Ethan Hawke has been making movies for decades. But it took a role his longtime collaborator Richard Linklater dreamed up — born out of years of shared theater trips and a mutual love of the stage — to finally earn him his first lead actor Academy Award nomination. “I don’t
Hans Zimmer and his composer collective, Bleeding Fingers Music, are set to score the upcoming Netflix series “All the Sinners Bleed.” As previously announced, the show is an adaptation of the S.A Crosby novel of the same name. Joe Robert Cole is adapting the book for the
Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty on Monday in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele, who were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Dec. 14. Reiner, 32, appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court, and spoke only once, agreeing to a future court date of April 29.
Faraz Shariat’s tightly wound “Prosecution” is a courtroom drama immersed in legalese, but rendered with the gripping intensity of a vigilante thriller. It follows a German-Korean woman prosecuting far-right hate crimes and running up against institutional blockades, until she
Lily Collins will play Audrey Hepburn in a new movie about the making of the 1961 classic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Collins will also serve as a producer for the project, which is based on the Sam Wasson book “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the
One of the marquee panels at Mip London drew a full house as executives revealed that microdrama platforms are devoting as much as 90% of their budgets to marketing rather than production, underscoring how the fast-growing short-form storytelling sector is evolving into a
“Yellowjackets” co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have signed an overall deal with Paramount Television Studios, Variety has learned. The news comes just ahead of the start of production on Season 4 of “Yellowjackets,” which was previously reported to be the show’s
Mark Normand has set his next stand-up comedy special at Netfilx. Titled “None Too Pleased,” the hour will debut on the streamer on March 17. Normand filmed the special at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colo. The New Orleans-born, New York-based comic “turns married life,
The feature is based on Sam Wasson’s book 'Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman.'
Harry Styles will serve as host and musical guest of “Saturday Night Live” on March 14. It’s the second time the Grammy winning pop star will pull double duty on the NBC sketch comedy series. He last commanded Studio 8H in November 2019, and he previously performed as a musical
BBC Studios-owned streamer BritBox is launching “On the Box,” a new weekly podcast hosted by BBC Radio 1’s Edith Bowman and comedian Michelle Collins. Premiering March 9, the BBC Studios Audio podcast will dissect “the very best of BritBox and the TV pop culture shaping screens
Warner Bros. Discovery reported record-breaking streaming performance for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, with the company posting triple-digit growth across its HBO Max and Discovery+ platforms compared to the Beijing 2022 Games. The return of the Olympic Winter
Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and “KPop Demon Hunters” have been added to the Criterion Collection. The two Netflix releases are among the most acclaimed and most streamed films of 2025 and are in the thick of the Oscar race. “Frankenstein” was nominated for nine Academy
Ubisoft has set three executives as the new leaders of its iconic “Assassin’s Creed” video game franchise, including alums who oversaw work on beloved title “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.” Vantage Studios, the Ubisoft subsidiary that operates the “Assassin’s Creed,” “Rainbow
Tennis great Andy Roddick will take a new pivot toward the net as an analyst for ESPN’s match and studio coverage tied to the sport. Roddick, who has worked for Fox Sports and Tennis Channel in the past, will join the Disney sports giant’s roster of tennis commentators just
Netflix has kicked off production on “Messily Ever After” (working title), a new Korean romantic comedy film reuniting “Pachinko” stars Kim Minha and Noh Sang-hyun. The film follows Su-hyun and Hyun-tae, a couple whose decade-long relationship swings between deep affection and
Generative-AI company Suno has named former Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota as its chief commercial officer, it announced Monday morning. In the role, Sirota will lead Suno’s commercial strategy, music industry relationships, platform partnerships, and enterprise solutions and will
John Davidson, an activist with Tourette's syndrome, involuntarily shouted the slur while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage
The actress will reunite with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice co-star Jenna Ortega and director Tim Burton
Delroy Lindo spoke to Vanity Fair at one of the 2026 BAFTA after parties and said that he and “Sinners” co-star Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” when the N-word was shouted out as they were presenting the award for best visual effects to “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” Lindo
A spinoff of CBS and Dick Wolf’s long-running drama series “FBI,” “CIA” follows an elite FBI/CIA fusion cell that investigates international plots, terrorist cells and geopolitical secrets. A generic police procedural, “CIA” isn’t mind-blowing. However, based on the show’s
“Wednesday” Season 3 is officially in production, with the show bringing in four new additions to its cast. Chris Sarandon (“Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Princess Bride”), Noah Taylor (“Peaky Blinders,” “Game Of Thrones”), Oscar Morgan (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” “Gotham
“Avatar: Fire & Ash,” “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia 2” may have dominated the holiday box office, but they weren’t enough to lift AMC Theatres’ quarterly earnings. The world’s largest exhibitor reported that revenues for the three-month period ending in December topped out
Kristen Bell is very busy. Not only is she preparing to star in a workshop of a new stage musical, “Three Months Later,” in Los Angeles, but she’s also getting ready to shoot Season 3 of her hit Netflix rom-com series, “Nobody Wants This.” In between those projects, she’ll
Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole have teamed for “The Final Hours,” a new true-crime podcast that closely examines clues from the last few hours before someone goes missing — an effort, they say, to give unsolved cases the attention they deserve. The weekly podcast comes from
Winona Ryder has booked a guest star role in “Wednesday” Season 3, Variety has learned. The role means a “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” reunion is set for the hit show’s third season. “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega played Ryder’s daughter in the film, while Ryder’s longtime
“Golden Swan,” which has its world premiere in the International Competition section of the 28th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival, has debuted its trailer. The film, directed by Anette Ostrø, looks back to 1995, when her brother, Hans Christian Ostrø, travelled to India
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has a Monday deadline to submit its best and final offer for Warner Bros. Discovery — and Paramount is expected to come back with an offer above its previous $30/share bid for WBD, angling to outflank Netflix to win the deal. The board of
The BBC has apologized for not editing out a racial slur from the BAFTA Film Awards’ tape-delayed broadcast and will now remove it from the version of the ceremony on iPlayer. The outburst came from John Davidson, a Tourette syndrome campaigner who was seated in the audience
The BBC has released a statement on the clumsily-handled incident, apologizing that the racial slur, shouted as Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented an award, was "not edited out prior to broadcast."
The rapid rise of Korean drama in Europe is entering a new phase, shifting from streaming success toward local adaptation and co-development, executives said during a Mip London session examining the genre’s growing regional impact. Speaking at “The Rise of K-Drama in Europe,”
After winning the BAFTA Film Award for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, “My Father’s Shadow” helmer Akinola Davies Jr. ended his speech by saying “free Palestine.” However, these words were then cut from his speech when the ceremony aired two hours
“Sinners” production designer Hannah Beachler has said that Alan Cumming’s “throw away apology” over the N-word being shouted during the BAFTA Film Awards made the situation “worse.” “I keep trying to write about what happened at the BAFTAs, and I can’t find the words,”
Japan remains one of the world’s most insular television format markets, exporting globally successful unscripted hits while importing almost no foreign concepts, according to data presented by Virginia Mouseler, CEO of The WIT, during the “Fresh TV: Japan” session at Mip
Historical drama “The King’s Warden” maintained the top position at the South Korean box office during the week of Feb. 16–22, which included the peak Lunar New Year holiday period. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film
“The Last of Us” star Bella Ramsey, twinned in Maya with “Back to Life” writer-star Daisy Haggard making her directorial debut, Bond pic star Gemma Arterton, “I Will Destroy You’s” Paapa Essiedu and Robyn Malcolm, a 2024 Series Mania best actress winner for “After the Party,”
This cannot be overstated: BAFTA and the BBC failed us all. During the 79th BAFTA Film Awards, host Alan Cumming paused the ceremony to thank the audience for its “understanding” after a series of audible outbursts from Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson interrupted the show.
Ted Sarandos has brushed off Donald Trump’s social media demand that Netflix fire board member Susan Rice, saying the streamer’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery is a business matter and not a political one. “He likes to do a lot of things on social media,” the Netflix co-CEO and
As the U.K. TV industry scrambles for cash beyond U.S. players, the 2026 London TV Screenings weigh in as a tribute to its resilient status as international’s biggest talent hub. This year’s line-up takes in upcoming shows by Jack Thorne, George Kay, Chris Brancato and Bill
COL Group International has formalized a cross-continental distribution structure and expanded its global microdrama catalogue to more than 1,700 titles, the company revealed at Mip London and London Screenings 2026. The Singapore-headquartered division, which launched last
The actress said she debated posting a tribute, but “silence can often look like a lack of care which I could not abide here”
China’s theatrical market surged during the Lunar New Year holiday period (Feb. 17–22), earning RMB4.47 billion ($647.4 million) over the six-day frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The period was led by a slate of major simultaneous releases that debuted on Tuesday,
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” now streaming on HBO Max. The dust has settled from the trial of the seven, the wounded are patching up their injuries and “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Season 1 has
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Points of Emphasis,” Season 4, Episode 7 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) is in the wind. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Harper Stern (Myha’la) and her fellow short
A red-faced Paul Mescal, a royal tribute and a couple of fabulous celebrity cameos: Here's what you might have missed at the U.K.’s biggest night for film.
Baz Luhrmann is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King’s new and returning subjects are glad he did. “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” opened exclusively in Imax theaters this weekend
The 'Pachinko' stars play college sweethearts whose romance oscillates between devotion and exasperation as their years together accumulate.
Davidson is the inspiration behind Robert Aramayo's now BAFTA-winning performance in 'I Swear.'
Veteran artist manager Gary Borman has retired, he announced on Sunday, and will be shuttering the doors of his namesake company 50 years after its inception. His client of 25 years, Keith Urban, will be moving to a new firm although a rep tells Variety there is no
After facing off against each other back in 2016, Michigan fighter Claressa Shields defeated Virginia Beach boxer Franchon Crews-Dezurn in an unanimous decision to kickstart both of their professional careers in the ring. And now, undisputed heavyweight champion Shields,
