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Varietyby Elskes3 Sept 2026
Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Radu Jude’s “The Diary of a Chambermaid,” the Romanian filmmaker’s first French-language feature, following its world premiere in Cannes Directors’...
Varietyby Elskes3 Sept 2026
In what will surely be one of the biggest standing ovations at Venice Film Festival this year, Martin McDonagh‘s “Wild Horse Nine” received a thunderous 13 minutes of applause at its world premiere...
Varietyby Corbin Bolies3 Sept 2026
Legendary R&B singer Mary J. Blige was on the receiving end of a barrage of online abuse after the release late last month of a video advertisement circulated by AI music generator Suno, in which...
Varietyby Atingley43 Sept 2026
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Varietyby Todd Spangler3 Sept 2026
A plane on Thursday flew over Paramount Pictures’ lot in Hollywood towing a banner that read, “Ellison Is Trump’s B!tch!” It is not immediately clear who was behind the stunt.
Varietyby Nvivarelli3 Sept 2026
Raffaele Annecchino, who over more than 25 years at Paramount/ViacomCBS rose from an early role on the sales side in Madrid to oversee the company’s international operations across Europe, the...
Varietyby Ethan Shanfeld3 Sept 2026
“Kane Chronicles” is coming to TV. A series adaptation of the Rick Riordan book series is in development at Disney+.
Varietyby Jazztangcay3 Sept 2026
Kino Lorber has released the first trailer for Reed Van Dyk’s “Atonement.” The film will have its Gala Presentation Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and will be released on Oct.
Varietyby Guy Lodge3 Sept 2026
In Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book,” Viggo Mortensen’s driver famously introduces Mahersahala Ali’s concert pianist to fried chicken.
Varietyby Varietyschneider3 Sept 2026
HBO Max‘s “Lanterns” continues to grow in viewership. The DC Studios series’ third episode, which premiered Sunday, Aug. 30, averaged 10 million viewers globally and 7 million viewers in the U.S.
Varietyby Elskes3 Sept 2026
George Clooney, who received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from his “Jay Kelly” co-star Laura Dern on opening night of the Venice Film Festival, sat down for a masterclass at the Lido’s...
Varietyby Ethan Shanfeld3 Sept 2026
The cast of “Heated Rivalry” continues to warm up. Kevin Zegers, Paul Gross and Milla Jovovich have joined the hit ice-hockey romance series from Crave ahead of its Season 2 debut on HBO Max in...
Varietyby Selome Hailu3 Sept 2026
The Hulu crime drama “Furious” has cleared 43 million hours watched since it premiered, according to Disney.
Varietyby Leo Barraclough3 Sept 2026
Taiwanese animation director Hsin Hsuan Yeh (“Sense of Nowhere”) is in pre-production on “The River Within You,” an immersive VR experience exploring the connection between holding on to the memory...
Varietyby Guy Lodge3 Sept 2026
Everyone’s a main character in “Too Much Sugar,” a scrappy, agitated, spikily entertaining study of an extended family with a whole community’s worth of backstory, present-tense drama and diverging...
Varietyby Tanya Fedak3 Sept 2026
Rosie O’Donnell is showing support to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein‘s sexual abuse and sex trafficking.
Varietyby Brian Steinberg3 Sept 2026
The Mayor of Weekends at MS NOW is entering the final days of her term. No one elected Alex Witt to public office, but the MS NOW (and MSNBC) veteran has quietly held court on camera on Saturday...
Varietyby Guy Lodge3 Sept 2026
More often than not, a Martin McDonagh script sets out like the start of a joke. Two Irishmen meet in a pub, a hangman and a stranger meet in a pub, two hitmen go on holiday to Belgium, a man...
Varietyby Varietyschneider3 Sept 2026
Somewhere up above, Don Cornelius is celebrating the return of love, peace and soul: BET is bringing back the “Soul Train Awards,” three years after the kudocast was put on pause.
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran3 Sept 2026
Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Bhutanese auteur Pawo Choyning Dorji are heading to the Telluride Film Festival with “A Song for the Snow Lion,” a 21-minute short built around a Himalayan folktale...
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