Lena Dunham is returning to bookshelves with "Famesick," a new memoir set for release April 14, 2026 through Random House. The book, which has been in the works for nearly seven years, marks…
Polly Holliday, a prolific stage and screen actress known for playing the gum-smacking waitress Flo who popularized the phrase "Kiss my grits!" on the long-running CBS sitcom "Alice," died T…
Jerry Seinfeld made a controversial appearance at Duke University on Tuesday, where he compared the "Free Palestine" movement to the Ku Klux Klan. The college's newspaper, The Chronicle, rep…
The process of securing the proper locations for a project is a metaphorical game of 3D chess in which the artistic vision of its creative team wages a strategic battle with logistical neces…
Multi-hyphenate Chelsea Peretti has signed for representation with Linden Entertainment. An actress, writer, director and veteran comic talent, Perretti made her name with hilarious specials…
Filmmaker Jon M. Chu and his longtime collaborators, cinematographer Alice Brooks and editor Myron Kerstein, are set to receive the fourth annual Variety Creative Collaborators awar…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Rebecca Ross' "Divine Rivals" prequel, "Wild Reverence," released Sept. 2 by Saturday Books. Rebecca Ross is deep in her own world right…
Lulu Wang is set to direct a live-action film adaptation of Katie Kitamura's novel "Audition," with Lucy Liu and Charles Melton attached to star. Wang is co-writing the feature with Martyna …
In Marco Bellocchio's HBO show "Portobello," which just launched from the Venice Film Festival, the revered Italian auteur reconstructs one of Italy's most clamorous travesties of just…
When it comes to describing his onetime co-star Kathy Bates, Sam Rockwell doesn't hold back. "She's a badass motherfucker," he says about his time working with her on Clint Eastwood's "Richa…
Variety will present Ethan Hawke with the Variety Virtuoso Award at Miami Dade College's (MDC) the Miami Film Festival GEMS on Sunday, Nov. 2. The event will take place at Miami Dade College…
FESTIVAL FOCUS The International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto returns Oct. 9-19 for its 14th edition, spotlighting South Asian, Canadian and Afghan voices alongside tributes to cinema…
Wavelength has hired producer Stacey Reiss as its new head of film, scripted and unscripted. The company's credits include Daniel Minahan's narrative feature "On Swift Horses," which s…
More big stars are lending their voices to Audible's seven-part audiobook adaptation of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books. Audible and Rowling's Pottermore Publishing announced additional …
Curtis Brown have signed the J.R.R. Tolkien literary estate under their Curtis Brown Heritage banner. Curtis Brown Heritage, which launched in 2016 with the objective of managing some of the…
On the latest episode of "Daily Variety" podcast, Variety journalists analyze the recent jousts between Hollywood and key AI firms in copyright battles that are raging in the federal courts.…
Derek Dixon, an actor suing Tyler Perry for sexual assault and harassment, appeared for an interview on ABC News on Tuesday to detail his allegations against the entertainment mogul. Dixon s…
The Writers Guild of America West has been accused of violating labor law by firing a staffer who helped organize guild employees. The Pacific Northwest Staff Union won voluntary recognition…
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have made three movies together in four years: "The Last Duel," "Air" and "The Rip." In a new interview with GQ magazine, the longtime friends and "Good Will Hunti…
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…
Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Hudson, Jesse Williams and Michael Ealy will headline the 2025 edition of CultureCon, the annual creative festival celebrating culture, community…
Adam Gardner is a guitarist with the long-running rock band Guster and a co-founder of Reverb, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to creating a more sustainable music industry "Â click here for m…
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has announced the full line-up for its 10th edition, which will run from Oct. 16 to Oct. 25 at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg. The festivities will kick-off w…
Two days after her four big wins at the 2025 MTV VMAs, Lady Gaga has announced a second North American leg of her "Mayhem Ball" tour. The new dates, which follow jaunts in Europe, Australia …
"House of the Dragon" actor Olivia Cooke recently told The i Paper that women in the film and television industry are still labeled as difficult when they speak up about setting boundaries d…