Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Judy Schwab, a human resources veteran of Disney and Apple, has joined UTA as chief people officer. "Judy's exceptional track record in building high-performing teams and leading people and …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:16PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Chris Rice will step down as co-CEO of CJ ENM's Fifth Season at year's end. Graham Taylor, who has served as co-CEO with Rice since the company was founded in 2017 as Endeavor Content, will …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Bob Broder, the respected talent agent who ran the prosperous Broder Kurland literary agency for nearly 30 years before seguing to head Chuck Lorre Prods., has died after a battle with cance…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
In Hollywood, there are great actors and luminous movie stars " and then there's Julia Roberts. La Roberts once again is showing the film world how it's done with her buzzy appearance last m…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
It felt like a moment from "Severance." That's how Fifth Season co-CEOs Chris Rice and Graham Taylor described waking up in July to the news that the company's Apple TV+ drama was top of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:54PM[SHARE]Tig Notaro and Michelle Khare are among the speakers set for a Tribeca X event in Los Angeles that will examine the influence of storytelling and the intersection of brands and entertainment…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Kathy Bates wasn't about to let a long day of work on "Matlock" get in the way of her Variety interview to grace the cover of our annual pre-Emmy Awards issue. On the latest episode of "Dail…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
On the latest episode of "Daily Variety" podcast, Variety journalists analyze the recent jousts between Hollywood and key AI firms in copyright battles that are raging in the federal courts.…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
Pushkin Industries is revving up a broad slate of shows for the fall as the audio studio looks to capitalize on the "network effect" among its creators and hosts that has been built up since…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
That was the week that was for Variety " as covered on the "Daily Variety" podcast, hosted by co-Editor in Chief Cynthia Littleton. Variety's Brent Lang and Ramin Setoodeh told the backstory…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
It took more than 20 years, $120 million and many pounds of prosthetics and makeup to allow Guillermo del Toro to bring his vision of "Frankenstein" to life. The hero's journey that del Toro…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
He's spent a lot of time in blue tights. He's embraced Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. And he has a healthy sense of humor about himself. All of these things refer to actor Dean Cain, th…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
After months of predictions, prognistication and heavy-duty FYC campaigning, the big day finally arrived Tuesday as the revelation of the 77th annual Emmy Award nominations crowned HBO Max, …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37PM[SHARE]HBO Max stomped the yard on Emmy nominations morning with a record haul of 142, led by drama series "The Penguin," "The White Lotus," "The Last of Us" and comedy "Hacks." That marks a new hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2025
Alex Edelman, Chris Fleming, the Basement Yard duo and a "Strangers With Candy" reunion are among the highlights of the New York Comedy Festival lineup that will unfold across the five borou…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
David Kramer has taken the reins of United Talent Agency at a fraught time of consolidation and contraction for Hollywood's core business of film and TV. It's no accident that the agency's f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is set for a leadership transition next year as longtime chief operating officer Charlotte Wells rises to the newly created role of CEO. Wells will succeed Cyd Wilso…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Who needs a second take? Producer Sergio Alfaro built his way to running his own TV production company by working his way up the ranks on live TV events. Alfaro, who is CEO of Invent.TV, tel…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
Peabody Award winners sounded the alarm on the threats to democratic norms, criminal justice reform and forward progress in diversity and inclusion goals as the 85th annual kudos were handed…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2025
Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy-winning actor known for such TV series as "Northern Exposure," "Big Sky" and "Desperate Housewives" and films including "Sully" and "Seabiscuit," has died. She was…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of keeping news, daytime and late-night talk shows and other topical series on the air during the harsh early months o…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2024
Linda Lavin, star of CBS' long-running sitcom "Alice" and a Tony winner for Neil Simon's play "Broadway Bound" who remained active in TV and on stage, died Sunday. She was 87. A representati…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2024
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 9…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2024
The 2024 edition of the Kennedy Center Honors celebrated an eclectic assortment of entertainers Sunday night: filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, singer Bonnie Raitt, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2024
In the summer of 1982, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" led the box office, "Dallas" topped the Nielsen rankings and Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" was …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2024
Landmark Theatres will mark its 50th anniversary this year with several classic film screening series and discounted tickets. As part of the exhibitor's ongoing Retro Replay program, the Wes…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 27, 2023
Bob Barker was a pillar of television's greatest generation. Barker, the enduring host of "The Price Is Right" who died Aug. 26 at the age of 99, was a World War II veteran who trained as a …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2023
Lesli Linka Glatter has been elected to a second term as president of the Directors Guild of America. The veteran helmer known for her work on "Homeland," "Mad Men" and numerous other TV ser…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2023
Actor Denée Benton took aim at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during Sunday's Tony Awards telecast, referring to the Republican presidential hopeful as a "Grand Wizard" as she presented an a…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2023
When Ray Nutt took the reins of Fathom Events as CEO in 2017, the first thing he decided to change was the nomenclature used to describe the titles that the company distributes to hundreds o…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2023
The spark for "Home Front," an original play running through Feb. 19 at Burbank's Victory Theatre Center, came 25 years ago when the first scene was written as part of a playwriting-focused …
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