“The Odyssey” has surpassed $700 million at the global box office, becoming the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year after just 12 days in theaters. Christopher Nolan’s Greek epic has generated $320.5 million domestically and $407.4 million overseas, bringing worldwide ticket sales to $727.9 million. Hollywood’s top three releases of 2026 are June’s “Toy Story […]
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As schools across the country continue to implement cell phone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cell phones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. That's the first time more Americans […]
Firefighters are battling flare-ups in 40C heat, as some locals have refused to heed evacuations in the Gironde region.
Hollywood hasn’t begun packing for the fall festivals in Vencie, Telluride and Toronto, but the Sundance Film Festival has dropped in with a reminder that January is around the corner. On Wednesday, leadership at Sundance sent out a mid-year update on the fest’s seismic move from Park City, Utah to the Colorado mountain town of […]
With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering along the way with players like Andrew Yang, Kendrick Lamar, and Pete Davidson. Now, with a new flip phone and a growing wave of “attention activists” pushing back against Big Tech, they think the rest of […]
The beauty of "Tony" is that it doesn’t make anything feel predetermined. It’s the story of an old-school American summer — those months when a college kid like Tony, doing a job because he needs a job, has the drifting freedom to fall into random experiences, because that’s the enchantment of being in a Cape Cod beach town in 1975.
Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights is set to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with an original haunted house dubbed “Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness.” As part of the experience, guests will be able to climb aboard the “Crazy Train” for a terrifying trip through his disturbing world of rock ‘n’ roll. Developed as a living […]
Two of Scotland’s best known faces from cinema and TV are set to tread the boards together for the first time and at a theater close to their home towns. “Trainspotting” legend Ewan McGregor and “The Traitors” favorite Alan Cumming will take the lead in the stage adaptation of Harry Macqueen’s highly acclaimed 2020 romantic […]
Michael Lockshin’s Russian-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” is finally getting a long-awaited U.S. theatrical release. Following a lengthy battle, Luminosity Pictures are rolling the movie out Stateside from Sept. 18, Variety can confirm. Based on Bulgakov’s seminal, semi-autobiographical work, “The Master and Margarita” follows the story of a writer in 1930s […]
Shane McRae is the latest addition to the upcoming AMC drama series “Thunder Road,” Variety has learned exclusively. The series, which is produced in a partnership between AMC and NASCAR, is set in the world of stock car racing with Dennis Quaid set for the lead role. It was greenlit at AMC in April with […]
The Center at West Park, a New York City nonprofit community, arts and culture hub, will return to East Hampton to present a one-night-only staged reading of the “The Big Chill.” The ensemble will feature Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei (“My Cousin Vinny,” “The Wrestler”), Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick (“The Producers”), Emmy Award-nominee Amy Brenneman (“Judging Amy”), […]
