مسار منفصل للأخبار السياسية والعراقية والعالمية يظهر فور الجلب، بينما تبقى التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي في الواجهة الرئيسية.
Former President Barack Obama has picked his six guests for his “A Great Book” podcast to discuss the books that have had the biggest impact on his worldview — and on our society. “A Great Book With Barack Obama” is a six-episode series that debuts exclusively from Audible on Sept. 24, 2026. Later in the […]
How are media and entertainment companies navigating shifting winds in Hollywood, amid an industry in constant flux and AI rapidly advancing on the scene? A panel of senior industry leaders served up insights into the biz’s burning questions, setting the table for the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit presented by EY in L.A. Thursday. Speaking […]
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 market, launching a plan to connect Indian and South Asian filmmakers with fresh openings across Canada’s screen business. The signing was witnessed by the Consul General of India in […]
The series adaptation of Elsie Silver’s “Rose Hill” novels at Amazon Prime Video has added three series regulars and two recurring guest stars, Variety has learned. Siobhan McGroarty (“Law & Order,” “VHS: Kidprint”), Sophia Reid-Gantzert (“Free Bert,” “The Babysitters Club”), and West Mulholland (“Presence,” “Little Fires Everywhere”) will appear as series regulars, with Gigi Zumbado […]
Sienna Miller and Dominic West are at the center of an intense divorce trial in the trailer for HBO and Sky’s upcoming series “War.” Hailing from “Lupin” and “Hijack” creator George Kay, “War” is a “high-stakes, legal drama following the lives of London’s most powerful lawyers as firms Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne […]
Emmy-nominated “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula” returns for its seventh season Oct. 27 on Shudder and AMC+. The series was renewed in April as part of drag stars Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet’s multi-project deal with Shudder. The show is the platform’s highest-performing unscripted original franchise and one of its most popular series. The seventh season marks […]
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 rural Pennsylvania and her mother once pulled a huge nail out of Stone’s foot that had gone straight through, wrapped it up and then sent her […]
Live from New York, it’s Season 52! The summer of “Saturday Night Live” casting announcements has come to a close, with the ensemble for this year’s season finally solidified (less than two weeks before the Sept. 26 premiere). This year’s cast has remained largely intact compared to last year’s shakeup. Bowen Yang left midway through […]
Wednesday night’s Americana Music Honors & Awards in Nashville found the love being spread among a handful of the Americana’s brightest lights — among them Brandi Carlile, Molly Tuttle, Tyler Childers and the duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings — on top of some high-profile and highly emotional honorary awards or tributes being afforded […]
Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas is back with more new holiday movies than ever. Ahead of the 17th annual event, Hallmark has unveiled a supersized lineup of 34 original movies featuring Lori Loughlin, Janel Parrish, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Rachael Leigh Cook, Daniella Monet, Lacey Chabert, Christy Carlson Romano, Richard Kind, Andie MacDowell, Ian Harding, Jonathan Bennett […]
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 technology has roiled the entertainment industry, which remains split between those convinced that it can be a powerful tool for creative expression and those wary of its potential to introduce “cinema […]
Luke Bryan’s next tour stop? Roku City, the virtual cityscape on Roku devices. On Saturday, Sept. 19 — one day after the release of his ninth studio album, “Signs” — the country star will be featured in an exclusive concert inside Roku City. “Live From Roku City: Luke Bryan” will be available on the Roku […]
“South Park” — or rather “South America” — made its Season 29 debut Wednesday night and wasted no time introducing audiences to the newly named town. The episode, titled “South American Biker Gangs,” kicked off with an updated theme song ringing in the name change — “I’m goin’ down to South America, have myself a […]
Bran Flakezz is anything but “Unwell.” Brandon Edelman, better known as Bran Flakezz online, just emerged as one of four winners of the “Unwell Summer Games” on YouTube, created through Alex Cooper’s “Unwell” network. The four-episode series brought 16 content creators together at a luxury ranch in Canada to compete in a series of challenges […]
Following the premiere of “NAZA” at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling for the introduction of a law that would “revoke the citizenship of anyone who slanders IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] soldiers.” “We will hit them in their pockets and also in their citizenship, because their place […]
Richard Christiansen was working in the offices at Flamingo Estate, his farm and lifestyle brand in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, when Pamela Anderson’s son, Brandon Lee, called him to ask if he’d be interested in collaborating with his mother. “He said, ‘Would you like to do something with my mom? She’s a […]
Voices across Hollywood and Washington are speaking out after Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage. “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder, one of TV’s most politically outspoken stars, wrote on her Instagram stories on Tuesday, “Ed Sheeran i say this as a ginger. i hope you get a REALLY […]
Jessica Chastain has joined Netflix’s “The Retrievals,” a new drama series from the streamer. The Oscar-winning actor will star as Kaitlyn Langford, a former art historian who has “spent the last decade stuck in an endless cycle of failed fertility treatments,” per Netflix. “When she learns she’s also a victim of criminal drug diversion at […]
Paramount has been threatening to leave California since July, when the state sued to block it from merging with Warner Bros. Discovery. Attorney General Rob Bonta has called it “blackmail” meant to stop him from enforcing antitrust law. But Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for one, is taking the threat seriously and is trying to […]
If there’s one thing celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss knows, it’s how to create a moment. Now, the woman behind the recent wedding of Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, plus weddings and parties for Finneas, Justin Bieber and The Kardashians is putting her touch on Ring Pop, the popular candy brand known for its colorful […]
