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Italian filmmaker Fabrizio Cattani brought “Forever With You,” his exploration of childhood, grief and the loss of a parent, to the Middle East for the first time this week, with the film receiving a Green Carpet premiere at the 13th Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth in the UAE. With Italy celebrated as […]
Double Oscar nominee James Longley, who won the top award at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival on Saturday with “Mohabat,” will focus next on the Rohingya genocide. Longley – who was Oscar nominated for “Iraq in Fragments” and “Sari’s Mother” – tells Variety at the Czech event, “I’ve already filmed act one of this project, working […]
Following the news that “Criminal Minds: Evolution” has been canceled at Paramount+, stars A.J. Cook, Paget Brewster, Kirsten Vangsness and more are looking back on the crime drama’s 20 Season run. The announcement seems to have come at the perfect time to mourn a TV show, as Cook chose to mark the end of this […]
My Chemical Romance has scored its first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as “The Black Parade” surges from No. 139 to the top of the chart, 20 years after its initial release. The group reaches the chart summit for the first time following a deluxe reissue of the album with 78,000 equivalent album units. […]
Hilary Duff is reflecting on being so “done” playing Lizzie McGuire after the 2003 movie concluded the two-season Disney Channel show that made her a star. “The Lizzie McGuire Movie” features the now-iconic “What Dreams Are Made Of,” which Duff re-recorded for her 2026 “(Mine)” EP and sang live for the first time on the […]
“Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames” – the latest iteration of the “Gintama” story – previewed this week at Lucca Comics and Games, Europe’s largest Comic-Con, prior to a theatrical release in Italy. Variety spoke with director Naoya Andô and producer Ryo Nakamuray about their continuation of the saga. “Gintama” started life as a manga, authored and […]
Over the last few days, Lucca Comics and Games, Europe’s largest Comic-Con, has been celebrating its 60th anniversary. The medieval city located in Italy’s Tuscany region hosted creative leaders, artists and players of games, authors of comic books, manga, showrunners and animators of TV series and anime, actors and directors of films. Around 80,000 ticket-paying […]
Judi Dench is reflecting on her relationship with Robin Williams and how he supported her when her husband, Michael Williams, was battling lung cancer in her forthcoming memoir, “Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?” Nearly 30 years earlier, Dench had been staying at actor Billy Connolly’s Scotland home with her late […]
While Western TV audiences of the 80s surveying the Soviet world were following Mikhail Gorbachev, those inside the bloc were just as likely to be interested in a bizarre mass hypnosis artist by the name of Anatoly Kashpirovskiy, as Ji.hlava doc fest audiences have seen this week. A trained medical doctor who said he first […]
Martha Stewart has issued a statement after drawing hefty backlash for dressing up as a homeless person for Halloween. The media mogul’s choice of costume for Saturday’s holiday, which included her dressed up in tattered clothing, dirt-inspired face makeup and a sign that read, “I am hungry. Help me!!,” was quickly deemed offensive and in […]
Director Zach Cregger’s “Resident Evil” has notched a notable box office milestone, climbing to $400 million in global ticket sales. His reboot of the ’90s zombie video game has earned $157.399 million in North America and $242.6 million overseas for a worldwide haul of exactly $400 million. It’s now the highest-grossing installment in the 24-year-old […]
Why do humans tend to vent abuse at their AI bots – and should they think about apologizing? That question is central to “Searching for SmarterChild,” the project that won the New Visions Award for the most promising U.S. project at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival this week. Zan Gillies is co-directing the U.S.-Canadian film […]
“Nobody Wants This” actress Tovah Feldshuh is speaking out again amid disagreements between the show’s cast on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Feldshuh, who plays Rabbi Noah Roklov’s (Adam Brody) mother Bina on the Netflix Jewish rom-com, denied that tensions are rising between the cast and creator. “Tensions are NOT RISING. Profound differences of opinion are,” Feldshuh […]
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay is warning that the midterm elections aren’t looking great for the U.S. — no matter what the outcome. “I think either way we’re in trouble,” DuVernay told me at the Airbnb.org Gala last week. “If the Democrats pull it out, I think you’re going to see an outsized reaction from the […]
A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” and DC’s comic book adaptation “Clayface” are vying for first place at the domestic box office, with each film on track to collect around $10.5 million over the weekend. Although it’ll be a close call, “You Can See Everything” has the slight edge with $10.6 million while […]
Harry Styles’ record-setting 30-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden came to a close over the weekend, with a pair of Styles’ recurring “Harryween” concerts that saw the star, his band and much of the audience dressed for the occasion — in his case as 1970s-era Elvis Presley on the first night and the […]
Savannah Guthrie has taken to social media to urge anyone with knowledge about her mother, Nancy, who was presumed kidnapped in February and has yet to be found, to come forward. Guthrie shared a drawing to her Instagram account done by her daughter that shows an umbrella, raindrops and the text: “I know it might […]
With temperatures dropping and the holiday season right around the corner, streaming boosts are all but guaranteed in November. Netflix is diving head first into the Christmas season with the launch of several original holiday movies, but the streamer is also getting a jump on Oscar season with the launch of international awards season hopefuls […]
Oscar Hartland, who played Neil the Baby, says he's on a "mission to create a new modern sound for Wales".
Michael Mann was hospitalized on Saturday after he accidentally shot himself in the leg at a Los Angeles gun range, according to the L.A. Police Department. The director was trying to holster a firearm during a target practice at a sanctioned gun range when the weapon accidentally went off, as first reported by TMZ. The […]
