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Amid Film & TV Squeeze, California Still Dominates Advertising Shoots As Celebrity Pay Soars, Study Finds
EXCLUSIVE: After a 25% decline between 2019 and 2025, the volume of commercial production dipped just 2% in the first...
‘Everytime’ Director Sandra Wollner on the Emotional Resonance of Her Un Certain Regard Winning Film: ‘We Carry Our Experiences Within Us’
Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” lands in Toronto this week for its North American premiere, kicking off a run that inclu...
Reggie Rock Bythewood Developing Film Based on Black Little League Baseball Team That Challenged Segregation
EXCLUSIVE: Reggie Rock Bythewood (Swagger) and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Undisputed Cinema is developing the feature fi...
Stagecoach 2027: How to Get Tickets
The annual country festival returns to Empire Polo Club on April 23rd-25th. Learn how to get tickets. Stagecoach 2027...
Flanders Cinema Finds Global Momentum With TIFF Titles, Cannes Honors and Oscar Buzz
Earlier this year, Belgium’s Flanders region returned to the Berlinale competition after a 45-year hiatus with Anke B...
Ben Platt & Russell Tovey Join HBO’s ‘Industry’ For Fifth & Final Season
Ben Platt (The Politician, The Beauty) and Russell Tovey (Plainclothes, HBO’s Years and Years) are the latest actors ...
‘Industry’ Season 5 Casts Ben Platt, Russell Tovey
Ben Platt and Russell Tovey have joined the fifth and final season of “Industry,” Variety has learned. Platt will pla...
Woody Harrelson To Play Wealthy American Expat In Freefall In Rick Alverson’s ‘Summer Of Roses’
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson is set to lead Summer of Roses, a new suspense drama from Rick Al...
EbonyLife’s Mo Abudu on TIFF Premiere ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ and ‘the Consequences of the Decisions We Take as Women’
Nigerian super-producer Mo Abudu returns to the red carpet at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival this week, where “The S...
NOFX’s Fat Mike on ‘40 Years of Fuckin’ Up’
There’s a scene in the new NOFX documentary, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up, where Michael “Fat Mike” Burkett—wearing a blue,...
‘200 Meters’ Director Ameen Nayfeh on New Film ‘Jo of Montreal’ and the Need for Family Films in West Asia
In making “Jo of Montreal,” Ameen Nayfeh, director of the award-winning Palestinian drama “200 Meters,” embarked on a...
Better Call Odenkirk: Watch L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman’s FYC Ad Voiced By Emmy Winner; Spot To Run During TV’s Big Night
EXCLUSIVE: When it’s time to get serious, it never hurts to have Saul Goodman in your corner — especially on Emmy nig...
Netflix, Amazon and YouTube Form D.C. Lobbying Group Amid Backlash Over Cost of Sports on Streaming
As U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle have taken aim at the growing cost and complexity for Americans to wat...
Macklemore Says He Was Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Robert Kraft Pressure Campaign
The Seattle rapper claimed the billionaire New England Patriots owner told Sheeran that Macklemore would not be allow...
Ziwe on YouTube as the ‘Great Equalizer’ and Her Only Interview That Went South
Ziwe Fumudoh has built her career in comedy and as an interview host who can handle any guest, from political figures...
Gina Rodriguez Sets Boxing Feature ‘House of Guerrero’ For Theatrical Directorial Debut & Producing Alongside Justin Baldoni
EXCLUSIVE: Gina Rodriguez is set to make her theatrical directorial debut with the new boxing film, House of Guerrero...
‘This Summer Will Be Different’: Malin Akerman, Megan Follows & Two More Join Cast Of Netflix Carley Fortune Adaptation
Netflix is rounding out the cast of This Summer Will Be Different, its series adaptation of Carley Fortune’s best-sel...
‘This Summer Will Be Different’ Netflix Series Casts Malin Akerman, Megan Follows, Nadine Bhabha, Matias Lucas
Netflix’s series adaptation of “This Summer Will Be Different” has added four new cast members, Variety has learned. ...
Futurama Parodies Two Classic TV Theme Songs In Newest Episode: Exclusive
The Hulu-revived series featured Gilligan's Island and The Love Boat as two parts of a three-part pop culture homage....
‘The Nature of Invisible Things’ Director Rafaela Camelo Lines Up Luciana Paes and Sundance-Winner Camila Márdila For ‘The Favorite Daughter’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Luciana Paes (“Friendly Beast”) and Camila Márdila (“I’m Still Here”) have been cast in “The Favorite Daughter” (“A F...