Tuesday, March 24, 2026
The work of Thalita Rebouças, one of Brazil's most commercially successful authors, has been widely adapted for the stage and resulted in several hits on the big screen, including "Confes…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:01AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2026
Danish director and writer Elvira Lind's "King Hamlet" may, on the surface, be about her then-boyfriend-now-husband Oscar Isaac's preparation to play Shakespeare's most famous character in S…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2026
As war rages across the world and global stability looms further and further from the realm of possibility, the idea of escapism feels as relevant as ever. Director Inka Achté has long unde…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
Director Fokion Bogris was in his early 20s when he first met legendary Greek character actor Kostas Stefanakis. Through their unlikely friendship, the budding director got to dive headfirst…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PM[SHARE]A few years ago, Chinese filmmaker Chouwa Liang found herself nurturing unexpected feelings for an AI chatbot called Rep. Puzzled by how visceral the emotions felt, Liang began looking into …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 14, 2026
Under the scalding hot sun of the Brazilian northeast, a group of young boys kicks dirt up while running over a football. All but one, Gugu, whose energy is directed elsewhere: a pompous dan…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
Grace Passô is a creative fueled by exploring the malleability of form. The actor, director and playwright adapted her own play into her feature debut "Our Secret," premiering in Berlin s…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2026
Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass spoke about the "duty" of starring in films such as Annemarie Jacir's "Palestine 36″ during an in-depth career talk alongside Italian actor Valelria Golin…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:08PM[SHARE]When Norwegian director Maria Sødahl ("Hope") first got contacted by a duo of Danish scriptwriters with the seed for what would become the now Göteborg Dragon Award-winning "The Last R…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
A year after launching the Displacement Film Fund at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett is set to return to the Dutch festival to present the …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2026
Leading Mexican production company Woo Films has acquired the rights to Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux's "The Use of Photography," with "The Eternal Feminine" director Natalia Beristái…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
American actor Adrien Brody spoke about how he deals with the toll of "difficult" shoots like Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist," which won him his second Best Actor Oscar earlier in the year, j…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2025
One of the key issues at the World Soundtrack Awards Music Days, one of the leading events for film composers, was how to negotiate a fair contract. The closing panel of the industry program…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
Yes, Theodore Shapiro " the American composer behind the popular music for Ben Stiller's multiple award-winning series "Severance" " is well aware of the recent Saturday Night Live sketch wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:54PM[SHARE]German composer Volker Bertelmann was named Film Composer of the Year at the Ghent Film Festival's prestigious World Soundtrack Awards on Wednesday for his work on Edward Berger's "Conclave"…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:02AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
After directing one of Brazil's most interesting genre works in Globoplay's highly successful ER procedural "Under Pressure," renowned multi-hyphenate Andrucha Waddington ("The House of Sand…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil " Filmes do Estação, the distribution arm of leading Brazilian exhibition chain Grupo Estação, has acquired the rights to Juliette Binoche's directorial de…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
It is a landmark year for the World Soundtrack Awards, which are celebrating 25 years of recognizing the contributions of global film and television composers. The event spawned out of Belgi…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47AM[SHARE]The World Soundtrack Awards, held as part of Belgium's Film Fest Ghent and recognizing the contributions of global film and television composers, keeps a firm finger on the pulse of the most…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Cannes' best actor winner Caleb Landry Jones ("Nitram"), Emmy-nominated actor Peter Sarsgaard ("Memory") and Oscar-nominated actor Andrea Riseborough ("To Leslie") are set to star in Michael…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
Six young students met at Barcelona's prestigious Pompeu Fabra University and realized they worked well together. The result of that synergy is Col·lectiu VigÃlia, formed by Clara Serr…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Four-time Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe ("Platoon," "Poor Things"), one of this year's recipients of an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for career achievement, took time between his so…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2025
British actor Ray Winstone, one of this year's recipients of an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for career achievement, stopped by the Variety Lounge, presented by the Sarajevo Film Festiva…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Willem Dafoe, who is at the Sarajevo Film Festival to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award as well as support Miguel Ãngel Jiménez's "The Birthday Party," gave an in-depth career…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
"Saturday Night Live" alum director Rhys Thomas was "as surprised as anybody" when he got the call to possibly work with Marvel on what would eventually become "Hawkeye." Speaking at the Kar…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 5, 2025
Michael Douglas, who is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival to present a newly restored print of MiloÅ¡ Forman's classic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," spoke at the festival about his fe…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PM[SHARE]While accepting the President's Award during the opening night of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Friday, actor Peter Sarsgaard spoke out on the current political divis…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
In 2018, director Juan Manuel Fernández was in Thailand, catching up with the news from his home country of Costa Rica, when he came across the story of Anthony Venegas Abarca. The young …
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