SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the ending of “Shelby Oaks,” now playing in theaters. So, who took Riley Brennan? Director Chris Stuckmann makes his directorial debut with Neon’s horror “Shelby Oaks,” which follows the disappearance of a YouTuber and amateur
When Gabe Polsky pitched his latest documentary, “The Man Who Saves the World?” to the major streamers, they weren’t interested. “I made a sizzle and took it to all the usual suspects,” Polsky says. “For them, it felt like it was just too far out.” Revolving around Patrick
It’s Warren Zevon season. That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per
Morena Baccarin has done her crimefighting homework. The actress stars in CBS’s new “Fire Country” spinoff “Sheriff Country” as Sheriff Mickey Fox. The procedural follows Mickey as she heads up her small hometown police force while grappling with her daughter’s battle with
Xbox’s prized “Halo” franchise is coming to PlayStation 5 next year with a remake of the very first “Halo” game, 2001’s “Halo: Combat Evolved.” Titled “Halo: Campaign Evolved,” the game is described as “a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign,
Mint Mobile is bringing its irreverent, budget-conscious branding from cell phones to the living room with 5G Home MINTernet, a new low-cost home internet service powered by T-Mobile’s 5G network. Launching this month, the plan starts at $30 per month and offers unlimited data
Paul Thomas Anderson is ready to lean into the laughs with “One Battle After Another.” The acclaimed action thriller, loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland,” will compete in the comedy categories at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards, Variety has confirmed via FYC
The title by writer James Tynion IV and artist Werther Dell’Edera is the biggest horror comic since 'The Walking Dead.'
Watermelon Pictures has boarded Rolla Selbak's feature with a plan to shoot in Jordan next year.
After a grueling and long MLB season, two teams have faced just abut every team to make their ways to the 2025 World Series. Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is showing dominance on the pitcher’s mound and the batter’s box, which is unheard of in modern baseball, while the Blue
Netflix engaged with toymakers 12-18 months ahead of the movie’s release, The Hollywood Reporter is told. None seemed all that interested.
“KPop Demon Hunters” is coming to Yoto. The chart-topping soundtrack from the original Netflix movie is now available on the kids audio platform. The card will give fans exciting, early access to music from the film, coming out in tandem with the official vinyl release last
Nugget’s foam play couch has long been a favorite for parents and kids alike. With a mission to grow imaginations across the U.S, the brand pioneered family-friendly play furniture when it first launched in 2014. Now, they’re tapping into the cultural zeitgeist with a strategic
On today’s episode, Variety reporter Selome Hailu details her cover story on Rachel Sennott, the multihyphenate behind HBO’s new comedy “I Love L.A.” Marc Malkin has a Red Carpet Rundown with Sarah Michelle Gellar dishing about Hulu’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot. And
When Aaron Sorkin, Scott Cooper and Denis Villeneuve are looking to cast their films, they turn to casting director Francine Maisler. This year alone, Maisler has worked on “Sinners,” “The Lost Bus,” “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” and the upcoming “Ella McCay.” Maisler
Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind its hit mobile game based on the “Squid Game” franchise. The two games the developer has released for the streamer, the “Netflix Stories” (which had already stopped releasing new titles earlier this year) series
The additions came about following proposals that were made to the organization's board of governors' Equity and Inclusion Committee and ultimately approved by the full board.
SCAD Savannah Film Festival returns Oct. 25-Nov. 1 with a lineup of exciting premieres, screenings, honorees and guests who will congregate at the largest university-run film festival in the world. The festival, which is organized by and hosted at the Savannah College of Art
In David Trueba’s “Always Winter,” the closing night film of this year’s Valladolid Film Festival in Spain, Miguel Mena (David Verdaguer), 40, a jobless landscape architect travels to a Brussels conference to pitch a project, Gardens of Life, in which people are invited to sit
The 'Taxi Driver' screenwriter also says AI might make for superior film criticism: "AI doesn't favor anybody."
Five months after announcing an open casting call, Lionsgate has discovered the fan who will appear in “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.” Devon Singletary has been selected to appear in the sixth installment of “The Hunger Games” film series, due in theaters Nov. 20,
Bari Weiss is poised to revamp one of the nation’s most venerable down-the-middle news outlets, CBS News. The question is, will she be able to make money for corporate parent Paramount Skydance after doing so? The query is legitimate. Paramount executives believe Weiss, named
Variety has announced the presenters for this year’s Power of Women: Los Angeles event taking place on Wednesday, Oct. 29 in Beverly Hills. The event, in partnership with Lifetime, celebrates the Power of Women honorees, who will each appear on the cover of the issue, as well
Joseph Kosinski is helming the Universal feature adapting the 1980s police series.
After just four editions, Merci Valladolid has emerged as Spain’s go-to market for indie film, driving the circulation of arthouse titles from distributors to exhibitors, programmers and platforms. Running Oct. 29–31 at Valladolid’s Broadway Cinemas, the market’s fifth edition
As it turns 70, Spain’s Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid — the Seminci — refuses to look back. Instead, the country’s second-oldest film festival, running Oct. 24–Nov. 1, is very much forward-facing — while reaffirming its historic humanist DNA while opening its doors
Clint Bentley has spent the last few years staring down grief and transformation, both on-screen and off. The writer-director of “Train Dreams,” adapted from Denis Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize finalist novella, lost both of his parents in quick succession while preparing the film,
Opening with Isabel Coixet’s well-reviewed Italian drama “Three Goodbyes,” closing with “Always Winter,” the latest from Goya best picture winner David Trueba, and regaled by works by two of Spain’s fast-emerging auteurs, Rafael Cobos and Diego San José, this year’s Valladolid
Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Jack Antonoff, María Zardoya of the Marías and Role Model headlined Rolling Stone’s third annual Musicians on Musicians live event at New York’s Beacon Theatre. The 2025 edition brought together two pairings — Antonoff with Williams and Role Model
Austin Butler is in early talks to star in Joseph Kosinski’s “Miami Vice” reboot for Universal Pictures. If the deals ultimately close, Butler would play James “Sonny” Crockett opposite Michael B. Jordan as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, the suave South Florida detectives portrayed by
In May, American Cinematheque announced that the 'Sinners' star would be honored at the Nov. 20 fundraiser gala at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
George Clooney can’t help but think of his “Ocean’s” franchise while watching news reports about the Louvre jewel heist. “If you’re a professional thief like I am, I was very proud of those guys,” he joked with me Thursday night at the AFI Fest premiere of his latest film, Noah
Sony’s R-rated anime “Chainsaw Man” beat Disney and 20th Century Studios’ musical biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” at the box office in Thursday previews. “Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc” made $3.4 million in previews. It’s expected to lead the pack of
Hana Novakova, a documentarian and ethnozoologist, says she first became obsessed — her word — with the moose when a remarkable event transpired in the Czech Republic. “It all started in 2003 when I first heard the story of the unbelievable spontaneous return of the moose
In an awards season crowded with spectacles, sequels and star-driven vehicles, the quiet power of “Train Dreams” may be its greatest strength. Clint Bentley’s moving adaptation of Denis Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize finalist novella has steadily emerged as one of the most critically
Get ready to crash the party again — “Wedding Crashers” is returning to theaters for its 20th anniversary. Fathom Entertainment has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures to bring the R-rated comedy back to the big screen on Dec. 4 and 11. The 20th anniversary special release
The spinoff of “Victorious” titled “Hollywood Arts” has been picked up to series at Netflix — and a few other places. Variety has learned that the streamer has commissioned 26 episodes of the new series, which will debut on Netflix in 2026 followed by releases on Nickelodeon
The Robert Aramayo–led drama about Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson opened strongly in the U.K. after debuting in Toronto.
“I Swear,” the British indie film about Tourette’s Syndrome campaigner John Davidson that has already been a hit with audiences and critics in the U.K., has been bought by Sony Pictures Classics. SPC acquired all rights to the film for the United States, Latin America, most of
Jonah Hauer-King has a line in “A House of Dynamite” so disturbing that friends are now texting it to him as soon as they see the film. “Some don’t write anything other than that line,” he says. Charting the chaos within America’s halls of power as an atomic bomb hurtles toward
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” will become available to stream at home on Disney+ starting Nov. 5 after grossing $521 million at the worldwide box office over the summer. The 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “First Steps” hit theaters on July 25, opening to $117
If anything, Demi Lovato is a creature of reinvention. From her shiny pop-rock beginnings as a “Camp Rock” starlet to her freshly released ninth album “It’s Not That Deep,” the 33-year-old has pushed the boundaries of her artistry as both a performer and an artist, trying on
Brandi Carlile begins her new album with a verse raising the issue of mortality, and the question of what a godly design for these fleeting lives might be, if any at all. “Is there some freewheeling watcher / Shooting marbles in the sky?” she asks as the title track starts to
Paul Schrader is ready to embrace artificial intelligence in filmmaking, saying in a new interview that he has the “perfect script to do all AI.” The 79-year-old “Taxi Driver” writer and “First Reformed” director told Vanity Fair that in his opinion, movies are “going to be
The original movie was released in 1985 and forty years later, continues to inspire audiences.
After exiting “Saturday Night Live,” Ego Nwodim is keeping plenty busy — including with the second season of her award-winning interview podcast “Thanks Dad,” set to premiere next week. “Thanks Dad With Ego Nwodim” has joined iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players
Barbora Chalupová will follow OnlyFans documentary “Virtual Girlfriends” with a fiction film with the working title “On Tranquility of Mind,” inspired by its supporting character known by the moniker Madame Cobra. “She’s focusing on S&M practices and has a really interesting
When Filmax introduced Judith Colell’s “Frontier” (“Frontera”) to buyers at Cannes, the WWII thriller drew attention and was ultimately picked up for North American release via Menemsha Films. It follows Manel Grau, a Spanish customs officer in 1943 who defies Franco’s orders
The last few times Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan have shown up to a movie theater, they’ve been greeted by eager fans of their film “KPop Demon Hunters” — and the Santa Fe International Film Festival was no exception. During Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch panel, where
Warner Bros. Discovery is smack in the eye of the latest media M&A maelstrom — and staffers are bracing for the possibility that they’ll get a new corporate overlord in the near future. The leading takeover candidate is aspiring Hollywood empire-builder David Ellison, son of
