Month: March 2024

A myriad of sentiments converge when estranged siblings meet to unpack the weight of their father’s recent death in Spain’s Álex Montoya’s third feature “La Casa,” adapted from the Eisner-winning graphic novel by Paco Roca and sold by Latido Films. The film, which bowed last night, figures in the official competition selection at this year’s
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David Simon is developing a new series at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively. Simon is attached to write and executive produce the drama project, currently titled “The System.” Lily Thorne and Larissa MacFarquhar will also write and co-executive produce, with Kiese Laymon also attached to write. The project is based on a series of New
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“Reacher” Season 3 has added four new actors to its cast. Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold, Roberto Montesinos and Daniel David Stewart will all join the cast of the Amazon Prime Video series. Tee will play Quinn, described as a “physically imposing and intimidating” lieutenant colonel whom Reacher investigated years ago. Berchtold has been cast as
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The battle between Apple and Epic Games continues to rage on. Epic Games on Wednesday said Apple terminated its developer account for Sweden, which the games company said it had planned to use to launch the Epic Games Store and “Fortnite” on iOS devices in Europe. That came less than three weeks after Apple had
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“The Serpent Queen” Season 2 has added 10 new cast members, including Oscar nominee Minnie Driver. Driver, known for her roles in films like “Good Will Hunting” and shows like “Speechless,” will recur in the series alongside fellow new series regulars Angus Imrie (“Emma,” “Fleabag”), Emma McDonald (“Moonhaven,” “Low Rider”), Stanley Morgan (“I Used to
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The trial against three men accused of possessing stolen Eagles manuscripts for the lyrics to “Hotel California” and other hits came to an abrupt halt Wednesday, after the prosecution suddenly dropped its case against the defendants, citing fresh disclosures that a judge agreed would have been “damaging” to the fairness of the court proceedings. Per
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Rooster Teeth is biting the dust after more than two decades. Parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, after unsuccessful attempts to sell the unprofitable fandom, gaming and comedy entertainment division, is shutting down Rooster Teeth’s operations. RT general manager Jordan Levin announced the shutdown of Austin-based Rooster Teeth at an all-hands meeting Wednesday and in a
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Harrison Ford can’t escape the two-and-a-half-minute fanfare that John Williams composed for his most famous cinematic hero, Indiana Jones. “As I often remind John, his music follows me everywhere I go — literally,” Ford says. “When I had my last colonoscopy, they were playing it on the operating room speakers.”   Creating those big, bold,
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“The Masked Singer” didn’t have to look far to find a fill-in for panelist Nicole Scherzinger, who spent the fall starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard on London’s West End. Singer/songwriter Rita Ora has served as a panelist on “The Masked Singer UK” for several seasons — making it an easy trip across the
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Máiréad Tyers’ first on-screen role straight out of drama school was in Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast.” “You don’t really see me in the film at all,” she says. “[But] I’m so proud of it.” A year later, she wrapped her first leading role in U.K. Disney+ original comedy “Extraordinary.” In the show — basically a flatshare
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When Benson Boone released his sledgehammer ballad “Beautiful Things” in January, his expectations weren’t high. “Every song I’ve had, I’ve had to work so, so, so hard for every stream while the song is out,” says the 21-year-old. “I’ve been posting videos and doing any promotion I can, but this one, after a week, just
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Julianne Moore, Michael Douglas and Emma Thompson are among a slew of celebrities putting their names to a campaign for nuclear disarmament. Ahead of “Oppenheimer’s” expected domination at the Oscars this Sunday, Moore, Douglas, Thompson and other celebrities have backed the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s “Make Nukes History” campaign. “We want to raise our voices to
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In the trailer for Prime Video’s “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway portrays a 40-year-old single mom who gets to live out a teenage girl’s dream: embarking on a whirlwind romance with the 23-year-old lead singer of the world’s hottest boy band, played by Nicholas Galitzine. The R-rated film will stream globally on Prime Video
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Dominique Boutonnat, the president of the National Film Board (CNC), the country’s most powerful film institution, will stand trial for alleged sexual assault starting on June 14, Variety has confirmed. Boutonnat was indicted in February 2021 for the alleged sexual assault of his 22-year-old godson in 2020. It took over two years for the Nanterre
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This year’s Vanity Fair Oscar party will mark the hot-ticket soiree’s 30th anniversary. While the magazine is keeping tight-lipped on what exactly is planned to commemorate the milestone (because editor-in-chief Radhika Jones wants the VIP guests surprised), it’s no secret that the dinner and after-party will, for the ninth consecutive year, take place in a
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Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” has been earning rave reviews across the board from film critics and audiences, but perhaps no reaction is bigger than the one shared by “Death Stranding” creator Hideo Kojima. The video game master wrote to this 3.7 million followers on X (formerly Twitter) that “Dune: Part Two” is such monumental
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It is no great aberration in the modern mysteries of film finances that the Manhattan-set “5lbs of Pressure” was, for whatever reason, shot in Manchester, England. While the ruse works well enough superficially — maybe the industrial U.K. city is even more persuasively “gritty” than NYC these days — it might partly explain why writer-director
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