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The Belgian-born actress, who pulled double duty in the Cannes competition program this year with 'All of a Sudden' and 'Parallel Tales,' received the Leopard Club Award at the Swiss festival.
Shawn Levy's 21 Laps will produce the feature.
Alexandre Aja, who directed the initial 2019 horror thriller, is back in the director's chair for the follow-up.
Although Wizards Beyond Waverly Place brought back some familiar faces before casting its final spell, not all of the Russo family was around for the finale. Jake T. Austin, who played youngest sibling Max Russo in the original Disney Channel series, expressed “how disappointed” he was not to be inc
Spencer Pratt may have flamed out in his bid to be L.A. Mayor, but the reality TV enfant terrible has seemingly found a new calling — saving Hollywood with Donald Trump. Just days after the deeply unpopular former Apprentice host swooped into Southern California for a behind-closed-doors RNC fundrai
From collectible card sets by Topps to card games by Hasbro and Ravensburger, the entertainment giant has found a growth business in a mature consumer products world.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has launched a new program dedicated to the legacy of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who died this year. The Béla Tarr in Sarajevo Tribute program will focus on the work of former students from the Film Factory in Sarajevo, an innovative educational initiative set up by Ta
A federal judge clarified that reporter Catherine Herridge doesn’t have to pay an $800-per-day contempt fine as she appeals to the Supreme Court. The judge, Christopher Cooper, had imposed the fine. She had been found in civil contempt after she declined to reveal the source for her 2017 Fox News st
Also starring Valerie Pachner, this German drama from Felix Randau somehow adds up to more than the sum of its parts, becoming weirdly relevant in our post-truth world.
The White House once again turned to pop culture in characterizing their immigration strategy, this time using Spider Man imagery to portray ICE agents as “friendly neighborhood” figures and on the heroic side of deportations. An Instagram post this week, features Spider-Man’s hand spinning out a we
Popular social media influencers are increasingly looking overseas to turn their raw videos into addictive content, and not because it's cheaper.
Los Angeles, sweltering thanks to an unusual August humidity, got even hotter on Wednesday as Variety toasted the best and brightest young talent in show business. Variety Power of Young Hollywood, presented by Disney+, welcomed scores of actors, musicians, influencers, agents and execs to the Four
Few destinations deliver on the promise of a true escape quite like Hawaii. For Los Angeles travelers in particular, the islands have long served as an easy change of scenery — close enough for a relatively quick getaway, but far enough from Hollywood traffic to feel like a proper vacation. Choosi
Before the “Baywatch” producers wrapped filming the revival’s first season, they brought a special guest to the set this week: Real-life rookie lifeguard Ryder Williams, the 16-year-old who made headlines when he saved a 10-year-old boy on a Santa Cruz beach amid 8-to-10-foot high pounding waves and
Flo Anthony, an entertainment journalist known for being the first Black woman to work for the New York Post’s entertainment and Page Six departments, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. She was 74. Anthony’s death was confirmed to Variety by Jack Hirsch, the biographer of Anthony’s husband, M
Netflix's elegiac 19-part horror masterpiece of haunted families and literary riffs blends profound grief with bone-deep scares and eerie grace.
The Connections for today require knowledge of what makes up something else, making the overall puzzle a test of components rather than ideas.
On today’s episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, Matt Strauss, chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group, expands on the evolution of the Peacock streamer and his view of the “the great re-bundling” that is underway for streaming media. Strauss, who is a 22-year veteran of Comcast and NBCUniv
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has officially addressed the idea of a digital future, offering some clarification on GTA 6's release plans.
Inside this week's biggest Hollywood premieres, parties and openings.