variety.comadded August 2026
Varietyby Todd Spangler19d ago
Puck, the five-year-old media upstart, has a new owner: RedBird Capital Partners, the investment firm that is a backer of other media companies including Paramount Skydance’s merger bid for Warner...
Varietyby Guy Lodge19d ago
It’s at the tail of its closing credit scroll that “Ancestors” drops its final, plainly worded message, also setting its title in context: “No survivors, only descendants.” As the sign-off for this...
Varietyby Corbin Bolies19d ago
Meta’s given its glasses a virtual-reality upgrade. Meta unveiled its new $1,299 VR glasses at its annual Meta Connect event on Wednesday, an upgraded version of its Quest headset line.
Varietyby Marta Balaga19d ago
Everyone knows Jeff Koons or Marina Abramović, but the art world has been hiding another celebrity: star auctioneer and former Sotheby’s chairman Simon de Pury.
Varietyby Atingley419d ago
Tribeca Festival and AT&T have opened submissions for the 10th anniversary of AT&T Untold Stories, the filmmaker development program that awards one emerging director $1.2 million to produce a...
Varietyby Callum McLennan19d ago
What happens when an emotionally stranded young film worker becomes indispensable to one of the world’s biggest stars who may also be a murderer?
Varietyby Rafa Sales Ross19d ago
If one film could define this year’s Zurich Film Festival, it would be Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky,” a heartfelt drama about the making of the Sylvester Stallone-starring classic that is playing...
Varietyby Marta Balaga19d ago
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad has ruffled some feathers at San Sebastián with her feature debut “Cute.” “I find it interesting and exciting that the film creates such strong reactions,” she tells...
Varietyby Rafa Sales Ross19d ago
Very few production companies can boast about landing major international festival premieres for every project in their slate.
Varietyby Joseph Otterson19d ago
Terence Winter and Dan Farah are partnering for a series take on the memoir of former U.S. Intelligence official Jay Stratton titled “Out of the Shadows,” Variety has learned.
Varietyby Atingley419d ago
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “American Horror Story” is back.
Varietyby Marlow Stern19d ago
The mere mention of “The Swan” is enough to send chills down one’s spine. Created by former Telemundo exec Nely Galán, the Fox reality series selected 16 female contestants — from over 250,000...
Varietyby Anna Marie de la Fuente19d ago
Mexico’s Sula Films has boarded Tatiana Huezo’s anticipated fiction feature, “Galerna,” which has also won the coveted Egeda Platino Industria Award at the San Sebastian Festival where it...
Varietyby Rafa Sales Ross19d ago
For years, Fidelio Films producer Björn Hering wanted to make a film about the tragedy of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Canadian coast of Halifax in 1998.
Varietyby Marta Balaga19d ago
Tenzing Norgay was the first person to summit Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary. The Apple Original film “Tenzing,” opening Zurich Film Festival, reframes the story of that first ascent.
Varietyby Todd Spangler19d ago
A federal judge has ordered the White House to immediate reinstate access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists, after President Donald Trump summarily banned them last Friday. U.S.
Varietyby Nvivarelli19d ago
Disney+ will spotlight Season 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” at Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games Festival, where stars Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri, and the show’s...
Varietyby K.J. Yossman19d ago
A coalition of groups working under the Block the Merger banner have filed an emergency request to oppose Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.
Varietyby Nvivarelli19d ago
“NAZA,” the hot-button documentary about killings in Gaza that won a special jury prize at the recent Venice Film Festival, is set to soon be released theatrically in more than 50 territories and...
Varietyby Marta Balaga19d ago
YouTube star Abdirahman Keinaan was born in Finland, but he kept hearing: “Go back to Somalia!” Now, in his new docuseries, he actually does.
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