| Apr 18 | ‘Abigail’ Review: A Remake of ‘Dracula’s Daughter’ Turns Into a Bru... they’re like characters in a bargain-basement remake of "The Desperate Hours" crossed with "Reservoir Dogs" crossed with the worst A24 house-party horror film you could imagine. |
| Apr 18 | ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ to Air Live Shows From Chicago... Stephen Colbert is taking “The Late Show” on the road. The late-night program will broadcast live from Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre during this year’s Democratic National Convention, also taking place in Chicago, from Aug. ... |
| Apr 18 | ‘The Wiz’ Review: In a New Broadway Revival, Dorothy and Friends Ge... A flight of imagination born of the trippy 1970s, “The Wiz” can shoulder a lot of interpretation. Sidney Lumet’s shadowy film, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, sets the Black spin on L. Frank Baum’s children’s story “The Wonderful Wizard o... |
| Apr 18 | ‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals Identities of Ugly Sweater and Starfish... SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 11, Episode 7 of “The Masked Singer,” “Queen Night,” which aired April 10 on Fox. “The Masked Singer” dropped a bomb on us: Singer/songwriter Charlie Wilson, who has enjoyed a tremend... |
| Apr 17 | Quentin Tarantino Scraps ‘The Movie Critic’ as His Final Film Quentin Tarantino is no longer planning to make “The Movie Critic,” which he had earlier said would be his final film as a director. It was confirmed Wednesday that the director had given the project a thumbs down. “The Movie Cri... |
| Apr 17 | Sydney Sweeney Fires Back at Producer Who Said She’s ‘Not Pretty’ a... Sydney Sweeney caught a stray last week when veteran Hollywood producer Carol Baum said at an event that Sweeney is “not pretty” and “can’t act” — and that her hit rom-com “Anyone but You” was “unwat... |
| Apr 17 | ‘Fantastic Four’ Star Joseph Quinn Isn’t Worried About Superhero Fa... Joseph Quinn is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in the upcoming tentpole “The Fantastic Four,” starring opposite Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman... |
| Apr 17 | New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week It’s not always easy to find out which movies are hitting theaters each week, especially after the Hollywood strikes led to many release date changes. With the WGA and actors strikes resolved and summer blockbusters starting to roll in, Apri... |
| Apr 17 | Henry Cavill Jokes ‘I Don’t Have Much Luck With Post-Credit Scenes’... Henry Cavill nodded to his tumultuous history with post-credits scenes during a recent screening of his new Guy Ritchie-directed movie “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” As reported by Insider, Cavill made some introductory remar... |
| Apr 17 | ‘9-1-1’: ‘Bachelor’ Crossover Episode Nabs Best Seven-Day Rating in... The 100th episode of “9-1-1,” which guest starred Joey Graziadei and Jesse Palmer as a crossover with “The Bachelor,” reached a rating of 0.91 among adults age 18-49 according after one week of delayed viewing. Up from a 0.... |
| Apr 17 | ‘X-Men ’97’ Composers Created Eight Different Versions of Main Titl... When Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart, better known as The Newton Brothers, took on the job of scoring Disney+’s “X-Men ‘97,” they knew they would have a mighty task ahead of them – they’d have to find a way to put their stamp on the iconic synth-hea... |
| Apr 17 | Brian Cox: Joaquin Phoenix Was ‘Truly Terrible’ in ‘Napoleon’ and ‘... Brian Cox has never been one to withhold his true feelings, and at London’s HistFest the “Succession” star unloaded on a variety of topics Sunday night including politics, theater critics and Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.... |
| Apr 17 | Seattle International Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘Thelma,’ ‘Babe... The Seattle International Film Festival has revealed its lineup for the 50th edition, which takes place May 9–19 at venues across Seattle and followed by a week of select virtual screenings on the SIFF Channel May 20–27. The program includes 261 f... |
| Apr 17 | Bill Maher ‘Flat-Out’ Believes Woody Allen Is Innocent, Calls Actor... Bill Maher welcomed Katie Couric onto his “Club Random” podcast and passionately defended Woody Allen while the two discussed canceled artists in Hollywood. Maher said “I don’t think he committed that crime” in refere... |
| Apr 17 | Yellow Veil Pictures Launches Sales on Debut Production ‘A Desert,’... Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut, “A Desert,” has been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere in June. The film stars Kai Lennox (“God’s Country,” “Green Room”),... |
| Apr 17 | ‘Oldboy’ English-Language TV Series in the Works From Park Chan-woo... Lionsgate Television is teaming with Park Chan-wook to develop an English-language TV adaptation of Park’s iconic film “Oldboy.” Park directed and co-wrote the original film, which was itself loosely based on the Japanese manga o... |
| Apr 17 | With France on Highest Alert, Olympics Organizers Plan Opening Cere... With France on its highest level of security alert amid geopolitical turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East, organizers behind the Paris Olympics are still going ahead with ambitious plans to host the opening ceremony along the Seine river on July... |
| Apr 17 | Variety Power of Law Honoree Clifford Gilbert-Lurie Champions Many ... For 27 of the last 32 years, Ziffren Brittenham senior partner Clifford Gilbert-Lurie has served as one of the chairs of the Champions for Children’s gala dinner benefiting the Alliance for Children’s Rights, an experience he says is akin to throw... |
| Apr 17 | Variety’s Power of Law Honoree Clifford Gilbert-Lurie Cuts Deals fo... By all measures, Ziffren Brittenham senior partner Clifford Gilbert-Lurie has had a storied run as an entertainment attorney. Over the course of his four-decade-plus career, he has made big deals for a long list of loyal clients that have generate... |
| Apr 17 | Gravitas Ventures Acquires Psychological Thriller ‘Exposure’ Starri... Independent film distributor Gravitas Ventures has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Peter Cannon’s psychological thriller “Exposure.” The film, written by Cannon, stars Douglas Smith and Margo Harshman and will be released on d... |
| Apr 16 | David Oyelowo Apple Series ‘Government Cheese’ Rounds Out Cast With... The upcoming Apple TV+ series “Government Cheese” has filled out its main cast with four new additions, Variety has learned exclusively. Jahi Winston (“We Have a Ghost, “Charm City Kings”), Evan Alexander Ellison (“She Came to Me... |
| Apr 16 | James Gandolfini Reprised Tony Soprano in 2010 to Help Recruit LeBr... “The Sopranos” fans got thrown a curveball in 2021 when Edie Falco revealed for the first time on an Atlantic podcast that she once reunited with James Gandolfini to reprise Tony and Carmela Soprano for a bizarre clip set two years aft... |
| Apr 16 | Music Industry Moves: MusiCares Plots Second Annual Volunteer Day; ... Music’s leading charity MusiCares has announced its second annual volunteer day, “The Day That Music Cares,” will take place on April 26. The initiative encourages music professionals and fans worldwide to a day of volunteering, ... |
| Apr 16 | Michael Douglas Asked Marvel to Kill Him Off in ‘Ant-Man and the Wa... Micheal Douglas went viral last year when he told THR on the “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” red carpet that he would only be interested in returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Hank Pym in a fourth “Ant-Man” mo... |
| Apr 16 | Margaret Qualley Exits Amanda Knox Limited Series at Hulu Margaret Qualley is no longer going to star in Hulu’s limited series about Amanda Knox, Variety has confirmed. The untitled series was announced in March with Qualley set to star and executive produce. She has reportedly exited the project d... |
| Apr 16 | Actors Sue Commercial Casting Site Over ‘Pay for Play’ Policy A group of actors filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday against Casting Networks, one of a handful of websites that connects actors to commercial auditions, alleging that the platform functions as an illegal pay-for-play system. Casting Networks of... |
| Apr 16 | U.S. Reps Raise Concerns That Disney, Fox, WBD Sports Streaming Ven... The Disney/ESPN, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery sports-streaming joint venture has drawn congressional scrutiny. In a letter sent Wednesday (April 16) to the CEOs of the three companies, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D.-NY), the ranking member of the... |
| Apr 16 | Henry Cavill Improvised That ‘Unhinged’ Tongue-Wagging, Nazi-Killin... Director Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” may be based on secret, real-life WWII commandos, but that didn’t stop him up from upping the Nazi-killing brutality. In a couple gleefully bloody scenes, Henry... |
| Apr 16 | ‘Sesame Street’ Writers Approve WGA Strike Authorization Vote as Co... Writers employed by “Sesame Street” producer Sesame Workshop have voted unanimously to support a strike authorization vote from the Writers Guild of America as the April 19 expiration of the current contract approaches. The 35 writers ... |
| Apr 16 | ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Star Riley Keough Shoots Down Any Hope for ... Despite the success of “Daisy Jones & the Six,” star Riley Keough says the band isn’t getting back together anytime soon. Despite fans hoping — and demanding — a second season of the Prime Video miniseries adaptation of Tara Jenkin... |
| Apr 15 | Former Amazon MGM Exec Chris Brearton Joins AGBO As Partner Last week, Amazon Studios/Prime Video senior VP announced that Chris Brearton was leaving Amazon “to pursue a new opportunity outside the company.” Now we know what that opportunity is: Brearton, who had most recently served as vice pr... |
| Apr 15 | Stormy Daniels Documentary Being Launched by Blue Ant Media – Globa... STORM WARNING “Stormy,” a documentary about former porn star Stormy Daniels, has been picked up by Blue Ant Studios for international distribution. The launch was announced on Monday, the same day that former U.S. president Donald Trump begins a c... |
| Apr 15 | Werner Herzog Leads Film Accelerator in Spain, Voice Acts in Bong J... In an exclusive interview with Variety, German maestro filmmaker Werner Herzog discussed his plans to lead the 3rd Film Accelerator program organized by Barcelona-based La Selva. Herzog and his long-time cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger will be on... |
| Apr 15 | Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils 2024 Lineup Cannes Critics’ Week, the sidebar dedicated to first and second films, will open with Jonathan Millet’s psychological thriller “Ghost Trail” and wrap with Emma Benestan’s genre film “Animale.” “Ghost Trail... |
| Apr 15 | Doja Cat Gets Provocative at Coachella With Mud Dancing, Dinosaurs,... Doja Cat has rarely turned in an uninteresting or unprovocative performance, and her headlining set Sunday night at Coachella offered a plethora of looks and concepts designed to prompt dazzlement and debate among the viewing audience. Dinosaur sk... |
| Apr 15 | Pierce Brosnan, Amir El-Masry Join AGC’s Biopic of Boxer Prince Nas... Pierce Brosnan will star with Amir El-Masry in the sports drama “Giant,” based on the true-life story of British-Yemeni boxer Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed and his rags to riches ascent to a world championship under the tutelage of his Iri... |
| Apr 15 | Will Smith Joins J. Balvin at Coachella for ‘Men in Black’ Performance Will Smith made a surprise appearance onstage with J Balvin on Sunday night, dressed in his full “Men in Black” suit and sunglasses and performing the title track of the 1997 film. The appearance was brief but memorable, capping a UFO-themed set a... |
| Apr 15 | ‘The Goldfinger’ Snags Six Prizes at Hong Kong Film Awards Crime drama “The Goldfinger” was the numerical winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards, where it won six prizes on Sunday. But it missed out on the best film prize, which went to box office record breaker “A Guilty Conscience.” “The Goldfinger,” a ret... |
| Apr 15 | Kesha Changes ‘Tik Tok’ Lyrics to ‘F— P. Diddy’ During Surprise App... Kesha made quite a statement while performing as a surprise guest during Reneé Rapp’s afternoon Coachella set on Sunday (April 14). The singer, who emerged roughly halfway through Rapp’s performance, emerged to give a rendition of her 2010 smash “... |
| Apr 15 | China Box Office: ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Reaches $93 Million After... Oscar-winning Japanese animated fantasy “The Boy and the Heron” held on to top spot at the mainland China box office to record a second weekend win. The film, which opened triumphantly on April 3, in time for a family-oriented long weekend, fell s... |
| Apr 14 | No Doubt’s Thrilling Coachella Set Unites Multiple Generations of F... As their electrifying set on Saturday night proved, No Doubt were Coachella 2024’s secret weapon. Sure, people were excited when the band presence at the festival — their first concert in nine years — was first announced, but the run-up to it was ... |
| Apr 14 | How ‘The Sympathizer’s’ Depiction of the Vietnam War Helped Its Cas... About a month ago, “The Sympathizer” star Fred Nguyen Khan lost his grandmother. She was a Vietnamese refugee who sought asylum in Canada, enduring a “staggered escape” that left her and her siblings terrified they wouldn’t survi... |
| Apr 14 | Grimes Apologizes for Calamitous Coachella Set: ‘Plz Forgive Me!’ On Saturday Grimes lived what is probably the nightmare of every Coachella performer: debilitating equipment malfunctions in front of thousands of fans and possibly millions watching online. While things seemed fine for the first half of her set, ... |
| Apr 14 | ‘Papyrus 2’: Ryan Gosling Returns for Sequel to Beloved ‘SNL’ Sketc... After much anticipation, the sequel to the 2017 sketch “Papyrus 2” has finally emerged despite being cut for time during the live broadcast, making its debut on YouTube. The original sketch was conceived by former “SNL” wri... |
| Apr 14 | Writers Guild Awards to Celebrate Honorees As New Contract Heralds ... For the roughly 12,000 scribes the Writers Guild of America represents, the last year has been an emotional roller coaster: The guild engaged in a labor stoppage for over four and a half months in 2023 that, alongside a partially overlapping SAG-A... |
| Apr 14 | Why I Wasn’t Scared by ‘Civil War’ A great many people appear to have come out of “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s a-house-divided-against-itself-can-kick-highly-equipped-military-ass dystopian combat thriller, feeling all shook up. They’re disturbed by it, unsettled by it. ... |
| Apr 14 | Box Office: ‘Civil War’ Sets A24 Record With $25 Million Debut Director Alex Garland’s provocative dystopian thriller “Civil War” lit up the box office with $25.7 million in its debut. It’s the first A24 movie to lead the charts in North America, setting an opening weekend record for t... |
| Apr 14 | Filmotor Nabs World Sales for Berlinale Title ‘Shahid’ Ahead of Vis... Berlinale Forum entry “Shahid,” the debut feature of Iranian-German filmmaker Narges Kalhor, has been picked up by Prague-based doc specialist Filmotor ahead of its premiere at Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel, where it is competing in t... |
| Apr 14 | Tyler, the Creator Brings Out Childish Gambino, ASAP Rocky at Coach... Tyler, the Creator is no doubt one of the greatest showmen working today in hip-hop. During his headlining set on Saturday night (April 13) at Coachella, the rapper once again proved just that, transforming the main stage into a desert canyon and ... |
| Apr 14 | No Doubt Dusts Off the Spiderwebs and Brings Rock Steady Vibes to I... “I didn’t think this was really going to happen, did you?” shouted Gwen Stefani halfway through “Hella Good,” the opening song from No Doubt during their reunion set at Coachella 2024. Indeed, it’s been 12 years... |