Disney+ series “Alice and Steve” swept Canneseries on Tuesday night, scoring best series as well as a Special Interpretation and Student Award. A Disney+ commission by its U.K. office …
Series can have unreliable narrators, “Money Heist,” for example. But what about unreliable heroes? Just cast in a lead role in “Dexter Resurrection” Season 2, Dan Stevens delivers o…
Oscar-nominated for “Beaufort” and co-creator of the original Israeli series which inspired Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria,” the second most-watched series in HBO history, writer-creat…
Camilla Läckberg, the Swedish Queen of Crime whose novels have sold more than 40 million copies across 60 countries, has shared exclusively with Variety a few ingredients of her anticipated…
It takes a very special kind of creative mind to bridge surrealist art and whodunit TV productions. But it’s also fitting that “This is Not a Murder Mystery,”, a surprising crime drama…
"Mozart Mozart," an opulent glam rock-tinged vision of the genius and his maybe more talented sister backed by Europe's biggest broadcaster, Germany's ARD, has been sold by Beta Film and …
The Hollywood studios may be sitting out the Cannes Film Festival but a more than respectable cohort of major U.S. players will hit Canneseries, Cannes TV festival, a month earlier. They…
Iceland's Act4, co-led by "Severance" and "Trapped" star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, is teaming with Kari Skogland, "The Handsmaid's Tale" director, to adapt "Dead Weight," the latest nov…
L.A.-based Gaumont USA has optioned audiovisual rights to "Opus, financial journalist Gareth Gore's explosive exposé of Opus Dei, sparked by the sudden 2017 collapse of Spain's Banco Popula…
These days, any drama with the U.K.'s Sheridan Smith raises expectations, especially if her role is written by Tony Schumacher, creator of "The Responder." Winner of a BAFTA TV Award for "Mr…
German-Lebanese thesp Kida Khodr Ramadan, the "4 Blocks" standout whose profile jumped internationally via Amazon Prime Video, is set to star in "GÖZ," a radical contemporary reimagining…
Even Pope Francis has a hardback copy of his graphic novel. He has a loving relationship with his glamorous wife, who travels the world. As a globally renown cartoonist, he can afford a care…
Jack Thorne, co-writer of Netflix smash "Adolescence," will talk at a session, In Conversation With Jack Thorne, that looks like one major highlight at this year's Berlinale Series Market co…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil " The Golden Globes and Rio's City Hall inked Dec. 17 for the organization of three annual editions of a Golden Globes Tribute Gala in Rio. The first edition will take…
In a year when the Göteborg Film Festival will highlight the importance of truth, it will give its international Honorary Dragon Award to a director who has been doing that all her long, …
As São Paulo-based development and training hub BrLab gears up for its 15th anniversary edition in 2026, one of Latin America's most influential project labs has opened submissions and un…
GIJÓN, Spain " Ben Whishaw scooped best actor at this year's Gijón Film Festival for his performance in Ira Sachs' "Peter Hujar's Day," but otherwise major awards highlighted lesser k…
"Activist," "muse," "empath," "icon" read credits for four photo shots of Lady Isabella Ravenhyde in Samuel Abrahams' buzzy and tenderly comic mockumentary "Lady," packing a tour de force pe…
Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari ("The Egyptian") fights with his typewriter to create true lies for the Finnish Propaganda Unit to dec…
"My parents didn't just argue," Carmela confides in her best friend at school, her face darkening. But she doesn't go into detail. "Have you ever seen your dad act violent? Has he ever t…
Tribeca Festival Lisboa wrapped its second edition on Saturday after hosting a bevy of U.S. talent, led by Meg Ryan, Kim Cattrall, Edie Falco, Giancarlo Esposito, Ed Westwick and Daniela Rua…
British actor Amanda Abbington, best known for BBC One's "Sherlock" and ITV Studios' "Mr. Selfridge," has joined "Jones," a mystery drama produced by Caracol Studios for Portugue…
In David Trueba's "Always Winter," the closing night film of this year's Valladolid Film Festival in Spain, Miguel Mena (David Verdaguer), 40, a jobless landscape architect travels to a Brus…
When Filmax introduced Judith Colell's "Frontier" ("Frontera") to buyers at Cannes, the WWII thriller drew attention and was ultimately picked up for North American release via Menemsha Film…
Glenn Close will join the cast of the "La bola negra," an original film produced by Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films in co-production with Pedro and AgustÃn Almodóvar's El Deseo a…