Wyatt Russell Joins Asa Butterfield, Mark Strong & Kyra Sedgwick In ‘Happy’
Wyatt Russell (Thunderbolts) has signed on to star alongside Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Mark Strong (1917), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Brittany O’Grady…
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Adam Carter Rehmeier Sets New Thriller ‘Seeker’; Alex Lebovici, Adam McKay & Noah Centineo Among Producers
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Carter Rehmeier, the filmmaker behind cult Sundance comedy Dinner in America, has signed on to direct Seeker, a darkly comedic thriller written…
Martin Scorsese Joins Bahman Ghobadi’s Eva Green Horror Film ‘Trees Are Watching’ Ahead Of Toronto Bow
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this Friday, Martin Scorsese has joined Bahman Ghobadi’s Eva Green horror film Trees Are…
Women‘s Impact Report 2026
The professionals featured in Variety’s 2026 Women’s Impact Report navigated yet another crazy year in show business. Despite the mergers, layoffs and the…
Dubai Film Festival To Return In December 2027, As 2026 Edition Of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival Looks Uncertain
The United Arab Emirates’ Dubai Interntional Film Festival is being revived following a 10-year hiatus, although not in the same format as the original event…
India-Canada Screen Industry Corridor Takes Shape as NFDC, SASC Sign Pact at Toronto Market
India’s National Film Development Corporation and the South Asian Screen Council of Canada put their names to a Letter of Intent at the Toronto Film Festival…
‘Kikuyu Land’ Trailer: A Man Fights To Reclaim Stolen Ancestral Land Worth Billions Of Dollars
EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning nonfiction feature Kikuyu Land documents a case of cultural erasure and land theft on a massive scale. The documentary directed by…
‘People Are Still Terrified of Me’: Sharon Stone on Thriving for 46 Years in Hollywood and Why ‘My Lane Was Never Going to Be Sex Psychos’
Sharon Stone has every reason to be tough. It’s not just that her father hung the carcasses of the animals he shot on the clothesline during her childhood in…
The Old & New Hollywood Guard Wielding AI’s Might
The AI gold rush has hit showbiz, even as the tech-fueled race to riches remains fraught. Morphing at a mind-bendingly fast pace, artificial intelligence…
‘The Life of Jorge Luis Borges’ Review: A Playful Five-Hour Documentary Turns the Argentinian Writer Inside Out
"La flor" director Mariano Llinás veteran with a sprawling and self-reflexive picaresque that is fascinating but frequently dull, for better or worse.
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sine Plambech to Lead Juries at Zurich Film Festival
U.S. writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga, whose films include “No Time to Die,” will head the Feature Film Competition jury at the Zurich Film Festival this…
How a Sequel to a Movie Barely Anyone Saw Became a Sensational (and Originally X-Rated) 1980s Indie
In 1988, "Patti Rocks" stood alongside Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise" and Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It" as an indie sensation, but has been…
San Sebastián Film Festival Director José Luis Rebordinos On This Year’s Line-Up & Why Festivals “Have To Speak About Human Rights”
With the fall festival season underway, the international film community is now turning its head to Spain’s Basque Coast as the San Sebastian International…
Israeli Film Council Calls For Festivals To Be Removed From Funding Criteria & Creation Of Strand For Films Celebrating Israeli Soldiers Amid ‘NAZA’ Firestorm
The Israeli Film Council has called for film festivals to be eliminated from a points system used to set film fund budgets in the wake of the Venice Film…
Dubai Film Festival Revived With New Edition Set for December 2027
Ten years after being abruptly shuttered, the Dubai International Film Festival is being revived with a new edition set to kick off on Dec. 8, 2027. The…
Peter Chan’s Directing Motto for Toronto Alzheimer’s Drama ‘The Road Not Taken’ Came From a Chengdu Dementia Care Home
While researching “The Road Not Taken,” his drama premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, celebrated filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun visited what he calls one of…
Alief Boards Lithuania’s ‘Dice-Ching-O-Mat’ From Producer Uljana Kim and Helmer Kristijonas Vildziunas (EXCLUSIVE)
U.K.-French sales outfit Alief has snapped international rights outside the Baltics and Poland to “Dice-Ching-a-Mat“ from Lithuanian filmmaker Kristijonas…
Industry Players From Sony Pictures Classics and FilmNation Among Those Who Flocked the NY Film & Entertainment Soccer Tournament Benefitting Local Charities
Industry players from Sony Pictures Classics, FilmNation, Gersh and Cinetic were among the film and entertainment figures who traded screening rooms for the…
Pingyao Festival Sets 10th Edition Lineup With Fei Mu Restoration, Films From Cristian Mungiu, James Gray
The Pingyao International Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its 10th edition, with a 4K restoration of Fei Mu’s 1948 classic “Spring in a Small…
Lasse Hallström, Lena Olin, Trine Dyrholm, Fares Fares, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Among Awardees at The Freyas
The Freyas, also known as the Nordic Film and TV Awards, has revealed its first honorees and award-winners. They are Lasse Hallström, Lena Olin, Trine Dyrholm…