SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," now streaming on Netflix. Guillermo del Toro has often said that Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstei…
Florian Zeller, a world-acclaimed playwright who made his directorial debut with the Oscar-winning film "The Father" starring Anthony Hopkins, has joined the Académie Française, a presti…
David Harbour is not having a good month. But attendees at the Los Angeles premiere event on Nov. 6 for the fifth and final season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" might not have noticed. Harb…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This post contains spoilers for all eight episodes of "All Her Fault," now streaming on Peacock. The wild ride that is Peacock's "All Her Fault" stars Sarah Snook and Jake …
Nina Hoss enters a conversation about "Hedda" the way her character Eileen Lövborg enters that fateful party: She commands the space, is unapologetically present and utterly impossible to…
An American version of "Call My Agent" is currently in development at HBO, Variety has learned. While the original French series "Call My Agent" (a.k.a. "Dix pour cent") was set at a fiction…
"1001 Frames," which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions conducted in Tehran, Iran. But it could be any city. During the…
Laura Dern is fearless, from her breakthrough in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" to her Oscar-winning turn in "Marriage Story." But as the Variety Awards Circuit Pdocast met with the star to d…
Variety and the New York Comedy Festival, the largest and longest-running annual comedy festival in the United States, announced that comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan will receive Variety's i…
The Emerald City is dancing through Studio 6B. Starting Nov. 16, NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" will celebrate the release of Universal Pictures' "Wicked: For Good" with a we…
Will "Stranger Things" conquer more than the Upside Down? Netflix has revealed its awards strategy for the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things," submitting the entire acting ensemble …
Tribeca is heading back to Miami Beach. The festival announced it will return to Art Basel this December for its fourth annual takeover, staging two nights of live music and screenings at th…
Jane Krakowski felt a pang of jealousy the first time she saw "Oh, Mary!," the hit comedy that imagines former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as a deranged wannabe cabaret star. The Tony-winni…
Adam Sandler will be the recipient of the Chairman's Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, set to take place on Jan. 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The awards presen…
Oz may have told us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, but at the Dolby Theatre taping of "Wicked: One Wonderful Night," audiences were treated to a rare peek at the magic be…
"My parents didn't just argue," Carmela confides in her best friend at school, her face darkening. But she doesn't go into detail. "Have you ever seen your dad act violent? Has he ever t…
It's Perry's version of a holiday movie and a connect-the-dots love story, but it's cliché-driven in such a minimal way that it makes you long for the Perry movies that can feel like a nigh…
For nearly the entirety of the "Wicked: One Wonderful Night"Â TV special, which aired on NBC Wednesday night, the performances were focused on Stephen Schwartz's songs from the two "Wicked…
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the non-profit organization that provides assistance and education to actors, has established the Diane Ladd Fund to help performers in need of critical health and …
The Paley Center for Media's New York headquarters, the Paley Museum, is kicking off its 50th anniversary this week by unveiling a makeover " including two newly renovated theaters, a new ex…
Pauline Collins, the British actress known for her role in "Shirley Valentine," died on Thursday in London. She was 85. The BBC reported that Collins died peacefully in a care home surrounde…
"Hamnet" production designer Fiona Crombie is no stranger to the world of William Shakespeare. Over two decades ago, she designed "Hamlet" for Australia's Bell Shakespeare Company. "I don't …
Ethan Hawke had a memorable first visit to Miami on Nov. 2, where he accepted the Miami Film Festival's Variety Virtuoso Award and sat down with Variety's co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh f…
"Wicked" fans can find themselves back in Oz with the premiere of "Wicked: One Wonderful Night," a musical special co-hosted by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo on Thursday night. Following t…
Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller seem like birds of an eternal feather, having played together frequently over the decades, but there is a first time for everything. And for these two, that f…