Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, The Roots member who has also become an Oscar- and Grammy-winning filmmaker, has been tapped to receive the 2025 Peabody Trailblazer Award. Thompson will receive …
The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled a powerhouse 2026 spring season that will see Kenneth Branagh return to Stratford-upon-Avon for the first time in over three decades, joined by Aca…
Co-showrunner Neil Druckmann didn't leave HBO's "The Last of Us" on a whim. The head of PlayStation's Naughty Dog video game studio left because he'd accomplished the "crazy goal" he set out…
Country music superstar and actress Reba McEntire ("Happy's Place"), TV executive producer Bill Lawrence ("Scrubs," "Shrinking") and Mattel chairman/CEO Ynon Kreiz have been selected to be h…
Independent Los Angeles-based film producer Niels Juul ("Ferrari," "Killers of the Flower Moon") is setting up an outpost in Italy and has acquired the rights to make a feature film about It…
Jennifer Lopez had her sights on landing the starring role in the 1996 movie adaptation of the musical "Evita." "I went to audition for 'Evita' for [director] Alan Parker," Lopez said Wednes…
For Italian auteur Pietro Marcello, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was the only actress who could play Eleonora Duse in his biopic of the legendary stage diva, which just launched in competition at …
In the beginning, wars are measured in days. As the days become weeks and months, however, different metrics take over: materiel use; meters of territory won and lost; climbing numbers of ca…
The Americana Music Honors & Awards handed out its top competitive trophies to Sierra Ferrell, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, I'm With Her, MJ Lenderman and Gillian Welch &am…
Bowen Yang is praising his "Saturday Night Live" co-star Heidi Gardner after her exit from the series after eight seasons. "You are one of the greats. You will go down in history," Yang said…
With Spinal Tap, the joke never gets old, even if the hilarious-as-ever heavy metal trio is now bordering on geriatric. Well into their 70s, hall-of-fame improv talents Michael McKean and Ch…
Kathy Bates wasn't about to let a long day of work on "Matlock" get in the way of her Variety interview to grace the cover of our annual pre-Emmy Awards issue. On the latest episode of "Dail…
Jennifer Gonring, the co-founder of the premier Hollywood political consultancy, Gonring Lin Spahn, has stepped down as CEO and launched an independent firm, Principle Partner. As part of th…
Two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot returned to his native Canada last week to debut his latest documentary, "The Eyes of Ghana," a powerful feature about the African country's buried cinema…
Daniel Day-Lewis spoke for the first time to Rolling Stone about his decision to end his retirement from acting after 8 years to star in "Anemone," a new movie directed by his son Ronan. Day…
"Barrio Triste" follows four lawless young men in MedellÃn, Colombia in the '90s who steal a television camera and document robberies, crime and the unrelenting pace of street violence. S…
Steven Spielberg took the stage at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Wednesday to introduce "Jaws: The Exhibition": the largest exhibit to ever dive deep on the blockbu…
Quinta Brunson, John Stamos, Gabrielle Union and Disney TV's Craig Erwich will join Variety for its annual Entertainment and Technology Summit held in Los Angeles on Sept. 25. Brunson, creat…
Lena Dunham is returning to bookshelves with "Famesick," a new memoir set for release April 14, 2026 through Random House. The book, which has been in the works for nearly seven years, marks…
Polly Holliday, a prolific stage and screen actress known for playing the gum-smacking waitress Flo who popularized the phrase "Kiss my grits!" on the long-running CBS sitcom "Alice," died T…
Jerry Seinfeld made a controversial appearance at Duke University on Tuesday, where he compared the "Free Palestine" movement to the Ku Klux Klan. The college's newspaper, The Chronicle, rep…
The process of securing the proper locations for a project is a metaphorical game of 3D chess in which the artistic vision of its creative team wages a strategic battle with logistical neces…
Multi-hyphenate Chelsea Peretti has signed for representation with Linden Entertainment. An actress, writer, director and veteran comic talent, Perretti made her name with hilarious specials…
Filmmaker Jon M. Chu and his longtime collaborators, cinematographer Alice Brooks and editor Myron Kerstein, are set to receive the fourth annual Variety Creative Collaborators awar…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Rebecca Ross' "Divine Rivals" prequel, "Wild Reverence," released Sept. 2 by Saturday Books. Rebecca Ross is deep in her own world right…