Victor Willis, the founding lead singer of Village People and co-writer of “YMCA,” “Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” died on Tuesday. He was 74. “We are profoundly sad to announce the death of Victor Willis, lead singer of Village People. Victor passed on Monday June 30, 2026 of a
A Malaysian science-fiction fantasy feature is taking an unconventional approach to distribution. “Mimpi Kita: Castle in the Air” arrives at the NAFF Project Market’s It Project strand at Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival betting that audience data, gathered
The Royal Shakespeare Company has cast Sharon D. Clarke in the title role of “Othello,” with Monique Touko directing a production that relocates Shakespeare’s tragedy to a climate-threatened future and places a Black lesbian in the seat of military power at its center. The
Vietnamese films held a 70.6% share of the domestic box office in the first five months of 2026, up from 62.2% across the full year of 2025 and 42.6% in 2023, according to figures presented by Dinh Thanh Huong, executive chair of Galaxy Studio and CEO of Galaxy Entertainment
Miroslav Terzić's feature about a group of young Serbians going on a school trip to Bulgaria world premieres in the Crystal Globe competition of the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary film festival.
Yash’s “Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups” has released “Ladies & Ladies,” a promotional video centered on the film’s formidable female cast and their complex, commanding characters within the dark universe of Geethu Mohandas’ forthcoming action drama. The video opens with a
Yash Raj Films and Posham Pa Pictures are joining forces for their first theatrical collaboration, “Mupapa,” starring Ayushmann Khurrana, with a release date of Feb. 19, 2027. The film, described by the outfits as “genre-bending,” is produced by YRF CEO Akshaye Widhani, whose
Kathy Griffin took to Instagram on Tuesday to claim that she’s been banned from Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show.” She also slammed Fallon for hosting UFC legend Conor McGregor, who was found liable in a sexual assault case in 2024 and ordered to pay $257,000 to a woman who accused
Actor and producer Aamir Khan will attend a special Melbourne screening of “Lagaan” on July 9 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary, kicking off the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne’s (IFFM) 17th edition a month ahead of the festival’s main dates. The 17th edition of IFFM will
Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020. At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously
Paula Reid is laying down the law at CNN. The Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet’s chief legal affairs correspondent has decided to leave ahead of an expected takeover of the news giant by Paramount Skydance, according to two people familiar with the matter. Reid had the
"Young Washington" is like one of those great-man biographies you read in grade school. Released by Angel Studios for the Fourth of July, the movie is intended as a bit of likably square, neo-traditional, right-wing-adjacent counterprogramming. But say this much for it: In its
Hit Korean thriller “A Shop for Killers” will return for its second season July 22 on Disney+ and Hulu. The eight-episode sequel picks up with Jian now running the weapons shop and Jinman back from the dead, as the pair work to fend off a humiliated Babylon, which recruits
Wagner Moura is set to play the villain in the Warner Bros. feature.
It’s been a decent summer so far for plucky British gumshoes. After the cozily pastoral charms of the delightful whodunit “Sheep Detectives” and its unusual crime-stoppers, we get the winsome “Enola Holmes 3,” the latest installment of the Netflix mystery franchise that follows
Singer-songwriter Ashe has signed with Atlantic Records and has struck a publishing deal with Doomsday/ Universal Music Publishing Group. She will be on tour this summer supporting Benson Boone. Last year she teamed up with Finneas as the Favors, with the duo releasing their
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, CNBC president KC Sullivan discusses the channel’s evolution following the Versant Media spinoff. The preeminent financial news network is transforming from a business rooted in linear cable to multiplatform digital. “We’re very
Dwayne Johnson is catching flak on social media after he told Esquire magazine earlier this month that he will no longer speak publicly on politics. “Star Trek” icon George Takei is one of the Hollywood voices criticizing Johnson’s stance, writing on Threads: “Silence is
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains mild spoilers from the video game “Unhinged,” which is now available to play on Netflix. When it comes to horror movies, I am a wimp. A coward, a chicken, a scaredy-cat. It’s my favorite genre, but without fail, you can find me jumping and
Robin Byrd made a career of exposing herself – literally. The bisexual former porn actress earned fame and cult status for hosting “The Robyn Byrd Show,” a late-night adult-themed public access television talk show that ran in New York City from 1977 to 1998. The 30-minute
“If I had the chance to speak to any parents who were thinking about getting their children in the industry, I would tell them to please, please make sure that they are doing it for the right reasons”
Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division has backed out of a deal with IO Interactive to fund and publish a new game, as the company re-evaluates investment decisions. IO Interactive, the maker of “Hitman” and popular new release “007 First Light,” plans to continue to develop the game,
Author Harlan Coben and Netflix proved to be a match made in mystery-thriller heaven with the impressive launch of “I Will Find You” earlier this month — and even more so with the limited series’ Week 2 numbers. On Tuesday, Netflix announced via its weekly Top 10 rankings that
Over an intense six-week period last fall, Netflix went from an initial phone call between co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav to sealing an $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros.’ streaming and studios business. But even after being repeatedly
He worked alongside Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith at the National Theatre, did lots of war movies in the 1970s and starred on ‘Coronation Street.’
Theater owners are preparing for more Minion mayhem. “Minions & Monsters” will lead the box office over the July 4 weekend, with the seventh installment in Universal and Illumination’s “Despicable Me” franchise aiming for $80 million from 4,000 North American theaters during
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 5 of “The Bear,” now streaming on Hulu. The fifth and final season of “The Bear” dropped 12 hours ago on Hulu, and Lionel Boyce is meandering around Paris waiting for the reactions to roll in. “No one is awake yet,” he
Tom Hardy is not leaving “MobLand” behind after all. Variety has confirmed with sources that the actor is set to return to the Paramount+ crime drama for a potential third season. As previously reported, Hardy had completed work on Season 2 of the series when he fell out with
Season 2 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” debuted with 8.7 million views in four days. That total took it to the No. 2 position on the streamer’s weekly English-language TV rankings, but represented a large drop from Season 1: In 2024, the
Starz is developing a TV series based on “Bone Parish,” an adaptation of Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf’s graphic novel set to be executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The crime series is set in New Orleans as “the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new
LeBron James is taking his talents elsewhere. The basketball living legend and four-time NBA champion informed the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday — the first day of free agency — that he’s planning on playing for another team next season, James’s representative, Klutch Sports
“Artificial,” Luca Guadagnino’s movie about Sam Altman and OpenAI, is about to get a new home. Neon is closing in on a deal to acquire the nearly-completed $40 million film — set during the tumultuous time when Altman (played by Andrew Garfield) was fired and then rehired by
Michael Byrne, an actor known for his work in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” “Braveheart” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” died June 20. He was 82. A cause of death has not yet been revealed, the Guardian reported. In the penultimate “Harry Potter”
Amazon dropped the film a few months after announcing a $50 billion investment in OpenAI.
Nonprofit Ghetto Film School has announced a partnership with multimedia storytelling company Mosh Audio to expand the school’s methods of storytelling. The collaboration follows GFS’ launch of a redesigned 20-month fellowship curriculum that focuses on filmmaking while
Following the release of her third studio album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” Lego has unveiled a new Olivia Rodrigo collection that turns the Grammy-winning singer’s music, tour visuals and purple-infused aesthetic into five collectible sets. Rodrigo is the
Melissa Gilbert called out careless parents of child stars in an emotional tribute post to Daveigh Chase, the “Lilo & Stitch” and “The Ring” actor who died of AIDS on June 16 at 35 years old. In an Instagram post, Gilbert revealed that she and Chase starred in a pilot together
Netflix is calling for a cap on the mandatory investments it is required to make in French content as it pursues its lobbying push to gain earlier access to newly released movies. The U.S. streaming giant, which has become one of the biggest private backers of French film and
A television adaptation of “The Last Kids on Earth” book series is in the works at Disney, which has ordered a pilot. That means an episode of the series will be produced before Disney decides whether to move forward on a full season order. The project is set up at Disney+ and
Mark Harmon is once again going to play Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the small screen. Variety has learned that Harmon will play the iconic character in a season-long arc of the upcoming third season of prequel series “NCIS: Origins.” Per CBS, Harmon will appear onscreen in every
Brett Goldstein and Lamorne Morris also provide voices in the Illumination feature that Universal releases next year.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Night School Studio’s new horror game “Unhinged,” now available on Netflix. David Fincher, “Weapons” filmmaker Zach Cregger and Night School Studios founder and studio director Sean Krankel want you to die while playing the new
You can’t evaluate a movie year — not really — when you’re only halfway through it. But you can take its temperature. And at the midway point, what we can say is that the patient looks healthier than it has in a long time. If the box office were up (which it is), but only […]
'Leviticus' and 'Test' both won the outstanding first narrative feature after votes deadlocked; Jane Schoenbrun's 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' took the audience award.
It’s an AI-fueled return to the Chocolate Factory. Netflix has partnered with the AI audio firm ElevenLabs to recreate the voice of actor Gene Wilder, who originated the character’s live-action look in 1971’s “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and who died in 2016, for its
Northwoods Theater Group is opening a new venue, Emagine Parker, in Parker, Colorado, filling a year-long gap with no theater in the area. Set to open this week on Wednesday, the theater (located 30 minutes outside of Denver) has ten auditoriums and marks the family-owned
The film from Illumination, the studio that produced the Minions and Sing franchises, will arrive in April
“Dutton Ranch” has found its new showrunner. Benjamin Cavell has joined the “Yellowstone” spinoff series to helm Season 2. Cavell takes over from Season 1 showrunner Chad Feehan, who left the show just before it premiered. Feehan is also the credited creator of the series,
A judge declared that the actor, who reached a mutual settlement to dismiss It Ends With Us litigation, would have to pay the actress’ legal fees
Dylan O’Brien is set for the lead role in the Hulu comedy pilot “Lex,” Variety has learned. The pilot order for the project was originally announced in March. The logline for the show states that it follows Lex (O’Brien), “a disgraced former reality star who accidentally films
