The Locarno Film Festival will honour Jane Campion with its Pardo d’onore Manor lifetime achievement award. The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will celebrate the revered auteur from New Zealand on Aug. 16 during a ceremony…
HYBE Corp., the biggest corporation in the South Korean pop music scene, has begun an audit into ADOR, the label responsible for K-pop act NewJeans. HYBE says that executives at the majority-owned subsidiary mya be attempting to break away…
South Australian Anthony Frith’s close encounter with “Sharknado” production company The Asylum in “Mockbuster” is among five titles to be showcased at the Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes showcase, held at Cannes Marché du Film on…
U.K. media regulator Ofcom has said it is “sounding a warning to broadcasters” to maintain “the highest level of due impartiality” ahead of a general election that is likely due later this year. Ofcom has enhanced rules that apply during…
“My Neighbor Totoro,” a stage adaptation of Miyazaki Hayao‘s beloved 1988 Studio Ghibli film, is transferring to the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London’s West End in early 2025. The production is a collaboration between multi-award-winning…
James Hamilton is a photographer who could and should have been far more famous — a household name, like Weegee or Arbus or Annie Liebovitz. Yet part of the fascination of "Uncropped," directed and edited by D.W. Young, is that it shows…
Epic war-time survival tale “The Guns of Muschu” has already assembled a weighty cast ahead of a production start in the first quarter of 2025. The film is an adaptation of the non-fiction book “The Guns of Muschu,” written by Don Dennis,…
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stake in the popular app. The development will likely result in a court battle between the U.S. and TikTok,…
The “FBI: International” team just got a little smaller. Luke Kleintank, who has played Scott Forrester in “FBI: International” since its debut, is leaving the crime drama series after three seasons, Variety has confirmed. Kleintank’s last…
Megan Thee Stallion’s former photo and videographer alleges he was forced to witness her having sex with a woman in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles. Plaintiff Emilio Garcia is also accusing the Texas-born entertainer of harassment…
Parenting inspires varying schools of thought. While some relish the tasks of caretaking, others speak candidly about the hardships of child-rearing, sharing the true realities of motherhood that have been glamorized over time. In “Mary…
The National Association of Broadcasters and Curtis LeGeyt have agreed to a contract extension that will keep him as CEO of the organization through 2029, NAB joint board chair Perry Sook announced Tuesday. LeGeyt has been with NAB for…
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a final rule banning noncompete clauses in most employment contracts in the U.S. But experts in the field said the FTC’s move will definitely be challenged in court. Under the FTC’s new rule,…
Several crew members were injured during rehearsal of an action sequence on the set of “The Pickup” on Saturday. The Amazon Studios feature film is currently shooting in Georgia. The studio confirmed on Tuesday that multiple people were…
“Clue” could soon be heading back to the screen. Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony’s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game. “Sony is the perfect partner to adapt…
In the run-up to its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola’s 135-minute epic “Megalopolis” is on track to sell to a French distributor, Le Pacte. The indie company, presided over by veteran French…
Sylvester Stallone revealed on the TMZ special “Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons” (via The Daily Mail) that a near career-ending injury in the lead up to “Rocky II” threatened to end the boxing franchise before its first sequel got off…
“Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line,” a documentary feature about the veteran Australian rock band Midnight Oil, has been set as the opening gala title at the Sydney Film Festival. It will have its world premiere at the State Theatre on June 5…
Callum Turner has been cast in the lead role of the series adaptation of the William Gibson novel “Neuromancer” at Apple TV+, Variety has learned. The series was originally announced in February. Per the official description, the 10…
Post Malone, Vault Comics and Michael Bay and Brad Fuller’s Platinum Dunes have partnered to create an all-new IP universe based on an original story by the recording artist. Blending elements of road thrillers like “Mad Max: Fury Road”…
The Eddie Vedder-founded Ohana Festival will return to southern California for three days in September, with the opening and closing nights headlined by Pearl Jam, sandwiching a performance by Neil Young & Crazy Horse in the top-billed…
Super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently told People magazine that Bruce Willis was so generous on the set of their 1998 blockbuster “Armageddon” that he gave money away to the crew to make sure people had some “nice extra cash at the end…
When millions of Americans came together to marvel at the stunning solar eclipse, we saw a rare moment of unity amid the darkness of a country torn apart by polarization. Bookending the same week? The release of action-thriller “Civil War…
Jo Ann Ross, the first woman to run a broadcast TV network’s ad-sales efforts and one of the last senior ad-sales executives in the TV industry to hold direct relationships with advertisers when primetime broadcast programs were seen as…
The last time I spoke to Noah Jupe was four years ago when he was just 15 years old. It was over Zoom, and he was promoting HBO’s “The Undoing” from a Detroit hotel room, where he was under mandatory quarantine waiting to be cleared to…
Thandiwe Newton is the latest new cast member to join “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix. Variety has learned exclusively from sources that Newton will star in the second season of the megahit series. Exact character details are being kept…
“Baby Reindeer” has emerged as a surprise hit for Netflix. After debuting as last week’s fourth most-watched English-language TV series, and the 11th-most watched series overall, it was the No. 1 TV series on the service from April 15-21,…
Hip-hop producer BNYX (Yeat, Drake, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Nicki Minaj) has signed a new deal with Zack Bia’s Field Trip Recordings and Capitol Records. Yeat’s Lyfestyle Corporation will also work with BNYX as part of the deal. “BNYX…
The “One Piece” live-action series at Netflix is bringing in Joe Tracz to serve as its new co-showrunner for Season 2. Tracz will helm the popular series based on the Eiichiro Oda manga of the same name alongside Season 1 co-showrunner,…
Alec Baldwin’s lawyers alleged a “stunning abuse of prosecutorial power” in the “Rust” case on Tuesday, arguing that a favorable plea offer was withdrawn last fall due to a misunderstanding about Baldwin’s role in a documentary about the…