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Emil Wakim, who held a featured player role at NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for a single season, is leaving the late-night showcase, he disclosed in a statement on social media Wednesday. "I …
In hybrid documentary "Broken English," which premieres in Venice Film Festival's Out of Competition section, filmmakers Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth deliver an innovative and playful portr…
Netflix has released first-look images that reveal the premiere date for "Monster: The Ed Gein Story." The third installment in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's crime anthology series will prem…
Hallmark's "A Grand Ole Opry Christmas" has rounded out its cast with four new additions: Sharon Lawrence, James Denton, Rob Mayes and Luke Benward. The movie marks the first collaboration b…
Paolo Sorrentino re-teams with "The Great Beauty" star Toni Servillo on his latest film "La Grazia," which opens the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night. In the multi-layered moral drama…
Spain's Verónica Echegui, an actor of enormous vitality and contagious humor, died Aug. 24, at Madrid's 12 de Octubre hospital where she was being treated for cancer. She was 42. Only tho…
John Williams is one of the most prolific film composers of all time, having created some of the most iconic scores of the past 60 years, winning five Oscars and becoming the gold standard o…
Welcome back to Silent Hill. Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have unveiled the first trailer for "Return to Silent Hill," the third live-action feature adaptation of Konami's seminal horror …
Sophie Turner recently told Flaunt magazine that she is worried about the child actors who are headlining HBO's upcoming "Harry Potter" series, which is now in production and targeting a 202…
Woody Allen is defending his controversial appearance at Russia's Moscow International Film Week, which prompted Ukraine's Foreign Ministry to slam the director as a "disgrace" amid Russia's…
Michelle Visage is back! This time, the "RuPaul's Drag Race" judge is on hosting duty. Visage will host the inaugural season of "Drag Race Down Under vs. The World." Joining Visage are actor…
Project Angel Food has announced actress Jennifer Tilly will receive the 2025 Angel Award at the nonprofit's annual awards gala. The event will take place on Sept. 27 at Paramount Pictures S…
Rachel Sennott's upcoming HBO comedy series has set its official title: "I Love LA." The series will premiere on Nov. 2, with episodes dropping weekly until the finale on Dec. 21. The news w…
The second season of "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans" is set to return to AMC+ and Shudder on Oct. 7. An all-star spinoff of the hit series "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula," the competit…
There have been 36 years, roughly 40 million divorces and a seismic cultural shift (or several) since Danny DeVito's dark, down-with-love comedy "The War of the Roses" pitted Kathleen Turner…
Mk2 Films has partnered with Juliette Binoche on her directorial debut, "In-I In Motion," which is set to premiere out of competition at San Sebastián and Busan film festivals. The Paris-…
The first look images from the second season of critically acclaimed Brit satirical comedy "Dreaming Whilst Black" see Adjani Salmon's aspiring filmmaker Kwabena take on diversity challenges…
British actor Ray Winstone, one of this year's recipients of an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for career achievement, stopped by the Variety Lounge, presented by the Sarajevo Film Festiva…
David Spade revealed on the latest episode of his "Fly on the Wall" podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) that he considered using a gun to scare off professional autograph seekers who recently…
After three seasons, Devon Walker has exited the cast of "Saturday Night Live." Walker shared the news in an Instagram post on Monday, in which he expressed mixed feelings about late-night s…
A24 will officially re-open the Cherry Lane Theatre, a historic off-Broadway venue in New York's West Village, with a week's worth of events hosted by Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Jodie Foster …
In the first-ever installment of Variety's new video series, "Variety Crossword," Brittany Snow " the star of Netflix's "The Hunting Wives" and a puzzle enthusiast "Â completed a crossword…
Marc Maron recently appeared on "Pod Save America" (via Vulture) and doubled down on his criticisms of Bill Maher. While the "WTF" host acknowledged that he joined Maher on HBO's "Real Time"…
The Mexican director-writer-producer Michel Franco has come to the Sarajevo Film Festival with every one of his nine features. He returns "because he feels like part of the family," he said …
Austin Butler is known for his intense approach to his roles, from speaking with Elvis Presley's signature drawl during the entire production of "Elvis" to training with a Navy SEAL to becom…
