variety.comadded August 2026
Varietyby K.J. Yossman38m ago
Russell Brand has arrived to London’s Southwark Crown Court for the start of his criminal trial. The former actor and comedian has been charged with three counts of rape, three counts of sexual...
Varietyby Emeza80552m ago
José María Cabral, three times Oscar hopeful for the Dominican Republic, and first Dominican filmmaker selected at Sundance in 2017 with “Woodpeckers,” delivers with the Tallinn competition entry...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran1h ago
Isabelle Huppert has yet to be pushed aside by AI, the French star said at the Busan International Film Festival, though she has heard she may soon be speaking Korean and Japanese.
Varietyby Leo Barraclough2h ago
Beta Film has closed major deals for two of its female-led highlights: royal drama “Queen Silvia” and upcoming series “La Vida Barcelona.” Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT has acquired the Swedish...
Varietyby Emiliano de Pablos2h ago
Audiovisual from Spain, ICEX Spain Trade & Investment’s umbrella brand, will bring some 50 companies and institutions to Mipcom this year, showcasing the breadth of the country’s film, TV...
Varietyby Elskes2h ago
Studiocanal has boarded “kiDnap Game,” a survival thriller series created and directed by Japan’s Yusuke Kato (“Last Friends”) which unfolds across seven cities in Asia.
Varietyby Emeza8052h ago
London-based Cineflix Rights, shopper of the Int’l Emmy-winner “Tehran” and BBC hit series “The Walsh Sisters,” has inked a raft of major sales on the Nordic blue crime “Hildur,” based on Finnish...
Varietyby Elskes2h ago
TF1 is bringing hit British comedy format “Taskmaster” to France as part of its big push into premium unscripted entertainment.
Varietyby Chris Willman3h ago
When the Beach Boys played Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Sunday night, no major announcements were made from the stage, but the sense of import for fans on hand was palpable, with many believing...
Varietyby K.J. Yossman3h ago
“Heart of a Killer,” a hit medical thriller starring Niv Sultan (Apple TV’s “Tehran”) has been renewed for a second season, Variety can confirm.
Varietyby Leo Barraclough3h ago
Banijay Entertainment will debut “Cooking Grandmas,” a feel-good cooking competition format from Banijay Italia, its Italian production arm, at content showcase Mipcom in Cannes.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran4h ago
Japanese animated fantasy “Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island” climbed to the top of the South Korean box office over the weekend of Oct.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran4h ago
Constantin Film and Sony Pictures’ horror reboot “Resident Evil” took the crown at the mainland China box office during the Oct.
Varietyby Marlow Stern5h ago
John Oliver returned to the “Last Week Tonight” desk Sunday night and, before his big story on generic medications and national drug shortages, teed off on what he called the “pretty tacky” scandal...
Varietyby Rafa Sales Ross6h ago
Enock Carvalho and Matheus Farias’ Locarno-winning “The Riverbank” has taken Best Fiction Feature Film at this year’s Rio Film Festival, with Eryk Rocha’s “Elza” scoring Best Documentary Feature...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran7h ago
For several years after the biggest run of her career, Moon Choi, known in Korea as Choi Hee-seo, kept her trophies out of sight. The haul was substantial.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran7h ago
A homecare nurse whose working day stretches from 12 hours to 72 sits at the center of “Selvi,” the first feature from Tamil filmmaker Sailesh Rathnakumar, which premieres in the Busan...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran7h ago
Three filmmakers at the forefront of China’s women-led cinema boom – Shao Yihui, Yang Lina and Yin Lichuan – have new titles on the slate of sales agent Parallax Films, which is shopping them to...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran7h ago
A villager maimed by a mining blast and his wife’s fight for compensation open up a story of exploitation, complicity and indigenous belief in “Veil of Dust,” the new project from “Rapture”...
Varietyby Guy Lodge7h ago
In an age where some call themselves activists merely through social media posting, stories of the dangers, consequences and occasional, very hard-won rewards of boots-on-the-ground political...
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