The Lollapalooza music festival starts up Thursday and Hulu is once again providing a live stream for all the fans who can’t make it out to Chicago. Live coverage beings Thursday at 2 p.m. PT and continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday…
Although Nintendo rarely has sales, Cyber Monday is one of the best times of the year to pick up a Nintendo Switch because the gaming company likes to throw in a few extras with their flagship console. Right now, you can get the Nintendo…
EDO, co-founded by actor and entrepreneur Edward Norton, has banked $12 million in Series A funding to fuel its buildout of its data-analytics service that measures how effectively TV ads drive consumer purchasing behavior. The funding was…
Rachel DeMita, a sports personality with a big online following, has signed with Overtime to collaborate on new shows and live coverage for the sports-media startup. The 28-year-old DeMita, who played college basketball at Old Dominion…
From the postmodern domestic sadism of “Dogtooth” to the “mythic” phantasmagoria of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” I can’t say the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos has ever been my cup of art poison. Yet even from my doubting vantage, it’s hard…
When we speak of someone “refusing to be a victim,” it’s usually in praise of their resolve and resilience: It’s a refusal that asserts an identity stronger than the worst adversity you’ve experienced. There’s undeniable power in that, but…
There’s an admirable quiet intensity to “A Moment in the Reeds,” a first feature by London-based Mikko Mäkelä set in his native Finland. Superficially similar to “God’s Own Country,”. It’s sold to a few territories already while touring…
The TV Academy has announced its 2018 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award winners in individual achievement categories for outstanding crafts in news and programming, including sports reporting, hard news reporting, and feature reporting. In the…
Isao Takahata, co-founder of Japan’s Studio Ghibli, and acclaimed animation director, died on Thursday in a Tokyo hospital. He was 82. According to local media, Takahata had been in declining health since last summer. A Studio Ghibli…
Say “Isle of Dogs” fast and it comes out sounding an awful lot like “I Love Dogs” — which makes sense, since that’s pretty much the chief takeaway from Wes Anderson’s delightful new animated feature. , this leisurely tale of abandoned…
Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group will finance and produce the comedy “The Devil May Care,” with Argentinian director Gabriela Tagliavini helming, Variety has learned exclusively. Tagliavini directed the Mexican comedy “Como…
All six seasons of “Lost,” the supernatural drama that aired on ABC, are now available on Hulu — after Netflix’s subscription-streaming rights to the show expired. As of Jan. 4, all 121 episodes of “Lost” are available to Hulu subscribers.…
Hulu will become the exclusive subscription VOD home to “30 Rock,” starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, under a new agreement with NBCUniversal Television and New Media Distribution that also covers four other series. Starting Oct. 1, all…
On June 22, Ryan Wiik walked into a conference room at an Oslo law firm and faced down a large group of his former friends. They were carpenters, plumbers and mechanics, mostly from his seaside hometown of Drobak. They had invested…
Samantha Geimer, who was raped at 13 by director Roman Polanski, urged a judge on Friday to resolve the 40-year-old case. “I would implore you to finally bring this to a close as an act of mercy to myself and my family,” Geimer told L.A.…
Variety’s “Actors on Actors” on PBS was awarded the Emmy Award for best entertainment programming at the Television Academy’s 68th Los Angeles area Emmy Awards. This is the second win in two years for the interview series, which features…
Fox Sports West, KMEX, KVEA, NBC4 and CBS2 won multiple awards Thursday as the winners of the 2016 Los Angeles Area Emmys individual-achievement categories were announced. Also winning awards were KCAL9 and Time Warner Cable SportsNet L.A.…
PBS SoCal’s “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors” series has nabbed its second consecutive nomination for a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award. The series that features notable actors in conversations about their craft is a contender in the…
“Game of Thrones” fans are already familiar with Gwendoline Christie in her guise as the honorable Brienne of Tarth, but audiences are about to see a very different side of the statuesque thesp thanks to roles in winter’s two biggest films…