Khaby Lame, the most-followed creator on TikTok, has been named UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. In his role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lame will use his global platforms to help raise awareness of children’s rights across the world, including education and training, empowering girls, protection from violence and abuse, and access to health, nutrition and
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“The Night Agent” has upped cast members Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones to series regulars for its third season. The news comes just after the Jan. 23 release of Season 2. Per the official logline, the series follows “low level FBI Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), whose efforts to save the president (Kari
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from Rebecca Yarros‘ “Onyx Storm,” the third book in her “The Empyrean” book series. Rebecca Yarros published No. 3 out of the five books she has planned in her “The Empyrean” series last week and has already broken the record for fasting-selling novel targeted at adults in 20 years
Alyssa (Eya Bellagha), a high schooler in Tunis, has as many familial responsibilities as she has dreams to escape to Europe. Her older neighbor Mehdi (Slim Baccar) is a talented painter looking for any job since art doesn’t pay the bills. The poignant friendship that develops between these two characters is at the center of
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+. We found love in a hopeless place? In Season 2, Episode 3 of “Severance,” the innies are kind of all doing their own thing. Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) are off exploring the goat nursery
Allyce Ozarski, a television producer who worked on shows like “The L Word: Generation Q” and “I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman,” died Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. She was 41. Ozarski died from triple negative metastatic breast cancer, her family confirmed. Born in California, she spent her childhood in Poway before studying international
As he was with the 2021 Grammys and “Djesse Vol. 3,” Jacob Collier is, again, up for album of the year, this time courtesy of his spiky, soul-filled “Djesse Vol. 4.” While his first AOTY nom found the wunderkind one-man-band up against a mixed bag of female and male greats (Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” won that
“Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” tells the story of how house music was born in the late 1970s. A history reconstructed by director Elegance Bratton (“The Inspection”) through the memories of the trailblazers who birthed it at underground clubs in racially segregated and violent Chicago, this is the story of how Black, brown
Zoe Saldaña has spoken out for the first time since racist tweets by her “Emilia Pérez” co-star Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week. “I’m still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m sad. It makes me really sad because I don’t support [it], and I don’t have any tolerance
Will Ferrell recently told People magazine that some of his fans were not too thrilled with his decision to revive Buddy the Elf as a grizzled drinker and smoker. The comedian went viral on social media after attending the Dec. 29 hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers in his Buddy the
Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s “The Sandman” will end with its upcoming second season. “The Sandman” Season 2 has been a long time coming. The first season debuted in August 2022, and it wasn’t renewed at Netflix until November of that year. At that time, Netflix was also hesitant to label it as a second
“The Librarians” begins with a quote: “It was a pleasure to see things burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder’s illuminating documentary — premiering at the Sundance Film Festival — offers a rattling look at coordinated efforts to ban books. More importantly,
Just two months ago, a red ribbon tied to a piece of luggage only meant one thing: your bag wouldn’t get lost in the sea of identical suitcases at baggage claim. That was a simpler time. Thanks to “Carry-On,” Netflix‘s high-octane Christmas Eve thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, a simple ribbon has taken
Paramount Global and CBS News may have very different views on the journalism produced each week by “60 Minutes.” Staffers at CBS News, the unit that serves as home to the venerable newsmagazine as well as “CBS Evening News” and has ties to the early days of TV news when Edward R. Murrow held sway,
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual
Craig T. Nelson is an extremely fine and too often underappreciated actor, and it’s difficult not to be at least mildly impressed by his absolutely fearless lead performance in “Green and Gold.” In director Anders Lindwall’s ponderous and predictable drama, he plays Buck, a debt-ridden Wisconsin dairy farmer who’s way too proud and tradition-bound to
Timothy Olyphant is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series “Lucky.” Variety has learned that Olyphant has joined the series alongside previously announced lead Anya Taylor-Joy as well as recently announced cast member Annette Bening. “Lucky” is based on the novel of the same name by Marissa Stapley. The
There were moments during Thursday night’s epic FireAid concert/webcast that got off-point from the otherwise prevalent “We love L.A.” theme. Even several states’ worth of off-point. Like, for instance, the roughly 15-minute segment where everyone was thinking about Seattle instead, because the surviving members of Nirvana got back together to do a four-song mini-set, fronted
The estate of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster sued DC Comics and Warner Bros. on Friday, seeking to invalidate the companies’ copyrights in several foreign markets. The suit revives a long-running dispute that was last addressed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal in 2013. The court rejected the Shuster estate’s attempt to cancel the Superman
Belgian distributor Piece of Magic has acquired distribution rights for France and Benelux for Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard,” which is BAFTA nominated in the outstanding debut by a British filmmaker catagory. The deal was brokered by Alpha Violet, a sales company based in Paris. The film was also nominated at the European Film Awards in the
“House of the Dragon” has found its Ormund Hightower. Variety has learned exclusively that James Norton will join the HBO show’s upcoming third season as Ormund. The official description for the character states that he is “Otto’s (Rhys Ifans) nephew, Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Gwayne’s (Freddie Fox) cousin, and the Lord of Oldtown. He is
“The You You Are,” the revolutionary self-help book in “Severance” that motivates the innies to liberate themselves from the confines of Lumon, is now available for your outie to read. Eight chapters of “The You You Are” — penned by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD — have been released digitally via Apple Books. (Apple TV+
In an industry filled with blowhards, Doug Davis flies pretty far under the radar, at least for a major music attorney, son of one of its most legendary executives and, for nearly two decades, co-pilot of that legendary executive’s iconic annual event, the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala. Even those who have known him for years
Max got plenty of afterglow from the big “Hacks” best comedy Emmy win this fall, but series producer Universal TV would appreciate some of that halo too. “Ted Lasso” is Apple TV+’s biggest hit, but give some credit to the company behind the show, Warner Bros. TV. And yes, “The Boys” was a game changer
The snow from this year’s Sundance Film Festival has mostly melted off of Hollywood’s Dior boots, and as the Utah event draws to a close its time to crown a new class of indie filmmaking stars. Multiple pedigreed juries will hand out prizes to movies in competition on Friday at Park City’s The Ray Theater
Much as its cartel-boss-trying-to-go-good antiheroine does as she tears through her family and community, “Emilia Pérez” defines its environment. It has been tipped for Academy attention since Greta Gerwig’s Cannes jury gave it two key prizes. And its field-leading 13 Oscar nominations (a number that, were there still two sound categories where “Perez” could be
Sophie Thatcher can cry a single tear out of either eye on command. No, it’s not a party trick, but it blew away writer-director Drew Hancock. During a taut scene in the third act of his sci-fi thriller “Companion,” opening in theaters this weekend via Warner Bros., he asked Thatcher to attempt to shed just
“Married at First Sight” is on the move. After a competitive situation, the relationship show has found a new home at Peacock, where it will stream for at least three seasons — 19, 20 and 21. The series first debuted in 2014 on FYI, also airing on A&E for Season 2. In 2017, it moved
Lifestyle TV veterans Maggie Barnes and Brett Stolnick have launched Garden Slate Productions, home of Food Network’s long-running series “The Kitchen” and HGTV’s “The High Low Project.” Barnes and Stolnick previously worked together at BSTV Entertainment, which the pair acquired from producer Beth Burke. BSTV’s roster also included Food Network’s “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “Big
Original “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert fired back at Megyn Kelly over a comment the former Fox News host made about Netflix‘s upcoming adaptation of the classic book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Variety confirmed on Jan. 29 that Netflix is developing a new “Little House on the Prairie” series. Gilbert was
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