Olivia Wilde just landed a massive hit in the snow. The director and co-star of “The Invite,” a couples dramedy that plays out over one night in a San Francisco apartment, unveiled the film on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. A packed house filled with industry
You can exhale now: Alex Honnold successfully made it to the top of Taipei 101, in a live special on Netflix. “Sick!” he exclaimed at the top of the tower, after climbing the tower in one hour and 35 minutes. “I’m so psyched!” And then he took a selfie. The “Skyscraper Live”
Olivia Wilde is at the Sundance Film Festival with two movies, but like most everyone else this weekend, she’s concerned with the devastating news that Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was killed by ICE in Minnesota Saturday morning. On the red carpet for the Seth Rogen comedy
Sources say nobody outside of Melania Trump, director Brett Ratner and a very small group of their associates has yet seen the movie, including the president and his advisors, who are seeing it Saturday night for the first time.
As the competition continues to heat up on Season 4 of “The Traitors,” Peacock has released a statement urging passionate fans of the show to cool off. “We are committed to making our casts feel safe, respected, and supported – on screen and off,” reads the statement, which
"A young actress coming in to fill a role that was her first film and carrying the entire emotional weight of this movie was a near-impossible task,” the Academy Award winner said of his 25-year-old castmate.
Rob Lowe has been vocal about his disdain for the fact that film and television production has been leaving Los Angeles in favor of other, more financially affordable cities. Although the actor says the state of filming in Hollywood is “getting better,” Lowe feels it’s “still
The veteran star, who has received four Oscar noms in his career, praises his wife while recognizing the toll: “She's been going nuts because the whole award season is so insane, especially for a woman.”
Natalie Portman hit the Sundance Film Festival press circuit for “The Gallerist” wearing “ICE Out” and “Be Good” pins, just hours after a man was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis. Portman’s “Be Good” references Renée Good, who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis
Stuart Ford, chairman and CEO of AGC Studios, is film industry veteran who has seen the independent sector rise to incredible heights. And in recent years he has watched it struggle. On the latest episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, Ford goes deep on the issues
Taika Waititi’s “Star Wars” movie has been in development since 2020, when Disney and Lucasfilm announced the “Jojo Rabbit” Oscar winner would helm a new film in the franchise written by “1917” scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns. There’s been no big updates in the six years since, but
A party crasher was arrested at Park City’s High West Saloon on Friday during CAA’s Sundance Film Festival celebration after allegedly assaulting Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost. A source at the talent agency’s party said the man, who is Caucasian, was involved in a
Natasha Lyonne took to X on Friday to reveal she has relapsed. The “Poker Face” star struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol throughout the 2000s. “Took my relapse public more to come,” she wrote Friday night. Hours later, in a follow-up post, she added, “Recovery is a
The NBA has postponed a game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors after a man was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. “The National Basketball Association game scheduled for today between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota
The movie works, and has a handful of inspired touches, yet a little of it goes a long way.
Amber Heard makes an unexpected appearance in a timely new documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, about accused men weaponizing defamation lawsuits to silence women speaking out about abuse. “Silenced,” playing in the world cinema category at the annual festival,
Olivia Wilde says Gen Z wants to see less sex in movies and TV because they “don’t want to see inauthenticity anymore.” According to a study from UCLA, nearly half of Gen Z (48.4%) believe there’s “too much sex and sexual content in TV and movies.” “I think Gen Z is pretty
Beth de Araújo’s “Josephine” became the first Sundance sensation of 2026 after its world premiere, which brought star Channing Tatum to tears “five, six, seven” times during the screening and ended with the audience at the Eccles Theater on their feet, giving the cast and crew
The two actors took the stage inside Grand Hyatt Deer Valley Friday night during Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford to share reflections of working with the man of honor.
The Timur Bekmambetov-directed film is expected to open to an estimated $12.5 million, in line with expectations and despite the storm, which is impacting a wide swath of the country.
When you’ve only lived for a decade, the next one stretches ahead of you like an apparent eternity. To the elders raising you, it goes by in the blink of an eye. Docmakers Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes maintain both those perspectives in their film “One in a Million,” charting
Sam Raimi, who helmed Sony’s “Spider-Man” film franchise from 2002 to 2007, recently told ScreenRant that his versions of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, played by Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, “have gone elsewhere” with little hope of returning to the big screen. “Stan
For the first main event of 2026, the Ultimate Fighting Championship travels back home to “Sin City” for UFC 324. The main event features American Justin Gaethje (26-5-0) battles English fighter Paddy Pimblett (23-3-0) in a marquee match for the interim lightweight title. It’s
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about “The Beauty” Episode 3, now streaming on Hulu. Amelia Gray, the 24-year old model and daughter of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, isn’t surprised she’s making her acting debut in a Ryan Murphy project, “The Beauty.” “My household
Rory Kennedy touched down at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival as the director of the upcoming documentary “Queen of Chess.” The film chronicles the 15-year success of Hungarian chess prodigy Judit Polgár as she overcomes champion Garry Kasparov and her controlling father over 15
The filmmaker and his star and producer joined The Hollywood Reporter for a joint conversation about addiction, authenticity and why they’re both so bad with compliments.
Chris Pratt led the domestic box office on Friday with the only major newcomer of the weekend: Amazon MGM’s “Mercy.” The sci-fi thriller threatens to end the winning streak of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” which has topped the North American charts for the past five weekends. “Mercy”
The ‘365’ singer has three projects at the festival, debuting two of them back-to-back on Friday night.
In 2018, Iliza Shlesinger wrote down, “what if high school came back to bite you in the ass?” Over many, many rewrites, as well as several false starts and stops, that germ of an idea culminated in “Chasing Summer,” a comedy about a 40-something woman who returns to the Texas
Sir Rod Stewart once counted himself a friend of President Donald J. Trump, but that is being pushed even further back into the past now that the pop superstar has slammed him as a “draft dodger” in a video statement condemning the president’s disparaging remarks about the
SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers. For decades, the Motion Picture Association’s film ratings system — devised by the American studios to advise parents and avoid censorship — offered clear guidelines on whether the material contained in any given
“King,” the keenly anticipated next project from Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, has locked its 2026 release date. “King” reunites Khan with his “Pathaan” director Siddharth Anand, marking the superstar’s first theatrical release in three years. The cast also includes
Although Michael Jordan retired (for the first time) from the NBA a month earlier, Nike still released the NBA superstar’s signature basketball sneakers the Air Jordan 9 in Nov. 1993. Instead of spending his retirement at the golf course, Jordan joined the minor league team
"The Moment" simply doesn’t parse, either as satire or as mock drama.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai presided over the foundation stone ceremony for Chitrotpala International Film City and Tribal & Cultural Convention Centre on Saturday, marking a significant infrastructure push for India’s central state to position itself as a
Sure, the devil wears Prada, but what does an aggressive contemporary artist wear to work? How about a see-through dress and stiletto heels? Kinky costumes are just a fraction of the fun in Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex,” which stars Olivia Wilde as Erika Tracy, the most
“Once upon a time, there lived an extraordinary man who connected all of us in this room,” Ethan Hawke narrated to kick off the Sundance Institute’s annual gala, fittingly a tribute to the film festival’s late founder. “We wouldn’t be here without the love and appreciation for
“I Want Your Sex,” an erotic thriller starring Olivia Wilde as a sexually assured artist who embarks on a sadomasochistic relationship with her gallery assistant, got Sundance’s pulse racing on Friday night. Cooper Hoffman plays Elliot, the sub to Wilde’s dom in Gregg Araki’s
