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Awards and festival seasons are officially underway. The Newport Beach Film Festival will return for its 27th year, showcasing more than 100 feature films and 250 shorts from 21 countries. The festival, which runs Oct. 15-22 in Newport Beach, will also once again spotlight Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch, a group of breakouts this year […]
Attention “Wordle” and “Spelling Bee” fans: interactive offerings from The New York Times Games are coming to a movie theater near you this fall. Through a new partnership between NYT Games and in-theater ad company Screenvision, the pre-show experience will begin rolling out nationwide by Thanksgiving. The deal (which has initially been set as a […]
The GuadaLAjara Film Festival announced its full lineup for the annual event running from Nov. 5-7 at venues across Los Angeles. The festival will open with Watermelon Pictures’ “Ashes” directed by Diego Luna at the United Theater. The film follows Lucila who moves to Spain with her brother to reunite with the mother who left […]
“The Blackening” and “The Studio” star Dewayne Perkins is launching a new digital series, “I Swear We’re Friends,” exclusively on YouTube this fall. Perkins is independently releasing the six-episode “skitcom,” which is described as a “love letter to television,” with each episode inspired by a beloved show: “Girlfriends,” “Succession,” “24,” “My Wife & Kids,” “Charmed” […]
Sony’s PlayStation will launch a new Crunchyroll anime hub within its PlayStation 5 gaming console’s home screen next year to more closely align the company’s anime projects and anime-inspired games. Launching in spring 2027, the new PS5 anime destination is “designed to make it easier for the PlayStation community to discover and explore the anime […]
The 70th BFI London Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday with the European premiere of “Elsinore,” a movie that, as the credits rolled, left large swathes of the audience at the Royal Festival Hall wiping away tears. But just moments later, as the name of lead star Andrew Scott appeared on stage, the loud snuffles […]
Former “Top Gear” host Jeremy Clarkson is back tinkering with automobiles in a newly-unveiled “Clarkson’s Farm” special. Titled “Jeremy Grows a Car: A Clarkson’s Farm Special” the stand-alone episode will give fans a front seat as the broadcaster attempts to “undertake a world first: growing and building his very own car from produce grown at […]
Variety’s second annual Horror Impact Report comes in a year when the genre has had unparalleled success. Indie films like “Backrooms” and “Obsession” were box office smashes, high-profile series like “Carrie” and the “Friday the 13th” prequel “Crystal Lake” are set to haunt streamers, and even iconic franchises like “Halloween” and “Hellraiser” are back as […]
Frank Mancuso Sr., a distribution executive who went on to head two of Hollywood’s major studios, Paramount and MGM/UA, died on Oct. 1 at his home in Los Angeles from complications of cancer, per a family statement. He was 93. “When God created Frank Mancuso Sr., he broke the mold,” actor Andy Garcia said in […]
Disney+ viewers will be ringing in the new year with Ryan Secrest and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” ABC and Dick Clark Productions announced Wednesday that “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027” will simulcast on Disney+ for the first time this year, along with its usual live broadcast on ABC. Seacrest will […]
Actor and filmmaker Ben Stiller will moderate a conversation with William Shatner as part of the “Star Trek” panel at New York Comic-Con this Saturday, Variety has learned exclusively. It was previously reported that Shatner would take part in the panel, which comes as the “Star Trek” franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The panel […]
“Elsbeth” has added Uzo Aduba, Tyne Daly and Christine Ebersole to the Season 4 cast. Ebersole will have a recurring role as Elsbeth’s mother in the CBS crime drama, while Aduba and Daly will each guest star. The fourth season of the spinoff based on “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” will premiere on […]
We’re used to films about hope and rejuvenation in the final days of the Second World War, but there’s a more novel perspective to be found in “Krux” — set in an isolated village in northeast Germany, where many of the locals have been so brainwashed by Nazism that the end of the war may […]
Aerosmith is coming out of retirement for two nights at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl with “California, Dream On: Aerosmith & Friends,” featuring guest appearances from Run-D.M.C., Billy Idol, Eric Church, Slash and many more. The rock group will perform at the famed venue on October 29 and November 1. The lineup of guests, which will […]
When Netflix Animation Studios opened its 110,600-square-foot office in Vancouver earlier this year, it sent a clear signal about the city’s growing importance as an animation hub. “Vancouver has been our home for over 10 years both as Netflix Animation Studios and previously under the Animal Logic banner,” Amir Nasrabadi, Chief Operating Officer for the […]
The National Prize of Current Musics to the Spanish artist culminates in a year of vertigo by the hand of an amazing record and an unusual tour
“Wildwood” has been set as the closing night film for the Animation Is Film Festival, which runs Oct. 16-19 in Los Angeles. Laika’s animated epic will screen Oct. 19 at the Academy Museum’s Geffen Theater. Following the screening, “Wildwood” director and Laika president and CEO Travis Knight will hold a conversation with filmmaker Jason Reitman. […]
The opening minutes of Renny Harlin’s “The Beast” are some of the goofiest we’ve seen on screen in 2026 — and coming a week after both “Digger” and “Verity,” that’s saying something. The latest from this prolific purveyor of schlock features a typically jocular, ornery Samuel L. Jackson navigating a high-tech automobile (the Beast of […]
Apple may be best-known for its AirPods earbuds, but more and more people are catching onto the brand’s AirPods Max headphones as well. Seen on stars like Ariana Grande, Bella Hadid, Timothée Chalamet and the girls from Blackpink, the AirPods Max are Apple’s first-ever wireless headphones, with an instantly recognizable earcup design and big, powerful […]
Hungarian filmmaker Kálmán Nagy’s psychological family drama “The Shame of the Borbély Family” has begun production in Austria and Hungary. The film is produced by Andi G. Hess together with Johannes Schubert under the Austrian-German production outfit Schubert, whose latest feature “Rose” is Austria’s Oscar submission and earned Sandra Hüller a Silver Bear at this […]
