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BAFTA Unveils 2026 Breakthrough U.K. Cohort, Including ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ Star Ella Bruccoleri

BAFTA has unveiled its 2026 Breakthrough U.K. cohort, selecting 21 emerging creatives across film, television and games for its annual talent development program, supported by Netflix. Now in its 13th year, the initiative recognizes rising talent across the screen industries, offering year-round career support, mentorship, networking opportunities and full BAFTA membership. Among this year’s honorees […]

Kurosawa Award Winner O Mipo Is ‘Making Up for Lost Time’ After Career Break to Raise Her Sons

Co-recipient of the 2026 Kurosawa Akira Award together with Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, Korean-Japanese director O Mipo was in an understandably upbeat mood when she met with Variety just before the award ceremony on Tuesday at Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel, under the aegis of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival. The award honors filmmakers of substantial […]

James Wan and Jason Blum Unveil New Company Name: Blumhouse Atomic

James Wan and Jason Blum have unveiled a new umbrella title for their merged horror production companies, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster: Blumhouse Atomic. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will continue to operate as distinct production labels, and their respective creative teams will develop and produce film and television projects under each banner. “When we merged our […]

Netflix Orders YA Drama ‘Prep’ Based on Curtis Sittenfeld Novel From Nicole Taylor

Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to the drama “Prep,” based on the novel of the same name by Curtis Sittenfeld. The show is officially described as a coming-of-age story about “scholarship girl Lee Fiora’s high school years at Ault, a prestigious New England boarding school, and her journey to navigate friendship, crushes and class […]

‘The Elder Scrolls 6’ Title Revealed (Gaming News Roundup)

Bethesda Game Studios has officially revealed the subtitle and logo for “The Elder Scrolls 6.” The sixth edition was announced as “Sentinel” alongside a logo reveal in a video message from longtime franchise director Todd Howard as part of Bethesda’s 40th anniversary Tuesday. The game will serve as the followup to “Skyrim,” the 2011 installation […]

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Amelia Dimoldenberg Expands ‘Chicken Shop Date’ Theatrical Run to New York and Los Angeles

Amelia Dimoldenberg has added more theaters to her one-night-only “Chicken Shop Date” cinematic event, including in New York City and Los Angeles. The expansion is due to unprecedented demand, with all screenings in the U.K., Ireland and Paris selling out within three hours after her initial announcement. New locations include at the IFC Center in […]

‘The Cat in the Hat’ Review: Bill Hader Leads an Animated Dr. Seuss Comedy So Overstuffed It’s Like a Marvel Movie for Tots

The new "Cat in the Hat," it goes without saying at this point, makes no attempt to be a faithful adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s most fabled books. That would simply be too quaint for our buzzy, mercurial, attention-crashing, video-games-on-Ritalin era. Yet even as the movie departs all too eagerly from the innocent wildness of the Seuss books, it devotes itself, with a corporate diligence that’s the opposite of free-spirited, to mimicking the scale and spirit and plot setups of too many familiar blockbusters. It’s a mish-mosh of pop recycling.

‘La Bola Negra’ Becomes Spain’s Third Biggest Spanish Hit Ever as Its Box Office Surges 8% Above Pre-Pandemic Average

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s “La Bola Negra” has become the third highest-grossing Spanish film of all time at Spain’s domestic box office, earning an estimated €36.7 million ($41.0 million) through Nov. 1, according to Rentrak figures. Only Emilio Martínez-Lázaro’s blockbuster comedy “Ocho apellidos vascos” (“Spanish Affair,” $61.8 million) and J.A. Bayona’s disaster survival drama […]

‘Magic Atlas’ Review: Surreal, Shapeshifting Animation Is a Sometimes Mystifying Technical Marvel

There’s an increasingly undeniable hunger for the hand-crafted. As discourse around animation becomes more and more absorbed by anaesthetizing questions about AI, it becomes clearer that people who care about the medium are pushing for tactility and foregrounding real texture, materials imprinted with genuine human feeling. This feels especially true of Sun Xun’s “Magic Atlas,” […]

Billy Evans Answers ‘You Can See Everything’ Burning Questions on Alleged Cocaine Use, Nathan Fielder Regrets and More

Billy Evans, Elizabeth Holmes’ romantic partner and the villainous third wheel in Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything,” has taken to social media to answer burning questions about the documentary. In a post on X Monday night, Evans invited viewers to “AMA” (ask me anything), with the addendum: “Needs to be legally permissable [sic].” Asked […]

‘Just Before Dawn’ Producer Prevails in Cult Horror Courtroom Drama

A surreal legal battle unfolded last month in a courtroom in West Palm Beach, Fla., where a retired accountant faced off against a distributor of cult horror DVDs over ownership of a 1981 slasher film. The distributor, David DeFalco, goes by “The Demon” and taunted the accountant in a series of unhinged livestream videos, calling […]

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Netflix Launches First AI-Branded Content Recommendations Feature on TVs

Netflix, which has seen viewer engagement slide in recent quarters, is turning to AI for a new feature aimed at spurring users to find something new to watch. The company on Tuesday (Nov. 3) is debuting AI Discover, a new feature on the Netflix TV app, initially to a limited number of subscribers in the […]

Pierce Brosnan, Fiona Shaw, Cara Delevingne and Gabrielle Union Throw a Lavish Christmas Party in New Burberry Campaign

Burberry is throwing a Christmas party fit for Hollywood. The British luxury house has enlisted Pierce Brosnan, Fiona Shaw, Cara Delevingne, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade for its 2026 holiday campaign, a star-studded celebration of the brand’s 170th anniversary directed by filmmaker Harmony Korine. Titled “Wrapped in Burberry: Celebrating 170 Years,” the short film takes […]

WWE, Disney Team for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’-Themed Worlds Collide, John Cena Classic

WWE and The Walt Disney Company are teaming for an “Avengers”-themed collaboration. Expanding on WWE’s existing relationship with ESPN, WWE will take over the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort for two days this December. The takeover will kick off with the John Cena Classic on Dec. 14, followed […]