Fasten your seat belts: Hollywood is in for another bumpy ride in 2023. With the economy once again on the brink of a recession and cutbacks hitting hard all over town, the entertainment industry is bracing for more challenges in the year ahead. Among the many question marks for 2023: Will the movie business revive
Month: December 2022
The narratives of an awards season tend to unfold over months as festival winners and various film groups anoint front-runners and winners, but this is a year that couldn’t settle on just one storyline. And that’s an encouraging and hopeful message and story for everyone to latch onto. One trend: The return of the blockbuster. “Avatar:
Check out an official Avatar: The Way of Water featurette starring Zoe Saldaña! ► Buy Tickets: https://www.fandango.com/avatar-the-way-of-water-2022-148856/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: December 16, 2022 Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet Directed By: James Cameron Synopsis:
Four ByteDance employees violated company policy by inappropriately accessing data on TikTok users in the U.S., including two journalists, in an attempt to track down the source of information leaks, according to an internal report released by the Chinese company. ByteDance said it fired all four of the employees, two based in the U.S. and
Jeff Garlin has been cast in Season 4 of “Never Have I Ever,” the Netflix comedy series co-created by Mindy Kaling. The role will be his first since exiting ABC’s “The Goldbergs” after an HR investigation into misconduct allegations against him. News of his departure from “The Goldbergs” came in December 2021, shortly after the
Actors often seek connection with their roles to help them embody their characters. For Anna Diop, the many links she shared with her character in Nikyatu Jusu’s directorial debut, “Nanny” — from her Senegalese culture to the reflection of her own mother’s immigrant story — drew her to accept the role. In “Nanny,” an undocumented
The HiFi Holiday Festival, hosted by Filipinos Advancing Creative Education (F.A.C.E) in collaboration with other HiFi organizations, took over L.A.’s Historic Filipinotown on Saturday for the second consecutive year. Held at RideBack Ranch, the event raised toy donations to ship back to less fortunate families in the Philippines while spreading holiday cheer to L.A. locals
Politically and socially, the U.K. has just had one of its most turbulent years ever. But while nothing the music industry got up to could quite compare with the departure of the country’s longest-serving monarch (farewell, Queen Elizabeth II) and its shortest-serving Prime Minister (see ya, Liz Truss), the music biz still had more than
Nearly a quarter of a century after the 1998 series premiere of “That ’70s Show,” the long-awaited trailer to its spinoff, “That ’90s Show,” is finally here. Stars of the original series reunited on-screen for the 10-episode Netflix spinoff series, which takes place in the summer of 1995 and follows Eric and Donna’s daughter, Leia
“The Pale Blue Eye” is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of
In the eyes of cinephiles, remaking any film from Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa would be sheer blasphemy. But when captivating actor Bill Nighy is at the center of the story, his angelic smile and splendid vocals do more than win you over. The Sony Pictures Classics drama “Living” — about a civil servant who decides
Writers on Writers: Scribes Reflect on Favorite Films of 2022 – Variety Writers on Writers: Scribes Reflect on Favorite Films of 2022 – Variety Dec 22, 2022 9:15am PT By Robert Jones Jr., David Grann, Jeremy O. Harris, Jeph Loeb, Gillian Flynn, David Lowery, Greil Marcus, Jon Robin Baitz, Mark Ronson, Douglas Stuart, Jonathan Franzen,
After opting to skip a French theatrical release with its latest animated film “Strange World,” Disney+ is nearing a deal with French TV groups over their respective windows. Disney+ had decided to stream “Strange World” directly on its service in France to protest the country’s strict windowing rules, which only apply to films first shown
The Society of Composers & Lyricists has announced the nominations for its fourth annual honors for music in films, TV and video games, with French composer Alexandre Desplat and American composer Bear McCreary each scoring double nominations. SCL, the primary organization for professional media composers, will present its awards Feb. 15 at the Skirball Cultural
Brian Tyree Henry will receive the creative impact in breakthrough performance award for his role in “Causeway” at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The honor will be presented as part of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch brunch at the Parker Palm Springs on Jan. 6. “Brian Tyree Henry’s acclaimed performance in ‘Causeway’ has cemented
Rian Johnson has a message for any “Star Wars” fan who has complained about the bits of comedy in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”: “Slightly goofy humor” has always been an element of the franchise, dating back to George Lucas’ 1977 original. Johnson recently took part in a career retrospective interview for GQ and defended
In a typical World Cup year, fans and players have at least a few weeks to recover from the wild adrenaline rush of mainlining so many high stakes games all at once. This year, however, Qatar moving the tournament to the (slightly) cooler months of November and December means that the delirious hangover from Argentina
All six charges of sexual assault against British singer Rex Orange County have been dismissed after an investigation by the Crown Prosecution Service. In October, the artist — real name: Alexander O’Connor — was accused of assaulting a woman six separate times in London over two days last June. After pleading not guilty to all six charges,
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Sorry I’ve been a bit MIA recently. In addition to moving into a new apartment, I got hit with that darned flu. Now I’m back and ready for the holidays. But before we say goodbye to 2022, here’s one more column for you. Darren Aronofsky and Chris Hemsworth may be
Netflix, after years of insisting it wouldn’t dive into the advertising business, threw its hat into the ring last month with the launch of an ad-supported plan, priced 30% less than its previous least-expensive package. But at least initially, independent research suggests Netflix’s Basic With Ads plan is getting a relatively cool reception. In November,
After fully debuting his MCU-approved Matt Murdock/Daredevil in “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” over the summer, actor Charlie Cox is finally getting ready to lead his own MCU project with the 18-episode Disney+ series “Daredevil: Born Again.” The actor confirmed to NME that he will spend nearly all of 2023 shooting the Marvel project. “They said
The Mediapro Studio, one of Europe’s biggest super indies, is mulling the development of a third season to English-language suspense survival thriller “The Head,” its biggest hit to date in terms of production values, commercial punch and artistic ambition. Ran Tellem, TMS international content development head would return as show-runner and creator and Jorge Dorado,
It’s official: YouTube is getting the hand-off for the NFL’s Sunday Ticket. Google and the National Football League announced a pact Thursday making YouTube the exclusive home of the Sunday Ticket out-of-market games package, starting with the 2023 season. The deal ends DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket stewardship after 28 years. Aimed a superfans and football bettors,
SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points for “Avatar: The Way of Water,” currently playing in theaters. When James Cameron first approached Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver about writing a sequel to “Avatar,” Barack Obama was president, TikTok didn’t exist and Marvel Studios had released only one “Avengers” movie. It was 2013. Jaffa and
Yang Hyun-suk, founder and former head of K-pop talent agency YG Entertainment, was acquitted Thursday on charges of blackmailing an informant in an attempt to block an investigation into a drug scandal. “The Seoul Central District Court delivered a not-guilty verdict, saying there is insufficient evidence that Yang had blackmailed the whistleblower,” the Yonhap news
Basque documentarian Nagore Eceiza (“Fifty Rupees Only”) is preparing to pitch her feature-length film, “If You Wish To Make An Apple Pie,” alongside 21 other projects at Málaga’s 2023 Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (MAFF), which platforms new projects from emergent Spanish and Latin American talent. Put through San Sebastian’s Ikusmira Berriak, one of Spain’s foremost
A new report into content consumption patterns by premium video users in ten Asia-Pacific countries shows that content from Asia accounts for 75% of viewership. Local and regional programming is key to attracting and retaining subscribers to premium streaming platforms. The study, “The Rise of Asian Content” produced by Media Partners Asia and its AMPD
RELEASE Influential Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap‘s “Almost Love” (“Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat”) is getting a Feb. 3, 2023 theatrical release in India from Zee Studios. The Good Bad Films production had its world premiere at the Marrakech Film Festival in November. It is an India-U.K. co-production set across both countries and follows two love
Screen Producers Australia on Thursday announced nominees in 13 categories for its annual SPA Awards. Eligible works must have screened between July 2021 and December 2022. In the running for feature film of the year are: “The Drover’s Wife – The Legend of Molly Johnson” (Oombarra Productions and Bunya Productions), “Here Out West” (Co-Curious), “The Power of the
Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” led the nominations at the 43rd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards with nine nods, with Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun” close behind with eight. Both films were nominated in the film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year categories, as were Todd Field’s “Tár” and Daniel Kwan
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