SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of "Wednesday." Things are looking up for the Addams family. "Wednesday" Season 2 opened with its heroine (Jenna Orteg…
The Orson Welles estate objects to AI startup Fable Studio's plans to "reconstruct" lost footage of the director's 1942 feature "The Magnificent Ambersons," which had 43 minutes cut from its…
Jimmy Fallon will take NBC's "Tonight Show" to Detroit for a special episode, one of a handful of non-traditional broadcasts of the program he is undertaking in the fall. The late-night host…
British director Oscar Hudson's feature debut "Straight Circle," an absurdist anti-war satire starring twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor as two soldiers of equal rank in opposing armies, is t…
It's a full circle moment for Melvin Gregg to be starring in "The Paper." Not only was he a fan of "The Office," which loosely inspired "The Paper," but he was also familiar with the mockume…
"Any character that I play, I always ask, 'What's their monologue?'" Matthew McConaughey says. "Whether it's subtext or whether it's spoken, you gotta have your monologue before you can say …
David Byrne has been a part of the pop-culture bedrock for nearly 50 years " so long that it's sometimes easy to take him for granted. After the creative burst that vaulted him into the publ…
Many actors turned directors emerge from their first venture behind the camera a little shellshocked. With James McAvoy it appears to be full-blown PTSD. "You're juggling everything!" he exc…
Before "Home Alone" turned Macaulay Culkin into a child actor icon, it was "Uncle Buck" (released in theaters one year before) that first put the young star on the map. The John Hughes-direc…
"Ida" star Agata Trzebuchowska makes her directorial debut with "Ties." "I've never felt like an actress and never planned to tie my future to it. 'Ida' was a complete accident, but a wonder…
In "Tuner," Leo Woodall plays Niki, an expert piano tuner with acutely sensitive hearing that is sometimes debilitating " in fact, it's one reason Niki hasn't chased his dreams of being a pi…
Packed with panoramic shots of a 1575 Algiers, "The Captive," from Oscar-winning director Alejandro Amenábar ("The Sea Inside," "The Others"), weighs in as one of the biggest Spanish movi…
"Knife + Heart" director Yann Gonzalez has reunited with frequent collaborators Vanessa Paradis and M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez " the filmmaker's brother " on "I'll Forget Your Name," a go…
The secret of "Maddie's Secret" " or maybe it's the central joke " is that the movie's creator and star, comedian John Early, takes the whole thing seriously. A uniquely tacky critique of in…
Oh, Canada! The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 50th edition Thursday evening with the world premiere of "John Candy: I Like Me," a documentary that celebrates the life an…
Pushkin Industries is revving up a broad slate of shows for the fall as the audio studio looks to capitalize on the "network effect" among its creators and hosts that has been built up since…
When Ralph Fiennes wasn't on stage seeing a dagger before him, while starring in a Washington, D.C. production of "MacBeth," he was furiously trying to unlock his inner Leonard Bernstein. Th…
"CIA," the upcoming new entry in the "FBI" franchise at CBS, has cast two major roles. Variety has learned that Nick Gehlfuss and Michael Michele are set to star in the series opposite previ…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers for Season 2 of "Wednesday," now streaming on Netflix. Netflix released Part 2 of "Wednesday" Season 2 on Sept. 4, and fans were pleasantly sur…
RuPaul will trade the runway for the big screen, starring in a new and, as yet, untitled action-comedy from "Hairspray" director Adam Shankman. Bleecker Street has teamed up with Emmy-winnin…
"Christy," a sports drama that features a transformative performance from "Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney as a female boxer, will be released by Black Bear in theaters in the thick of a…
Jane Krakwoski is set to guest star in the upcoming second season of "Brilliant Minds" at NBC. Krakowski will appear in the fourth episode of the season as Arianna Burnett, who is described …
Votiv, a film and television production company, is developing a feature adaptation of the horror-comedy novel "Patricia Wants to Cuddle." The book, a satire of American media culture that b…
In his directorial debut, "Maddie's Secret," John Early wears a lace-front wig and a fresh face of makeup to transform into the title character, a woman who works as a food influencer while …
Jessica Chastain's path to stardom began at age 7, after watching a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." "My grandmother took me," Chastain remembers. "It was the fi…