It's Warren Zevon season. That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that ne…
On today's episode, Variety reporter Selome Hailu details her cover story on Rachel Sennott, the multihyphenate behind HBO's new comedy "I Love L.A." Marc Malkin has a Red Carpet Rundown wit…
When Aaron Sorkin, Steven Soderbergh, Scott Cooper and Denis Villeneuve are looking to cast their films, they turn to casting director Francine Maisler. This year alone, Maisler has worked o…
In David Trueba's "Always Winter," the closing night film of this year's Valladolid Film Festival in Spain, Miguel Mena (David Verdaguer), 40, a jobless landscape architect travels to a Brus…
 Paramore's Hayley Williams, Jack Antonoff, MarÃa Zardoya of the MarÃas and Role Model headlined Rolling Stone's third annual Musicians on Musicians live event at New York'…
Sony's R-rated anime "Chainsaw Man" beat Disney and 20th Century Studios' musical biopic "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" at the box office in Thursday previews. "Chainsaw Man " The Mo…
The spinoff of "Victorious" titled "Hollywood Arts" has been picked up to series at Netflix " and a few other places. Variety has learned that the streamer has commissioned 26 episodes of th…
"I Swear," the British indie film about Tourette's Syndrome campaigner John Davidson that has already been a hit with audiences and critics in the U.K., has been bought by Sony Pictures Clas…
Jonah Hauer-King has a line in "A House of Dynamite" so disturbing that friends are now texting it to him as soon as they see the film. "Some don't write anything other than that line," he s…
Brandi Carlile begins her new album with a verse raising the issue of mortality, and the question of what a godly design for these fleeting lives might be, if any at all. "Is there some free…
After exiting "Saturday Night Live," Ego Nwodim is keeping plenty busy " including with the second season of her award-winning interview podcast "Thanks Dad," set to premiere next week. "Tha…
When Filmax introduced Judith Colell's "Frontier" ("Frontera") to buyers at Cannes, the WWII thriller drew attention and was ultimately picked up for North American release via Menemsha Film…
In the latest twist of how generative AIÂ is impacting the film world, Romanian auteur Radu Jude ("Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn") is making a short based on vintage porn reels found in t…
Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultane…
Greg Berlanti accepted the inaugural Greg Berlanti Social Impact Award at the UCLA Center for Scholars and Storytellers' annual Teens and Screens Summit on Thursday in Los Angeles. The write…
Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" was the big winner at the San Diego International Film Festival, winning both the best Gala Film (jury award) and the Audience Choice Gala Award. Eddie Vedder-starring…
Bruce Springsteen may be ready to tell more of his story. Scott Cooper, the writer-director of "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," tells me that the Boss is already talking about a seque…
Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd said in an interview with Vulture that his 13-year-old son gets picked on at school because his father is an actor. "Cruel kids" call his child a "nepo baby," which has …
"Wicked" will make its broadcast debut on NBC on Nov. 19. NBCUniversal is putting last year's Universal Pictures blockbuster on linear television just two days before sequel "Wicked: For Goo…
There are many production elements to Lorde's "Ultrasound" tour. There's a treadmill, on which she performs "Supercut" while running " a tremendously impressive feat that has quickly become …
Isabelle Tate, an actor on ABC's "9-1-1: Nashville," died on Sunday. She was 23. Tate played Julie on the Ryan Murphy spinoff series, appearing in the pilot episode that aired on Oct. 9, 202…
On the day of his 100th birthday, a special Vintage Variety episode looks back at the arc of Johnny Carson's early career and his rise to becoming a TV icon, as chronicled in the pages of Va…
Glenn Close will join the cast of the "La bola negra," an original film produced by Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films in co-production with Pedro and AgustÃn Almodóvar's El Deseo a…
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor, lashed out at Robert De Niro during a Fox News interview, calling the Oscar winner "a sad, b…
Rising British stars Kingsley Ben-Adir ("Bob Marley: One Love," "Barbie") and Archie Madekwe ("Lurker," "Saltburn") are teaming up to lead the cast of "The Arrival" alongside Joanna Scanlan …