The 2024 ATX TV Festival will close out its 13th season with a celebration of TV icon Norman Lear, Variety can exclusively announce. “Norman Lear’s TV for the People: Script Reading and Conversation” will honor the legendary television…
A quartet of fast-rising British names are coming together for a buzzy new project launching at the Cannes market. Bella Ramsey, Louis Partridge and Ruby Stokes are set to lead “Sunny Dancer,” the sophomore feature from George Jaques.…
Jonathan Bailey, Hayley Atwell and Eddie Marsan have joined the cast of “Heartstopper” Season 3. Atwell will play Diane, Nick’s (Kit Connor) aunt who takes him on a summer holiday to Menorca and has some tough advice to impart about his…
“The Sandman,” Neil Gaiman’s classic supernatural comic turned Netflix series, is a sweeping epic in which abstract concepts like Dream (Tom Sturridge) and Death (Kirby) take human form, traversing Earth and the astral plane to settle…
Could renowned attractions such as the London Eye or the Sea Life aquariums be getting their own TV shows? That’s part of the plan following a new partnership between Brent Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse and Merlin Entertainment.…
Paramount+ today announced that the upcoming docuseries “Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza” will premiere exclusively on the service in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, May 21 and on Wednesday, May 22 in the UK, Australia, Latin America,…
REinvent International Sales has boarded “Second Victims,” a psychological drama directed by Zinnini Elkington which shot on location at Denmark’s Herlev Hospital. Set against the backdrop of an understaffed stroke unit, the film follows…
Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision is the latest TV company trying to turn its viewers into rabid shoppers. The company has struck a partnership with the technology company Shopsense AI that will make the latter’s retail platform…
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals. The Associated Press reported on Thursday that the court found the judge in Weinstein’s trial, which was a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement…
The average person won’t be able to see the nation’s Supreme Court justices contemplating arguments Thursday over whether Donald Trump’s efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden can be prosecuted as a crime. But…
Matt Friend, known for his red-carpet celebrity interactions and spot-on impressions of Donald Trump, Howard Stern and Mitch McConnell, is bringing his bite-sized comedy to a longform podcast. “Friend in High Places” will launch later this…
Lucy Liu and Padma Lakshmi are among the stars who will be honored at the third annual Gold House Gala in May. This year marks the third annual Gold Gala where top Asian Pacific and multicultural leaders will convene to celebrate the 2024…
Listen up, Potterheads: J.K. Rowling’s seven original Harry Potter books are getting a massive new audiobook series. Amazon’s Audible and Pottermore Publishing, the global digital publisher of Rowling’s Wizarding World, will co-produce a…
“Beef,” “The 1619 Project,” “Heartstopper” and “A Small Light” are among the programs set to be recognized by the Television Academy for its 17th Television Academy Honors. The event aims to celebrate “the extraordinary power of…
Magnify, the rebranded international sales arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired global and U.S. sales rights to “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” in the run up to its world premiere at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Directed and co-writer…
Fred Schepisi is set to direct Israel-based thriller “The Dimona Affair,” Variety has learned exclusively. The project is based on the story of a whistleblower who claimed Israel was building a nuclear weapons program. (The country has…
The times are changing across Indian cinema and Katrina Kaif, one of the top stars of the country, is changing with them. The top 10 Indian films in the post-pandemic year 2023 were all star-driven blockbusters and Kaif was in the mix with…
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO has acquired Netherlands broadcast rights to “Daughter of Genghis.” The documentary about Mongolian female nationalist gang leader and single mother Gerel Byamba will make its North American debut at Hot Docs…
Australian police said on Thursday that they had arrested Orpheus Pledger, an actor known for his role on long-running soap “Home and Away.” His failure to appear in court on Tuesday led to the issue of an arrest warrant and a public call…
Cinephil has sold Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó’s feature documentary “Agent of Happiness” to a wide range of key international territories ahead of the film’s Hot Docs debut this weekend. Deals are confirmed in the U.K. and Ireland …
When Ncuti Gatwa makes his first appearance as the 15th Doctor in the science-fiction series “Doctor Who,” he isn’t wearing any pants. In a 60th-anniversary special released in December, the previous Doctor — played by series icon David…
Sudanese first-timer Mohamed Kordofani’s “Goodbye Julia,” a timely morality tale that takes place just before the 2011 secession of South Sudan, and Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” lead the way in nominations for…
Imax fans turned up in droves to see “Dune 2” on the really big screen, helping the company cruise past analyst earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2024. Despite the sandworm bump, it was a tough compare with the year-ago period…
French sales powerhouse Charades has boarded Constance Tsang’s migrant drama “Blue Sun Palace” which is set to world premiere at Cannes’ Critics’ Week. WME Independent is representing domestic rights for the movie in North America. “Blue…
Comcast notched a small first-quarter profit despite continued erosion in its core cable operations and a lack of new spending from advertisers at its NBCUniversal operations. The Philadelphia owner of NBC, USA and the Peacock streaming…
Continued investment in streaming contributed to a first-quarter loss for Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision, which is seeing the bulk of its growth come from its Mexican operations while U.S. revenue stays flat with year…
Wondery U.K. has hired Spotify exec Chris Baughen as its new head of podcasts. He joins the company on April 29 and will be based in London. Baughen steps into the role recently vacated by Rich Knight, who has moved to BBC Studios. Baughen…
WALKING AND TALKING “Women of My Billion (WOMB),” a documentary produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, will play on Prime Video from May 3. Directed by Ajitesh Sharma, “WOMB” follows the journey of Srishti Bakshi, as she embarked on a walking…
David Anthony Chan’s epic fantasy novel “The Kindred Chronicles” is set to be adapted into an animated series and will be the first project flowing from a partnership between HIP Studios and hybrid publisher 8 Letters. The deal between the…
Multi award-winning Filipina actress Ruby Ruiz has landed her first major screen role following her appearance in Amazon’s “Expats.” She will lead “First Light,” the feature directorial debut of James. J. Robinson. Principal photography is…