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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers from “Other Mommy,” now playing in theaters. “Other Mommy” is battling less-than-enthusiastic reviews in order to lead the weekend box office, thanks to a viral trailer that scared audiences nationwide. The film, about a sinister demon who befriends a little girl named Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) and takes […]
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the first season of “Below,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s new mystery series “Below” has arrived, and audiences are being transported to the beautiful and dangerous Newfoundland town of Snook’s Arm. Josh Hartnett stars as fisherman Calvin Penney, who, alongside Dr. Fonda Howander (Mackenzie Davis), is investigating a […]
“We’d always wanted something like this,” asserts Najla Said. Najla is the daughter and eldest child of the late scholar, intellectual and activist Edward Said, whose 1978 book “Orientalism” — examining the Western world’s skewed perception of the East — is considered a canonical work in the area of post-colonial studies. Born in Palestine and […]
Just before the genocide, 15 Gaza schoolgirls posed for a photograph. Three years on, Al Jazeera went looking for them.
“Why would I do ‘Carrie’ now?” Samantha Sloyan says this was one of the first things writer, director and showrunner Mike Flanagan said to her when he revealed his idea to turn Stephen King’s 1974 novel of the same name into a miniseries. Sure, Flanagan had tackled King before, adapting novels such as “Gerald’s Game” and […]
At the offices of Artists Equity, the full-service content company founded four years ago by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Batman is the doorman. As you step out of the red-carpeted elevator in a sleek West Hollywood high-rise, the superhero replica greets you with a menacing stare. Affleck played the Caped Crusader in four films […]
The platform will now provide tags that indicate which election markets have low volumes.
Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige has made some of the shrewdest financial decisions in Hollywood history, but he sure dropped the bag when he didn’t make a new “Blade.” (Just ask would-be star Mahershala Ali.) Luckily, Indian auteur Samjad has directed a film that will bring joy to fans of the battle-ready half-vampire Wesley Snipes popularized […]
Kenyan survivors are challenging the UK military over decades of alleged abuses — and the immunity that has shielded it.
Next week, Paramount and Warner Bros. will officially combine into one mega-studio with a familiar name: Skydance. The deal is expected to close on Tuesday. “By combining them, we aren’t rewriting history — we’re equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first home for bold, quality storytelling,” CEO […]
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim shocked Hollywood and the world when they revealed they’d secretly been filming Elizabeth Holmes ahead of her 11-year prison sentence for their documentary, “You Can See Everything.” The film had a surprise premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last month and had another early screening at the New York Film […]
Variety is proud to announce the 2026 edition of its annual 10 Broadway Stars to Watch. These actors, composers, librettists, and playwrights — working on shows including “Purple Rain,” “Warriors,” “Spring Awakening,” “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Wanted” — represent the future of theater. This year’s roster of standouts will be honored at […]
India's youth protests return to streets, eyeing PM Modi's prized bureaucrat who oversees the world's biggest elections.
How a brush with the wild can expose what modern life no longer asks of us.
As Islamabad prepares for another opposition march, drivers and businesses are counting the cost of the barricades.
Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.
“Primetime” is a box office overachiever, but the subject of the A24 film calls it a “complete work of fiction.” Lance Oppenheim’s movie centers on “To Catch a Predator,” the popular “Dateline” segment that ran from 2004 to 2007. In the show, an advocacy group with adult decoys posing as children would chat with online […]
Flydubai FZ1073 raises questions about cockpit security, pilot vetting and threats from inside the flight deck.
Rachel Zegler hesitated when “Evita” director Jamie Lloyd pitched her on his big idea for their West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical. Zegler was portraying Argentine first lady Eva Perón as a modern pop star, and Lloyd wanted his leading lady to perform the show’s best-known song, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” […]
Season 2 of FX’s “Adults”— which premiered in late August — depicts a group of five friends hanging out in their shared house in Queens. There’s the relatively sane Samir, holding the group together (Malik Elassal), the thwarted careerist Billie (Lucy Freyer), the agent-of-chaos diva Issa (Amita Rao), the relentlessly social dry wit Anton (Owen […]
