Viesturs Kairišs’ “Ulya,” which will world premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard, has been boarded by Paris-based sales agency B-Rated International. The film is set in Latvia in 1964. Ulya, a teenage girl nearing two meters tall, grows up on a country farm. Her unusual height troubles her family, who wonder if there’s a […]

In her new memoir “Famesick,” Lena Dunham reflects on her hit show “Girls” and the complex relationship she had with co-star Adam Driver both on and off set. “Girls,” which ran on HBO from 2012 to 2017, starred Dunham as the self-centered yet oddly charming writer Hannah Horvath and Driver as her toxic on-again, off-again […]

The financial services firm Ally has worked to carve out new roosts in sports that in years past might never have been shown on TV. Ally is a major sponsor of the Unrivaled three-on-three women’s basketball league and plans to invest ad dollars in “Women’s Sports Sundays,” a new showcase from ESPN that will replace […]

“Gangs of London” Season 4 has gone into production with star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù joined by a host of new and familiar faces, Variety can confirm. The Sky and AMC+ original series, which is produced by VICE Studios, has also gotten a new lead writer and exec producer in the form of “Who is Erin Carter?” […]

Ilker Çatak’s political drama “Yellow Letters,” which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, has sold to further territories, including the U.K., where it was acquired by Curzon Film. Çatak’s last film, Oscar nominated “The Teachers’ Lounge,” was also distributed in the U.K. by Curzon. “Yellow Letters,” which follows an artist couple facing political repression […]

Spanish cinema is flourishing, thanks in large part to a dynamic film industry bolstered by strong national and regional support, a rich and expansive creative talent and diverse natural, cultural and urban landscapes. Those elements are on dazzling display in the seven films showcased at the Goya Goes To – New Spanish Films showcase, which […]

Global sports production company Sunset+Vine has tapped Duncan East as its new CEO. He joins the company immediately and will be based in its London office. Sunset+Vine also has regional hubs in Los Angeles, Glasgow, Cardiff and Milan. East joins from Buzz 16, where he served as managing director and then executive director, overseeing strategy, […]

Thaddea Graham (“Sex Education,” “Bad Sisters”), Amber Grappy (“One Day,” “Black Mirror”) and Laura Marcus (“Star Wars Andor,” “Bad Education”) have been announced as the stars “Bloodsuckers,” the debut short film written and directed by Rosie Brear, who has produced music videos for the likes of PJ Harvey, Blood Orange and Wet Leg. A teaser […]

“Saturday Night Live U.K.” has announced its next two hosts. “Bridgerton’s” Nicola Coughlan and “White Lotus” star Aimee Lou Wood will take on hosting duties for Episodes 5 and 6. Coughlan will be joined on April 25 by Foo Fighters as the musical guest, while Wood will host on May 2 with a performance from […]

Oasis’ Liam Gallagher has weighed in on his band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, quipping in classic Gallagher form after several years of scoffing at the institution. In a series of tweets on X after the Hall of Fame announcement, he began with a simple declaration: “Reverse psychology vibes in the area Oasis […]

Miles Morales is still crawling through alternate realities in a thrilling first look at “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” that Sony Pictures released Monday at CinemaCon. The footage picks up immediately after the ending of “Across the Spider-Verse” with Miles trapped in another dimension with alternate versions of himself and his Uncle Aaron. As revealed in […]

“Weapons” writer and director Zach Cregger is back with another spine-chilling horror movie — this time with an established video game property in “Resident Evil.” He brought his adaptation to CinemaCon, the annual Las Vegas convention for movie theaters owners, ahead of its Sept. 18 theatrical release from Sony. Attendees got a first look at […]

Tom Rothman came to the desert with a message for movie theater owners: “Get off the ad crack.” At CinemaCon, the annual exhibition industry conference unfolding this week in Las Vegas, bluntly told the cinema operators in the audience at Caesars Palace that they needed to cut back on the trailers and commercials that can […]

Nicole Kidman is ready to branch out beyond acting for her next chapter. During a talk at the University of San Francisco on Saturday, she revealed that she is training to be a death doula. A death doula — recently depicted in an episode of “The Pitt” in which a woman had terminal cancer — […]

A reboot of John Carpenter’s “Escape From New York” is in development at StudioCanal. The production company announced the news at CinemaCon, the exhibition industry’s annual trade convention that kicks off on Monday in Las Vegas. StudioCanal confirmed no further details about the new take on “Escape From New York.” Kurt Russell starred in the […]

“Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair” achieved Disney+ and Hulu’s most-viewed season premiere of 2026 thus far. The revival of the beloved Fox sitcom hit 8.1 million views globally in its first three days of streaming, according to Disney. The company also notes that in Latin America specifically, it’s the second biggest Disney+ season […]

“A-Ten-Hut!” Beloved characters including Bonnie Hunt as Sally, Jenifer Lewis as Flo, Guido Quaroni as Guido, Lloyd Sherr as Fillmore, Michael Wallis as Sheriff and Paul Dooley as Sarge are all set to return to voice their characters when Disney+’s new series “Cars: Lightning Racers” hits TV screens next year. As previously announced, “Cars: Lightning […]

Kim Kardashian has crammed a lot into her career. She’s a reality TV pioneer, a fashion brand founder and the lead of a Ryan Murphy show. Now, “The Kardashians” star is about to take on a new challenge — Broadway. No, Kardashian will not be crossing the boards. Instead, she’s joining the producing team of […]

The mega-popular Roblox game “99 Nights in the Forest” is being developed into a feature film at 20th Century Studios. In a highly competitive bid, the studio secured the theatrical film rights to the title, developed by Grandma’s Favourite Games and hosted on Roblox. There is no writer or director attached at this time, but […]

Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” kicked off 2026 with its best young adult ratings in more than eight years. According to the network, for the first quarter of 2026, “The Daily Show” averaged a 0.579 rating among adults 18-49, its best mark in the demo since the fourth quarter of 2017 (0.593 rating). Leading that […]

Sandra Lee, the dermatologist better known as Dr. Pimple Popper, revealed that she had a stroke on the set of Lifetime’s “Dr. Pimple Pooper: Breaking Out” in November. “It happened while I was filming the show. I had what I thought was a hot flash,” Lee said in an interview with People. “I got super […]

Dan Stevens is set to play a serial killer in “Dexter: Resurrection” Season 2, Variety has learned. Stevens will appear in a series regular role in the second season of the Paramount+ Premium, playing The Five Borough Killer. The character is described as being similar to the Zodiac Killer, who “taunts the police with phone […]

Donald Trump’s social media post attacking Pope Leo XIV as “weak” left late night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel in disbelief during their respective April 13 episodes. Both men regularly bash Trump during their monologues, but the president’s tirade against the Pope left them puzzled to the point of near-speechlessness. “According to one Italian […]

In 2024, Spain’s government, the same that has stood up to Trump over Iran, launched a campaign Where Talent Ignites – Audiovisual From Spain.  Less than two years later, with Cannes having announced its main competition line-up on April 9, the slogan has proved anything but hype. In the last two years, no country anywhere […]

Taylor Swift, by most measures the all-time queen of the American Music Awards, has plenty of chances to extend her historic lead even further this year. She leads the race for the 2026 AMAs with eight nominations, in a ballot revealed Tuesday morning. Four artists are tied for second place in the nominations tally, with […]

Spain’s AF Films has acquired Spanish remake rights to “Buen Camino,” the Italian comedy that recently became the country’s all-time highest-grossing film by scoring a whopping more than $82 million local box office haul. The “Buen Camino” adaptation agreement between AF Films and Italian sales company Piperplay is the first remake deal to be announced […]

Any viewer watching a few hours of TV or streaming video every day is likely to come across a dizzying array of commercials, loaded up with different characters, special effects, crazy antics and popular songs. Some of the most memorable ones, however, all rely on a single element: Keegan-Michael Key. The actor and comedian, known […]

Hisamatsu Takeo has been appointed festival director of the Tokyo International Film Festival, effective April 14, marking his return to the post he held from 2017 to 2021. He steps in as outgoing chair Ando Hiroyasu prepares to leave the organization on May 31. Hisamatsu’s second stint at TIFF comes as the 39th edition, set […]

Universal’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” held the No. 1 spot at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a second weekend, taking £5.5 million ($7.5 million) and lifting its total to £28.3 million ($38.2 million), according to Comscore. “Project Hail Mary,” distributed by Sony, remained in second place, adding $3.3 million in its fourth […]

Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black are dispensing with all the levels. Sony Pictures unveiled a first look at “Jumanji: Open World,” the long-gestating, latest entry in the action-comedy franchise, at CinemaCon on Monday as part of its presentation to theater owners. Once again, our heroes find that the boundaries between a fantastical game […]

PlayStation’s “Bloodborne” is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says won’t shy away from the carnage that’s made the horror game so popular. Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation that the long-rumored film will “very true” to the gory […]

Zendaya’s Michelle Jones-Watson has a new man in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the upcoming installment in the web-slinging trilogy. It’s not that she’s dumped her beau, Tom Holland’s Peter Parker. She just doesn’t remember that he exists. You see, the prior “Spider-Man” adventure concluded with Spider-Man making the difficult decision to erase his identity from […]

Focus Asia, the industry section of the Far East Film Festival, has unveiled its full slate for the 2026 edition – 13 projects for the All Genres Project Market and six titles for Far East in Progress – alongside a new post-production prize backed by Bangkok-based White Light Studio. The market runs April 27-29 in […]

Isa Mazzei is a writer and filmmaker best known for Blumhouse’s hit “Cam” and Neon’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” Her memoir “Camgirl” was named one of NPR’s “books we love.” She is co-writer and executive producer on the just-released “Faces of Death” from IFC Films. Here, Mazzei shares the essay “Tetris,” one she […]

Peacock has renewed “The Burbs” starring Keke Palmer for Season 2, Variety has learned. The series, which is inspired by the 1989 horror-comedy of the same name, originally debuted on the streamer in February. “We’re so thrilled that audiences loved season one of ‘The ’Burbs,’ and are going to get to spend more time in […]

Turner Classic Movies has acquired the exclusive rights to “Beyond The Border: Latino Representation in Hollywood,” a documentary feature directed, written and produced by the sister filmmaker duo Clara and Julia Kuperberg. The film will be released in September on TCM during Hispanic Heritage Month.  The documentary will trace a “century-long struggle for Latino representation, […]

YouTube’s annual Coachella livestream is the single best place to experience new and contemporary music on the Internet: For three days, it is packed with career-defining sets for some of the most important, influential and up-and-coming artists in the world, exquisitely choreographed, stage-managed and filmed, and broadcast all over the globe. It’s essentially a giant […]

Brian Tyree Henry will star in “Running,” a sports drama from “Warrior” and “The Way Back” director Gavin O’Connor. He joins the previously announced star Spike Fearn in the Apple Studios production. “Running” is based an original story by O’Connor and Bill Dubuque (“Ozark,” “The Accountant”) and follows a homeless high school running prodigy. The […]

The first teaser trailer for “Ice Cream Man,” the next horror film from director Eli Roth, has been released. The slasher will be released on Aug. 7 in 2,000 North American venues. The film is set in the idyllic summer town of Bayleen Bay, which descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids from […]

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Box Office segment, Variety’s Jack Dunn unpacks another big weekend for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” as well as the art of analyzing Friday night box office numbers. And Marc Malkin brings us a Just for Variety interview with John Waters, the iconoclastic director who turns […]

Manuel Gómez Pereira’s “The Dinner” (“La cena”) comes into And the Goya Goes To – New Spanish Films NY with proven local traction and fresh awards visibility. Set in 1939 in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the film follows a group of defeated Republican chefs ordered to prepare a celebratory banquet for […]

There is a moment, early in “Maspalomas,” when the camera tracks behind Vicente as he moves through the dunes of Gran Canaria, a 76-year-old man at home in a landscape of sun, sand and unembarrassed desire. Then a stroke, a daughter, a nursing home, and the man who spent decades fighting to live openly quietly […]

"Mother Mary," as it takes the leap into Gothic metaphysical fantasy, becomes almost completely incoherent, and stays that way. It’s like an exorcist movie where the devil is a piece of bolt fabric.

Lightdox has acquired international sales rights to “Gabin,” the debut feature documentary by French filmmaker Maxence Voiseux. The film will celebrate its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section. French distribution is being handled by Arizona Distribution. In northern France, Gabin, the youngest of the Jourdel family, finds himself destined […]

Paris-based sales company Luxbox has acquired Katharina Rivilis’ drama “I’ll Be Gone in June,” which has been selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. The film, whose producers include Wim Wenders, is distributed in Germany and Switzerland by DCM. In 2001, Franny, a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, arrives in the sleepy desert town of Las […]

Directors’ Fortnight, the independent sidebar competition that runs alongside the Cannes Film Festival, is adding a splash of star power to its 58th edition, alongside some major filmmaking names from the world of independent cinema. Heading a typically eclectic lineup, the 2026 event is opening with “Butterly Fly,” the English-language debut from Kantemir Balagov, the […]

Did you ever feel like you were living outside your own existence, playing a role in a distant reality? Building on this feeling of estrangement and adapting his own Goya-Awarded animated short, writer-director and animation veteran Alberto Vázquez crafted “Decorado”.  An elaborate, eerie adult feature, in “Decorado,” Arnold, a mouse in midlife crisis, sees his […]

What kind of films are Latin America and Spain’s new generation filmmakers making?  One answer will be supplied in May at the Cannes Film Festival which includes a showcase, Marché du Film’s Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes – Río de la Plata, highlighting five first features. Among them are Uruguay’s buzzy dramedy “When I Existed,” […]

Prime Video has locked a worldwide premiere date for “Lukkhe,” an eight-episode musical action drama directed by Himank Gaur and produced by Vipul D. Shah and Rajesh Bahl under Optimystix Entertainment and White Guerrilla LLP. Created and executive produced by Agrim Joshi and Debojit Das Purkayastha, “Lukkhe” is set against the rap culture and street […]

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart went after President Donald Trump for trying to justify posting a since-deleted photo depicting himself as Jesus healing the sick on Truth Social by saying he thought it was “me as a doctor.” Stewart pulled up the photo for his audience and immediately zeroed in […]

CinemaCon was officially wired in, thanks to a first look at “The Social Reckoning” — Aaron Sorkin’s anticipated sequel to his acclaimed 2010 drama “The Social Network.” The annual convention of movie theater owners got an exclusive peek at the film, starring Oscar winner Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear,” “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”), […]

The Further is making its way to Vegas. Sony offered the first look of “Insidious: Out of the Further” at CinemaCon, the annual movie theater trade show that’s currently unfolding at Caesars Palace. This is the sixth installment in the supernatural horror franchise, which revolves around the creepy concept of “the Further” — a purgatorial […]

The wonderwall of secrecy has come down and the voters’ wishes for who will make it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year have become known. The eight performers voted into the class of 2026 are: ● Phil Collins● Billy Idol● Iron Maiden● Joy Division/New Order● Oasis● Sade● Luther Vandross● Wu-Tang Clan […]

Braden Peters, better known by his “looskmaxxing” persona Clavicular, walked off his interview with “60 Minutes Australia” correspondent Adam Hegarty after he was asked if he identifies with the incel community. “Do I identify as an incel?” Peters said. “I mean, how could you ask me that question as a follow-up after you asked me […]

Robert Rodriguez is returning to the kids and family space with an original Christmas film at Paramount Animation, Variety has learned exclusively. The deal marks the first big greenlight for the label’s new leader Jennifer Dodge.    “The Naughty List” will be written, directed and produced by Rodriguez. The movie is based on a concept […]

David Letterman has weighed in on CBS’ decision to replace “The Late Show” franchise after 33 years with Byron Allen’s comedy talk show “Comics Unleashed.” The network confirmed the change earlier this month. Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” airs its final episode on May 21. Allen will take over the 11:35pm ET time slot on […]

Australian filmmaker Ben Smallbone (“Priceless,” “Homestead”) is teaming with his bother Joel David Smallbone, best known as one half of Christian pop duo For King and Country (alongside another brother, Luke Smallbone), to direct a new feature for Angel Studios. Being unveiled by Angel on Monday at CinemaCon as part of its upcoming slate, “Drummer […]

Alex Cooper is addressing rumors about a feud with Alix Earle head on.  Following the seemingly complex departure of Earle’s podcast, “Hot Mess,” from Cooper’s Unwell Network in 2025, Earle has made a series of “passive aggressive reposts and likes,” as the “Call Her Daddy” host describes them. Her latest, a pointed repost from a […]

Nearly a month after the widely publicist incident in which his daughter claimed that Chappell Roan’s bodyguard behaved aggressively toward her during Lollapalooza weekend in Brazil, football star Jorginho Frello has issued a statement saying he “regrets the impact” the situation created for the singerl“I would like to give an update on what happened during […]

CNN has tapped Chris Wiggins, who has served as chief data scientist at the New York Times for more than a decade, for a newly created role as head of machine learning and AI science. Wiggins’ hiring was announced in an internal memo to CNN staff Monday. At the news outlet, he will lead a […]