On today's episode of "Daily Variety" podcast, Variety's Marc Malkin helps put Rob Reiner's legacy and impact in Hollywood into perspective. And Rebecca Rubin breaks down a ho-hum weekend at…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its highly anticipated shortlists on Tuesday, narrowing hundreds of eligible films across a dozen categories ahead of the 98th A…
One of Rob Reiner's last projects before his death was the release of a new book about "Spinal Tap," his memorable 1984 music mockumentary, and the book has returned to Amazon's bestsellers …
Disney is developing a live-action film about Gaston, the boastful, brawny antagonist in "Beauty and the Beast." Luke Evans played Gaston in Disney's 2017 live-action "Beauty and the Beast" …
It has been an impossibly sad day, in Hollywood and beyond, as the industry reels from the shocking death of Rob Reiner, who was found dead along with his wife Michele on Sunday in their hom…
The USC Libraries have announced the finalists for the 38th annual Scripter Awards, which recognize excellence in adapting literature for film and television from the year 2025. Among the fi…
Comedy group Smosh is scrubbed in for its next live digital special: "Smosh Hospital," a spoof of TV medical dramas like "The Pitt," "Grey's Anatomy" and "E.R." "Smosh Hospital" is billed as…
French President Emmanuel Macron has given the prestigious Legion of Honor to Darren Star, the creator of "Emily in Paris." Star was named Knight of the Legion of Honor today during an intim…
"Titanique," a campy Off Broadway hit, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show is a low-fi musical parody of James Cameron's disaster epic "Titanic" that uses Céline Dion's music to r…
Oscar Isaac and Teyana Taylor both embrace morally complicated and deliciously outsize roles this year. In Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," veteran actor Isaac playsââ…
Kate Hudson is set to receive the Costume Designers Guild's Spotlight Award. The Spotlight Award celebrates an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitmentto excellence, in…
Paul Thomas Anderson's"One Battle After Another" appears to be the film to beat at the 46th annual London Critics' Circle Film Award. Echoing its haul from the recent Golden Globes nominatio…
Fans are mourning actor and director Rob Reiner, who was found dead Sunday with his wife. Reiner made his mark as an actor on "All in the Family," probing the generation gap of the late 1960…
Across Hollywood and beyond, celebrities and fans are paying tribute to director and actor Rob Reiner, who was found dead along with his wife Michele on Sunday in their home. The son of writ…
Rob Reiner, who segued from starring in "All in the Family" to directing movies including "This Is Spinal Tap," "A Few Good Men" and "When Harry Met Sally…" was found dead Sunday afternoon…
Jovan Adepo has been having a busy year. He's hopped around the world filming for Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," and now he's back in Europe working on the second season of Netflix's "3 …
There are no better actors for making beautiful music together than Kate Hudson and Jeremy Allen White. Hudson stormed Hollywood at 20 as the hippie muse of Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous." …
"Weekend Update" anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost brought their usual pop culture snark to "Saturday Night Live" on the Dec. 13 episode, and several topics have been of interest to Variety…
"Saturday Night Live" revealed their own version of Variety's "Actors on Actors" series on the Dec. 13 episode of the late night sketch show. The "SNL" spin was dubbed "Characters on Charact…
"Saturday Night Live" opened this week's episode with Donald Trump commenting on the battle to buy Warner Bros. Discovery " by asking why anyone would even want to buy the studio: "They've g…
"Heated Rivarly" stars Hudson Williams and François Arnaud have responded to "I Love LA" star Jordan Firstman, who said the show's depiction of gay sex is "not how gay people fuck." On an…
Frankie Muniz is getting candid about returning to the small screen for the four-episode "Malcolm in the Middle" reboot "Life's Still Unfair," describing the experience as the first in his e…
Peter Greene, who often played villains and criminals including Zed in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," was found dead in his New York apartment on Friday. He was 60. His manager Gregg Ed…
As Dick Van Dyke turns 100 and celebrates six Emmys over more than seven decades in the TV trenches, it's hard to imagine there was a time before he was a national treasure. The fledgling fu…
SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments, including the ending, in "Wake Up Dead Man," currently streaming on Netflix. About midway through "Wake Up Dead Man," the buzz…