Writer-director Myrsini Aristidou's feature debut, starring Maria Petrova and Christos Passalis ('Dogtooth'), tells the story of an 11-year-old girl whose father she has never known comes to town.
Hong Kong star-director Stephen Chow once told K2 Pictures founder Kii Muneyuki that Japanese filmmakers should stop imitating kung fu and build action films on their own martial arts instead, Kii said Saturday at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. “He said, ‘You
Adam Driver had a major breakout thanks to his role on “Girls,” but the actor shut down the idea of returning for the reboot of the iconic series in a recent interview. While talking about his role in James Gray’s new movie “Paper Tiger,” Driver was asked by Cinema Blend if he
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecom operator, announced 10 new investments at its “Chunghwa Telecom Content Slate and Partnership Showcase,” spanning film, TV and music projects as well as stakes in two production companies. The company pitched the slate as a way to back
While his HBO counterpart John Oliver issued an urgent warning about voting GOP during the midterms, Bill Maher spent the majority of his time in the lead-up to the critical election dining with the Trump at the White House (and then bickering with him publicly), conducting an
As James Bond casting rumors heat up, a couple more A-list actors have entered the mix: Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult were among the stars who screen-tested to play the new 007. Both British actors certainly have the acting pedigree to play the suave spy, taking up the
Chang Chen, chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and last year’s Golden Horse best leading actor winner for “Lucky Lu,” advised six of Taiwan’s rising performers on working across different film sets at a Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF)
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Sheriff Country” Season 2, Episode 5, “No Way In” and “Fire Country” Season 5, Episode 5, “No Way Out.” Both series stream on Paramount+. It was all hands on deck for the most recent crossover between CBS procedurals “Sheriff
In the pilot of “Suits,” the briefcase that springs open during a job interview is full of marijuana, and it stays that way in the show’s Korean and Mongolian remakes. In Japan, the drugs became money, because drugs can’t be shown on Japanese TV, according to Linfield Ng, VP of
The 21st Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) will open with Lawrence Fajardo’s Filipino drama “Silenced Nights” and close with Ueda Makoto’s Japanese comedy-drama “You Are the Film.” The festival will screen 254 films from 34 countries across its competitive and
The A-list star, already juggling the Batman franchise, teamed with Bond director Denis Villeneuve on the upcoming third 'Dune' movie.
Korean fantasy romance “The Remarried Empress” has set a new high for Disney+ and Hulu. Based on views across the three days after its Nov. 3 launch, it is the biggest premiere ever for a local original on the platforms worldwide. The series is also the No. 1 Korean title
Miky Lee, vice chair of Korea’s CJ Group, was handed the Asian Hall of Fame’s Centennial Medal of Lifetime Achievement in Los Angeles. K-pop pioneer Lee Soo-man did the honors. Lee Soo-man, the SM Entertainment founder who is now key producer at A2O Entertainment, reminded the
The 'Gone Girl' star will also produce the film from 'Russian Doll' director Leslye Headland, with The Veterans launching sales at AFM.
“Enjoy Your Stay,” the Berlin Film Festival drama from “Goliath” director Dominik Locher and Filipino filmmaker Honeylyn Joy Alipio, has been acquired by Indonesian distributor Falcon and has its Indonesian premiere at Jakarta World Cinema. The film follows Luz, an undocumented
A man who has no memory of his past finds out that a patient is the sister he lost in “Wilderness of the Greenriver,” an animated feature from Barcelona-based Hong Kong director Ellis Kayin Chan that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The film is set in a
He connected with fans of the iconic comedy act at conventions and hosted a nine-part 2015 docuseries called ‘Hey Moe, Hey Dad!’
As one of Hollywood’s staunchest Republicans, the late James Stewart perhaps wouldn’t be rolling in his grave in response to “Jimmy,” a biopic that — in focusing rather less on his artistry than on his military service — paints him in a glowingly conservative light. But either
Olivia Rodrigo’s first holiday single, “Take Me Home (4 Christmas),” earned plenty of plaudits upon coming out of the gate late Thursday night — none greater than that offered by Chris Butler, the writer of the Waitresses’ classic 1981 song “Christmas Wrapping,” who said he’d
Natalia Dyer and Elijah Wood are set to join original cast members Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack, who are currently negotiating the terms of their return, in a sequel to the 2007 supernatural horror film “1408,” Variety can reveal exclusively. Mikael Håfström, who directed
An alien cat sent to seize Earth’s catnip supply gets sidetracked by a cozy couch and a steady diet of canned tuna in “Operation Maomao,” an animated sci-fi comedy series from Shaogao creator Jonathan Yu that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The planned
Talk of artificial intelligence tends to float somewhere up in the cloud. “The Technological Sublime,” a documentary from director Jannes Callens that heads to the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei, brings it back down to earth. The film follows the physical supply
An archangel ends up in a grungy dive bar in a new indie horror movie. “One Night In Purgatory” is the debut feature from writer-director Robert Husted and stars Alejandro Edda (“Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!”), Nick Stahl (“Sin City”), Grace Dove (“The Revenant”) and Michelle
Jisoo, the singer and actor best known as a member of K-pop group Blackpink, has signed with talent agency WME, which will represent her worldwide. The deal comes as Jisoo builds out her solo music career. Last week she released “Addicted,” a moody dance-pop number about being
Jesse Eisenberg has a confession about the biggest moment in “The Debut.” When the crowd at the Telluride world premiere broke into mid-film applause after a showdown between Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, also known as “the rent is due” scene, his first thought wasn’t
Eight years after touring with a combination of audience Q&As and solo music, Nick Cave will return to North America with “Conversations With Nick Cave: An Evening of Talk and Music,” a followup to his 2019 tour of the same name. This followup is set to run for 25 dates in the
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Friday announced that it closed its investigation into Fox Corp.’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku after finding the deal “is not likely to result in harm to competition.” However, Fox — which announced the completion of the Roku
Some genre movies are stripped-back exercises: lean, mean and to the point. Some films, like “Kung Fu Deadly,” take the opposite approach, dipping into multiple genres in a sumptuous visual feast. “Deadly” follows Danny and Frank (Steven He and Michael Tient), two hapless
Robert Aramayo is kicking back, eating a doughnut. A red box of SK’s Donuts sits open on the table between us, lid flipped back, “Best Donuts in Los Angeles, Est. 1989” stamped across the top. I joke with Aramayo before the mics are hot: This is why I booked the interview. I
He provided commentary for many home video releases and conducted what many consider to be the quintessential Vincent Price interview.
Sarah Finn is no stranger to the world of casting. Many will know her as the casting director for Marvel — she’s assembled every film in the MCU since 2008’s “Iron Man.” Her credits also include “Everything, Everywhere All at Once,” 2019’s “The Lion King” and “Chef.”
'The Walking Dead' actor Ross Marquand is leading an ensemble of the indie feature set during World War II.
Exquisite news: The deal starts off with Blumhouse boarding the adaptation of hit comic 'Exquisite Corpses.'
One of the newest rivalries in college football is between Virginia Tech and SMU in the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference). The Virginia Tech Hokies (6-2) vs. SMU Mustangs (6-2) at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas. The game happens on Friday, Nov. 6, with a start time of 7
Bradley Cooper is starring in the project as Duke.
Danny McBride’s “G.I. Joe” movie, starring Bradley Cooper, will march into movie theaters in 2028. Paramount announced on Friday that the film will get a wide theatrical release on Oct. 20, 2028. McBride will direct the reimagining of the “G.I. Joe” franchise — which kicked off
“American Mayhem,” the new syndicated half-hour clip series hosted by Larry the Cable Guy, is getting a linear cable platform as well. Paramount Network has ordered 13 episodes of “American Mayhem” from producer V10 Entertainment. The 13 episodes, which will launch Friday, Nov.
Honoring Agnieszka Holland, Thierry Frémaux and Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, the Seville European Film Festival bows Friday with a main competition featuring Dani de la Orden’s “The Director” and Andrew Haigh’s “A Long Winter” and the ambition to capture the genius,
He also wrote and directed ‘Gloria’ and its English-language remake, ‘Gloria Bell,’ starring Julianne Moore.
On Tuesday night, Keisha Lance Bottoms won the 2026 Georgia gubernatorial election, making history as the first Black woman to be elected governor of any U.S. state and Georgia’s first Black governor. One of the first moves made by Bottoms, who’d previously served as the mayor
Macklemore is accusing some of America’s most iconic arenas of shutting his “Free Palestine” tour out. The rapper, who recently had dates in Dublin, Paris and London at the end of Oct., took to Instagram on Nov. 6 to say that he has been turned down by American venues,
Adam Driver opened up about why he said yes to playing Mister Sinister in the “X-Men” reboot after turning down many Marvel movies over the years. “I was a big fan [of ‘X-Men]. I mean, I was a fan of the other things too, but this one felt like the right time,” Driver said
He’s been dissolved at the bottom of the ocean, frozen solid in an iceberg, blown up in a volcano, disintegrated in an atomic meltdown, and killed by missiles on the Brooklyn Bridge, but thanks to the millions of fans who love him, Godzilla will never die. Japan’s biggest star
“The aesthetic was to try to be lo-fi and homemade rather than cinematic and sweeping,” director Amir Bar-Lev says of his new film, which just screened at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.
The sequel to 2023's 'Godzilla Minus One' looks to lead the way for the weekend that also sees the launch of Oscar hopeful 'Wild Horse Nine' and religious epic 'Ramayana: Rise of a Legend.'
Common, the Academy Award, Emmy and Grammy-winning artist and actor, has joined Dana Nachman’s documentary short “The Second Life of Freddie Nole” as an executive producer, Variety can reveal exclusively. According to an official logline, “‘The Second Life of Freddie Nole’
Leo Reich can’t seem to shake London. Born and raised north of the river, the 28-year-old comedian, actor and writer moved east a few years ago — and it’s probably the furthest he’ll venture from home. “I wish I could be one of these people who’s like, ‘I’m going to go live in
Ben Leonberg, in collaboration with Republic Pictures, is set to direct and co-write a film adaptation of “Look Out,” a horror novella from Artists Writers and Artisans and Vertigo Entertainment, Variety can reveal exclusively. Leonberg will co-write the script with Alex
