We might look at Mike, in his overcoat of blue glitter, with his long hair cut and styled into a neatly parted Diamond pageboy, and Claire, in her spangled red dress with the gold piping, pr…
What does it say that a Warren Zevon tribute concert Friday night featured more than 30 songs, was performed by well over 50 musicians, and stretched nearly to four hours in the end … and …
Out of the many thousands " surely tens of thousands " of albums I've listened to in my time, I can't recall one that had me on the edge of my seat from the first moments to the last on firs…
"Interview With the Vampire," the opening salvo of AMC's attempt to turn the oeuvre of fantasy author Anne Rice into a so-called Immortal Universe of television shows, is one of the best sho…
Gus Van Sant is still moving. "I think a lot of the films I've made, even unintentionally, have been based on real things," Van Sant says with his familiar mix of understatement and curiosit…
June Lockhart, a popular actress of the 1950s and '60s known for her roles in "Lost In Space," "Lassie," and "Meet Me in St. Louis," died of natural causes on Oct. 23 in Santa Monica, Calif.…
The latest poster for "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" features a painting of Bruce Springsteen in concert, viewed from the side, his index finger held high in the air. If you examine …
In comedy, few are as influential " and elusive " as Jim Downey. During his 30-year tenure as a writer on "Saturday Night Live," he penned era-defining sketches like Chris Farley's "Chippend…
It's Warren Zevon season. That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that ne…
On today's episode, Variety reporter Selome Hailu details her cover story on Rachel Sennott, the multihyphenate behind HBO's new comedy "I Love L.A." Marc Malkin has a Red Carpet Rundown wit…
When Aaron Sorkin, Steven Soderbergh, Scott Cooper and Denis Villeneuve are looking to cast their films, they turn to casting director Francine Maisler. This year alone, Maisler has worked o…
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…
 Paramore's Hayley Williams, Jack Antonoff, MarÃa Zardoya of the MarÃas and Role Model headlined Rolling Stone's third annual Musicians on Musicians live event at New York'…
Sony's R-rated anime "Chainsaw Man" beat Disney and 20th Century Studios' musical biopic "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" at the box office in Thursday previews. "Chainsaw Man " The Mo…
The spinoff of "Victorious" titled "Hollywood Arts" has been picked up to series at Netflix " and a few other places. Variety has learned that the streamer has commissioned 26 episodes of th…
"I Swear," the British indie film about Tourette's Syndrome campaigner John Davidson that has already been a hit with audiences and critics in the U.K., has been bought by Sony Pictures Clas…
Jonah Hauer-King has a line in "A House of Dynamite" so disturbing that friends are now texting it to him as soon as they see the film. "Some don't write anything other than that line," he s…
Brandi Carlile begins her new album with a verse raising the issue of mortality, and the question of what a godly design for these fleeting lives might be, if any at all. "Is there some free…
After exiting "Saturday Night Live," Ego Nwodim is keeping plenty busy " including with the second season of her award-winning interview podcast "Thanks Dad," set to premiere next week. "Tha…
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…
In the latest twist of how generative AIÂ is impacting the film world, Romanian auteur Radu Jude ("Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn") is making a short based on vintage porn reels found in t…
Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultane…
Greg Berlanti accepted the inaugural Greg Berlanti Social Impact Award at the UCLA Center for Scholars and Storytellers' annual Teens and Screens Summit on Thursday in Los Angeles. The write…
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…
Bruce Springsteen may be ready to tell more of his story. Scott Cooper, the writer-director of "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," tells me that the Boss is already talking about a seque…