Polen Ly’s “Becoming Human” has claimed the Golden Hanoman, the top prize at the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF), which closed its milestone 20th anniversary edition in Yogyakarta on Dec. 6. “Captivating us with lyrical visual poetry and a tender meditation on memory,
Realtor and star of Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan,” Ryan Serhant, has a motto that drives him to success: “Expansion, always in all the ways.” But that expansion comes at a price. The company is now four years old, and Season 2 of the series follows the CEO and his team of top
Sabrina Carpenter showed up with gusto on Saturday at Variety‘s annual Hitmakers event, accepting her Hitmaker of the Year honor in front of a star- and executive-studded audience and quipping about the very action-packed year that brought her to this summit. The pop superstar,
The title of Luigi Celeste’s memoir, “Non sarà sempre così”— which serves as the source material for Francesco Costabile’s more bluntly-titled Italian melodrama, “Familia” — translates to: “It won’t always be like this.” It’s an elegiac promise that has the whiff of a wistful
After a long season of NCAA Football, the Big Ten Championship game comes down to two of the best teams in the conference. Although both Indiana and Ohio State are undefeated, one of the teams have to lose their first game of the season during the championship game. But,
Matthew Lillard had his feelings hurt by Quentin Tarantino. While speaking at GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio (via Entertainment Weekly), Lillard gave his reaction to the “Pulp Fiction” director saying, “I don’t care for Matthew Lillard” during a recent appearance on “The Bret
The films ‘Seeds’ and ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’ also won major prizes at the association’s annual ceremony on Saturday.
The 'Marty Supreme' star and his director, Josh Safdie, hit the CCXP stage, where Chalamet explained that he had to seize the "opportunity to come out and do 'Crank That' in São Paulo."
Receiving the Innovator of the Decade honor at Variety’s Hitmakers event on Saturday gave Tyler, the Creator a welcome opportunity to reflect on his accomplishments over the past 15 years, the artist told the crowd in Hollywood as he accepted his kudos. When Tyler was first
The “Five Nights at Freddy’s” diehard fanbase has already made the sequel, which was released Friday via Universal Pictures, a box office champ. That seems largely due to a creative team that knows the IP and caters to the fans first. “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” was scripted by
After Islam Makhachev defeated Jack Della Maddalena in a five-round decision to win the welterweight championship title during UFC 322, the Ultimate Fighting Championship travels back home to “Sin City” for UFC 323. The main event features Georgian Merab Dvalishvili (23-2-1)
Erige Sehiri’s “Promised Sky” won top honors at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday, capping a lively year for the Moroccan event, marked by swelling audiences and deeper integration into the global awards circuit. Heralded by Variety’s Tomris Laffly as “a unique drama
The Red Sea International Film Festival's new head of international programs discusses the exciting opportunity to champion Asian, African and Arab storytelling — and why Óliver Laxe’s critically acclaimed 'Sirāt' is the film she’s most eager to watch with the local audience.
BUENOS AIRES — Memorable for its mass attendance of around 3,200 delegates, Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film-TV market, closed its doors at the extraordinary Palacio de Libertad in central Buenos Aires on Dec. 5 underscoring both the region’s large high-energy talent
"Fackham Hall," even when it features a drawing-room performance of a song entitled "I Went to the Palace With My Willie Hanging Out!" (and then a digitally scrambled shot of the piano player’s willie), exerts the sort of harmless frivolity that last summer’s "Naked Gun" remake
In one of the multiple deals closed at Ventana Sur, Argentina’s Del Toro Films boarded Colombian horror thriller “I’ll Keep My Mouth Shut” (“No diré nada”) by Óscar Adán. Presented at the VS Fantastic! Lab by Colombia’s Cinematografiando, pic is the directorial feature debut of
In an epic bout for the championship, Premier Boxing Champions travels to “The Lone Star State,” where Mexican boxer Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (28-3-1) takes on American Lamont “The Reaper” Roach (25-1-2) for the Interim WBC Super Lightweight title belt. Cruz vs. Roach takes place
Hulu has unveiled a first look at “The Testaments,” the upcoming sequel series to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The series, which is set to premiere in April 2026, is based on “The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name and is set in the dystopian
“Paradise” has a Season 2 premiere date at Hulu. During the show’s panel at Brazil Comic-Con, it was revealed that the second season of the drama series will debut its first three episodes on Feb. 23, with new episodes dropping weekly thereafter on Hulu and Hulu and Hulu on
From the moment her copper red hair sticks out against the backdrop of an elementary school, you can’t look away from Aunt Gladys (Amy Madigan) in Zach Cregger’s “Weapons.” After the disappearance of 17 children from Justine Gandy (Julia Garner)’s classroom, audiences are left
Jane Fonda is speaking out against Netflix’s earthshaking move to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, calling the $82.7 billion deal a “catastrophic” development that threatens to “destroy our creative industry.” Fonda released her statement against the acquisition on Instagram
It’s been a moment since the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” closed (in July 2024, to be precise), yet the stars of the Broadway hit have not forgotten one thing: Jonathan Groff is a menace. “He’s the worst,” Lindsey Mendez emphasizes. To which Daniel
After Alabama upset Georgia a few weeks ago 24-21, giving the Bulldogs their sole loss of the season, the two teams are facing off again in the 2025 SEC Championship game. The No. 3-ranked Georgia Bulldogs (11-1) vs. the No. 9-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2) at Mercedes-Benz
Thailand has certainly seen its fortunes rise on the international production stage — “The White Lotus” and “Alien: Earth” showcased the country’s locations and shooting know-how. CineAsia attendees will be able to see for themselves at the trade show expo, which unfolds Dec.
The Blumhouse and Universal horror sequel is on course to boast the biggest opening ever for the weekend after the holiday, among other milestones.
Peru’s Ladines! has sold the remake rights to its critical and box office hit “The Last Laugh” (“Muerto de risa”) to Mexico’s Sin Sentido Films during Ventana Sur. This marks the second time its director-writer-producer Gonzalo Ladines has sold remake rights to one of his
On the heels of announcing its blockbuster agreement to buy Warner Bros. and HBO Max, Netflix sought to reassure customers that nothing will be changing — right now — with its service or subscription plans. The streaming company sent an email late Friday to millions of Netflix
If anyone ever wants to question the wisdom of putting out deluxe editions of relatively recent albums, Gracie Abrams’ success with a single off one such record should suffice as an explanation for how it can work so well. It’s not as if her “The Secret of Us” album had exactly
Megan Moroney’s most recent country hit, “6 Months Later,” is like an answer song to Kelly Clarkson (or, sure, Nietzsche), with its great lyrical hook: “What doesn’t kill you calls you six months later” — followed by a bridge that declares, “What doesn’t kill you / Makes you
Freddy Fazbear and his gaggle of pizzeria party animals brought a welcome boost to the typically muted post-Thanksgiving box office. Universal and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s PG-13 sequel “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” based on the second installment in Scott Cawthon’s popular
A powerful period drama set amongst the minority Albanian population of the wild Montenegro mountains during World War II, “Tower of Strength” considers the values of morality, honor and virtue and the difficulty of staying humane during chaotic, violent times. Inspired by
Bruce Springsteen doesn’t play the Hollywood game. But producers Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson of Gotham Group were able to get the rock legend to jump all in to “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.” The Scott Cooper film, based on Warren Zanes’ book, drills down on
Could another ‘Wicked’ be on the way? It’s hard to say, but here’s everything the cast and crew have hinted about potential sequels.
Sabrina Carpenter, Benson Boone, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims and Billie Eilish have one thing in common: they each had the same songs appear on Variety‘s Hitmakers 2024 and 2025 lists. From “Espresso” to “Beautiful Things,” these tracks maintained momentum far past their release
American actor Adrien Brody spoke about how he deals with the toll of “difficult” shoots like Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” which won him his second Best Actor Oscar earlier in the year, just over two decades after his first win for “The Pianist.” Speaking at the Red Sea Film
Oscar-nominated Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb (“Days of Glory”) is preparing his next feature, “Reggane,” a fiction film set against the backdrop of France’s first nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara, a long-suppressed chapter of colonial history the filmmaker has
Sydney Sweeney recently told People magazine that “I’m against hate” while looking back at the controversy that erupted over her American Eagle jeans ad earlier this year. The campaign was centered on the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” The pun around “great genes”
"I don’t support the views some people chose to connect to the campaign," actress says. "Many have assigned motives and labels to me that just aren’t true"
After a month-and-a-half long MLS Cup Playoffs, the post-season tournament is coming to a close with the MLS Cup Final. Two of the best teams in Major League Soccer go for victory to hoist the MLS Cup trophy at the end of the season. On Saturday, Dec. 6, Inter Miami CF vs.
This year, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn both deliver star turns as complicated, volatile characters amid volatile political environments. In Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale professor of philosophy who is forced to confront her own flaws and
Bong Joon Ho gave a nearly two-hour interview on Saturday at the Marrakech Film Festival, where he serves as this year’s jury president. In between showing clips of his filmography, which includes “Memories of Murder,” “The Host” and best picture winner “Parasite,” Bong
Just a few hours after news broke of Netflix’s takeover of Warner Bros., James Cameron turned the European premiere of Disney’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” in Paris into a cinematic rallying cry. “I requested this from Disney,” he told the crowd (equipped with 3D glasses) at La
At the opening night of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah on Thursday, Juliette Binoche was among the top honorees. But alongside being presented with an award from the festival for her contributions to cinema, the French screen icon also received an unexpected tribute from
Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa’s Brazilian drama “Low Light” (“Lusco-Fusco”), a Rafaella Costa production at Manjericão Filmes, emerged as one of the standout titles at Ventana Sur’s Copia Final sidebar, scooping the Cine+ OCS Award, the Estúdio Silver Award and the Send Files
Netflix’s stunning $83 billion takeover of Warner Bros., announced on Friday, sent French exhibitors into high alert in a market where Warner Bros. — alongside Disney and Universal — drive the local box office. France is simultaneously one of Netflix’s strongest international
Generative AI is poised to reshape the supply of premium screen content, with VP of Chinese online media giant Tencent and CEO of Tencent Video Sun Zhonghuai forecasting that as much as a third of long-form film and animation could be “dominated by or deeply involving AI”
In a wide-ranging conversation at the Singapore International Film Festival, acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta reflected on her decades-long career, the controversies that have shadowed her most celebrated works, and her unwavering commitment to independent filmmaking. Mehta was
The Multiplex Association of India has raised alarm over Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, warning that the deal could diminish theatrical content availability and threaten India’s cinema ecosystem. In a statement, the trade body representing multiplex
Appearing at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival, the Oscar-nominated actress recounted her journey from Havana to global renown, sharing how a few fearless choices shaped her evolution as one of Hollywood’s most versatile young stars.
Saudi Arabia is launching a sprawling new state-of-the-art film studio just outside the capital city of Riyadh where pre-production is underway on an ambitious historical epic titled “Unbroken Sword,” directed by Alik Sakharov, who has helmed multiple episodes of “The Sopranos”
