Martin Short has postponed his comedy tour with Steve Martin following the death of his daughter. Katherine Short, whom Short adopted with his late wife, Nancy Dolman, died Monday at age 42. She died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Los Angeles coroner. All
German tabloid Bild has claimed the culture ministry is planning to fire Tricia Tuttle following a pro-Palestinian speech by an award winner at Saturday's festival gala.
Paramount Skydance, in the midst of pursuing a acquisition of Warner Bros, Discovery, saw downturns in revenue from TV advertising and distribution in the fourth quarter, which helped to spur a wider loss for the period, even as revenue increased in its streaming and film
Longtime KTLA weather anchor Mark Kriski, an eight-time Emmy winner who has been an L.A. TV fixture since he joined “KTLA Morning News” at its launch in 1991, has been let go by the station. Kriski’s exit is a part of nationwide staff cuts by Nexstar, including major layoffs at
TKO wrapped 2025 on a strong note, allowing the sports entertainment heavyweight to achieve the higher end of the full-year financial guidance that it gave to Wall Street last year. For full year 2025, TKO delivered revenue of $4.73 billion and adjusted earnings before
Director Andrew Stanton offered insight into the casting process for the Pixar franchise's latest sequel that hits theaters this summer.
The ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘The Chi’ stars have leads in the Spanish and English-language thriller written and directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes.
Fresh off announcing a 2026 world tour, Robyn is stepping in front of the camera as the new face of Swedish fashion brand Acne Studios and its Spring/Summer 2026 campaign. The “Honey” singer poses for a series of portraits shot by Nadia Lee Cohen that find the artist,
With negotiations heating up over Netflix’s bid for Warner Discovery, the streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos plans to visit the White House for meetings on Thursday. Sarandos is sure to discuss President Trump’s recent demand that Netflix fire board member Susan Rice. However, it’s
David J. North has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, Variety has learned. North is the co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner on “NCIS: Origins,” which is currently airing its second season and has already been renewed for a third season. North will continue on
It’s not difficult to see why Kelly Ripa has spent the last 25 years as host of “Live.” A natural blend of wit, enthusiasm and inquisitiveness was evident from her first appearance as a guest host alongside Regis Philbin in 2000. It was evident then — and now, as Ripa
The Heated Rivalry star cycled through German, French, and Shakespearian impressions before ending the battle with an Ilya Rozanov classic
The comedic horror novel takes place in an Ikea-like furniture superstore.
Uma Thurman is back in killer form. Prime Video released the first trailer for “Pretty Lethal,” a survival action-thriller in which a group of elite ballerinas must fight their way out of a remote inn run by Thurman’s unhinged former dance prodigy. The film follows five dancers
The CW has set the Season 4 premiere date for the drama “Sullivan’s Crossing,” which will return April 20, airing from 8 to 9 p.m. ET/PT. Per the official logline, the 10-episode fourth season finds “Maggie Sullivan’s (Morgan Kohan) life at the Crossing is finally taking shape
Famously, “Heated Rivalry” star Connor Storrie is great at accents. His Russian is especially popular, which the actor pulled off to play a convincingly Slavic Ilya Rozanov in the hit series. Now, ahead of Storrie’s gig as “Saturday Night Live” host on Feb. 28, the actor put
In today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Brent Lang takes a long look at Disney’s incoming CEO Josh D’Amaro and the challenges that await the parks and experiences veteran as he takes the helm of the Mouse House next month. More to
Robert Cosby Jr., the son of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Mary Cosby, has died at 23 years old. Salt Lake City police confirmed the death to Variety, saying they originally responded to an overdose call on Monday, but then it became a death investigation Robert
The acclaimed short film explores the fallout of a Palestinian man defending himself against a false accusation at an Israeli supermarket: “How does it feel to suddenly be looked at differently and to be treated differently and to be discriminated against?”
Jake Johnson is set to star in Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici’s private investigator comedy pilot at NBC, Variety has learned. In addition, Akiva Schaffer (“The Naked Gun,” “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping”) has boarded the pilot as director and executive producer. Few plot
The Crunchyroll/Sony movie is based on the popular anime series.
Former Legendary Entertainment exec Deborah Kaufmann has joined Sipur Studios as its new chief of global content. The position is new for the studio, which recently added former Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone as part of its management team as chair. At Sipur, Kaufmann
Reality star Candiace Dillard Bassett, who first graced viewers’ television screens on “The Real Housewives of Potomac,” has signed with CAA. The move follows Dillard Bassett’s latest reality stint on Season 4 of Peacock’s “The Traitors.” Dillard Bassett made her “Real
Mara Brock Akil remembers the moment she gained the confidence to become a showrunner with the precision of someone who has turned it over in her mind a few thousand times. She was not long out of Northwestern University, working as a writer’s trainee on the buzzy Fox dramedy
Variety will host its inaugural True Crime Summit at SXSW, presented by Investigation Discovery, on March 13, convening the most influential voices behind one of entertainment’s most dominant and culturally resonant genres. This full-day event, open to all festival
Shares of Netflix rose more than 5% in trading Wednesday in the aftermath of Warner Bros. Discovery revealing it had received what could be a competitive offer for the company from Paramount Skydance that might leave the streaming giant mulling whether to continue its pursuit.
Anderson .Paak arrived at the premiere of “K-Pops!” with a lot to celebrate — and his biggest collaborator by his side. The nine-time Grammy winner debuted his first feature film, a family comedy co-starring his real-life son, Soul Rasheed, that weaves together Black culture
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s West End staging of “My Neighbor Totoro” has unveiled a fresh wave of casting as the production approaches its first anniversary at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre this March. The multi-award-winning show is a collaboration between executive
Former “The Walking Dead” showrunner Angela Kang is set as writer and executive producer on “Never to Be Found,” a psychological thriller TV series in the works at Amazon MGM Studios. Per the description for the series adaptation, “Never to Be Found” “is a psychological
In 2013, Autumn Durald Arkapaw’s work on Gia Coppola’s “Palo Alto” earned her praise, and a slot on Variety’s 2014 10 Cinematographers to Watch list. Fast forward to 2026, and she’s earned an Oscar nomination for her work on Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” — making history, too, as
The lineup for the nightly Nissan Stadium shows at CMA Fest 2026 has been revealed, including a slew of the young stars that are currently helping drive the genre’s popularity, such as Ella Langley, Zach Top, Cody Johnson, Tucker Wetmore, Shaboozey, Stephen Wilson Jr. and Red
The Disney mega-blockbuster was already the top-grossing Hollywood pic of 2025 at both the worldwide and international box office — not to mention becoming the No. 1 animated studio pic of all time.
“Zootopia 2” has cemented yet another box office benchmark, surpassing “A Minecraft Movie” to stand as the highest-grossing domestic release of 2025. Disney’s animated sequel, which has been a theatrical juggernaut since Thanksgiving, had notched just about every other one of
“Scrubs” is back. The hospital comedy series, which premiered on NBC 25 years ago in 2001, returns to ABC and Hulu with a revival season that sees original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke and Judy Reyes returning to Sacred Heart Hospital. I caught up with the cast
A “Bride Wars” TV show starring Emma Roberts is in development at Peacock. The project is described as a “loose reimagining” of the original 2009 film starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. Roberts is set to star as a big-city wedding planner who arrives in North Carolina,
Maggie Winters will debut her new comedy special, “Marguerite,” on March 17 on YouTube. The stand-up hour comes from a partnership between Abso Lutely Productions and comedy talent incubator Upright Citizens Brigade. “Marguerite” was filmed at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles.
Warner Bros. Discovery veteran Karen Horne has been named executive director of showrunner Mara Brock Akil’s Writers’ Colony talent development program designed to nurture underrepresented writers. Horne will be responsible for expanding the residency program that Brock Akil
