Thursday, May 14, 2026
Bill Condon, director of “Dreamgirls,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and the $1.26 billion-grossing “Beauty and the Beast,” knows how to film a musical number. That made him a natur…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Maude Apatow's directorial debut, "Poetic License," kicks off the 29th Sonoma Intl. Film Festival, with Steven Soderbergh's "The Christophers," starring Ian McKellen, set for a centerpiece s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
From working with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Corbucci and Luis Buñuel to prominent creative collaborations with his Oscar-winning partner, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero's ca…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 10, 2026
Lee Byung-hun has a chance to make history " he's the first Korean actor to be nominated for best actor, comedy or musical at the Golden Globes. The "No Other Choice" lead says he found out …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2026
For his first feature in more than seven years, Gus Van Sant returns to themes " and also to a significant moment in time " that have resonated with the director over the course of a four-de…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2026
What does it mean to bring a child into today's world? Based on some of this year's buzziest films, that question is on the minds of contemporary directors and writers. From the postpartum l…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 20, 2025
What does it mean to bring a child into today's world? Based on some of this year's buzziest films, that question is on the minds of contemporary directors and writers. From the postpartum l…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
German actor Idan Weiss says one of the keys to his critically praised portrayal of Franz Kafka in Agnieszka Holland's "Franz" was locking in on the iconic writer's sensitivity. "He just wan…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
Bruce Springsteen doesn't play the Hollywood game. But producers Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson of Gotham Group were able to get the rock legend to jump all in to "Springsteen: Deliv…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Most biopics persuade you to empathize with the main character. But as actress-turned-writer/director Kristen Stewart explains, her screenplay adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir "The Ch…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
The Coronado Island Film Festival celebrated 10 years of bringing the best of cinema to the San Diego region Nov. 5-9. Besides the films, festivalgoers attended panels with industry professi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" was the big winner at the San Diego International Film Festival, winning both the best Gala Film (jury award) and the Audience Choice Gala Award. Eddie Vedder-starring…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Variety's Faith & Media Impact Report returns Dec. 3. The list recognizes a thriving segment of the entertainment industry that includes storytellers across the religious spectrum who ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
The San Diego Intl. Film Fest kicks off Oct. 15 with Luca Guadagnino's "After the Hunt," starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. The festival, which runs through Oct. 19, fe…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Ted Evans' "Retreat" takes place outside society: Its characters, living in a compound called Chilmark, share a deaf identity but refuse to call themselves deaf, declaring that that label wa…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:33PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
In "Tuner," Leo Woodall plays Niki, an expert piano tuner with acutely sensitive hearing that is sometimes debilitating " in fact, it's one reason Niki hasn't chased his dreams of being a pi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Variety's Actors to Watch returns Oct. 15. Hosted by the Newport Beach Film Festival, the annual impact list, which identifies notable up-and-coming actors, is seeking submissions for 2025. …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
Hosted in 2025 by New Mexico's Santa Fe International Film Festival, the annual impact list Screenwriters to Watch, which identifies notable up-and-coming film screenwriters, is seeking subm…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The new dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, faces a lot of questions and a rough time for universities across the U.S. The rise of AI, budget…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Uncertainty swirls around so many things nowadays " the governemnt, global politics, economies, trade and, of course, the entertainment industry. The women on Variety's Women's Impact Report…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Variety's Storytellers to Watch returns Aug. 13. The 2025 edition will be hosted by the Arkansas Cinema Society during their Little Rock-based Filmland festival this August. The Storytellers…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
Women with sexual desires usually have been played on TV series for the humor, casting the thirst for sex as something that is traumatic and as a mask of old trauma, or as a substitute for s…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
A single human voice singing, wordlessly, can evoke a sense of humanity " or inhumanity " depending on the behavior we witness on our screens. This was the case in two much talked-about stre…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2024
The talent highlighted in Variety's Young Hollywood Impact Report all made a splash in the last year in the worlds of film, television, music, theater and digital, and will be celebrated …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2023
With endless talk about IP and franchises taking over theaters to attract young audiences, something often gets overlooked: the continuing box office power of adults, and the potential of fr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:18PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2022
When "Top Gun: Maverick" landed in theaters this summer, audiences around the world enjoyed the excitement of soaring through the sky alongside the Navy's best of the best. One key to creati…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
Choreographer Jamal Sims, DP Adam Santelli and casting directors Kristian Charbonier and Bernard Tesley helped director Tamra Davis realize her vision in adapting "13: The Musical" from the …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Broadway is back and so is New York's residential real estate market. The sector (those properties priced at $4 million-plus) is on pace for a record 2021 with the number of signed contracts…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 7, 2021
With films from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Murray, Todd Haynes, Leos Carax and others, the Cannes Film Festival, movie theaters and streamers are alive with the sound of music. "It might just …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 1, 2021
As an increasingly vaccinated New York lifts virtually all of its COVID-19 restrictions, there's a turf war brewing between New York City productions and restaurants, with the Mayor's OfÂ…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 15, 2021
Animation production didn't skip a beat during the past year, and that's great news for students aspiring to join the globally dynamic industry. Yet while some 60% of animation students a…
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