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.
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.
The section, which features films that expand the possibilities of the medium, includes 15 features and 28 shorts.
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.
'Nimrods' is a road trip comedy based on the band's music and personal stories, but sees Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirn taking a backseat.
Tyler Duckworth, who competed on six seasons of reality show “The Challenge” and also appeared on MTV’s “The Real World: Key West,” has died in North Dakota. He was 44. His mother, Joni, announced his death on Facebook Thursday, writing, “My son, Tyler, passed away earlier this
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, has now sold over $195 million worth of stock since the media company clinched a deal to be acquired by David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance earlier this year. Zaslav’s latest sale of 773,173 shares of WBD stock, for an
Matthew McConaughey revealed on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that acting alongside Jennifer Lopez in 2001’s “The Wedding Planner” ended up getting him out of a “major mess-up” at the U.S.-Mexico border. “I pull in one late night crossing the border going way down south,”
The actor on how his 2003 rom-com is "the gift that keeps on giving."
Tramell Tillman is going to play a big role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s future. And he can finally talk about it. Tillman, who won an Emmy last year for his supporting role in Apple TV’s “Severance,” had been hoping to appear in a Marvel movie for some time, and heard
In all his homespun wisdom, Matthew McConaughey doesn’t think the world is a stage — he thinks it’s a story told by the fire. “Am I doing things that I want to last? Yeah. Am I trying to build bonfires instead of just campfires? Yeah,” the Oscar-winner says, reflecting on his
Although the first game of the preseason is the NFL Hall of Fame Game, the rest of the teams in the league begin play during Week 1 of preseason on Thursday, Aug. 13. The NFL 2025-27 season is just a few weeks away, while teams are getting ready to compete to win their
Warner Bros. Discovery president of international Gerhard Zeiler has been tapped to receive the 2026 International Emmy Directorate Award. He joins Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria, who was previously announced as this year’s honoree for the org’s founders award.
“House of the Dragon” concluded its third season on HBO on Sunday night, with the finale reaching 21 million viewers in its first three days of availability. More than 11 million of those viewers were in the U.S. That total comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of
WOW – Women Of Wrestling is going through a major growth spurt for its fifth season — which includes the league’s first live broadcast and expanded on-camera presence from Jeanie Buss. Season 5 will broadcast live from L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, anchoring WOW’s marquee
On a windy afternoon, a family packs a beach bag, perhaps for the last time, and languidly walks towards the coast. A sense of gloom hangs in the air. While the child and her mother play in the sand, the father tackles the seemingly impossible task of setting up a tent to
Is there an audience for AI-delivered news? Public data says no, and previous attempts to deliver such ventures have yielded many human-written stories about projects that never materialized. And yet Mirage — the AI startup behind the video-editing app Captions that raised $75
Christy Knowings, who was a cast member on Nickelodeon’s children sketch comedy show “All That,” died Tuesday. She was 46. Knowings suffered an asthma attack that left her with brain damage, according to TMZ, and she was hospitalized on Friday. TMZ, which broke the news of
Netflix is shutting down two studios, including the developer behind the David Fincher and Zach Cregger-backed horror game, “Unhinged,” which released less than two months ago. The streaming service is closing “Unhinged” maker Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and
“Ted Lasso” made a strong return to Apple TV last week, with the Season 4 premiere pulling in 296.6 million minutes watched over the course of Aug. 4-5. That total, measured by Nielsen, makes the episode the biggest launch in the history of Apple TV, outpacing all previous
It’s a tale as old as time — or at least the late ’90s. Young actors cut their teeth on Disney youth programming and blossom into fully fledged pop stars or Academy Award-nominated actors. Some of today’s biggest stars — Zendaya, Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina
Leonardo DiCaprio could throw any of us off of our game — as EJAE can testify. The “KPop Demon Hunters” vocalist spoke with the U.K. newspaper the Times and recounted her experience performing at this past year’s BAFTA Awards. “I made mistakes,” she said. “I cracked a little
When it comes to Will Smith’s shocking Oscars slap, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is sticking with her “King Richard” co-star. The Oscar nominee, who played Smith’s on-screen wife as the mother of Venus and Serena Williams in the biopic, told The Daily Beast’s “Obsessed” podcast that
Marine Atlan’s coming-of-age drama “La Gradiva,” a French hopeful eyeing to represent the country in the international feature Oscar race, has set its U.S. release date. The Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner will open at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center in New York
Nara Smith, a popular influencer on TikTok and other platforms, has signed with CAA for representation. Smith is a South African and German model, content creator and entrepreneur. She is best known for posting videos on TikTok in which she cooks elaborate meals or recreates
Peacock finally landed a major scripted series program nomination at the Emmys this year, and it’s “All Her Fault.” The NBCUniversal streamer has already won two outstanding reality competition series Emmys for “The Traitors,” and plenty of noms in categories like outstanding
Media biz veteran Mary Murcko has joined Fixated, an agency that provides support services for creators ranging from talent representation to creator economy support services. Murcko has been tapped to steer the company’s global revenue organization, overseeing brand
Read this article on Variety’s sister website Sportico. The record-breaking Los Angeles Lakers sale, announced Wednesday to a largely unsuspecting audience, is packed with intrigue. The seller, Mark Walter, is facing federal investigations across his business empire. The
Netflix has set the release date for “The Altruists,” inspired by Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison’s rise and fall from financial power. “The Altruists” hits Netflix November 19. Netflix has also released the first-look photos for the drama, which can be seen below. The
Matthew McConaughey joined the HBO Hall of Fame with his Emmy-nominated lead role on the first season of “True Detective,” and he nearly landed another major part in the network’s video game adaptation of “The Last of Us.” However, he turned down playing the main character
As part of the global distribution and sales company’s investment in the creator economy, Filmhub has inked a partnership with talent management company UnderCurrent. Filmhub’s goal with the partnership is to help digital creators expand their distribution reach — whether
Sebastian Maniscalco is hosting a new monthly series on SiriusXM, “We Got Company,” in which the veteran stand-up comedian and actor will sit down for extended one-on-one conversations with notable guests. The series premieres on SiriusXM on Aug. 20 with Jerry Seinfeld.
John Carpenter, Colman Domingo and Charlize Theron will be honored at the sixth annual Academy Museum fundraising gala, taking place on October 17. Theron will be honored with the Icon Award,Carpenter will receive the Luminary Award, and Domingo will be presented with the
Emilia Jones has been cast in a lead role in the upcoming Netflix limited series “The Retrievals,” Variety has learned. The series, which is based on the New York Times and Serial Productions podcast of the same name, was originally announced in May. The logline states that the
Made for $2 million in a regional Chinese language with a cast of unknowns, Lan Hongchun's heartwarming family drama became the year's third-biggest release in China.
It's the latest project acquired by the studio's new fast-moving genre label.
Meta’s Instagram proudly launched a new logo Thursday — its first update in a decade — and the trolling has already begun. “The wordmark at the top of the app hasn’t changed in 10 years, so it was time for a refresh,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote in a post on the platform.
Vishal Mishra keeps coming back to one word: honest. Ask him about competing with streaming playlists, about his string of Bollywood hits, about writing a love song for a film soaked in violence, and the composer-singer circles back to the same idea: the music has to be true to
Shannon Elizabeth is no stranger to breaking the internet. Following the release of 1999’s “American Pie,” the cumming-of-age film that launched Elizabeth to stardom (and sex symbol status), she decided she needed a website. “I think I was one of the first actors to have one,”
Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning’s upcoming legal thriller series “Discretion” at Paramount+ is officially in production, with the series adding two new cast members. Both Stephan James (“I Play Rocky,” “If Beale Street Could Talk”) and Colton Ryan (“The Girl From Plainville,”
Amy Sedaris is the latest addition to the Apple TV comedy series “Protective Custody,” Variety has learned. Sedaris will star alongside previously announced series lead Ben Stiller as well as fellow cast member Benicio Del Toro. The logline for the show states that it will
Viu and TrueVisions Now are launching a content collaboration that brings a curated slate of premium Thai series to Viu users across Southeast Asia, with a branded zone debuting Aug. 20 in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The zone opens with six series pulled from
“Heated Rivalry” is continuing to build out its Season 2 cast with five new additions. Variety has learned that Emily Hampshire (“Schitt’s Creek,” “VisionQuest”), Edvin Ryding (“The Young Royals,” “28 Years Later”), Robert Naylor (“Mile End Kicks,” “Cardinal”), Sabrina Jalees
Ken Russell’s controversial film “The Devils” will finally be seen in its original form, as seen in a new trailer for the NC-17 release. The 4K restoration references Russell’s private edit from 2004 and serves as the first release from Warner Bros. Clockwork, the studio’s new
Nicole Kidman said in a new British Vogue cover story that she was repeatedly warned about marrying Tom Cruise because it could hugely impact her career. The two A-listers met in 1989 during the production of Tony Scott’s “Days of Thunder,” which marked Kidman’s Hollywood
Nicolas Wadimoff’s documentary follows nine Palestinians who share their stories of survival and exile after escaping the violence in Gaza.
Orel Hershiser knows that he is a bona fide Los Angeles icon. But he has no illusions — he wouldn’t have the business opportunities he enjoys today without the platform provided by his broadcasting gig with the team. “You have a resume, but the resume slowly dies,” Hershiser
Tom Holland's blockbuster continues to make history for Sony after swinging into theaters July 31.
As a baseball player coming up in the late 1970s, Orel Hershiser was never seen as a red-hot prospect.No scouts made the trek to Bowling Green State University in Ohio to check out his arm. As Hershiser describes his entrée into Major League Baseball, “I was a 17th-round draft
“Off Campus” has found its Summer Di Laurentis. Amazon Prime Video’s college soap has cast Shay Rudolph in the guest role for Season 2. The season will focus on the romance between Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla) and Summer’s brother, Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn). Rudolph’s
