CBS has given a pilot order to a comedy series titled “Hilda! (In Lights!)” about an elderly woman who moves to New York City to pursue her Broadway dreams. Three scripts for the single-camera project, from writer and executive producer Abbey Caldwell, were announced as being
Anya Taylor-Joy is known for giving full-bodied performances in the likes of “The Witch,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Furiosa” and more, but she’s never gone full Method on a set before nor does she have plans to in the future. The way Taylor-Joy sees it, women do not have the
Dick Clark Productions has launched DCP Studios, a unit designed to expand the company’s creative and production capabilities for awards shows including the Golden Globes, “Dick Clark’s New Years’ Rockin’ Eve,” Academy of Country Music Awards, American Music Awards and other
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” reached 15.2 million views globally in its first five days of streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. That total, calculated by dividing the total amount of time the film was streamed by its 119-minute runtime, makes the Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-led
The Sony film head tells The Hollywood Reporter about his studio's record-breaking weekend: "All the geniuses who said that theatrical movies were dead, they're not necessarily right."
Madonna kicked off August with another “Club Confessions” appearance – this time, it was a performance at WorldPride in Amsterdam featuring surprise guest Kylie Minogue. Speaking of surprises, Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock popped into the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to
Just a year and a half after rebranding its production-distribution group into Studio TF1, France’s leading commercial network TF1 has quietly put it on the market, Variety has confirmed. The broadcasting group, which is presided over by former Netflix board member Rodolphe
Country music is ruling the roost like never before, at least when it comes specifically to the Billboard Hot 100. For the first time in history, country songs are claiming all five of the top five slots on the Hot 100. That’s thanks to Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen, who
Did you think landing Imax 70mm tickets to “The Odyssey” was hard? Trying landing those tickets and snagging one of the limited-edition popcorn buckets tied to the recent release of Christopher Nolan’s epic, which included designs of the iconic Trojan Horse and a replica of the
Dave Bautista could be the next “God of War.” Variety has learned from sources that Bautista is currently in talks for the role of Kratos in the Amazon Prime Video series based on the popular video game franchise. The news comes after it was reported that Ryan Hurst, who was
It’s been nearly six decades since the first mainstream video games came out and parents in 2026 are just as worried about the potential impact gaming is having on their children today as their counterparts were in the 70s, according to new research from the nonprofit Games for
“Frybread Face and Me” director Billy Luther is adapting his 2007 documentary “Miss Navajo” into a musical, which is currently in development. Now, 19 years after the world premiere at 2007’s Sundance Film Festival, Luther has teamed up with singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza to
TKO posted another strong quarter fueled by strong demand from fans and marketers for UFC and WWE events. The parent company of the two leagues surpassed the Street’s expectations on revenue and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization with its
Kevin Feige can’t stop breaking his own box office benchmarks. As the president of Marvel Studios and architect of the sprawling, ultra-successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, Feige is now responsible for the four biggest opening weekends in history. His latest record-setting
David “Z” Rivkin, the Grammy-winning producer and musician who helmed Prince’s early demo tapes and engineered several of his albums, helped create Lipps Inc.’s 1980 smash “Funky Town,” and later worked with such artists like Fine Young Cannibals, the Jets and Jonny Lang, has
And then there was Fallon. NBC’s “Tonight Show” is the only late-night program to keep on keeping on as usual as the nation moves into late summer, a sign of how the wee-hours format continues to be winnowed down amid a continuing decline in the economics of midnight TV. NBC
Spider-Man is swinging from the big screen to the coffee table. A new hardcover book exploring the making of Tom Holland’s latest Marvel adventure is now available to pre-order on Amazon ahead of its Aug. 18 release. The 208-page book, written by Jess Harrold, takes readers
Olivia Wilde once called costume designer Arianne Phillips “one of the greatest costume designers in film history.” Phillips worked with Wilde on “Don’t Worry Darling,” and when it came to “The Invite,” the pair reunited again. When she got the call, Phillips immediately said
Throughout two decades of web-slinging, rebooting, reversals of fortune, immersions into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and sporadic reappearances by the Spidey-hating J. Jonah Jameson, the “Spider-Man” film franchise has been wildly inconsistent, yet remarkably indestructible.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed the lineup of its Open Air section, which screens films outdoors in the festival’s largest venue, the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema. The Open Air section includes films directed by or starring this year’s Sarajevo honorees, like Paweł
Amazon has greenlit its first-ever multi-cam sitcom, which hails from none other than the legendary Marta Kauffman. Titled “DINKS” — which stands for “dual income, no kids” — the show will also be the first-ever improvised multi-cam comedy. Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael,
Elizabeth Gillies has joined the cast of Max Talisman’s independent half-hour political dramedy series “The Right Side,” which also stars Andie MacDowell and Peter Gallagher. In “The Right Side,” Gillies will play Jordan Silver, who is “the tastemaker of the Silver Family,”
How did 'Brand New Day' escape the superhero slump? Here are five reasons, from the film's lack of MacGuffin to embracing a more grounded vibe.
It has a city hall and a city council. A vintage art deco theater, a harbor and a fair amount of traffic. And plenty of billboards, of course. But despite brownstones, diners, skyscrapers and bridges, this city is no recognizable metropolis — plus, it’s all bathed in a luminous
The ‘Michael’ breakout star boards David Gordon Green’s pic about FBI agents probing a murder inside the walls of a maximum security prison.
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has boarded “Blanco,” a high-profile feature directed by Félix Viscarret (“Patria,” “Under the Stars”) about the 1997 kidnapping and murder of Basque politician Miguel Ángel Blanco by terrorist organization ETA. RTVE joins Netflix and Universal
The rom-com, now filming in New York, is directed by 'The Hating Game's Peter Hutchings.
“So I guess movies aren’t dead after all?” That’s the understated reaction from Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures, after “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” obliterated box office expectations. The comic book adventure, starring Tom Holland as Marvel’s web-slinging hero, ignited
“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” breakout and “Sex Lives of College Girls” star Gavin Leatherwood has joined the cast of romantic comedy “It Happened One Summer,” the adaptation of Tessa Bailey’s New York Tiles bestseller and viral BookTok hit. Production on the film is now
The CW is renewing three of its unscripted series The one-hour gamers “Scrabble” and “Trivial Pursuit” have been given a Season 3 in advance of this fall’s Season 2 premieres, while the netlet has also greenlighted a Season 4 of its law enforcement follow-along show “Police
Tony Dokoupil’s job hinges on breaking news. He has recently been taking precious seconds to try and knit some of it together. On a recent Friday night, the “CBS Evening News” anchor stopped the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of headlines for which his program and similar ones are
“Talking Tom & Friends: World” has launched an in-game crossover with the iconic world of The Smurfs. In a partnership between “Talking Tom & Friends” owner Outfit7 and Smurfs IP holder Peyo Company, the children’s mobile sandbox game “Talking Tom & Friends: World” has launched
In early June, Tate McRae celebrated her recent move to New York by catching Knicks fever. It was less than a year since she relocated from Los Angeles, where she kick-started her career as music’s next Main Pop Girl, yet she could feel the electricity coursing through her new
The film's domestic gross has now been adjusted ahead of Sony's Sunday projection, as Tom Holland's web-slinger has another reason to celebrate the spectacular debut.
Is Spider-Man more powerful than all of the Avengers combined? There’s certainly a case to be made after “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” captured a mind-boggling, record-setting $360 million in its domestic debut, officially ranking as the biggest debut in box office history. After
The next “V/H/S” movie is set to bring a new beat to the series. Shudder has announced that the ninth installment of the horror anthology franchise “V/H/S/MIXTAPE” is set to debut on the streamer on Oct. 9. The film includes segments from Ernest Dickerson (“Tales from the
Deep in the mazework neighborhood of Reboleira, Lisbon, someone is hiding €180,000 ($200,000), and Portuguese-Swiss writer-director Basil Da Cunha allows the characters of “O Jacaré” to use any and all means to find it in his new feature film competing at Locarno. Produced by
Writers-directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh share their inspiration and hopes for 'The Green Eyes,' starring newcomer Douae Butarbuch M’Zaouki, Sayyid El Alami and Anamaria Vartolomei.
Peter Alexander carries his years of experience at NBC News over to MS NOW, where he lands next week. The veteran Washington correspondent and weekend “Today” host will launch a new 11 a.m. program on the Versant-backed network starting Monday, August 10. “State of Play” is
Ben McKenzie believes he knows why the major streaming services weren’t interested in licensing “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money.” His new documentary takes on the cryptocurrency industry, portraying the controversial digital currency as corrupt and in dire need of more
The stopwatch keeps ticking after “60 Minutes.” Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley were both named journalists-in-residence at Columbia University’s School of Journalism Monday, a position that will be in place for the 2026-2027 academic term. The two former “60 Minutes”
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” will (finally!) swing to Imax on Aug. 6. Sony and Marvel’s web-slinging adventure didn’t play on the company’s premium screens during its first few days in theaters because Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” commanded the network’s entire domestic
CNN has announced the appointment of award-winning Italian journalist Stefano Pozzebon as an international correspondent based in its Rome bureau. Pozzebon will be responsible for covering major news stories in Italy and across Europe for CNN’s linear and digital platforms. He
Isabelle Stever’s Locarno main competition title “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming,” produced by Tom Tykwer, has been picked up for world sales by France’s Outplay Films. Produced by Tykwer and Uwe Schott at Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool and written by Anna Melikova, the film
A “Warhammer 40,000” animated event series is in development from Amazon MGM Studios, Blur Studios, and Games Workshop, Variety has learned exclusively. In addition, Henry Cavill — who is attached to lead a live-action “Warhammer 40,000” series currently in development at
The Oscar-winning filmmaker's substantive sit-down with Chinese podcaster Zhong Shu wasn't the usual surface-level press tour interview.
Also premiering at the Bosnian film festival is Paweł Pawlikowski's 'Fatherland' and Annemarie Jacir's 'Palestine 36.'
Recently appointed CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips has given a typically forthright assessment of his new boss, Bari Weiss. “Bari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organisation to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,” he told
“Peaky Blinders” may have given closely clipped back and sides haircuts a new lease of life, but it’s now helped a region of the U.K. land official backing as a center for high-end productions. The British Film Commission has announced that the West Midlands, home to the city
