variety.comadded August 2026
Varietyby Corbin Bolies24 Aug 2026
WildBrain, the Canadian children’s media company with the rights to titles such as “Yo Gabba Gabba!” and the “Teletubbies,” has purchased the child-focused generative AI startup Personality AI in a...
Varietyby Clayton Davis24 Aug 2026
Veteran actor John Leguizamo, breakouts James Ortiz and Inde Navarrette and more Latino Hollywood talents are among the Critics Choice Association’s slate of honorees for the newly titled...
Varietyby Danvariety24 Aug 2026
Late night is in the doldrums. It’s not just that the remaining hosts are taking much of the summer off.
Varietyby K.J. Yossman24 Aug 2026
An eighth season of “Black Mirror” is officially in production, Variety can confirm. The show started shooting this summer, although no launch date for the new season has been set yet.
Varietyby K.J. Yossman24 Aug 2026
“The Gentlemen” has officially been greenlit for Season 3, Variety can confirm. Guy Ritchie’s high-society, high-octane caper starring Theo James and Kaya Scodelario is set to return for a third...
Varietyby Ellise Shafer24 Aug 2026
Reggie Watts’ “Comedy Bang Bang” theme song was cut from Monday’s episode of the popular podcast following a Rolling Stone report that alleged the comedian and musician has exhibited “reckless and...
Varietyby Guy Lodge24 Aug 2026
In the opening of “Small Things,” Zvonimir Jurić’s elegant and understated chamber drama, the giggling grandchildren of an elder patriarch (Bosnian film and theater veteran Izudin Bajrović) show...
Varietyby K.J. Yossman24 Aug 2026
Reports of Meghan Markle’s return to acting in the U.K. prompted numerous quips and memes over the weekend that the Duchess of Sussex was planning to make an appearance on long-running BBC soap...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran24 Aug 2026
Vietnamese found-footage horror film “Lầu Chú Hoả: The Deadliest Mansion” is opening in North American theaters on Sept.
Varietyby Marta Balaga24 Aug 2026
Five features and one documentary have been nominated for the 2026 Nordic Council Film Prize. It’s awarded to a feature film or documentary produced in the Nordic countries that has been...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran24 Aug 2026
Prime Video has set a September premiere date for “Don’t Be Shy,” a young-adult romantic comedy from Alia Bhatt and Shaheen Bhatt’s Eternal Sunshine Productions.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran24 Aug 2026
Francesca Moody Productions has unveiled the first wave of guest performers joining Tim Crouch’s “An Oak Tree” for its run at The Other Palace in London, with Sacha Dhawan, Gemma Whelan, Bessie...
Varietyby Emeza80524 Aug 2026
Norwegian star actor Kristofer Hivju (“Game of Thrones,” “Red One”, “Beck”) will play opposite Friday Hallgren (from Oscar-nominated “As It Is in Heaven”) in the upcoming Swedish-Croatian rom-com...
Varietyby Marta Balaga24 Aug 2026
In “Beloved,” opening the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund, Erik Poppe takes on a script by Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran24 Aug 2026
“The Odyssey” maintained its commanding position atop the South Korea box office during the weekend of Aug. 21–23.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran24 Aug 2026
Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” held onto the No. 1 position at the mainland China box office during the Aug.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran24 Aug 2026
The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled 23 Korean and Asian independent films for its Vision section, split into 12 titles under Vision-Korea and 11 under Vision-Asia.
Varietyby Chris Willman24 Aug 2026
The LA Phil has played with plenty of pop and rock acts before, but it may have taken Foo Fighters to really put the dude in Dudamel.
Varietyby Owen Gleiberman23 Aug 2026
“Boorman and the Devil” is a disaster movie that feels like a party. It’s a documentary about the making of one of the worst movies of its time, and maybe of all time — “Exorcist II: The Heretic,”...
Varietyby Jack Dunn23 Aug 2026
Shelley Fabares, the star of the classic sitcoms “The Donna Reed Show” and “Coach,” died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 82.
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