The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Tuesday they are investigating a trip singer D4vd took to the Santa Barbara area sometime during the spring of 2025 following the disappearance of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The teenage victim was most recently reported missing in April
Ariana Grande appeared on the “Shut Up Evan” podcast for a spoiler interview about “Wicked: For Good” and revealed that “certain people” wanted to cut the shot of a door separating Elphaba and Glinda after they say their final goodbyes. The two characters break down in tears on
Macaulay Culkin said during a recent stop on his “A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin” tour that he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to returning as Kevin McCallister in a “Home Alone” sequel. Although he added, “It would have to be just right.” Fortunately, Culkin already
At a glance, T-Street Productions doesn’t look like much — a quiet, repurposed West Los Angeles building that once housed a music supply store. But within its walls, a small collective of fiercely loyal creatives is doing something increasingly rare in Hollywood: They’re
A maxim from Italian composer Ennio Morricone — “Music must be able to say what words can’t” — was a working thesis at Cam Sugar’s inaugural SLAM – Sounds Like a Movie festival this month in Milan. The new international festival, a collaboration between CAM Sugar and Triennale
Over the last decade, Ryan O’Dowd has written some of the biggest live moments on television — including those from the past seven years of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve With Ryan Seacrest” and awards shows like the CMAs, the Billboard Music Awards and the Emmys. And
“The Running Man” and “Chad Powers” star Glen Powell is producing an R-rated teen comedy feature, “The Fuckboat,” at Paramount, Variety has learned exclusively. Described as a “high concept” project “in the vein of ‘Risky Business’ and ‘Easy A,'” “The Fuckboat” is a comedy
Today, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced the programming for its 2025 Entertainment Industry Conference, presented by Variety, on Dec. 4, including Commitment to California Awards for Drew Goddard, Sarah Esberg and Abe Sylvia. Goddard and Esberg will receive the
Vin Diesel is sending love to Dwayne Johnson now that the “Fast and Furious” duo have apparently settled their infamous feud. Diesel posted on Instagram a throwback photo of the two actors on set and wrote a lengthy caption in which he celebrated Johnson’s contribution to the
Netflix rounds out 2025 with a combination of entertaining and prestige titles hitting the platform this December. Reality fans will rejoice in the returns of “Love Is Blind: Italy” and “Owning Manhattan” on Dec. 1 and Dec. 5, respectively. Then, on Christmas Day, sports fans
Apple TV has pulled upcoming French thriller “The Hunt” (“Traqués”) from its December slate, and now we know why: Creator and director Cédric Anger has been accused of ripping off the series’ story from the 1973 novel “Shoot,” by Douglas Fairbairn, which previously was adapted
Spike Lee wants you to know that he is not related to Aiyana-Lee. “Maybe way in the roots,” he laughs. In Spike Lee’s “Highest to Lowest,” streaming on Apple TV, Denzel Washington plays music producer David King, a man with an ear for talent. As it turns out, so does Spike Lee.
New films by Morocco’s Asmae El Moudir, whose “The Mother of All Lies” won best documentary at Cannes and won Marrakech’s Étoile d’Or, Lebanon’s Mounia Akl, whose “Costa Brava, Lebanon” won awards at Toronto and London, and Jordan’s Amjad Al Rasheed, whose “Inshallah a Boy” won
Disney+ is ringing in the holiday season with a December slate of beloved classics for fans to revisit and new premieres to discover. This month’s slate will consist of fan favorite movies like “Home Alone,” “The Santa Clause” and “The Polar Express” alongside new premieres
Some media M&A teams may be working through the Thanksgiving weekend: Warner Bros. Discovery — which is fielding acquisition overtures from Paramount Skydance, Comcast and Netflix — is asking for second-round bids by Monday, Dec. 1, that are higher than the original proposals,
Longtime CAA literary agent Olivia Blaustein is moving to Untitled, Variety has learned. Blaustein joins untitled as a lit manager after nearly 15 years at CAA. She joined in the agency in 2011 after taking Alan Berger’s USC class, The Business of Representation. She was
Warner Music Group has settled its infringement lawsuit against AI music generation platform Suno. The news was confirmed Tuesday with WMG becoming the first of the major record labels to officially partner with the company, sharing goals of “compensating and protecting
Jeremy Allen White is getting ready for Thanksgiving. He’ll spend it at a gathering of about 30 people at a friend’s place in Los Angeles. His contribution will be a green bean casserole, a sweet potato side and a salad. He admits the pressure to cook well has gained a lot of
Building on the all-time record performance of “Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose,” HBO Max in Latin America is expanding the universe with two new series: “Don Ramón,” inspired by the original character from Roberto Gómez Bolaños’s legendary 1970s sitcom “El Chavo del Ocho.”
Amazon MGM Studios unscripted TV general manager Barry Poznick is exiting his current role with the company. In January, Poznick will begin a three-year executive producer deal with the studio, following nearly a decade as head of MGM Alternative. Poznick will continue on as an
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis.
His shocking admission follows a 2020 documentary adaptation of his 2013 book being pulled from the Sundance Film Festival after the director’s own Indigenous identity was called into question.
Season 5 of “Stranger Things” has already boosted the series to a viewership record — before the new episodes have even been released. As fans rewatch or newly discover the sci-fi series ahead of its final entry premiering on Nov. 26, all four previous seasons have made the
Los Angeles maintained its place as the global hub for film and TV production last year, even as the overall marketplace shrank, according to a report issued Tuesday by FilmLA. Out of 857 films and scripted TV series released in 2024, 18.3% were shot in Los Angeles — nearly
With the holidays upon us, there are deals all over the internet to get ready for the gift-giving and shopping season — especially for Black Friday. However, one of the best deep discounts on the web we’re seeing for the shopping event of the year is at HOMAGE. For Black
Bust out the apple sauce — the beloved ’80s motherhood comedy “Baby Boom” is getting a reboot at Amazon MGM Studios. The streamer has set prolific filmmaker Michael Showalter (“The Idea of You,” “Hello, My Name is Doris”) as director for a new take on the film. The original was
Linda Hamilton has been a huge fan of “Stranger Things” since the show premiered on Netflix in 2016, but if it had been completely up to her, she may not be playing one of the main antagonists for the show’s fifth and final season. For one, she told her agent she was retiring.
Justin Theroux has been tapped as the new face of The Luxury Collection, starring in the brand’s global “I Am The Luxury Collection” campaign. The actor leads a series of cinematic spots from Stept Studios that position him as The Curator, guiding viewers through the
Hulu is down to an unbeatable $4.99/month for 12 months with this limited-time Black Friday bundle deal. The deal, which runs through Monday, Dec. 1, gets you instant access to Hulu and Disney+ for less than the price of a single subscription. To put it into context, both Hulu
The $29.99 program will commence on Cyber Monday and is available to all AMC Stub members.
After starting out as a scrappy little show and subject to some awkward teen years, the Critics Choice Awards have matured into their third decade. The 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards will air live on E! on Jan. 4, recognizing the best in film and television for the year.
Andrew Troy won the Best Director Award at the L.A. SkinsFest Film Festival in Los Angeles on Nov. 24. Troy won the prize for his work on his directorial debut, “Midnight in the Orange Grove,” a coming-of-age thriller which he co-wrote with “American Psycho” writer Guinevere
In front of an audience at the Virginia Film Festival, the 45-year-old shared the backstories of the 'Succession' title theme, the 'Moonlight,' 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' 'Vice,' 'Don't Look Up' and 'Andor' scores and more.
The December event, presented in collaboration with the Hamptons Film Festival, will open with 'The Cycle of Love' and screen 'Sentimental Value' among other titles.
Sheldon Candis is directing the feature, based on Andrew Renzi's 2018 documentary.
Paging, Dr. J.D. Dorian. A teaser has been released for the “Scrubs” revival series, featuring Zach Braff returning to Sacred Heart as J.D. 15 years after the original hospital-set comedy ended. Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke — who both appear alongside Braff in the teaser —
Christmas is coming early for Imax 70mm fans. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” two of the year’s most popular films on the company’s premium screens, are briefly returning to theaters next month. Both films will be back in Imax for
“Longquán: the Dragon Spring,” “The Convulsions” and “Wolf Grrrls” will be joined by other buzzy titles such as “Agrestes” at this year’s Primer Test, an industry centerpiece at the REC Tarragona Film Festival’s RECLab in Spain whose seven works in progress capture some ways
“Grey’s Anatomy” heartthrob Eric Dane appeared on another medical drama on Monday, this time playing a patient. The 53-year-old actor, who played Dr. Mark Sloan aka “McSteamy” on the Shonda Rhimes series, guest starred on a Season 2 episode of NBC’s “Brilliant Minds” as a
Get ready for a box office feast. Disney’s animated “Zootopia 2” is poised to dominate the Thanksgiving holiday with projections of $135 million to $150 million over its first five days in theaters. The family film, which opens in over 4,000 domestic venues on Wednesday, will
Hulu is getting in on the Black Friday action with a new deal that lets you add STARZ to your streaming library to just $2.99/month for 12 months. Regularly $10.99/month, Hulu’s new Black Friday offer saves you 73% off for a limited time and gets you instant access to entire
Toby Wallace has been cast in a lead role in Netflix’s upcoming “Assassin’s Creed” TV series, Variety has confirmed. The live-action show, based on the video game franchise of the same name, was picked up to series at Netflix in June. Exact character details are being kept
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge, Variety’s chief film critics, detail the how and the why behind their selections for Variety’s new 100 Greatest Comedy Movies of All Time list, topped by 1988’s “The Naked Gun: From the Files of
“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has been renewed for 20 more episodes, which will likely make up two more seasons. Season 4 is set to debut on Hulu early in 2026. Hulu often renews its unscripted series for large batches of episodes at a time. After Season 1 of “The Secret
While making his documentary “Roads of Fire,” director Nathaniel Lezra found himself celebrating the success of the film while also balancing fear for his main subject, Maria Pascal. “We won the audience award at Brooklyn Film Festival but I really explicitly told her, ‘I’m
Amazon Prime Video’s “Barbershop” TV series is building out its cast. Variety has learned that Punkie Johnson (“SNL,” “Bottoms”), Brett Gray (“On My Block,” “Star Trek: Prodigy”), Roy Wood Jr. (“The Daily Show,” “Confess, Fletch”), and E.J. Bonilla (“The Old Man,” “Gemini Man”)
Ratner will direct the potential project, his first narrative feature since multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment in 2017. The move comes after President Trump reportedly pressured Larry Ellison, father of Paramount boss David Ellison, to make it happen.
Jay Shetty will host the second annual Variety Faith & Spirituality in Entertainment Honors, presented by the Coalition for Faith & Media, on Dec. 4 in Los Angeles — coinciding with the second annual Faith & Media Impact Report. The evening’s honorees include Bridget Everett,
“Rush Hour 4” is in the works, with Paramount on board to distribute the newest installment in the buddy-cop series. The long-gestating sequel is reportedly the beneficiary of some Oval Office intervention: President Donald had personally requested the studio to revive the
“NCIS: Origins” has set Shea Buckner to play young Dwayne Pride, the role that was originated by Scott Bakula in “NCIS” before kicking off the spinoff series “NCIS: New Orleans,” which he starred in for seven seasons from 2014 to 2021. Buckner will appear in the role in one
