After fighting off monsters at Camp Half-Blood in "Percy Jackson and the Olympians," Leah Sava Jeffries has her eyes set on her dream actor she'd love to see join alongside Annabeth, Percy a…
During a wide-ranging conversation about his life and career, Oscar Isaac was confronted about cracking up Pedro Pascal when they were on stage together. Speaking as part of the SAG-AFTRA Fo…
Not a seat was empty at Variety's second annual Variety Faith & Spirituality in Entertainment Honors presented by Coalition for Faith & Media as attendees gathered to celebrate the e…
Will Arnett tells a story about lying on his Sullivan Street couch, wondering if he's just delivered the best scene of his career or the worst. He's just wrapped the "vampire scene" in Bradl…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about Episode 3 of "Heated Rivalry," now streaming on HBO Max. When François Arnaud read the script for the third episode of the hit queer sport…
Quentin Tarantino is wrong about Paul Dano, but everyone is already telling him that. For more than two decades, Dano has shaped one of the most quietly radical careers in American cinema. T…
Ahmed (Amir El-Masry) belongs to an Egyptian family accustomed to defeat. The soccer team they root for can't win a single match, no matter how they follow their household-specific superstit…
The Writers Guild of America has joined other industry guilds in coming out against Netflix's proposed blockbuster deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studios and streaming business. Th…
Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra…
Miss Benny has joined Jordan Firstman's directorial debut "Club Kid." The actress, best known for her starring work in the Netflix dramedy "Glamorous" opposite Kim Cattrall, joins previously…
Emma Corrin and Maika Monroe didn't have to try to establish the chemistry needed for their roles in Julia Jackman's indie fantasy "100 Nights of Hero." "It was really easy," Corrin tells Va…
Adam Sandler and Ariana Grande have more in common than you'd suspect. He dominated pop culture as a Gen X comedy icon " with "Big Daddy," "The Waterboy," "Happy Gilmore" and more " before t…
Jeremy O. Harris, whose boundary-pushing "Slave Play" earned a record number of Tony nominations, has been detained in Japan for nearly three weeks following his arrest on drug smuggling cha…
Filmmaker Matt Reeves added his voice to the wave of praise for Paul Dano " an outpouring that was prompted by Quentin Tarantino dissing Dano as "the weakest fucking actor in SAG." "Paul Dan…
A consortium of top industry players have sent an open letter full of alarm to Congress, describing a potential economic and institutional meltdown in Hollywood if Netflix succeeds in its…
Clint Bentley's "Train Dreams" follows the Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living in the Pacific NorthWest. Set in the late 1960s, "Train Dreams" is directed b…
Billy Porter has joined the Oscar-qualified documentary short, "Freeman Vines," as an executive producer. Directors André Robert Lee and Tim Kirkman's film is a haunting portrait of 82-year…
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, Em…
"I'm so young and you're so old," Paul Anka sang in the very first line of his very first hit, "Diana," in 1958. It's the kind of lyric you could seemingly only get away with when you're 15,…
"Hamnet," "Marty Supreme" and a powerful one-two punch from Warner Bros. " "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" " are among the American Film Institute's 10 best films of the year, the o…
It appears Thomas Benski's new venture Lumina Media has acquired a notable stake in Benedict Cumberbatch's production outfit SunnyMarch, according to documents filed in the U.K. Cumberbatch …
It was a heck of an opening gambit: In its first week on Broadway, the new revival of "Chess" earned more than $1.2 million from just four sold-out performances. A few weeks later, the show,…
Israel is set to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union general assembly called off a vote over its participation. Next year's contest, which will be …
If you want to get in touch with Fran Lebowitz, you'll have to jump through a few hoops. Even inquiring if the sharp-tongued writer and flaneur would entertain an interview required three in…
U.K. performers union Equity is set to ballot members over potential strike action related to AI protections. Negotiating partner Pact, the U.K. producers union, has been notified. "Nobody w…