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Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera spoke candidly Tuesday about the political pressures surrounding this year’s edition, while making clear that the fest has no intention of shying away from controversy. Speaking to Variety at the press cocktail on the Lido ahead of the 83rd edition, Barbera said it was “almost normal” that Venice […]
Welcome to Horror Explorer, a curated column showcasing the month’s best movies, series, books and everything else spooky worth checking out. I’m William Earl, the executive digital director of Variety and the publication’s resident horror enthusiast. Please drop me a line at wearl@variety.com if there’s something I should check out for next month’s missive.
“Tulsa King” has an official premiere date on Paramount+. The fourth season of the Sylvester Stallone-led crime drama will debut on Oct. 16 on the streaming service, with new episodes dropping weekly thereafter. Paramount has also released new first-look photos and the first teaser for the new season, which can be seen below. The official […]
The awards season is heating up with the fall festivals underway, and Emily Blunt is in line for one of its marquee tributes. The Academy Award nominee will receive the 19th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Blunt, who won the Actor Award (formerly known as […]
In July, leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump was captured on camera boarding Air Force One. But the president did not fly back to the United States on that plane. Instead, he slipped out the other side and onto a secret catering truck that transported him to a different aircraft, leaving a gaggle […]
Jonathan Bailey is the latest star to exit a West End revival of “Sunday in the Park With George” after Ariana Grande bowed out last month. The London show was set to be an opportunity for the “Wicked” stars to reunite live on stage with Bailey playing painter George Seurat while Grande starred as Dot […]
The California Legislature has approved a budget fix for the entertainment industry that allows studios to cash in their tax credits faster. Both the Assembly and state Senate passed the bill, SB 186, before the end-of-session deadline of midnight on Monday. The measure seeks to address concerns raised by Hollywood stakeholders after the Legislature imposed […]
Miley Cyrus has announced her new album “Bass Persuades,” releasing on September 18 via Atlantic Records. In a post announcing the album on Instagram, Cyrus shared her mission statement for “Bass Persuades.” “Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, […]
“The One About Matthew Perry,” a three-part docuseries about the “Friends” star’s life and career, will debut on Netflix on October 27. Perry’s sister, Mia Perry Bowick, is the key voice in the series, which also features unreleased photos and videos from the Perry family archive. According to a description from Netflix, the series “traces […]
Chile’s Santiago Film Festival (Sanfic), which runs Nov. 2 – 6 this year, is toasting the seventh edition of its genre-focused Sanfic-Morbido Lab with the launch of a WomanInFan Southern Cone partnership with the Sitges Film Festival and a new pix-in-post section, Fantastic WIP. Hailed as a bold experiment seven years ago, the Sanfic-Morbido Lab, […]
“Together in Love and Anarchy.” This year’s motto for the 39th Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy stated by Outi Rehn, program director, and Pauliina Ståhlberg, executive director, says it all. Speaking with Variety ahead of the full program’s disclosure Sept. 1, the festival’s co-honchos were happy to reiterate its key values. “Love […]
“Zi,” the latest film from Kogonada, will have its Asian premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in the Icons section. Following the unveiling of the festival’s program, Atnine Film has been confirmed as the film’s Korean distributor. Shot over three weeks on the streets of Hong Kong, “Zi” stars Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson […]
The Venice Film Festival opens Wednesday with Danny Boyle’s “Ink,” a juicy exposé of how British tabloid The Sun propelled Rupert Murdoch’s rise to right-wing media baron, kicking off 11 days of buzzy movies, major stars and an unusually charged political debate on the Lido. Venice director Alberto Barbera has described this year’s lineup as the […]
“Zynga Poker” is launching a new ad campaign featuring Keegan-Michael Key in the role of your “Inner Winner.” The free-to-play mobile poker game has unveiled a series of new ad spots directed by Jody Hill (“The Righteous Gemstones”) starring Key as “the confident voice inside your head telling you to grab life by the chips […]
Marco Bassetti, CEO of Banijay Entertainment, Anna Marsh, deputy CEO of Canal+, CEO of Studiocanal and chief content officer of Canal+, Jane Tranter, CEO of Bad Wolf, and director Edward Berger, best known for “All Quiet on the Western Front,” will be among the speakers attending Rome film and TV market MIA. The event runs […]
The BFI London Film Festival has unveiled an impressive lineup of talent set to take part in screen talks at its upcoming 70th edition, including several stars who are already starting to appear on early awards contender lists. This year’s roster includes Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers,” “Ripley”), Ava DuVernay (“Selma,” “13th”); Brad Bird […]
Paris-based film and television studio SND, part of French media group M6, has picked up world sales on the high-end period drama “Alice: Pioneer of Cinema,” in which Oscar-nominee Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) stars as Alice Guy, the very first female fiction filmmaker. The six-parter, ordered by HBO Max and France Télévisions, is due to world […]
Vicon has acquired Captive Devices Ltd, a Manchester, U.K.-based maker of head-mounted camera systems for markerless facial performance capture. Vicon is the motion capture arm of Oxford Metrics. The founding team at Captive Devices has joined Vicon effective immediately. Ninja Theory, Nant Studios, Animatrik and Deep Silver Dambuster Studios are among the studios that already […]
The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled a guest lineup headlined by Isabelle Huppert, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Fan Bingbing and Michelle Yeoh. Huppert brings her latest film, “All About Corinne,” to Busan audiences. Gyllenhaal makes her first visit to Korea with “Flesh Impact,” a project created to mark the centenary of Marilyn […]
Mexico’s Martfilms has boarded “Looking for Sam,” Mariana Rondón’s follow-up to hedr San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Bad Hair.” A docu-fiction hybrid bound for San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the drama follows two lead actors from Mariana Rondón’s 2013 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Bad Hair” (“Pelo Malo”): Sam Lange who played the child […]
