Megan Thee Stallion will make her Broadway debut in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." She's stepping into the role of nightclub impresario Harold Zidler, a part originated by Tony winner Danny Bu…
Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical rights to "Eraserheads: Combo on the Run," an award-winning documentary on the legendary Filipino rock band, from DVent Pictures. Directed a…
Oscar-winning director Bille August, who recently scored a global hit with TV series "The Count of Monte Cristo," is set for another high-end period show that this time will hark back to Anc…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled its 2026-27 season, headlined by Tony Award-winning Broadway star Jonathan Groff making his RSC debut as Rosalind in an all-male staging of Shakesp…
As the fate of Berlinale chief Tricia Tuttle is being debated at an extraordinary meeting convened by Germany's culture minister Wolfram Weimer, staffers of the festival have penned an open …
The second half of "Bridgerton" Season 4 begins just shortly after Part 1 ended. Still reeling from the heated kiss she shared with Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) on the back stairwell …
Donald Trump lashed out at Robert De Niro in a Truth Social rant amid their ongoing public feud. The president slammed the Oscar-winning actor as "a sick and demented person" after De Niro f…
It's not difficult to see why Kelly Ripa has spent the last 25 years as host of "Live." A natural blend of wit, enthusiasm and inquisitiveness was evident from her first appearance as a gues…
Uma Thurman is back in killer form. Prime Video released the first trailer for "Pretty Lethal," a survival action-thriller in which a group of elite ballerinas must fight their way out of a …
Famously, "Heated Rivalry" star Connor Storrie is great at accents. His Russian is especially popular, which the actor pulled off to play a convincingly Slavic Ilya Rozanov in the hit series…
The Royal Shakespeare Company's West End staging of "My Neighbor Totoro" has unveiled a fresh wave of casting as the production approaches its first anniversary at London's Gillian Lynne The…
Maggie Winters will debut her new comedy special, "Marguerite," on March 17 on YouTube. The stand-up hour comes from a partnership between Abso Lutely Productions and comedy talent incubator…
"Scrubs" is back. The hospital comedy series, which premiered on NBC 25 years ago in 2001, returns to ABC and Hulu with a revival season that sees original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison, S…
Warner Bros. Discovery veteran Karen Horne has been named executive director of showrunner Mara Brock Akil's Writers' Colony talent development program designed to nurture underrepresented w…
Hudson Williams is getting people to read again. Since the "Heated Rivalry" star signed onto Crave's adaptation of "Yaga," physical copies of Kat Sandler's original screenplay instantly sold…
Mubi has released the trailer for "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma," a gruesome meta-take on the slasher genre of yore. The film, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, is s…
Liza Marshall recently discovered that she was the only person who bid for the rights to "Hamnet." This was back in October 2019, after the producer had been sent Maggie O'Farrell's novel a …
As expected, Metallica has announced that the band will debut its "Life Burns Faster" residency at Sphere in Las Vegas later this year. The eight-show run will take place on October 1 and 3,…
These days, any drama with the U.K.'s Sheridan Smith raises expectations, especially if her role is written by Tony Schumacher, creator of "The Responder." Winner of a BAFTA TV Award for "Mr…
The German government is set to hold an "extraordinary meeting" over the "future direction" of the Berlinale, the festival has confirmed. In a statement sent to Variety, the Berlinale said t…
The director, Polly Findlay (an acclaimed British stage director making her first feature), presents all of this in a stately and fastidious prestige-teleplay-of-the-week way. Adapting a 201…
Management of the Writers Guild of America West met with the staff union on Sunday night as the two sides aimed to resolve the week-old staff strike. But while there has been some movement o…
John Davidson, the Scottish Tourette's syndrome activist and real-life inspiration for "I Swear," was thrust into the spotlight at the 79th BAFTA Awards when his involuntary vocal tics disru…
John Turturro's crime thriller "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York" has sold to Sony Pictures Classics a month after its Sundance Film Festival premiere. A release date hasn't been set b…
Tim Daly and Téa Leoni are "Newlyweds" " both in real life and in the NBC comedy pilot of the same name. Variety has learned that Daly will star opposite Leoni in the multi-cam pilot. The c…