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After making her Broadway debut last month, Taraji P. Henson is opening up about the challenges of performing for a live audience. The Golden Globe winner, who plays Bertha Holly in the current revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Barrymore Theatre, recently commented on dire
'The Pitt' closes out its second season with a series high and ranks No. 1 overall for the third straight week.
Asghar Farhadi made a grand return to Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night with the debut of “Parallel Tales,” his French-language drama starring Isabelle Huppert, earning a 5.5-minute standing ovation. The acclaimed Iranian auteur blew kisses to the crowd as the audience applauded for the 2-hour
After publicly supporting Donald Trump and the Republican Party in recent months, Nicki Minaj is opening up about why she became vocal in her support for the President. During an interview with Time, Minaj says a major reason that she was turned off to Democrats was that after her home was “swatted”
Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s first feature in five years received a warm welcome in Cannes on Thursday as an enthusiastic audience gave Parallel Tales a seven-minute ovation after its world premiere screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Following the screening, French screen ico
Maddie Brewer has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. She continues to be repped by Fourth Wall Management. Brewer is the creator, writer, and animator behind the Adult Swim series “CHIPS.” The show premiered in October 2025 and will be in competition at the Annecy
Emmy award-winning TV producer Sarah Caplan, who worked on series including “Felicity,” “Lost” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, died April 30 at Dignitas in Zurich, three years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She was 73. Her daughter, Stella Stahl, said in a statement, “In December, when it became
Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa also star in the Oscar-winning Iranian director's drama about voyeurism and imagination, his second French-language feature following 2013’s 'The Past.'
Her big-screen résumé also included ‘No Mercy, ‘Valmont,’ ‘Malcolm X’ and ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.’
BFFoundation has announced the 2026 Bentonville Film Festival’s lineup of in-person premieres. The festival will be held June 15-21 in Bentonville, Arkansas, and will showcase a range of narrative, documentary, homegrown, short film, and episodic material. BFF 2026 will open on June 16 with “Family
The legendary rock band used Deep Voodoo’s deepfake tech to de-age them in the video for the lead single off upcoming album 'Foreign Tongues.'
Donnie Yen's upcoming John Wick spin-off, Caine, has officially cast Stranger Things icon Dacre Montgomery. Read on for more.
Fan speculation for the upcoming Westworld reboot film placed Steven Spielberg as the director, but a new update just shattered the theory.
EXCLUSIVE: A new heartthrob is coming to Virgin River. Mitchell Slaggert (Landman, The Sex Lives of College Girls) is set for a major recurring role on the upcoming eighth season of the Netflix romantic drama, which recently started production in Vancover. Slaggert will play Eddie, a charismatic EMT
Ending a show is not easy — and the process is different for everyone. That was just one lesson learned during the drama series panel at the Variety A Night in the Writers’ Room event in Los Angeles. First, both Eric Kripke, showrunner and executive producer of Prime Video’s “The Boys,” and Matthew
The Canadian TV industry's stats-collector reports the Google-owned platform won the local streaming wars as the top TV distributor in Fall 2025, the last period to measure YouTube's audience reach.
Sandra Hüller takes a fraught and cathartic road trip in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cannes premiere “Fatherland”– and her GPS is set for next year’s Oscar race. The audience at the Grand Palais rewarded Hüller’s performance as the dutiful daughter of a post-war German literary genius with a 5-minute standi
Dua Lipa has announced “Dua Lipa (Live From Mexico),” a live album and concert film that she recorded across three shows at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros. The film is slated to premiere on May 21 at 10 a.m. PT on Lipa’s YouTube channel, while the live album will hit streaming services on May 22.
The star returns to the fashion world for Boots Riley's wild adventure following a band of professional shoplifters, appearing alongside Moore, Taylour Paige, Naomi Ackie, Poppy Liu and Eiza González.
The new period drama from the director of 'Ida' and 'Cold War' had its world premiere in Cannes competition Thursday night.