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Riot Games’ Maria Egan Accepts Variety Hitmakers’ Interactive Music in Media Award
Riot Games’ Maria Egan accepted Variety Hitmakers’ first-ever Interactive Music in Media Award on Saturday afternoon,...
Sean Baker Says Filmmakers ‘Have to Put Foot Down’ Following Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal, Won’t ‘Go for the $150 Million Studio Thing’ Post ‘Anora’
“Anora” director Sean Baker, who is at the Red Sea Film Festival as the head of the international jury, commented on ...
Red Sea Film Festival: ‘Desert Warrior’ Stars on Pioneering Hollywood-Style Production and Bringing Saudi Epic to Its Home Crowd
In 2021, Sharlto Copley (“District 9,” “The Witcher”) and Aiysha Hart (“Mogul Mowgli,” “Colette”) spent five months i...
Extras! Extras! Read All About Them
Central Casting opened its doors 100 years ago to aspiring stars flocking to the Southland, giving such actors as Bra...
Isabelle Huppert Joins Live-Action Short ‘Two People Exchanging Saliva’ as Executive Producer (EXCLUSIVE)
Isabelle Huppert has boarded Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh’s acclaimed live-action short film “Two People Exch...
Los Angeles Film Critics Winners (Updating Live)
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has convened for its 51st annual meeting to determine the year’s best achiev...
‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Advocates Say What They Really Want Goes Well Beyond The Film
Pamela Dias and Takema Robinson are part of a wave of activists doing work off documentaries.
‘Capernaum’ Director Nadine Labaki on How Cinema Can Help Arab Filmmakers ‘Express Pent-Up Anger,’ ‘Not Being Faced With Agenda’ From Western Funders
Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, whose “Capernaum” is the highest-grossing Arabic and Middle Eastern film of all time...
McLaren’s Lando Norris Wins First-Ever F1 World Championship
The U.K.-based Formula 1 team also won the Constructors’ title earlier this season.
Box Office: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Debuts to Frightfully Good $63 Million, ‘Zootopia 2’ Crosses $900 Million Globally
Audiences returned to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza in force, turbocharging a traditionally sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend...
‘How Do You Top Sexiest Man Alive?’: Jonathan Bailey and David Corenswet on Their Huge Years as Heartthrobs in ‘Wicked’ and ‘Superman’
“I’ve been plugged into some sort of matrix,” Jonathan Bailey says to David Corenswet. “I feel like I’ve been slowly ...
‘Always,’ ‘Riverstone’ Win Top Prizes at Singapore Film Festival
Chen Deming’s “Always” claimed the top prize at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards, tak...
Nadine Labaki Teases Next Feature as Director, Talks Having ‘Hardest Year of My Life’ After Record-Breaking Smash Hit ‘Capernaum’
Of all the attendees at the Red Sea Film Festival, only jury member Nadine Labaki can lay claim to having directed th...
Guillermo del Toro Says “There’s No Substitute” for Watching Films on the Big Screen While Introducing ‘Frankenstein’ With Jacob Elordi
"You can see it at home, and the food will be perhaps better, [but] you will have this experience collectively, all o...
Moroccan Talents to Watch: Leyna Tahiri, Driss Ramdi, Youssef Michraf, Meriame Essadak
The Marrakech Film Festival has grown alongside Morocco’s flourishing film industry. When the festival debuted in 200...
Stanley Tong on Rewriting ‘Supercop,’ Earning Jackie Chan’s Trust and Making Action Travel: ‘You Want to Make Dreams Come True’
Speaking in conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong director and producer Stanley Tong (...
A Drunk Raccoon Tries to Hook Up With Colin Jost and Eat Poop in Unhinged ‘Weekend Update’
In a “Weekend Update” that featured jokes about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a sunburned vacationer played by ca...
Shahad Ameen on Her Ambitious Road Movie ‘Hijra’: ‘I Wanted to Present Saudi Arabia in a Very Different Way’
Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen’s road movie “Hijra,” about the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women...
Sleepy Trump Dreams of Zohran Mamdani While Pete Hegseth Rants About War Crimes and Booze in Wacky ‘SNL’ Cold Open
Donald Trump didn’t throw much support behind Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in the cold open of the Dec. 6 episode of...
Melissa McCarthy Kicks Off ‘SNL’ With Festive Monologue as She’s Toppled by a Snowstorm
The two-time Oscar nominee served as one of the final hosts of 'SNL' in 2025, with Josh O’Connor and Ariana Grande sl...