The first time Keith David visited Venice, he remembers finding a corner inside the cavernous grandeurof Doge’s Palace. Back in Rome, he had been starstruck by the fact that Julius Caesar …
Variety’s first-ever Women’s Impact Report U.K. showcases the executives and talent that led from across the pond, driving top features and television series, winning awards and leading …
Bill Condon, director of “Dreamgirls,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and the $1.26 billion-grossing “Beauty and the Beast,” knows how to film a musical number. That made him a natur…
Maude Apatow's directorial debut, "Poetic License," kicks off the 29th Sonoma Intl. Film Festival, with Steven Soderbergh's "The Christophers," starring Ian McKellen, set for a centerpiece s…
From working with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Corbucci and Luis Buñuel to prominent creative collaborations with his Oscar-winning partner, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero's ca…
Lee Byung-hun has a chance to make history " he's the first Korean actor to be nominated for best actor, comedy or musical at the Golden Globes. The "No Other Choice" lead says he found out …
For his first feature in more than seven years, Gus Van Sant returns to themes " and also to a significant moment in time " that have resonated with the director over the course of a four-de…
What does it mean to bring a child into today's world? Based on some of this year's buzziest films, that question is on the minds of contemporary directors and writers. From the postpartum l…
What does it mean to bring a child into today's world? Based on some of this year's buzziest films, that question is on the minds of contemporary directors and writers. From the postpartum l…
German actor Idan Weiss says one of the keys to his critically praised portrayal of Franz Kafka in Agnieszka Holland's "Franz" was locking in on the iconic writer's sensitivity. "He just wan…
Bruce Springsteen doesn't play the Hollywood game. But producers Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson of Gotham Group were able to get the rock legend to jump all in to "Springsteen: Deliv…
Most biopics persuade you to empathize with the main character. But as actress-turned-writer/director Kristen Stewart explains, her screenplay adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir "The Ch…
The Coronado Island Film Festival celebrated 10 years of bringing the best of cinema to the San Diego region Nov. 5-9. Besides the films, festivalgoers attended panels with industry professi…
Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" was the big winner at the San Diego International Film Festival, winning both the best Gala Film (jury award) and the Audience Choice Gala Award. Eddie Vedder-starring…
Variety's Faith & Media Impact Report returns Dec. 3. The list recognizes a thriving segment of the entertainment industry that includes storytellers across the religious spectrum who ar…
The San Diego Intl. Film Fest kicks off Oct. 15 with Luca Guadagnino's "After the Hunt," starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. The festival, which runs through Oct. 19, fe…
Ted Evans' "Retreat" takes place outside society: Its characters, living in a compound called Chilmark, share a deaf identity but refuse to call themselves deaf, declaring that that label wa…
In "Tuner," Leo Woodall plays Niki, an expert piano tuner with acutely sensitive hearing that is sometimes debilitating " in fact, it's one reason Niki hasn't chased his dreams of being a pi…
Variety's Actors to Watch returns Oct. 15. Hosted by the Newport Beach Film Festival, the annual impact list, which identifies notable up-and-coming actors, is seeking submissions for 2025. …
Hosted in 2025 by New Mexico's Santa Fe International Film Festival, the annual impact list Screenwriters to Watch, which identifies notable up-and-coming film screenwriters, is seeking subm…
The new dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, faces a lot of questions and a rough time for universities across the U.S. The rise of AI, budget…
Uncertainty swirls around so many things nowadays " the governemnt, global politics, economies, trade and, of course, the entertainment industry. The women on Variety's Women's Impact Report…
Variety's Storytellers to Watch returns Aug. 13. The 2025 edition will be hosted by the Arkansas Cinema Society during their Little Rock-based Filmland festival this August. The Storytellers…
Women with sexual desires usually have been played on TV series for the humor, casting the thirst for sex as something that is traumatic and as a mask of old trauma, or as a substitute for s…
A single human voice singing, wordlessly, can evoke a sense of humanity " or inhumanity " depending on the behavior we witness on our screens. This was the case in two much talked-about stre…