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Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and composer John Carpenter will receive the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award at the 77th annual ACE Eddie Awards. Editors Bonnie Koehler and Christopher Nelson will also receive ACE Career Achievement awards during the ceremony, which recognizes the best film editing achievements of the year across […]
Kathleen Kennedy, the former head of Lucasfilm, has been tapped as head of ceremonies and content for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. She’s replacing Peter Rice, who was hired as Netflix’s chief content officer earlier this week and took over for Bela Bajaria. He will remain involved with the LA28 Games as executive producer, as […]
Skydance Corp., the new company formed from David Ellison’s massive Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, has established the leadership team overseeing financial operations across the business. Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, co-CEO of Skydance, previously announced the senior leadership team for the new company (a day before the deal officially closed). Since then, different business units and […]
John Goodman has joined “The Beast in Me” Season 2 at Netflix, Variety has learned. The second season of the series was announced in September, with Season 1 star Claire Danes set to return as Aggie Wiggs. Goodman will play Jack, Aggie’s father. Exact plot details for Season 2 are currently under wraps. Goodman is […]
It may be film awards season, but Netflix hasn’t forgotten about its TV contenders. The streamer is set to throw its fourth annual “FYSee: The Fall Edit” fall awards showcase, taking place the first two weekends of November at Netflix’s Tudum Theater in Hollywood. Among the series set to be showcased via screenings and panels […]
Get used to seeing these faces this awards season. Variety’s 2026 10 Actors to Watch took the stage in Newport Beach, California, for a conversation about performance, craft and process on October 18. Variety moderated this conversation in partnership with Newport Beach Film Festival. The panel kicked off at the Balboa Bay Resort, highlighting this […]
Emily McGonagle, 42, decides to change careers after watching Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol on repeat.
The BBC announced the dedicated Scotland channel would move online as part of measures to make savings of £500m.
Fender says a "sophisticated" attack affected a website selling tickets for his Newcastle shows.
Jennifer Lawrence appeared on the latest episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and spoke out for the first time about what it was like to reprise Katniss Everdeen for the first time in 11 years. The Oscar winner is back as her iconic “Hunger Games” character in the upcoming prequel movie “Sunrise on the […]
Peter Medak, the Hungarian-born director and actor best known for films including “The Changeling,” “The Krays” and “The Ruling Class” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 88. Over a career spanning six decades, Medak directed 27 feature films, moving between psychological horror, black comedy and crime dramas. His 1980 supernatural thriller “The Changeling,” starring […]
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Visar Morina’s “Shame and Money.” The film won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, which qualifies it to compete for the Oscar for international feature film under new Academy rules. Oscilloscope is planning a theatrical release in early […]
Versant may best be known for the cable channels that provide the bulk of its revenue, but the company continues to build out new-media extensions. The owner of MS NOW, CNBC and USA is launching four new free ad-supported streaming networks based on programming franchises from CNBC, Oxygen and E!. When these new options debut, […]
Jamie Dornan is stepping into the shoes of Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” after the hero was famously played by Viggo Mortensen in the original “LOTR” trilogy. Dornan spoke to L’Officiel (translated by Slash Film) about taking on the role and playing a younger version in the prequel. “There’s […]
In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, Fox News lost more than a quarter of its overall viewing audience in the month of October, according to new data. That said, the network remains the most-watched news outlet on cable, well ahead of rivals CNN and MS NOW. For October 2026, Fox News is on […]
Country star Alan Jackson’s farewell concert, “Alan Jackson: The Last Show,” will air on NBC on Dec. 8. The event, which celebrates Jackson’s career and memorializes his final concert performance, will be available to stream the next day on Peacock. The special, which was tapped on June 29 during Jackson’s sold-out final concert at Nashville’s […]
Jennifer Lopez is getting close to releasing new music. The multi-hyphenate tells me she was inspired to write and record again when her kids, twins Max and Emme Muniz with ex-husband Mark Anthony, left for college. “They take up such a big part of your brain for so long, and when they’re gone, which is […]
Josh O’Connor may be in the James Bond conversation, but his next on-screen role is a filmed version of his most recent play, “Golden Boy.” After its sold-out run at London’s Almeida Theatre, National Theatre Live is bringing “Golden Boy” to the big screen starting Nov. 5. In Clifford Odets’ acclaimed play — directed by […]
International distributors continue to fall for “Ulya.” The Latvian Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film has closed North America (New Mountain Films), France (Destiny), Italy (Invisible Carpet), Slovakia (ASFK), former Yugoslavia (Five Star Distribution), Estonia (Hea Film), Lithuania (GPI), MENA (Teleview), Finland (Cinema Orion), Poland (1989) and Brazil (Belas Arte). The black-and-white film, directed […]
Anne Hughes found fame after being hoisted into the air after getting caught in shop shutters.
