Monday, February 23, 2026
"Sinners" production designer Hannah Beachler has said that Alan Cumming's "throw away apology" over the N-word being shouted during the BAFTA Film Awards made the situation "worse." "I keep…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
BAFTA Film Awards host Alan Cumming mostly left politics " domestic and global " outside the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday night but couldn't resist a sly nod to world events, asking the Ame…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
Sam Mendes and Chloe Zhao shared an emotional moment after a screening of "Hamnet" in London on Sunday evening after confronting the "emotional cost" of being a director. Mendes is one of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:22PM[SHARE]"Smash" star Katharine McPhee and "E.T.'s" Henry Thomas are set to lead upcoming kidnapping feature "Three People in the Woods." Directed by Joshua Caldwell ("Mending the Line"), the film fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:45AM[SHARE]"Tehran" producer Dana Eden has died during the Season 4 shoot of the hit Apple TV+ series in Greece. She was 52. No cause of death has been confirmed but Shula and Donna Productions, the pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
The U.K.'s Channel 4 has unveiled three new dramas from some of the territory's most exciting creatives, including actor Anthony Boyle, "Slow Horses" showrunner Will Smith and production com…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PM[SHARE]Prime Video offered a sneak peek at their expansive international slate on Thursday, with highlights including the reboot of hit Japanese manga series "Fist Of The North Star," the first U.S…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:59AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2026
HBO's upcoming "Harry Potter" TV series may still be over a year away from launching but Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming boss JB Perrette is ready to start amping up audiences by calling …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Although Jacob Elordi is reportedly planning on taking his mother Melissa to the Oscars next month, where he is up for best supporting actor, the "Frankenstein" star has revealed his award-n…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Some of the most hotly-tipped Oscar contenders will be among the star-studded lineup at the Berlin Film Festival this month, as they make a pit-stop at Berlinale on their way to L.A. Among t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
It appears Thomas Benski's new venture Lumina Media has acquired a notable stake in Benedict Cumberbatch's production outfit SunnyMarch, according to documents filed in the U.K. Cumberbatch …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PM[SHARE]Israel is set to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union general assembly called off a vote over its participation. Next year's contest, which will be …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:06PM[SHARE]U.K. performers union Equity is set to ballot members over potential strike action related to AI protections. Negotiating partner Pact, the U.K. producers union, has been notified. "Nobody w…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
RedBird IMI boss Jeff Zucker appears to be embracing the AI revolution. "We actually think AI is an opportunity," he told the audience at TV confab Content London on Wednesday. "We don't thi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
David Cunio, the Israeli actor kidnapped along with his wife and 3-year-old daughters during the Hamas terror attacks in 2023, is among 20 Israeli hostages released on Monday amid the Gaza c…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Idris Elba, who was just at the Venice Film Festival to present Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite," is set to star in and direct a feature film adaptation of Neil LaBute's "This is How …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Curtis Brown have signed the J.R.R. Tolkien literary estate under their Curtis Brown Heritage banner. Curtis Brown Heritage, which launched in 2016 with the objective of managing some of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2025
U.K. actors union Equity has been blasted by its "oldest ally" Spotlight, after losing a protracted legal battle against the talent directory. "Equity's decision to launch legal proceedings …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01AM[SHARE]The 69th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its 2025 program, featuring a star-studded lineup of films including Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet," an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel starring…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
One of the U.K.'s most prestigious drama schools " whose alumni include Daniel Day-Lewis, Olivia Colman and Patrick Stewart among other well-known names " is shutting down its undergraduate …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2024
PHILANTHROPY Cate Blanchett and Wyclef Jean are set to join Benedict Cumberbatch's charity event "A Night In The Theatre." The evening, a fundraising edition of Cumberbatch's annual event "L…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2024
London's glitzy theater The Old Vic is set to begin searching for a new artistic director after Matthew Warchus confirmed he plans to step down in 2026 after 11 years in the role. The search…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
The musical play inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow's now infamous legal battle with Utah optometrist Terry Sanderson is transferring to the U.S, Variety has exclusively learned. But rather than he…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
Sally Greene, the woman who appointed Kevin Spacey artistic director of The Old Vic theater in London, has stepped down as a director of the theater's trust, Variety can confirm. Greene's hu…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
Ariana DeBose is ready to do the thing again. The Oscar-winner, who is set to play a one-off gig at the London Palladium in the U.K. next month, has said she might open her concert with her …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Joseph Fiennes is set to play England soccer manager Gareth Southgate in a new play written by "Sherwood" scribe James Graham. Fiennes, known for his turns in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Shak…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
Danny Boyle is set to direct a dance adaptation of 1999 sci-fi blockbuster "The Matrix." Titled "Free Your Mind," the Warner Bros. Theater Ventures-licensed project is set to debut next Octo…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2022
THEATER "Peaky Blinders" is getting a theatrical adaptation with "Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby." "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight has written the theatrical dance sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:55AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2022
ACCESSIBILITY U.K. theatres and arts organizations have been urged to prioritize accessibility particularly via digital platforms to prevent audiences "returning to pre-pandemic levels of ex…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2022
Rachel Zegler's rise from high school student to "West Side Story" star is well known. But the film's casting director Cindy Tolan revealed the search that went into finding Ariana DeBose an…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Read all about it " "Newsies" is coming to the U.K. The hit musical from Disney legend Alan Menken ("Beauty and the Beast") and Jack Feldman ("A Goofy Movie"), with a book by Harvey Fierstei…
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