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Danielle Harris Documentary Set About Her Career as a Child Star, ‘Halloween’ Scream Queen (EXCLUSIVE)
Deranged Minds Entertainment has announced a feature-length doc on an iconic scream queen. Danielle Harris, the actress ...
Joy Behar Returns to ‘The View’ After Nearly a Month Away: ‘I Dislocated My Shoulder’ and the Pain Was ‘Worse Than Childbirth’
Joy Behar returned to “The View” on Tuesday after nearly a month away from the ABC talk show, revealing that a backstage...
Rick Caruso Stays in the L.A. Conversation With Memoir of a Life Spent Building Businesses and Handling Crises
Rick Caruso has remained one of L.A.’s most prominent political figures, even after bowing out of a second run for mayor...
Sophia Bush on Choosing Experiences to Share in Her Book — and Which She Wrote About and Never Published
Sophia Bush didn’t hold back while writing her new memoir, “And I’ll Tell You Mine.” Although best known as an actress, ...
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Final ‘Chicken Shop Date’ Series to Screen in Theaters
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s “Chicken Shop Date” is coming to the big screen. To celebrate its final series after 12 years, Dim...
Sosie Bacon Joins Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in ‘Black Tapes’ Series at MGM+
Sosie Bacon is set for a lead role in the upcoming MGM+ series “The Black Tapes,” Variety has learned. Bacon will star i...
Billy Bob Thornton Examines Mayflower Voyage in Fox Nation Documentary Series
Actor Billy Bob Thornton will host and executive produce “Billy Bob Thornton Presents: The Mayflower,”a three-part docud...
‘Every Contact Leaves a Trace’ Director on Why She Hired a Detective: ‘I’m Trying to Reconstruct a Life Story’
U.S. artist and documentarian Lynne Sachs has often screened her past films at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, but s...
Errol Morris Is Sitting on a Secret Elizabeth Holmes Interview (EXCLUSIVE)
“I have this problem,” shares Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind “The Thin Blue Line,” “The Fo...
‘Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir’ Sets Global Season 7 Rollout on Disney, TF1 and Globo
“Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir,” the blockbuster French animated series, is gearing up for a global rollou...
‘iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy’ Film Adaptation Set; Lilly Wachowski Among Exec Producers (EXCLUSIVE)
A wholly modern horror story is set to get the feature treatment. “iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy,” the inde...
‘Third Land’ Director on the Risks of Chronicling the Lives of Iranian Refugees in Turkey: It Was ‘Extremely Tense and Frightening’
In the unnerving docu “Third Land,” director and Iranian émigré Farzad Khoshdast chronicles the permanent limbo of a fam...
‘Friends’ Cast Entered Matthew Perry’s Funeral Holding Hands and Cried Around the Casket, Netflix Documentary Reveals
“The One About Matthew Perry” is revealing new details about the life and death of the late “Friends” actor. In Mary Rob...
Meghan Markle to Co-Host ‘Junior MasterChef Australia’
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is set to take on a new role as co-host of “Junior MasterChef Australia.” The news...
‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Casts James Potter and Lily Potter, Plus Charlie Weasley in Character’s Screen Debut
The “Harry Potter” HBO series has cast another casting spell. Harry Gilby, Jasper Talbot and Hannah Chinn have joined th...
‘Barbara Forever’ Director Brydie O’Connor on Celebrating a Lesbian Icon Who Did It All – and Getting Support From Christine Vachon
Lesbian artist Barbara Hammer felt invisible for most of her life. She started making films in the late 1960s, but emerg...
David Bowie Immersive Concert Experience ‘Stage’ From Brett Morgen to World Premiere at Berlin Film Festival
The world premiere of the David Bowie immersive concert experience, “Stage,” has been set for Feb. 14 at Berlin’s Uber A...
Noah Wyle Named People’s 2026 Sexiest Man Alive
After heating up emergency rooms since 1994, Noah Wyle has officially been named People’s Sexiest Man Alive for the firs...
‘Tokyo Vice’ Producer, Netflix Executive Urge Changes to Japan’s Production Incentive at MPA Seminar as Government Readies Unified Content Body
“Tokyo Vice” producer Alex Boden and Netflix production policy director Deb Richards urged changes to Japan’s internatio...
Netflix Docuseries ‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Is a Tragic, Mournful Portrait of Addiction: TV Review
There are not a lot of famous people in “The One About Matthew Perry.” None of the late actor’s “Friends” castmates sat ...
Donnie Iris, Pittsburgh’s Favorite Rocker, Who Scored Hits With the Jaggerz and as a Solo Artist, Dies at 83
Donnie Iris, regarded as Pittsburgh’s biggest hometown rock hero for a six-decade career that included hit singles in th...
‘Mirzapur’ Tops a Decade of Indian Streaming as New Commissions Fall, IMDb Report Finds (EXCLUSIVE)
Viewer interest in Indian shows on IMDb rose about 17-fold over the past decade, even as the number of new shows and sea...
Tokyo Jury President Rolf de Heer on FIAPF’s New A-List: ‘It Matters a Great Deal to Some People, and Not at All to Others’
FIAPF’s decision to make A-list status official, with Tokyo among the 17 festivals named, is unlikely to change much abo...
Jon Stewart Trolls Trump’s Nicki Minaj Fixation After ‘Beautiful Ass’ Comment: ‘He’s Like Yogi Bear Floating Towards a Pie’
On Monday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart trolled Donald Trump’s fixation on Nicki Minaj as the preside...
‘Ghosts: The Possession of Button House’ Scares Up U.K., Ireland Box Office Win
Lionsgate U.K.’s horror-comedy “Ghosts: The Possession of Button House” debuted at the summit of the U.K. and Ireland bo...
Taylor Swift, Inducted Into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Says ‘There Is No Music Community Like This Music Community. I Know, I Checked All the...
Taylor Swift looked back on her earliest days crafting songs in Music City as she was inducted Monday into the Nashville...
Taylor Swift Says Brad Paisley Filled Her Tour Bus With ‘Thousands’ of Crickets in Prank That Went ‘Too Far’: ‘We’ve Been Estranged Since’
Taylor Swift took the stage at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Monday night, and while she didn’t give audienc...
Jay-Z to Perform at Apple Music 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show
Jay-Z is slated to perform at the Apple Music Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show, taking place on Feb. 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadi...
Searchlight Pictures Marketing EVP Michelle Hooper Exits Studio
Michelle Hooper is leaving Searchlight Pictures as EVP of marketing after two decades with the company. Since joining in...
Hubert de la Bouillerie, Editor on ‘Woodstock,’ ‘Witches of Eastwick,’ Dies at 75
Hubert de la Bouillerie, who edited films including George Miller’s “The Witches of Eastwick” and “Tango & Cash,” di...
Netflix Hires Steve Wilson to Lead Podcast Content Acquisition
Netflix has hired Steve Wilson to head its podcast expansion, Variety has confirmed. Wilson will lead the company’s podc...
Neil Young Files $10 Million Suit Against Trump for Using ‘Rockin’ in the Free World,’ Six Years After a Prior Settlement Over the Same Song
Neil Young has filed a $10 million lawsuit Monday against Donald J. Trump’s political action committee, Trump 47 Committ...
‘Nobody Wants This’ Star Tovah Feldshuh Responds to Adam Brody’s Palestine Support: ‘To Accuse the Jewish People of Genocide’ Is ‘Right Out of Hitler’...
“Nobody Wants This” star Tovah Feldshuh has weighed in after Adam Brody called for a “Free Palestine” during a GQ interv...
Macklemore Calls for Unity During First ‘Free Palestine’ Show: ‘Those Two Words Are So Threatening to Some People’
Macklemore dedicated his “Free Palestine” tour date to “love and liberation” as he kicked off the three-show trek in Dub...
Disney+ Strikes Landmark Content Deal With U.K.’s Channel 4 That Streamer Says Is Among Its ‘Most Significant’ Globally
Disney+ has made what it claims is one of the “most significant’ content arrangements with broadcasters around the world...
‘The Odyssey’ VFX House DNEG Co-Finances Francesco Lucente’s Fantasy Adventure ‘Sinbad,’ Cappu Films Boards Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
DNEG, the visual effects house on Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” has come aboard Francesco Lucente’s fantasy adventu...
India’s Oscar Entry ‘Gondhal’ Unveils Global Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
“Gondhal,” the Marathi-language thriller India has put forward for the international feature Oscar at the 99th Academy A...
‘Call of Duty’ Movie Will Be About the ‘Cost of War and Having to Be a Warrior,’ Says Director: ‘These Are Not Comic Books or Cartoon Characters’
Paramount Pictures’ upcoming “Call of Duty” movie, based on the massively popular video game franchise, is definitely no...
Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti Announces 2026 Writers Fellowship Class
The Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti has named the third cohort of its annual PEAK Writers Fellowship. This yea...
Eric Bauza’s ‘Looney Tunes’ Legacy: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Producer Says Voice Actor Behind Bugs Bunny and More Had a ‘Deep Love of the Craft’
Chris DeFaria, the former president of animation and innovative technology at Warner Bros. and producer of “Coyote vs. A...
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