Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Kevin Spacey picked up the Maximo Award for Excellence at the Italian Global Series Festival in Rimini on Monday evening, adding to his recent string of honors in Europe as he attempts a com…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48AM[SHARE]Between them Frederick Elmes and Peter Deming lensed five David Lynch features. At the Italian Global Series Festival currently taking place in Rimini and Riccione, the cinematographers have…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:23AM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
Taskovski Films has picked up sales rights to "Redlight to Limelight," about a high-spirited group of Indian sex workers and their families as they make a short film. The film, directed by B…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
The 64th Monte-Carlo Television Festival was opened Friday by Prince Albert II of Monaco at a glitzy ceremony at the Grimaldi Forum, with honors bestowed on "Gen V" star Jaz Sinclair and Fre…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PM[SHARE]"I'm sure you can throw curly ones," Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush says as we sit down to talk at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He's wearing a Mambo Loud shirt of remarka…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58AM[SHARE]Emmy-winning writer, producer and actor Lena Waithe has signed on to executive produce the documentary feature "Move Ya Body: The Birth of House" from filmmaker Elegance Bratton. The film do…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Crime series "Sherlock & Daughter" has reported a strong streaming debut last week on Max, reaching the number four spot on its in-app top 10, while also scoring season-best ratings on i…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
Icelandic composer and Oscar winner Hildur Gudnadóttir, who is best known for her compositions for films such as "Joker," "A Haunting in Venice," "Tár," the video game "Battlefield 204…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:31AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2023
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, who faced allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation last year, will attend the world premiere of a "new" film, titled "Wicked Games Rimini Spar…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:14AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2022
Movie theater operator Cineworld Group, which has 9,139 screens in 10 countries, has received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas for "first day" relie…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2021
On Thursday, British photographer Rankin " whose subjects have included The Rolling Stones, Daniel Craig, David Bowie, Queen Elizabeth II, Jamie Foxx and Madonna " launches his latest projec…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Sales, production and financing company Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide rights to the live-action musical fantasy "A Fairy Tale After All." PEG will be introducing the fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern will star in "The Son," writer-director Florian Zeller's follow-up to the BAFTA winning and Academy Award nominated "The Father." The film is adapted from Zeller'…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, March 29, 2021
A bustling red carpet of reporters, TV crews and photographers jostling for space, a celebrity who's who in dress to impress couture, crowding into a theater foyer sipping champagne and happ…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
Elton John movie "Rocketman" dares to portray the singer's personality early in his career to have been, at times, "ugly," Taron Egerton " who plays the pop star " told an audience at London…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
“A Star Is Born” cinematographer Matthew Libatique, who received an Oscar nomination for 2010’s “Black Swan,” was reportedly arrested on Tuesday for assaulting …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Shooting Lady Gaga revealing herself as a down-to-earth woman while lensing a rock star character Bradley Cooper was creating for himself were just two of the challenges facing DP Matthew Li…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
British entertainment business union BECTU has claimed a partial victory in an ongoing industrial dispute with Picturehouse Cinemas, Britain’s largest arthouse theater chain. An employ…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:11PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
Warner Bros. gave a sneak peek of upcoming hot movies Monday at European exhibitors' conference CineEurope in Barcelona, with the help of star guests Bradley Cooper and Andy Serkis, who show…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2018
Michael Caine, who won an Oscar for his role in Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters,” has ruled out working with the director again. In an interview with the Guardian, Ca…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2018
Anne Hathaway is in negotiations to star in "Mudbound" director Dee Rees' "The Last Thing He Wanted," based on the Joan Didion political thriller. Elevated's Cassian Elwes will produce and T…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:28AM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2017
In today’s International Newswire, international players consider the effects of the Disney-Fox marriage; Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz among the nominees in an eclectic Goya contend…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
Along with yachts, diamonds and Caribbean islands, English soccer clubs have become prized possessions for global plutocrats, and now former Disney chief Michael Eisner is about to join this…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Director Tom Harper, whose credits include "War & Peace" and "Peaky Blinders," has boarded "The Rocks," a TV adaptation of Peter Nichols' novel, with "La La Land" producer Fred Berger at…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
A last-ditch effort has been staged to prevent further demolition of a 1926 Art-Deco movie theater in London that hosted the early films of Alfred Hitchcock, whose family is backing an attem…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
The Russian government is coming under pressure to ban Disney’s live-action movie “Beauty and the Beast” for allegedly contravening a 2013 law that prohibits “gay pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2017
"La La Land" producer Fred Berger will produce Max Minghella's directorial debut, "Teen Spirit," alongside Brian Kavanaugh-Jones ("Midnight Special") under their Automatik banner. The movie …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Damien Chazelle’s musical “La La Land” led the race for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' movie awards after nominations were revealed by "Game of Thrones" a…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the stage sequel to J.K. Rowling’s book series, won the first of what is likely to be a treasure trove of awards Sunday when it was nam…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
With "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," J.K. Rowling's beloved wizarding world has been safely transported to the stage in London's West End, feeding the appetite of its passionate book-an…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
The two-part stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opens officially on Saturday at the Palace Theater in London’s West End, but previews have been running since June 7, and pr…
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