Focus Features and Working Title's "Sense and Sensibility" has rounded out its cast with George MacKay, CaitrÃona Balfe, Fiona Shaw and more joining Daisy Edgar-Jones in the Jane Austen a…
Zeam, the streaming platform that brings hyperlocal content to global audiences, is set to unveil its first original live comedy event with the multi-day live-streamed special "Destination C…
Jordan Stephens is making the jump from music to theater, tapping into the Young Vic's Main House for his stage debut in Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane." The Rizzle Kicks frontman will…
Tom Troupe, a stage and TV actor who appeared in "Star Trek," "Murder, She Wrote" and "Cheers," died Sunday morning at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 97. Troupe's death was confirmed by h…
Canadian indie outfit Men I Trust seems beamed down from the heavens to be a headphones band. Lead singer and guitarist Emmanuelle Proulx's gentle vocals float along over a textured dreampop…
As a film critic, the question I get asked more than any other is, "What's your favorite movie?" For decades, I've given the same answer. But in the last 10 years or so, when I say, "My favo…
Eileen Fulton, who starred as Lisa Miller on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns," died Monday in Asheville, N.C., after a struggle with declining health. She was 91. Fulton's death was a…
Jamie Lee Curtis says she's learned a lot from Lindsay Lohan since reuniting for "Freakier Friday," the much buzzed-about sequel to 2003's "Freaky Friday." "She has taught me so much," Curti…
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson will be honored with the SummerStage Icon award for his artistic contributions to New York City, the City Parks Foundation has announced. The Grammy-winning artist…
Sheryl Crow has released a song about the current political climate under the guidance of President Donald J. Trump, referring to him as the "leader of the free world," and comparing reality…
Jho Low, the playboy Malaysian financier who was central to the multi-billion dollar 1MDB corruption scandal, has reportedly been located and his new identity discovered. Low was the masterm…
Alan Bergman, the Oscar-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with his wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades and produced such hits as "The Windmills of Y…
Micheal Ward's big "Cannes moment," as he describes it, should have come five years ago. "Lovers Rock," the reggae-infused romance in which he played a charming singleton at a London house p…
Honor Swinton Byrne is reuniting with writer-director Anne-Sofie Lindgaard for the National Film and Television School (NFTS) short film "Small One," joined by Charlotte Spencer and Herbert …
Tina Fey is set to bring a sprinkling of Hollywood star power to the Edinburgh TV Festival next month. The award-winning multi-hyphenate has been confirmed as joining the small screen events…
India's creative economy ambitions were on full display at WAVES 2025, the inaugural World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit, where a new government report tallies over $1.1 billion in…
"Captain Planet and the Planeteers," an animated TBS series from the '90s about an environmentalist superhero, is being adapted into a live-action series at Netflix with Greg Berlanti and Le…
Mexico's Marina de Taviria, Oscar-nominated as supporting actress for her performance as the mother in Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" is attached to star in Brenda Navarro's "House Eight" ("Casa…
Freida Pinto is set for a major role in Netflix's upcoming series adaptation of the Jhumpa Lahiri short story collection "Unaccustomed Earth." Variety has learned that Pinto will play Parul …
Last year, the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival looked like a thing of the past " after being founded in 1982, the venerated Montreal fest was bankrupt and cancelled. But like a well-told jok…
Joshua Jackson isn't sure why "Doctor Odyssey" was canceled by ABC after one season, but he will miss the wacky medical drama. In a new interview, the actor, who portrayed cruise line doctor…
Ally Sheedy ("The Breakfast Club," "High Art"), Emily Robinson ("Eighth Grade," "Transparent"), Brant Daugherty ("Fifty Shades Freed") and Margaret Cho ("Fire Island") will star in the upcom…
Penélope Cruz, Walter Salles, Bruce Springsteen, and Bowen Yang will be honored at the fifth annual Academy Museum fundraising gala, taking place on October 18. Presented by Rolex, the star…
After a two-year hiatus, Miley Cyrus returns for her eighth studio album "Something Beautiful," which has a companion visual album and musical film " it's out now. Want to watch "Miley Cyrus…
Nikki Glaser is a kind person. It might sound ironic, considering Variety's 2025 Creative Impact in Comedy Award recipient is infamous for her savagely funny takedowns, such as her star-maki…