Hong Kong-based Cappu Films has taken on sales beyond Australia and New Zealand for “Her Last Laugh,” Joy Hopwood’s Australian dramedy featuring Peter Thurnwald (“XO, Kitty”) and Ana Thu Nguyen (“Mortal Kombat II”). The finished film is being introduced to buyers at the Busan
Hong Kong’s Cappu Films has taken on worldwide sales for “Ephemera,” Shan Jiang’s queer romance, which had its world premiere in Tribeca’s U.S. narrative competition this year. Cappu is shopping the film at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market.
A young woman pulled into the run-up to a political massacre slides from unwilling witness to accomplice in “Once Upon a Time in the Philippines,” the debut feature from E del Mundo inspired by the 2009 Maguindanao massacre. The project is part of the Asian Project Market,
A mild-mannered father who has always kept the peace takes on the system after his young daughter is bullied at school in “The Family Table,” a Korean drama from director Lee Hanju. The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film
The inaugural Easterseals Disability Arts & Culture Awards (The Darcys) crowned its first winners on Saturday, celebrating outstanding achievement in authentic disability representation across film, television and media. Among the winners were “The Pitt” for Best Scripted
“Young Sheldon” aired its final episode in May 2024, and now, just over two years later, the cast of the CBS sitcom is getting candid about their experience filming the Sheldon Cooper-focused “Big Bang Theory” prequel and working with star Iain Armitage, who was just eight
The U.S. Department of Justice has told five of the nation’s biggest TV-news outlets that it plans to investigate whether a recent decision to suspend pool coverage of President Trump after he denied White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico violated antitrust rules,
A woman who loses custody of the dog she and her ex-boyfriend brought up together decides to snatch him back in “Dog Fight,” a dark comedy from actor-director Ryu Hyunkyung (“Don’t Go Back”). The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan
Prime Video premiered a new trailer for “Blade Runner 2099” at New York Comic Con. The limited series is set 50 years after the events of “Blade Runner 2049” in a reborn Los Angeles. Fugitive Cora (Hunter Schafer) takes on a final identity as a Blade Runner and is forced to
Two villages squabble over which of them holds jurisdiction over the spot where a 15-year-old girl died in “A Chronicle of Minor Things,” the new project from “Shape of Momo” director Tribeny Rai. The working-titled project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within
A teenage ballerina hailed for sacrificing herself to rescue others in a subway disaster becomes the center of a spiraling web of lies in “All’s Well That Ends Well,” the new project from “Memories of a Dead End” director Choi Hyunyoung. The project is part of the Asian Project
"These models are being trained to hijack your intimacy, to make friends with you, to get you to fall in love with it," the actor said of technology's training.
Arabella Olivia Clark is proud to scare you. The 10-year-old actress joined Variety over Zoom from her Los Angeles hotel room the morning after the premiere of “Other Mommy, wearing a jacket with her character’s name, Bela, printed on the front. Clark plays the daughter of
Big news for “Naruto” fans: the franchise is getting a new anime TV series and author Masashi Kishimoto is releasing another “Naruto” manga titled “Shadow Rising.” The new anime series will be a crossover with “NINKŪ” and be supervised by both Kishimoto and “NINKŪ” creator Koji
Chinese martial arts star Xie Miao (“The Furious,” the “Eye for an Eye” series) is set to lead an English-language action crime thriller set in the U.S., which Los Angeles-based Stars Collective has in development. The project will pursue the bruising, realistic style of
This weekend, boxing promoters Golden Boy Promotions travels to Chicago for prime title bout between two world-class fighters. American boxer Floyd Schofield goes head-to-head against Canadian fighter Lucas Bahdi for the vacant WBA lightweight championship title. The match is
The fraught relationship between an estranged mother and daughter takes centre stage in “Ibuku,” the fourth film from Indonesian writer-director Eddie Cahyono. Despite the first-person perspective of the title — which translates as “my mother” in Indonesian — most of the film
Matthew Lillard might best be known for his appearances throughout the uber-popular “Scream” franchise, but when he filmed the original installment, he didn’t think it would become the cult classic its regarded as today. “I was in the back of a car, driving home from work one
Daniel Pemberton was named Film Composer of the Year at the World Soundtrack Awards on Saturday, capping a prolific run that includes “Project Hail Mary,” “The Drama,” “The Bad Guys 2” and “Masters of the Universe.” The British composer has now won three times at the
The Netflix documentary about the significance of and challenges to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was the closing night screening at the 2026 New York Film Festival.
Bill Nighy and Rosemarie DeWitt are set to guest star in “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” Season 2. The announcement was revealed during the “Star Trek” panel at New York Comic-Con on Saturday. Nighy will play Nahla’s (Holly Hunter) estranged father, Nyk Ake, while DeWitt will
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has added United Nations’ global advocate of human-centric digital governance to his resumé, has warned the public to be “concerned about the people building A.I.” and how the technology is being trained to “hijack your intimacy” in a vlog-style video
"Tenzing" earns its inspirational fervor, but the reason it fits into the new wave of mountain-climbing movies is that the director, Jennifer Peedom, an Australian who’s been making documentaries about mountain-climbing for 18 years, has staged the film with a you-are-there
"I think I might do a season of True Detective ," elusive actor says at New York Comic-Con, all but confirming year-old rumors
After an epic two-night SummerSlam event with Roman Reigns defeated Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Title and Liv Morgan defeated Iyo Sky to retain the Women’s World Title, WWE travels to New Orleans for WWE Money in the Bank, a premium live event on Saturday, Oct. 10.
Pegah Ahangarani's film was made in the U.K. and won the L’Oeil d’Or for best documentary at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Peacock’s “Dungeon Crawler Carl” live-action TV series will begin shooting next year, author Matt Dinniman and Universal TV execs revealed Saturday. “We are starting to see drafts and outlines, and we’ve gotten the whole series pitch, which is really exciting, but it’s
Following a long-anticipated return to the stage Thursday night, Barry Manilow put an early halt to Friday’s concert and has canceled his Saturday show at the International Theater at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. “After a triumphant welcome-back concert on Thursday,
Author Tomi Adeyemi canceled her previously announced New York Comic Con (NYCC) panel, where she was set to promote her new book, “The Siren.” No announcement from Adeyemi or NYCC organizer ReedPop was made ahead of the panel’s planned Saturday slot, leaving fans questioning
Thirty years ago, DiCaprio and Claire Danes played the star-crossed lovers in Verona Beach.
Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon after the company, which developed “Spider-Noir” for Prime Video, allegedly asked him to sign an AI waiver. “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on
It’s Christmas time for the Belchers in the “Bob’s Burgers” Hulu-exclusive holiday short, “On the Fort Day of Christmas.” Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard announced the release date for the short at the “Bob’s Burgers” New York Comic-Con panel on Saturday, also
Jessica Chastain stars in director Rob Savage's horror feature that has been hit with a painful D+ CinemaScore.
It might have taken pioneering explorer Amyr Klink one hundred days to cross the Atlantic, but it took Carlos Saldanha almost three thousand to bring his story to the big screen. After nearly a decade working on the epic, the “Ice Age” and “Rio” director is finally bringing
Following major openings like “Obsession,” “Backrooms” and “Resident Evil,” the horror genre’s 2026 box office reign shows no sign of slowing. And with Halloween right around the corner, it makes sense that momentum continued Friday as the supernatural, unnerving thriller
The world premiere of Netflix’s animated feature “Ray Gunn” at the London Film Festival on Saturday coincided with a special day for one of its key creatives. As director Brad Bird noted in the introduction at the Royal Festival Hall, the premiere for the neo-noir sci-fi was
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Social Reckoning,” now playing in theaters. Aaron Sorkin’s new film “The Social Reckoning” begins with a vignette about the impact of social media that’s as chilling as any statistic about the dangers of social media. And
Cloud Imperium Games’ “Squadron 42” is now available to wishlist on Steam ahead of its planned Q2 2027 release. The single-player sci-fi adventure game is set in the year 2945, as the United Empire of Earth is threatened by outlaws and hostile aliens alike. Players enlist as a
Several Brazilian members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including Oscar nominees Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Emilie Lesclaux, Fernando Meirelles, Alê Abreu and Petra Costa, and Oscar-winning producer Rodrigo Teixeira (“I’m Still Here”), have
On a balmy April afternoon at Abbey Road Studios in London, a 74-piece orchestra comprised of violinists, cellists, flautists and even an organ-payer, is packed into Studio One. The iconic room, which has hosted musical legends from Edward Elgar to Harry Styles, is painted “Toy
At MIPJunior, it’s not often that a little creeper gets put out on center-stage. But on Oct. 10, as “Migali” makes its world premiere in front of buyers from all across the globe, a tiny spider princess seems to be set on weaving webs of laughter and fun at the unmissable
“Welcome to the future,” we hear several times in “Ray Gunn” — not that the brave new world it presents is all that welcoming. Or, for that matter, particularly brave or new. The good news is we finally have flying cars and superpowered jetpacks; in other respects, though, we
Prime Video has taken global rights to Turkish TV powerhouse Ay Yapim’s AI movie “Çukur: Vartolu,” a spin-off from its hit series “Çukur,” known internationally as “The Pit.” “Çukur: Vartolu” is produced by Ay Yapim under its Singapore-based artificial intelligence studio AI
Ever wondered what would happen if Darth Vader joined the Avengers? Or if the Millennium Falcon got a Tony Stark-approved upgrade? Lego is giving fans the chance to find out. The toy company announced a first-of-its-kind Lego Ideas challenge at New York Comic Con on Saturday,
“Under Siege” (“Palacio”) the fictional series inspired by the storming of Colombia’s Palace of Justice by an M-19 guerrilla commando and its subsequent retaking by the Colombian army, bows Nov. 6 on Netflix. The events, which unfolded in the capital of Bogotá on Nov. 6 and 7,
During a London Film Fest talk, she also shared how she'd love to star in a musical or play a wordless role, that she is "obsessed with 'Obsession,'" and how playing Whitney Houston changed everything.
Namkoong Sun, director of Netflix’s Korean romance “Love Untangled,” said her first commercial feature felt little different from her independent films once cameras rolled, apart from the scale. The freedom, she added, came with weight. Namkoong was speaking at “New Voices in
When Kim Ji-yong read the script for “Possible Love,” its emotional climax, set in a still forest by the beach, had no wind in it. Korean summer storms on location changed that. The cinematographer behind “Decision to Leave” and “Squid Game” Season 2 asked director Lee
Hollywood’s appetite for Asian stories has broadened, but for Lionsgate’s Helen Lee-Kim, “every movie is still a fight.” Lee-Kim, the studio’s president of international, made the remark at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market during the panel
