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Box Office: ‘Freakier Friday’ and ‘Weapons’ Load Up for Late-Summer Showdown

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Veteran Christian Music Stars Like Phil Keaggy, Russ Taff, Amy Grant Unite for Livestream Benefit for Cancer-Stricken Journalist

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Variety Music Innovator of the Year PinkPantheress on Her Songs and Performing at Glastonbury: ‘I Didn’t Know If I Was Gonna Be Able to Get Over My Fear’

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Variety & Rolling Stone to Release Truth Seekers Special Issue Coinciding With Annual Summit

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Emmys 2025: A Closer Look at Who Could Take Home Their First Trophy

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Liam Neeson Stays on the Comedy Path With ‘Cold Storage’ Trailer, Packed With Zombie Splatter

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UTA Expands Communications Team With Addition of Gabe Tesoriero and Kate Cafaro

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Kelly O’Sullivan, Lois Smith Co-Starring in Indie Comedy ‘The Steel Harp’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Gaumont Marks 130 Years With Academy Museum Retrospective

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Power of Young Hollywood Host Alec Flynn Talks Comedy and His Hopes for Showbiz’s Future

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Neon Nabs Japanese Video Game Movie Adaptation ‘Exit 8’

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Neon Acquires North American Rights to Japanese Thriller ‘Exit 8’

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Bill Hader Once Went Blind From a Migraine Before a ‘SNL’ Sketch With Neil Young and Johnny Knoxville

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‘Tulsa King’ Season 3 Teaser: Dwight Muscles His Way Into Distillery Business With Painful Results

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Young Hollywood Impact Report 2025: Milly Alcock, Simone Biles, Sombr, Miles Caton and More Talent Riding the Next Wave in Showbiz

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‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Y: Marshals’ Casts Logan Marshall-Green

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‘Platonic’ Stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne Break Down Will and Jenna’s Relationship and Season 2’s Bathroom Scene

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Dan Buettner Joins Lemonada Media to Launch New Podcast Show

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Aubrey Plaza to Star as Heidi Fleiss in Upcoming Biopic From Pinky Promise (EXCLUSIVE)

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Meet Variety’s 41 Under 40: The New Leaders Class of 2025

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Korean Mystery Thriller ‘The Ugly’ by ‘Train to Busan’ Director Finds North American Distribution With Well Go USA Ahead of Toronto Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

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Amanda Shires, Brittney Spencer, More to Headline Nashville Showcase for She Is the Music, FEMco and Anzie Blue

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Shawn and Serena Levy to Host Sense of Home Hamptons Fundraiser

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Rose Byrne Navigates Disaster With Conan O’Brien, A$AP Rocky in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Trailer

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Tyla Takes Charge: Music’s Global Star on Rejecting the Pop Machine and Why Her Second Album Is a ‘Totally Different Vibe’

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Bill Hader Turned Down ‘SNL50’ Sketch ‘Because I’m Anxious,’ Says His Anxiety Leads to Shingles, Migraines and Vision Loss

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Tobias Menzies and Sophia Di Martino Among Eight Joining Ayo Edebiri-Will Sharpe Rom-Com Series ‘Prodigies’ at Apple

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Young Kids Grapple With Antisemitism in New Book from Journalists Bianna Golodryga, Yonit Levi

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TIFF Documentary Lineup Includes Films From Laura Poitras, Raoul Peck, Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi

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Box Office: ‘Freakier Friday’ and ‘Weapons’ Battle for First Place Over ‘Fantastic Four’

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Ben Proudfoot’s Obamas-Backed ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ to Open Toronto Fest Doc Program

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Paramount Skydance’s Streaming Chief Cindy Holland Hires Ex-Netflix Execs Jane Wiseman, Efrain Miron for Key Roles

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Disney Boss Bob Iger Says ‘Creating New IP’ Is of ‘Great Value’ but There’s No ‘Priority’ Among Sequels, Remakes and Originals: Just ‘Great Movies’

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‘MJ the Musical’ Star Jamaal Fields-Green on the ‘Huge Responsibility’ of Playing Michael Jackson on Stage: ‘I Have No Choice but to Continuously Perfect the Craft’

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Duwayne Dunham Discusses ‘Legend of the Happy Worker,’ His “Fable for Our Time,” and David Lynch

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‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Trailer: Rose Byrne Plays a Spiraling Mother in A24 Dramedy

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‘Cold Storage’ Trailer: Joe Keery and Liam Neeson Fight a Brain-Exploding Fungus

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Disney Store Unveils Halloween Villains Collection, Featuring Maleficent, Ursula, Hades, Scar and More

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Metallica to Perform Special Concert in the Hamptons to Launch SiriusXM ‘Maximum Metallica’ Channel (EXCLUSIVE)

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Hulu App to Be Phased Out as Disney Is ‘Fully Integrating’ Service Into Disney+

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Latido Films Picks Up Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat-Directed Anthology Comedy ‘Homo Sapiens?’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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‘The Traitors’ Producer All3Media Reports $132 Million Revenue Drop

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Dave Franco Is ‘Open’ to Playing Luigi Mangione in a Biopic if It’s With the ‘Right People’: ‘No One Has Approached Me About It Yet’

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Disney Will Stop Reporting Subscriber Numbers for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+

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As Emma Thompson’s ‘The Dead of Winter’ Debuts, Producers Augenschein Discuss Star-Led Slate, Including Films With Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Ethan Hawke (EXCLUSIVE)

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Disney Streaming Swings to Profit in June Quarter as U.S. Parks Biz Lift Overall Results

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ESPN Sets Launch Date for Standalone Streaming Service, Priced at $30 Monthly

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Berlusconi-Backed MFE Wins ProSiebenSat.1 Support for Sweetened Takeover Offer

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ESPN Gets Headlock on WWE Live Events Like ‘WrestleMania’ in New U.S. Rights Deal, Content to Roll Off NBCU’s Peacock

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Venice Film Festival Hacked, Attendee Data Compromised

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