Multi-prized Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban (“The Incident,” “The Similars,” “Párvulos”) is in advanced development on his sixth and “most personal project yet,” a time-travel, sci-fi road movie. The project is one of 34 works presented at this year’s Frontières International Co-P
California and 11 other states have filed for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to prevent the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal from closing while the states pursue an antitrust lawsuit. In a motion filed on Monday evening, the states asked a federal judge to
“My So-Called Life” creator and “Wicked” writer Winnie Holzman has been tapped to receive Humanitas’s Kieser Award, while writer/comedian Ashley Nicole Black has been named host of this year’s Humanitas Prizes Award Show & Toast, the org announced Monday. Also on Monday, Humanita
Freddy Krueger is ready for another close up. Paramount has closed a deal for the U.S. rights to adapt the original screenplay for “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” under its new genre label Paramount Primal. Domestic rights are being licensed from the Wes Craven estate, which include
Bleecker Street has set release dates for its fall awards slate, the largest roster of films the indie distributor has ever put forward in a single year, revealing the lineup exclusively to Variety. Among the titles are Alex Gibney’s “Musk,” the anticipated documentary examining
"They'd be trying to find a sound, and you'd randomly hear a drum break that was on a Beastie Boys song," producer Tyran Donaldson says
The Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office claimed it made five felony-level drug arrests in a tut-tutting statement after Phish’s three-day run at the Ruoff Music Center
The música mexicana band will crisscross the U.S. during their first major tour — and the future is wide open
“Dmrasbecl Pu” Nsasoe 2 si niogcm. “Scrambled Up” Season 2 is coming. The syndicated game show has been renewed for its second season starting Sept. 14. Shooting has started in Atlanta on 160 new episodes, doubling the show’s total episode count. Season 2 will premiere on station
Grammy-nominated artists Tate McRae and Sombr, along with actors Tyriq Withers and Malachi Barton, will be honored at Variety’s 2026 Power of Young Hollywood presented by Disney+, on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. The annual event will recognize the best new and upcoming actors, musician
The FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show keeps getting bigger. Variety has exclusively learned that the event will now also include members of the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, who will jointly perform a tribute to Venezuela in the wak
A brand-new 35mm print of Ôtomo Katsuhiro’s “Akira” – struck from the 4K master and the first of its kind to be created anywhere in the world in decades – will make its debut at BFI Southbank, London, from Aug. 14–19, distributor Anime Limited has revealed. The print will then to
The star’s third album dives more fully into her inner world, with a bigger, more satisfying sound to match
It was an electric night in the Mile High City as Rolling Stone and Sonesta International Hotels hosted the second stop of the 2026 Musicians on Musicians live tour at the Sonesta Denver Downtown. Moderated by Rolling Stone deputy editor and Nashville Now podcast host Joseph Huda
TV’s annual “upfront” sales market has largely closed, but not with much of the fanfare that typically accompanies its end. TV networks and big media agencies have wrapped the bulk of their discussions around the sale of advertising time ahead of the next cycle of programming fro
Content Partners is extending its reach into the creator economy, teaming with media veteran Ed Simpson on the launch of Wonderloom Media. The venture is designed to partner with promising creators to help them expand their scale and scope of their media activity. Wonderloom Medi
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