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Producer Will Packer has never been shy about sharing his opinion, even as he’s become a public figure. In a season when so many of Hollywood’s boldface names have kept a low profile when it comes to politics, Packer has taken to stages in recent weeks to advocate for causes and candidates that he believes […]
Variety will host its annual Business Managers Breakfast, presented by City National Bank, in Los Angeles on Nov. 12. The breakfast will bring together those featured in Variety’s Business Managers Elite issue to celebrate the achievements of top entertainment business managers over the past year. JB Smoove – Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian, producer and writer […]
“Tokyo Vice” producer Alex Boden and Netflix production policy director Deb Richards urged changes to Japan’s international production incentive at the Motion Picture Association’s annual seminar at the Tokyo International Film Festival, as the government prepares a new body to bring its scattered content-industry support under one roof. Boden, the London-based producer who spent almost […]
The BBC says it did not uphold any of the allegations of antisemitism but accepted there were "shortcomings" in how it treated Lucie Kon.
Kenneth Atchity, “The Meg” producer and literary agent, died on Monday. He was 82. Across his career as a literary manager, producer and writer, Atchity produced more than 30 films; wrote over 20 books; negotiated publishing and entertainment deals; and published hundreds of additional titles through his own imprint, Story Merchant Books. In addition to […]
Stephen Lambert, from Studio Lambert, speaks to the BBC ahead of a talk in Oxford on Thursday.
When the characters of Jethro Gibbs and Tony DiNozzo reunite for the first time in a decade in Tuesday night’s episode of “NCIS: Origins,” there will be no head slaps — something that may disappoint a few original “NCIS” but will probably be a relief to most. After all, there’s been a lot of water […]
The increase was higher than the 4.5% expected by economists polled by Reuters, and higher than the 3.8% seen in the previous month.
For Italian producer and distributor Andrea Occhipinti, shepherding “Elsinore” to the big screen carries a significance that transcends being lead producer of the buzzy movie that last night opened the London Film Festival to a standing ovation, with few dry eyes in the Royal Festival Hall, after making a major splash in Telluride and Toronto. […]
Since it premiered in Venice, where it earned a record-breaking near-25-minute stand ovation, “NAZA” has emerged one of the most talked-about documentaries of the year. The bombshell film, from Israeli “No Other Land” directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, exposes what it asserts is Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilian targets in Gaza, using numerous sources […]
Jerry Golod, the producer of “Tales From the Darkside,” died following a brief battle with cancer at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Wednesday. He was 87. Throughout his career, Golod served as an executive at CBS and NBC, later launching JayGee Productions in the early 1980s. After seeing the success of Stephen King’s […]
In one of the later deals pacted at the San Sebastian Festival, Spain’s David Matamoros of Doce Entertainment boarded Matías Rojas’s adaptation of Chilean cult novel “Dog Legs” (“Patas de perro”), joining four other producers from Chile, France, Germany and Colombia. With this, “Dog Paws” enters the final phase of its financing and is expected […]
You can go home again, at least part-time, as former MTV Networks head Van Toffler proved when he came back in 2025 as the producer of the MTV Video Music Awards. He’s back in the saddle for a second year in 2026, as the two-hour telecast enjoys its second year in a row with a […]
The London production, which has been running for 10 years, will reopen next month as a one-part show.
First We Feast is preparing to launch a new show in the “Hot Ones” franchise dubbed “Hot One: Game Night,” Variety has learned exclusively. The new series will be hosted by The Basement Yard’s Joe Santagato and will premiere Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. ET on the First We Feast YouTube channel. The guest in […]
