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Cannes Critics’ Week Selects Eight Filmmakers for Its Feature Development Program, Next Step (EXCLUSIVE)

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Miho Nakayama, J-Pop Icon and ‘Love Letter’ Star, Dies at 54

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‘In the Arms of the Tree’ Review: Modest Iranian Film Spins Platitudes Following Two Young Brothers Weathering a Divorce

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Lance Bass Says His CW Pilot Was Killed After He Came Out, Was Told ‘They Have to Believe That You’re Straight to Play a Straight Character’

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Indonesian Horror ‘Hutang Nyawa’ Joins EST N8’s Global Slate During JAFF (EXCLUSIVE)

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Netflix Sued by Another Self-Published Author Who Claims ‘Don’t Look Up’ Stole His Idea

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‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ Season 3 Winners on the Chocolate Mistake That Almost Cost Them the $100,000 Grand Prize

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‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ Star Pauline Chalamet on That ‘Mortifying’ Sex Toy Scene: ‘I Was Red in the Face’

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‘Swept Away,’ Avett Brothers’ Musical About a Brutal Shipwreck, Ending Broadway Run

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How ‘Creature Commandos’ Recorded That Animated Sex Scene: ‘It Was Long Minutes of Us Kissing Our Hands’

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Juanes and Ryan Castro Team Up for Festive ‘El Chucu Chucu’ Video

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New Hotspots in Silver Lake and Echo Park Rev Up L.A.’s Ever-Changing Restaurant Scene

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Peso Pluma Drops New Single, ‘Gervonta’

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James Norton Defends the Throne From Invading Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in First Look Images from Medieval Drama ‘King and Conqueror’

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Bad Bunny Wonders What His Ex Is Doing in Trippy Video for ‘El Clúb’

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French President Emmanuel Macron Says He Will Appoint New Prime Minister and Finish His Five-Year Mandate After Government Gets Toppled

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Jon Stewart Says the Media Is Making Americans Think ‘We’re Plunging to Our Deaths’ After Trump’s Win: It’s Not Helpful to ‘Get Us S—ing Our Pants This Much’

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Laufey on Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Jazz Singing and Gen-Z Pop: Young Fans ‘Connect More With a Vibe or an Energy Than a Genre’

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Beyoncé’s Mom Details ‘Unbelievable’ Prep for NFL Halftime Show, Has ‘No Worries’ About Possible Netflix Glitches: ‘We Got Some Prayer Going on’

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Bill Murray Defends ‘SNL’ Against Viewers Slamming the Show as ‘Lousy’: The Cast Does ‘Stuff That’s Just as Good as Anybody Ever Did, All the Time’

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Guy Pearce on ‘The Brutalist’ Shocker, Watching Christopher Nolan Win the Oscar and the ‘L.A. Confidential’ Sequel That Almost Happened

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Final Golden Globes Predictions: ‘Conclave,’ ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘Wicked’ Expected to Lead Nominations

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Alloy Entertainment Alum Gina Girolamo Sets Amazon MGM Studios Overall Deal (EXCLUSIVE)

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Ben Stiller Says ‘Meet the Fockers’ Avoided R Rating by Finding a Real Person With ‘Focker’ Last Name to Show the MPAA: ‘They Thought It Was Too Close to F—er’

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‘High Potential,’ ‘Tracker’ Lead Fall Cross-Platform Broadcast Series Ratings; ABC Takes Top 3 Slots in 18-49 (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘Like That’: How Kendrick Lamar, Future and Metro Boomin’s Brutal Opening Salvo Against Drake Launched the Beef of the Year

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Jack Antonoff, Variety Hitmakers’ Producer of the Decade, on Getting Advice From Bruce Springsteen and Working With the ‘Incredibly Funny’ Sabrina Carpenter

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‘Universal Language’ Director Matthew Rankin on Making a Comedy Without Borders for His Canadian Oscar Entry

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‘I Had Some Help’: Post Malone and Morgan Wallen Quickly Bonded and Wrote Seven Songs During Their First Session Together – Including This Smash Hit

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How Daniel Nigro’s Belief in Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan Led to the ‘Year of Vindication’

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Barry Jenkins Says All-Virtual Filmmaking ‘Is Not My Thing’ After Directing ‘Mufasa’; Disney Sent Him a Note Worrying That One Long Take Was Too ‘Slow’

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Variety’s Faith and Spirituality in Entertainment Honors Shines Light on Stories of Hope, Resilience and Love

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Mustard Recalls Kendrick Lamar Saying ‘We Got One’ After ‘Not Like Us’ Became an Instant Hit

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Vin Diesel Says There Are ‘More Familiar Faces’ at Red Sea Film Festival Opening Night ‘Than Awards Shows in America’ While Picking Up Career Tribute

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From Oura Rings to Hatch Alarm Clocks: The Best Tech to Gift This Holiday Season

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AFI Awards: ‘Anora,’ ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘Wicked’ Among 10 Best Films, Top TV Shows Include ‘The Penguin’ and ‘Shogun’

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‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series to Film in Summer 2025 After 32,000 Kids Auditioned for Lead Roles

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‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Renewed for Season 2 at Max, Salma Hayek Reveals

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‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Renewed for Season 2 at Max, Salma Hayek Pinault Reveals

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‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Early Development at ABC From Bill Lawrence

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Travis Scott, Chappell Roan, Bring Me The Horizon and Hozier to Headline Reading and Leeds

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‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away,’ ‘It’s a Sad and Beautiful World,’ ‘Chronicles From the Siege’ Take Top Prizes at Atlas Workshops

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‘Ghosts’ Season 4 Casts Nat Faxon as Alexander Hamilton

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‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Director Kirill Serebrennikov Sets French-Language ‘Love Story About Photography’ as Next Feature (EXCLUSIVE)

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See Sony Music Publishing’s State of the Art New Office-Studio Compound in Hollywood (EXCLUSIVE)

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In Her Own League: Young Miko Unpacks Her Grammy-Nominated Debut Album, What She Hopes to Represent and the ‘Miko Effect’

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James Cameron, Meta Team to Produce 3D Entertainment for Quest VR Headsets

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How Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’ and Two Other Songs Were Written in One Day

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Sky Ferreira on How Writing a Song for ‘Babygirl’ Liberated Her After Label Split: ‘It Felt Like One Step Closer to Freedom Within Myself and My Career’

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Fondosa Foundation, Projeto Paradiso Launch Argentine-Brazilian Women Scriptwriter Initiative (EXCLUSIVE)

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