Todd Haynes will make his first visit to Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival, joining Robert Eggers, Zhang Ziyi and Tsui Hark at the classic film gathering’s now 18th edition. Three-time best actress Oscar winner Frances McDormand, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers, will
On Friday, Amazon’s Prime Video announced that “Spider-Noir” wouldn’t be back for a Season 2. Two days later, the series landed five wins at the Emmys Night 2 ceremony. According to awards gurus who track these things, that’s the most Emmy wins ever for a series canceled after
Whether it was a conscious choice or not, chances are high that if you’ve run an online query about a TV show, movie, book or video game the answer you received came courtesy of Fandom. Launched in 2004, Fandom is best known for its wiki platform that attracts 300 million
Starz has set the premiere date for “P-Valley” Season 3, which will also be the show’s final season. The drama series will return for its third and final season on Dec. 4, meaning it will launch over four years after Season 2. The first two episodes will drop on Dec. 4,
“Nobody Wants This” Season 3 has an official premiere date at Netflix. The third season of the popular romantic comedy series will debut on Oct. 22. Netflix has also dropped new first-look images from Season 3, which can be seen below. The official description for the new
MusiCares has named U2 — Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. — as its 2027 Persons of the Year. The 36th annual Persons of the Year benefit gala will be held at a new location, Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 5, 2027, two nights before the 2027
In Joshua Giuliano’s debut feature “River,” the line between beauty and carnage is razor thin. The slasher film, set to premiere Sept. 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival, concerns a trio of siblings (Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe and Max Mattern) who, after a tense
Paris-based Indie Sales has acquired international rights to “Stay,” the second feature from Indian writer-director Rohena Gera, whose debut “Sir” premiered at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2018 and won the Gan Foundation Award. Starring Pallavi Sharda (“Wedding Season”) and Julien
Every “Bad Lieutenant” film has had to answer the same question in its own way: what happens to a corrupt man when there’s no God left to save him? Abel Ferrara’s 1992 original built its entire moral architecture around Catholic guilt, climaxing with its lapsed-Catholic
Moshe Rosenthal’s “Tell Me Everything” has been voted Best Picture at Israel’s Ophir Awards, automatically making it the country’s submission for best international feature film category at the 99th Academy Awards. “Tell Me Everything,” set in the 1980s against the rising HIV
Deborah Haynes covers serious stuff, like foreign affairs, national security and defense — the sorts of topics that might not make good fodder for a snarky newsletter or a hot-talk podcast. Even so, her employer, Sky News, has some new ideas about how to reach viewers that
Jennifer Lawrence has officially joined Instagram, earning nearly 1 million followers in less than 24 hours. But the Oscar winner is issuing a warning to toxic social media users: She will quit Instagram if people start being mean. “So yeah, I am giving it a shot and if anyone
Indie distributor Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights for Berlin-based U.S. director and literary translator Ted Fendt’s “Foreign Travel” that will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival next month. “Foreign Travel,” which
A trailer has been released for Oscar-nominated director Rory Kennedy’s long-awaited documentary, “The Trial of Alec Baldwin.” The film, which follows the actor after the accidental on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021, is set to be released in theaters
“Avatar: Seven Havens” will drop its first season in batches of three episodes per week. As previously announced, the new entry in the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” universe will debut on Oct. 9 on Paramount+. Now, Paramount has confirmed that the first three episodes of the
Virginie Efira will receive the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) Award for Screen Artistry at the festival’s 49th edition, organizers announced. The actor is honored for her performance in “All of a Sudden,” which screens at the festival. Efira shared the Cannes Film Festival
The first scene Lee Pace shot in “Practical Magic 2” required plenty of prosthetic tattoos — and zero wardrobe. “I’m lying on this bed, naked,” Pace says with a laugh, “and the two of them come into the room and do some magic.” In the sequel to 1998’s beloved fantasy film,
Television’s biggest night of the year is almost here. In other words, let the partying begin. The festivities kick off with Gold House’s One House Toast to the Emmys as well as the Creative Coalition’s Humanitarian Awards dinner. Agencies like UTA and WME will have
Variety has been given exclusive access “What Lies Between Us” (“Dobbeltfejl”), selected for Toronto’s Discovery section and one of three short-listed Danish pics to become Denmark’s Oscar entry. The feature (formerly known as “Good Mothers”) reunites some of Denmark’s finest
"How the hell did I end up in this vortex?" Baldwin asks in the trailer
Alicia Keys & friends, Victoria Monét, Yeonjun, and Yoshiki have joined the lineup for this year’s Global Citizen Festival, the organization announced on Thursday. Taking place on September 26th in New York’s Central Park, they join previously announced performers Lauryn Hill &
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s A24 film about the notorious billionaire turned convicted fraudster will have a NYC premiere on Sept. 30 after a surprise Telluride first look.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs are getting into business. The label has struck an expansive licensing agreement with the AI audio startup that will see ElevenLabs launch an AI-powered music platform built on UMG’s catalog of artists. The platform will allow fans to remix
Jan Holoubek’s TIFF premiere “Wild Wild East” is set in 1943, but it no longer feels safely stored away in the past. “When I first read the script 12 years ago, it felt like a period drama. It was about something that happened a long time ago and wouldn’t happen again. Today,
Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Gharaei’s “Falling House” has sold to a raft of international territories following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Paris-based company Paradise City Sales has closed a first batch of deals with Jokers Films for France, Wanted Cinema for
Ryan Murphy’s long-running anthology series “American Horror Story” is back for Season 13, and the new trailer teases Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters’ returns in the all-star season. While Lange will be reprising all four of her former “AHS” characters, Peters will
The first New York Games Week will take place Oct. 4-11 with video game industry-themed events, showcases, conferences, tournaments, summits, professional mixers and meetups across the five boroughs of New York City. From gaming industry vets Guy Blomberg (Games Industry
The Four Horsemen are taking their talents to Broadway. “Now You See Me Live,” a stage show inspired by Lionsgate’s hit film franchise about thieving illusionists, is opening at New York City’s Al Hirschfeld theater on Nov. 11 for an eight-week run that concludes on Jan. 3.
Jungle Book Studio has taken international sales rights to “Angh,” the debut feature from Nagaland filmmaker Theja Rio. The film is world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is the sole Indian entry in TIFF’s Platform competition. Set in the remote hills of
Gayathiri Guliani and Uzair Merchant are unveiling K2 Media Capital, a new entertainment investment and production venture, at the Toronto Film Festival market. The company aims to identify, finance and produce high-value intellectual property that crosses borders and formats.
Drew Barrymore will break free of the conventions of TV talk as she launches the seventh season of her CBS-produced daytime program. Barrymore and her producers are launching a second program – a YouTube interview series – that will function both as a segment for TV and a
“Joan of Arc versus Jesus.” That is how Anna Biller, the auteur behind “The Love Witch,” describes the climax of her arresting new film “The Face of Horror” — a Medieval tale of a chauvinist knight, Edward (Jonah Hauer-King), desiring to leave his hopelessly devoted wife,
Earlier today, Variety announced that international media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, an AI production company. We spoke to Higuchi-Zitzmann about the venture. Are the projects on your slate
Musk's attorney declares "we have no choice but to put you on formal legal notice" as the tech titan slams the buzzy documentary on X as a "false film."
In perhaps the least surprising development in recent CMA Awards history, Ella Langley emerged at the front of the pack when nominations for the 2026 telecast were announced Thursday morning, scoring nine in all, just one shy of the all-time single-year record set by Alan
Personalized multiview livestreams — the ability to watch multiple video feeds on one screen — have become a popular and much-requested feature by customers, particularly for sports. Now AWS, Amazon’s cloud-services division, is launching a new service that will let streamers
It’s been nearly 20 years since “Why Did I Get Married?”, the original Tyler Perry movie that first introduced these characters and their variously troubled relationships — and 16 years since the sequel to that film, “Why Did I Get Married Too?”. So it feels only normal, at the
The English star discusses spending time with the lady at the heart of the story, working with a voice coach despite having Irish parents, and pulling triple Toronto duty, thanks to 'Onwards and Sideways' and 'Elsinore.'
“& Juliet,” a revisionist jukebox musical about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, is closing after four years on Broadway. The upbeat take on “Romeo & Juliet,” which uses Swedish music producer Max Martin’s chart-topping hits to imagine what would happen if Juliet didn’t stab
Charades and CAA Media Finance are launching sales on “Black Sunflowers,” the timely new feature documentary directed by James Marcus Haney (“No Cameras Allowed”) which will premiere at Toronto. Slated to premiere in the TIFF Docs section, “Black Sunflowers” portrays a young
Jack Quaid isn’t giving up his acting career, but the “Boys” star jokes he’s on his way to becoming a supermodel now that he stars in the Fall 2026 campaign for menswear brand Bonobos. “I guess I can add that to the résumé,” he cracks. The campaign is an episodic video series
Writer-director Marie Clements, who premiered “Bones of Crows” in 2022, returns this weekend to the Toronto Film Festival for the world premiere of her latest feature, “How We Stand,” as her new three-part documentary series, “Reclaim My Skin,” waits in the wings for its
Paris-based sales boutique Alpha Violet has acquired international sales rights to “Body of Glass,” German filmmaker Naëmi Ada’s feature debut, ahead of its world premiere in San Sebastián’s New Directors competition. A Germany-France co-production from Soilfilms and Soldats
With enticing acquisition titles, rising talent and supercharged industry presence at the market, the Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s 2026 Indigenous lineup delivers the creative and collaborative screen projects that are increasingly attracting global partners, buyers and
Bangkok-based horror distributor Fearfolks and Taipei’s Studio76 have signed a three-picture Thai-Taiwanese horror development deal, which was unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival Market. The pact will see the companies co-develop, produce and distribute a slate of genre films
James J. Robinson's debut feature is the country's first-ever Tagalog-language submission for the Oscars.
Malachi Kirby, the BAFTA-winning “Small Axe” star recently seen as the lead in the Disney+ series “A Thousand Blows,” is starring in revenge-thriller “Uncle,” Variety can reveal. The film, from writer-director Joe Marcantonio (“Kindred”) and which recently wrapped production,
Canadian electronic musician Deadmau5 has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation in all areas across music, film, television, digital content, gaming and technology and intellectual property. The artist legally known as Joel Zimmerman is “a
Sumerian Pictures has acquired North American rights to Norwegian writer-director Eivind Landsvik’s feature debut “Low Expectations,” starring Marie Ulven (also known as the musician Girl in Red) and Anders Danielsen Lie (“The Worst Person in the World”). Landsvik previously
Casting BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan in Irish indie feature “Lemonade” was surprising straightforward, but did come with one key demand: Do not touch his hair. This was the strict stipulation given to filmmaker Kim Bartley when making her narrative feature
