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Sony Music Names Stephanie Yu General Counsel and Executive VP of Business and Legal
Sony Music has announced the appointment of Stephanie Yu to General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Business and L...
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Becomes Highest-Grossing Movie of 2026 in 7 Days With $1.15 Billion
After just seven days on the big screen, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has already supplanted “Toy Story 5” as the highest...
Kevin Bright-Produced October 7 Survivors Documentary ‘The Bridge’ Sets North American Release (EXCLUSIVE)
October 7 survivor documentary “The Bridge” is set to get a North American release coinciding with the third anniversary...
‘Ted Lasso’ Producer Brendan Hunt on What It Took to Revive the Series, Why Some Characters Didn’t Return and Whether There’s Another Three-Season Pla...
Give credit to the England women’s national football team — nicknamed the Lionesses — for inspiring the return of “Ted L...
Talia Ryder Joins Michael Shannon in ‘Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders’ (EXCLUSIVE)
“Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders,” the upcoming contemporary reimagining of iconic horror classic “The Cabinet of D...
Trans Pregnancy Drama ‘Aman’ Boards Nikkhil Advani and Dominique Welinski as Executive Producers Ahead of Toronto World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
“Aman,” writer-director Rahul Roye’s short film about a trans man who discovers he is pregnant on the eve of his gender-...
Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,’ Starring Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy, Boarded by WestEnd Films
WestEnd Films has boarded international sales on “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” written, directed and produced b...
Cannes Critics’ Week Film ‘Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building’ Sells to Strand Releasing for North America (EXCLUSIVE)
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Bruno Santamaria Razo’s debut feature “Six Months in a Pink and B...
Sophie Fleur de Bruijn, Whose Spec Script ‘The One Month Mark’ Sold to Apple With Jennifer Lawrence Attached, Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)
U.S. playwright-writer-director and performer Sophie Fleur de Bruijn, whose original romantic comedy spec script “The On...
Disney Says Commercials for Super Bowl LXI Have Sold Out
Disney said it had sold out all its commercial inventory tied to its coming 2027 telecast of Super Bowl LXI, showing a r...
Prateek Kuhad to Make Feature Film Acting Debut in Marginal MediaWorks, D36 and Jugaad’s ‘Drowning,’ Directed by Dar Gai (EXCLUSIVE)
Prateek Kuhad, the Indian singer-songwriter known for hits including “Cold/Mess” and “Kasoor,” will make his feature fil...
Disney Streaming Profit Doubles in June Quarter, Company Shifting Consumer Products to Studios Division
Disney posted mixed results for the June 2026 quarter, as Disney+ and Hulu continued to boost profits and the theme park...
‘The Mummy’ Poster Ads Banned From London Underground After Advertising Watchdog Cites ‘Distressing’ Imagery
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that outdoor poster ads for “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” breached its cod...
Alba Rohrwacher-Starrer ‘A Common Story’ Gets Boarded by True Colours Ahead of its Venice and Toronto Premieres (EXCLUSIVE)
Italian sales company True Colours has taken world sales outside Italy on first-time director Anna Foglietta’s marriage ...
‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Is Both a Promising Reboot and a Tedious Sequel: TV Review
Anyone with even the vaguest understanding of the profit motive can understand why Apple TV sports comedy “Ted Lasso” ha...
‘The Blacklist was a Plague’ — Locarno Retrospective Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht Talks About What We Can Learn from the Intolerance of the Past
One of the most shameful episodes in Hollywood’s history is being examined in a new retrospective to screen at the Locar...
Locarno Open Doors 2026: Next Gen African Tales of Miraculous Snowfalls, Lost Dreams, an African Keyboard Prodigy and New Heroes
Magic realist love story “Chapa 100,” absurdist political allegory “A Vineyard for a Lobster” and cross-continental quee...
How Genesis Is Using Korean Hospitality and the Power of Sports to Build a New Kind of Luxury Brand
A few months ago, crowds lined the 18th green at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, as 26-year-o...
Perez Hilton: Disturbing Livestream Frightens Fans, Rushed to Hospital After Police Investigation
Local police were dispatched to the Miami home of Hollywood gossip journalist Perez Hilton after receiving reports about...
Eli Roth Admits ‘Ice Cream Man’ Features AI-Assisted Shots After Suggesting Otherwise: ‘I Misspoke’
Eli Roth first promised that his upcoming horror release, “Ice Cream Man,” would feature an animated sequence he had ini...
ESPN Taps Creators to Help Promote the NFL Season and its First Super Bowl Telecast
ESPN has lined up its fourth annual “Creator Network” of digital stars who will fan out across the country to promote th...
Lindsey Buckingham, Madison Beer, Kiernan Shipka and Tiffani Thiessen Named As Presenters for Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood
Variety has announced presenters for its annual Power of Young Hollywood, this year presented by Disney+, taking place o...
Cannibalism Comedy-Horror ‘Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats,’ Starring Amir Nafis, Signs Abnormal Studios for Worldwide Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
Kuala Lumpur genre outfit Abnormal Studios has taken on worldwide international sales for “Ali & Ben’s Spicy Meats,”...
LISTEN: National Comedy Center’s Journey Gunderson on Preserving Humor as History
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Journey Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center in Ja...
Inside Google’s Efforts to Get Creatives Hooked on AI
I was about 15 minutes into Google’s AI short-film screening when I realized I had nearly finished my popcorn. Granted, ...
Naomi Watts’ Secret ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Role Reunited Her With Tom Holland, 12 Years After ‘The Impossible’: ‘From Playing Your Mom to Your AI...
Naomi Watts has taken to Instagram to celebrate her secret role in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” Sony and Marvel Studios’...
Audrey Nuna Signs to Republic Records (EXCLUSIVE)
Audrey Nuna has signed to Republic Records in advance of her new single “superHuman,” Variety can exclusively reveal. Th...
Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss on the Friendship Driving ‘Elektra/Persona’ at London’s National Theatre: ‘There’s a Lot of Masking and Unmasking’
“Elektra/Persona,” the U.K. National Theatre production fusing Sophocles’ “Elektra” with Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona,” gre...
Leslie Iwerks on ‘Disney Worldbuilders’ and How Jennifer Lee, James Cameron and Jared Bush Carry Forward Walt Disney’s Legacy
Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks is no stranger to pulling back the curtain on the magic of Disney. Her documentaries “The Pixar ...
Hearst Clinches Deal to Buy Out A+E Global Media Stake From Disney
Hearst has set a deal to acquire Disney’s 50% stake in A+E Global Media, the parent company of Lifetime, History Channel...
What Happened to the Boy From ‘Boyhood’? Ellar Coltrane on 12 Years of Linklater’s Classic, Coming to Set High and More
When Richard Linklater released “Boyhood” in 2014, moviegoers had never seen anything quite like it. Filmed over the spa...
Bill Hader, James Wan, Devon Pritchard, Nick Kroll and Keith Le Goy Join Variety Entertainment and Technology Summit Programming
Variety has announced Emmy-winning producer and actor Bill Hader; producer-director James Wan; producer-actor Nick Kroll...
Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial for March 2027
The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has issued a prelimina...
‘The Voice’ Celebrity Edition to Air on NBC in 2027, With Host Keke Palmer and Judges Joe Jonas, Queen Latifah, Riley Green
“The Voice” is plotting its first-ever celebrity edition. NBC announced Tuesday that it is starting production on “The V...
Variety’s 10 Assistants to Watch in 2026
It’s the most thankless job in Hollywood. Who else but assistants keep calendars from colliding, ensure the checks clear...
UFC Lost $30 Million on White House Fight on Donald Trump’s Birthday
Ari Emanuel, TKO Group’s executive chairman and CEO, called the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House “a roaring succ...
How to Snag Tickets to Bowen Yang’s ‘Oh Mary!’ Broadway Debut
Bowen Yang is trading Studio 8H for the Lyceum Theatre. The comedian and “Las Culturistas” co-host will make his Broadwa...
Immersive Horror Play ‘A Ghost in Your Ear’ Sets New York Premiere From Audible Theater
Jamie Armitage’s immersive horror show “A Ghost in Your Ear” has set its New York premiere at Audible’s off-Broadway Min...
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Set $200 Million Fund to Recover Endangered Species
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund have launched the Phoenix Species Project, an initiative dedicated ...
Ariana Grande May or May Not Be Struggling. We Can Talk About It Without Trying to Shame Her
“It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl.” Over the past several years, there’s been an ongoing — and, in many cases, m...
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