Cheng Pei-pei, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and ‘Come Drink With Me’...
Cheng Pei-pei, the Chinese-born action film icon who starred in Ang Lee’s Oscar-nominated “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and King Hu’s seminal wuxia feature “Come Drink With Me,” has died. She was...
View ArticleSundance Reveals Six Possible Cities for 2027 Festival Location, Including...
The Sundance Institute has selected the finalist cities for the location of the 2027 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the possibility of remaining in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, the...
View Article‘Oddity’ Director Damian McCarthy Created a Festival Favorite by Collecting a...
Horror director Damian McCarthy enjoys the dusty, the lived-in, the tactile. He shot his first film, “Caveat,” and his buzzy new second feature, “Oddity” in a spacious converted barn in his native...
View ArticleMeryl Streep to Narrate Conservation Doc ‘Escape From Extinction Rewilding’...
Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep will lend her voice to narrate the sequel to the 2020 award-winning documentary “Escape from Extinction.” Directed and produced by Matthew Brady through MRB...
View ArticleMaria Menounos and Husband Keven Undergaro Launch Production Company ‘We...
Power couple Maria Menounos and Keven Undergaro are leaning into the holiday spirit in a big way. The duo have cofounded We Heart Holidays, a holiday movie production company that will create quality...
View ArticleAnchor Bay Entertainment Acquires Worldwide Rights to Horror Film ‘Cursed in...
Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to the horror film “Cursed in Baja,” which will see its world premiere Aug. 23 at FrightFest Film Festival in London. The film follows Pirelli, an...
View ArticleDonna Berwick, ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Costume Designer, Dies at 66
Donna Berwick, a costume designer who worked on films including Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” “Donnie Darko” and more died, July 14 of breast cancer. She was 66. Berwick was nominated for best...
View ArticleOscar Predictions 2025: The Calm Before the Fall Festival Storm
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and...
View ArticleOscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actress — Could Music Superstars Selena...
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and...
View ArticleAll the Ways ‘Twisters’ Pays Homage to the Original ‘Twister’
SPOILER WARNING: This article discusses plot points from “Twisters,” now playing in theaters. If you’re heading to your local theater to see “Twisters” and wondering “Do I need to see the original...
View Article‘Bad Genius’ Director Baz Poonpirya Launches BASK Venture With Thailand’s...
Nattawut ‘Baz’ Poonpiriya, the director of 2017 pan-Asian hit “Bad Genius,” has joined forces with Thailand’s leading film studio GDH559 to launch new production company BASK. GDH, a subsidiary of the...
View Article‘Winter’s Bone’ Director Debra Granik to Head Venice Horizons Jury, Taylor...
Oscar-nominated U.S. director Debra Granik (“Winter’s Bone”) will preside over the jury of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons (Orizzonti) section dedicated to more cutting-edge works. Granik will be...
View Article‘Touch’ Director Baltasar Kormákur on Working With Novelists, the Influence...
At the Taormina Film Festival, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur spoke to Variety about romantic drama “Touch,” his adaptation of the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. The film was released last week...
View Article‘The Surfer’ Director Lorcan Finnegan on Why Nicolas Cage Kept a Rat in His...
Lorcan Finnegan’s “The Surfer,” screening at Taormina Film Festival following its premiere at Cannes, promises to be one of the year’s cult films. A bizarro mix of Kafka and Ozploitation, the film...
View ArticleHenry Golding Says ‘A Simple Favor 2’ Is ‘Much More Bananas,’ Explains...
Henry Golding looked dapper in a linen ensemble on Tuesday at the launch party of Gorgio Armani’s Mare collection pop-up at Little Beach House Malibu, but there was something different about him. The...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Twisters’ Spinning Ahead of Forecasts With $32.2 Million Opening...
“Twisters” is twirling, twirling, twirling toward one of the five biggest domestic debuts of the year. The sequel whizzed past projections on opening day with $32.2 million from 4,151 locations across...
View Article‘Twisters’: How Filmmakers Rigged Glen Powell’s Tornado Chaser Truck To Be...
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Twisters,” now playing in theaters. In “Twisters,” Glen Powell’s Tyler Owens — a YouTube superstar who chases tornadoes for clicks and notoriety, as...
View ArticleHow Chris Stuckmann Went From YouTube Film Critic to Making His Own Horror...
Perhaps it’s due to his love of horror, but Chris Stuckmann has been fearless in the production of his film, “Shelby Oaks.” Days away from its Fantasia Festival world premiere, he admits, with a laugh,...
View Article‘The Long Game’ Dethrones ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ as No. 1 on Netflix:...
There’s been a lot of media commentary recently about an independent film called “The Long Game” that unseated “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” from its No. 1 slot on Netflix in the U.S. “The Long Game,” a...
View ArticleAnna Faris Would Return to the ‘Scary Movie’ Franchise Under Two Conditions:...
Anna Faris would reprise her role as Cindy Campbell in the “Scary Movie” franchise, so long as a few conditions are met. In an interview with People, Farris was asked what it would take for her to...
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