Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Disney+ series “Alice and Steve” swept Canneseries on Tuesday night, scoring best series as well as a Special Interpretation and Student Award. A Disney+ commission by its U.K. office …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2026
Series can have unreliable narrators, “Money Heist,” for example. But what about unreliable heroes? Just cast in a lead role in “Dexter Resurrection” Season 2, Dan Stevens delivers o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2026
Oscar-nominated for “Beaufort” and co-creator of the original Israeli series which inspired Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria,” the second most-watched series in HBO history, writer-creat…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2026
Camilla Läckberg, the Swedish Queen of Crime whose novels have sold more than 40 million copies across 60 countries, has shared exclusively with Variety a few ingredients of her anticipated…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:19AM[SHARE]It takes a very special kind of creative mind to bridge surrealist art and whodunit TV productions. But it’s also fitting that “This is Not a Murder Mystery,”, a surprising crime drama…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
"Mozart Mozart," an opulent glam rock-tinged vision of the genius and his maybe more talented sister backed by Europe's biggest broadcaster, Germany's ARD, has been sold by Beta Film and …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The Hollywood studios may be sitting out the Cannes Film Festival but a more than respectable cohort of major U.S. players will hit Canneseries, Cannes TV festival, a month earlier. They…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Iceland's Act4, co-led by "Severance" and "Trapped" star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, is teaming with Kari Skogland, "The Handsmaid's Tale" director, to adapt "Dead Weight," the latest nov…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
L.A.-based Gaumont USA has optioned audiovisual rights to "Opus, financial journalist Gareth Gore's explosive exposé of Opus Dei, sparked by the sudden 2017 collapse of Spain's Banco Popula…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2026
These days, any drama with the U.K.'s Sheridan Smith raises expectations, especially if her role is written by Tony Schumacher, creator of "The Responder." Winner of a BAFTA TV Award for "Mr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
German-Lebanese thesp Kida Khodr Ramadan, the "4 Blocks" standout whose profile jumped internationally via Amazon Prime Video, is set to star in "GÖZ," a radical contemporary reimagining…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:18AM[SHARE]Even Pope Francis has a hardback copy of his graphic novel. He has a loving relationship with his glamorous wife, who travels the world. As a globally renown cartoonist, he can afford a care…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Jack Thorne, co-writer of Netflix smash "Adolescence," will talk at a session, In Conversation With Jack Thorne, that looks like one major highlight at this year's Berlinale Series Market co…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2025
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil " The Golden Globes and Rio's City Hall inked Dec. 17 for the organization of three annual editions of a Golden Globes Tribute Gala in Rio. The first edition will take…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2025
In a year when the Göteborg Film Festival will highlight the importance of truth, it will give its international Honorary Dragon Award to a director who has been doing that all her long, …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
As São Paulo-based development and training hub BrLab gears up for its 15th anniversary edition in 2026, one of Latin America's most influential project labs has opened submissions and un…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
GIJÓN, Spain " Ben Whishaw scooped best actor at this year's Gijón Film Festival for his performance in Ira Sachs' "Peter Hujar's Day," but otherwise major awards highlighted lesser k…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
"Activist," "muse," "empath," "icon" read credits for four photo shots of Lady Isabella Ravenhyde in Samuel Abrahams' buzzy and tenderly comic mockumentary "Lady," packing a tour de force pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:39AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari ("The Egyptian") fights with his typewriter to create true lies for the Finnish Propaganda Unit to dec…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
"My parents didn't just argue," Carmela confides in her best friend at school, her face darkening. But she doesn't go into detail. "Have you ever seen your dad act violent? Has he ever t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
Tribeca Festival Lisboa wrapped its second edition on Saturday after hosting a bevy of U.S. talent, led by Meg Ryan, Kim Cattrall, Edie Falco, Giancarlo Esposito, Ed Westwick and Daniela Rua…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
British actor Amanda Abbington, best known for BBC One's "Sherlock" and ITV Studios' "Mr. Selfridge," has joined "Jones," a mystery drama produced by Caracol Studios for Portugue…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:11AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
In David Trueba's "Always Winter," the closing night film of this year's Valladolid Film Festival in Spain, Miguel Mena (David Verdaguer), 40, a jobless landscape architect travels to a Brus…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:31PM[SHARE]When Filmax introduced Judith Colell's "Frontier" ("Frontera") to buyers at Cannes, the WWII thriller drew attention and was ultimately picked up for North American release via Menemsha Film…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Glenn Close will join the cast of the "La bola negra," an original film produced by Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films in co-production with Pedro and AgustÃn Almodóvar's El Deseo a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
TURIN, Italy  " When cinematographer Dan Laustsen described his collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, he reached first for feelings rather than lenses. "It's like trust and love," he …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:45AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
CANNES, France " wedotv, the global free ad-supported streaming network, is partnering with Germany's ZDF Studios, to create and distribute a FAST channel dedicated to just one title: landma…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil " French star Juliette Binoche has presented at the 27th edition of the Rio International Film Fest the premiere of "In-I in Motion," her first film as a director, …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
Banijay Entertainment looks set to present one of the biggest, most powerful and eclectic lineups of any company at this year's Mipcom content trade fair at Cannes, headlined by 'Half Man,' …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
In 2022, Pedro Almodóvar hailed "Lullaby," the feature debut of Basque director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa as "undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years." Her first series, "Quer…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30AM[SHARE]SAN SEBASTIÃN " Spain's Quickets and U.K. startup AnthroTek claimed the top prizes Friday at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the San Sebastián Festival's flagship technology competit…
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