Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra…
Miss Benny has joined Jordan Firstman's directorial debut "Club Kid." The actress, best known for her starring work in the Netflix dramedy "Glamorous" opposite Kim Cattrall, joins previously…
Emma Corrin and Maika Monroe didn't have to try to establish the chemistry needed for their roles in Julia Jackman's indie fantasy "100 Nights of Hero." "It was really easy," Corrin tells Va…
Adam Sandler and Ariana Grande have more in common than you'd suspect. He dominated pop culture as a Gen X comedy icon " with "Big Daddy," "The Waterboy," "Happy Gilmore" and more " before t…
Jeremy O. Harris, whose boundary-pushing "Slave Play" earned a record number of Tony nominations, has been detained in Japan for nearly three weeks following his arrest on drug smuggling cha…
Filmmaker Matt Reeves added his voice to the wave of praise for Paul Dano " an outpouring that was prompted by Quentin Tarantino dissing Dano as "the weakest fucking actor in SAG." "Paul Dan…
A consortium of top industry players have sent an open letter full of alarm to Congress, describing a potential economic and institutional meltdown in Hollywood if Netflix succeeds in its…
Clint Bentley's "Train Dreams" follows the Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living in the Pacific NorthWest. Set in the late 1960s, "Train Dreams" is directed b…
Billy Porter has joined the Oscar-qualified documentary short, "Freeman Vines," as an executive producer. Directors André Robert Lee and Tim Kirkman's film is a haunting portrait of 82-year…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Em…
"I'm so young and you're so old," Paul Anka sang in the very first line of his very first hit, "Diana," in 1958. It's the kind of lyric you could seemingly only get away with when you're 15,…
"Hamnet," "Marty Supreme" and a powerful one-two punch from Warner Bros. " "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" " are among the American Film Institute's 10 best films of the year, the o…
It appears Thomas Benski's new venture Lumina Media has acquired a notable stake in Benedict Cumberbatch's production outfit SunnyMarch, according to documents filed in the U.K. Cumberbatch …
It was a heck of an opening gambit: In its first week on Broadway, the new revival of "Chess" earned more than $1.2 million from just four sold-out performances. A few weeks later, the show,…
Israel is set to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union general assembly called off a vote over its participation. Next year's contest, which will be …
If you want to get in touch with Fran Lebowitz, you'll have to jump through a few hoops. Even inquiring if the sharp-tongued writer and flaneur would entertain an interview required three in…
U.K. performers union Equity is set to ballot members over potential strike action related to AI protections. Negotiating partner Pact, the U.K. producers union, has been notified. "Nobody w…
When Nicholas Galitzine arrived on the set of Julia Jackman's "100 Nights of Hero," he had to check his inhibitions at the door. "They were like, 'Yeah, you're going to be naked, covered in …
Hollywood is coming to the defense of Paul Dano after Quentin Tarantino slammed the performer as "the worst fucking actor in SAG." As cinephiles flocked to social media to champion Dano's pe…
Queen Latifah captivated a packed crowd at the first of the Red Sea Film Festival "In Conversation" series, where she sat down with Saudi podcaster Mo Islam ("The Mo Show") to reflect on her…
Fresh off one of the most ambitious shoots of his career, Tahar Rahim landed at the Marrakech Film Festival buzzing about Fred Cavayé's dynamic new take on Victor Hugo's classic "Les Misér…
The British Academy has unveiled the make-up of its 14,000 members five years after going through a comprehensive review process aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion. According to BAF…
Born on the same day in the same Beirut hospital just a minute apart, while war raged outside, the lovers in "A Sad and Beautiful World" were seemingly destined to fall for each other, and t…
Jon M. Chu is taking his talents to Paramount Skydance. The "Wicked" director has inked a multi-year first-look film and TV deal with the David Ellison-led studio. Though Chu most recently h…
President Trump has granted a pardon to Tim Leiweke, the live entertainment executive accused of rigging a bid to build an arena on the campus of the University of Texas. In a proclamation s…