WePresent, the arts platform of WeTransfer, has unveiled Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Riz Ahmed as its fifth guest curator, marking a reunion between the multi-hyphenate artist and th…
U.K. actors union Equity has been blasted by its "oldest ally" Spotlight, after losing a protracted legal battle against the talent directory. "Equity's decision to launch legal proceedings …
Emmy-winning comedian Vir Das, who took home the 2023 International Emmy Award for best comedy for his Netflix special "Vir Das: Landing," is gearing up for a residency at Lincoln Center wit…
The 69th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its 2025 program, featuring a star-studded lineup of films including Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet," an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel starring…
Jeffrey Wright is firing back at those who think he should not have played Commissioner Jim Gordon in "The Batman." During a recent interview with Collider, the "American Fiction" star discu…
The whole real-time, hand-held-camera aesthetic of "Dead Man's Wire," which Van Sant brings off with astonishing flair, looks at Tony Kiritsis's actions "objectively." But beneath that it's …
Marc Jacobs wears terrific pajamas, as you might expect: comfortably loose but crisply shaped, in a sort of metallic jacquard more typically seen on expensive upholstery, with creases that s…
The Please Don't Destroy boys are being split up on "Saturday Night Live." Ben Marshall, who makes up one-third of the comedy trio responsible for several viral "SNL" digital shorts over the…
The Go-Go's were good and all, but you know who really had the beat? The DJs who powered KHJ and KRLA in the 1960s and early '70s, when seemingly every kid in Los Angeles was tuned in to one…
The "Saturday Night Live" shake-up continues, as Ben Marshall has been upped to the featured cast. Also joining as featured players are Veronika Slowikowska, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane an…
The "Age of Innocence" limited series at Netflix has cast four lead roles. Variety has learned that Camila Morrone ("Daisy Jones & the Six," "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen"), Kri…
Charlie Hunnam is staying in the "Monster"-verse, with the British actor currently in negotiations to star in the fourth season of the Ryan Murphy anthology series at Netflix. As previously …
"Jimmy," the James Stewart biopic starring "Riverdale" breakout KJ Apa in the titular role, has begun filming in West Cork, Ireland. The Burns & Co. Productions film has also announced t…
"Do you know why I'm doing this movie? I have money, I already have fame, I already have Oscars. What do I get that I want? I want to have fun." So says Francis Ford Coppola in the first ful…
Netflix has set a two-week theatrical window for its highly anticipated ensemble sequel, "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery." "Wake Up Dead Man" will release in select theaters on Nov. …
Gerard Depardieu, who has triggered a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement in France, will stand in a criminal trial where he will be prosecuted on rape by digital penetration and sexual…
Growing up in a household of seven females and no males seemed the most normal thing in the world to director Mayra Hermosillo. Until it wasn't. Her feature directorial debut "Vanilla" ("Vai…
When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus' "The Stranger" " considered one of France's literary jewels for the last 80 years " he wanted to give it a …
"Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how," writes Helen Macdonald in "H Is for Hawk," a book I picked up by accident (al…
Graham Greene, a Canadian actor best known for his Oscar-nominated turn in the 1990 film "Dances with Wolves," died on Monday in Toronto after a battle with long illness. He was 73. Greene m…
Audible's fully voice-acted "Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions" have filled some more major roles: Hagrid, Dobby, Lucius Malfoy and the Patil Twins. Mark Addy ("Game of Thrones") wi…
Among the many men and women of the hour during this weekend's Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Ethan Hawke was soaring arguably higher than even some the other featured guests, due to h…
Woody Allen wants Donald Trump for his next movie. During a recent appearance on Bill Maher's "Club Random" podcast, the four-time Oscar winner said Trump was "a pleasure to work with" when …
More than a decade after his death, treasured American filmmaker Mike Nichols still inspires contemporary masters like Noah Baumbach. Writer-director Baumbach was honored for 30 years' worth…
Those of us who first understood Shakerism not as a religious movement but as a mail-order furniture company " like a particularly elegant, artisanal version of Ikea " have much to learn fro…