Monday, November 24, 2025
From ambitious dramas to a TV series inspired by the Danske Bank scandal, Baltic projects look for inspiration in the most unusual places. According to director Ove Musting, behind "Business…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Director Susan Seidelman, behind beloved Madonna starrer "Desperately Seeking Susan," says "music is where women really excel these days."Â "It's been interesting to watch this explosion …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:11AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
In documentary "Writing Life " Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students" Claire Simon takes on the work of the French Nobel Literature Prize winner " but not the writer herself.…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:37AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
Marriage is hard " especially when your partner shrinks to doll-size due to a scientific mishap. Which is exactly what happens to Lindy (Elizabeth Banks) and Les ("Succession" star Matthew M…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2025
It's time to check in: "Hotel Costiera" has hit No. 1 on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. "It's a huge moment for us all," said Jens Richter, CEO Commercial and International at Fremant…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Double the trouble, double the fun. In the new series "Mozart Mozart," the audience will get to know the famous Austrian composer " as well as his sister Maria Anna, forgotten by history boo…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2025
Here comes "The Bride!" Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who received an Academy Award for "Joker," is already waiting for her. Maggie Gyllenhaal's upcoming monster movie, taking on the "F…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:09AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
Benedict Cumberbatch received Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye Award on Monday. "He's one of the most versatile and charismatic actors of today's cinema," said festival director Christian J…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PM[SHARE]Claire Foy opened up about her career at Zurich Film Festival. The British actor, in town also to pick up the Golden Eye Award, presented her latest feature "H Is for Hawk," fresh off screen…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:35AM[SHARE]Director Jonas Ulrich formed an actual black metal band for his debut feature "Wolves."Â WLVS " led by actor Bartosz Bielenia, known for Oscar-nominated "Corpus Christi" " ended up tourin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
As the Finnish film community woke up to the news of actor Tomi Alatalo sudden passing at just 44 years old, "The More Loving One" team is remembering the star. "In the film, he plays a …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
Lesley Manville travels to 1981 Poland in Kasia Adamik's "Winter of the Crow." Premiering at TIFF and then closing San Sebastián, it's based on Nobel and Booker Prize winner Olga Toka…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:22AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
"Ida" star Agata Trzebuchowska makes her directorial debut with "Ties." "I've never felt like an actress and never planned to tie my future to it. 'Ida' was a complete accident, but a wonder…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2025
Tony Leung Chiu-wai's first European film ever, "Silent Friend," is about to premiere in Venice. But he already wants to reunite with director Ildikó Enyedi. "I would like to work with Il…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2025
Slovak Director Tereza Nvotová didn't want to make "Father." "To be honest, I thought: 'I can't do it. I don't know how.' These kinds of movies can be so heavy " you just feel like you're…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:43PM[SHARE]Italian director Enrico Maria Artale wasn't scared of referencing Jacques Audiard's 2009 Oscar-nominated drama in his eight-episode series "A Prophet," now premiering in Venice. But others w…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2025
Argentine director Gastón Solnicki has finished his Viennese trilogy with Willem Dafoe-starring "The Souffleur." But he's already developing a "big-scale historical film" about his own gr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AM[SHARE]Teona Strugar Mitevska takes on Mother Teresa in Venice premiere "Mother." She aims to "demystify the perfect saint," with the help of Noomi Rapace, cast in the title role. "It was essential…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:35AM[SHARE]In "Tired of Killing. Autobiography of an Assassin" ["Ammazzare stanca. Autobiografia di un assassino"], Italian director Daniele Vicari reaches for the explosive autobiography by the late A…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Do you want to see a magic trick? In upcoming doc "The Greatest Illusion," Benjamin Ree " behind Oscar-shortlisted "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin" and "The Painter and the Thief" " will …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Spanish actor-director Eduardo Casanova takes on the Black Plague and HIV/AIDS pandemics in explosive miniseries "Silence" " as well as female vampires, suddenly faced with the shortage of "…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
Emma Thompson might have been making headlines this week due to her surprise revelation about Donald Trump "stalking" her and trying to ask her out on a date when she was making "Primary Col…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Donald Trump asked Emma Thompson on a date, the Oscar-winning actor revealed at Locarno Film Festival. "A phone rang in my trailer, and it was Donald Trump. I thought it was a joke. 'Hi,…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
Emma Thompson called her character in Brian Kirk's film "Dead of Winter" a "real life heroine" during a conversation at Locarno Film Festival on Friday. Â "We seem to be telling an awful l…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AM[SHARE]Romanian auteur Radu Jude takes on his country's biggest icon Vlad the Impaler in Locarno premiere "Dracula". And the results are… Sexy? "Maybe I'm getting old. I didn't realize there was …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
Golshifteh Farahani will receive the Locarno Film Festival's prestigious Excellence Award Davide Campari on Aug. 6, 2025. Farahani will present her recent film, Julia Ducournau's "Alpha,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2025
Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd opened up about working with Ingmar Bergman at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. "My complicated relationship with Bergman has to do with him not being a very nice guy. He was…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism withdrew its support for Gözde Kural's drama "Cinema Jazireh" after watching it. "We fought this decision, but they rejected it. I couldn't believ…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
Based on the true story of the Bambini di Praga choir and the sexual abuse case that shook the Czech Republic, "Broken Voices" goes to uncomfortable places. "Its choirmaster was accused of s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
According to Rachel Griffiths, whether it's cinema or TV, "older women are having a moment."Â Â "We all know that's true: Demi Moore is a brand. There are so many great actresses of tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05PM[SHARE]"We all live with terror inside of us," says Judith Light. So does her character in the upcoming Season 3 of anthology series "The Terror" called "Devil in Silver" and out later this year.Â…
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