Month: January 2025

Though the holidays are over, there are still plenty of New Year’s fashion sales worth your attention. If you’re on the hunt for your new favorite pair of jeans, don’t sleep on Amazon’s Winter deals. The e-tailer is currently slashing prices on dozens of trendy denim styles, including Free People’s Mid-Rise Barrel Jeans recently worn
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Laverne Cox announced she has stepped down as the host of E!’s “Live From the Red Carpet” ahead of the 2025 Golden Globes. “With an incredible amount of gratitude I’ve decided not to return as host of #LiveFromE’s red carpet coverage. I’m so incredibly proud of the work we did over my three year tenure,” Cox
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The Golden Globes are just around the corner. In other words, Hollywood will be rolling out red carpets all over town before, during and after the big show on Sunday. Here, Variety presents the ultimate Golden Globes party guide. Friday, Jan. 3 Golden Gala: A Celebration of ExcellenceViola Davis receives the Cecil B. DeMille Award from
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“Conclave” and “The Brutalist” are among the nominees for this year’s Set Decorators Society of America Awards. “Anora,” “Emilia Perez” and “The Substance” are also among the films recognized by the SDSA. The awards celebrate excellence in the art of set decoration for film with the decor and design categories. Now in its fifth year, the
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Lily-Rose Depp recently told Harper’s Bazaar UK that she was left “traumatized” by her father Johnny Depp‘s 1990 fantasy movie “Edward Scissorhands.” The Tim Burton-directed classic stars Johnny as a societal reject who has blades for fingers. But it wasn’t the character’s physical appearance that distressed Lily-Rose as a child. “I was traumatized by it.
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Back in 2019, Cynthia Erivo received the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Breakthrough Performance Award. Just six years later, she will be lauded with Variety’s Creative Impact in Acting Award, commemorating the Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning performer’s latest achievement: playing Elphaba in “Wicked.” Her performance has received rave reviews, and she has been nominated
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Both Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door“) will be in attendance at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night as they compete for the Golden Globe award for best actress (drama). There’s a chance they’ll both leave empty-handed, with Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), Kate Winslet (“Lee”) and Pamela
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Skydance Media and Paramount Global have said objections filed with the FCC over their planned merger “lack merit” and “seek relief that raises constitutional concerns” — and the companies have formally asked the agency to dismiss them. In particular, Skydance and Paramount said a petition by the Center for American Rights, a conservative public-interest law
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Meghan McCain came out swinging against Meghan Markle after the Duchess of Sussex premiered the official trailer for her upcoming Netflix series. The lifestyle series, titled “With Love, Meghan,” pairs how-tos for cooking, gardening and homemaking with candid conversations with special guests such as Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, Prince Harry and more. McCain slammed the series
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Bad Bunny‘s sixth studio album is just two days from it’s official release. On Friday morning, the Grammy-winning reggaeton star revealed a 17-song tracklist alongside a short film that tackles issues of gentrification in his native Puerto Rico. The album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should’ve Taken More Photos”), is due out Jan. 5 and
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Jacques Audiard has always been unpredictable. Throughout his 30-plus year career, the Palme d’Or-winning French filmmaker has delivered the gritty prison drama “A Prophet,” chronicled destructive passion in “Rust and Bone,” told a tale of Tamil Sri Lankan refugees in “Dheepan” and explored Westerns with his English-language debut, “The Sisters Brothers.” His latest effort is
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It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring the list, looking for suddenly free intellectual property to turn into horror fare. Hence the slasher films that have already been
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“Survive till ’25” has been the mantra of the movie theater business — heck, the entire film industry — ever since pandemic-related delays and Hollywood’s labor strikes wreaked havoc on studio slates and production calendars. Several would-be 2024 blockbusters, like Tom Cruise’s eighth “Mission Impossible” and Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” were pushed into
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Nikki Glaser is ready to take on the biggest night of her career. After a breakout 2024 — one that saw her earning awards attention for her HBO comedy special “Someday You’ll Die” and dominating the discourse for her excoriating performance on Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady” — the stand-up has been tapped to
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Even body horror fans will likely be shocked by the amount of blood in French director Fargeat’s “The Substance” — though slightly less so if they saw her ultraviolent 2017 debut, “Revenge,” in which a woman is impaled upon a sharp tree branch after being shoved off a cliff. In America, many directors get their
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David Fincher bristles at being labeled a perfectionist.   He makes an unconvincing case in the shadow of his filmography, which includes “Fight Club,” “Zodiac” and “The Social Network” among several other films marked by a meticulous and unerring technical precision. But Fincher’s objections ring especially hollow when it comes in the midst of an explanation
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Bruce Springsteen is providing more insight to his upcoming biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, saying that “The Bear” star “sings very well” in the film. Titled “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the Scott Cooper-directed movie follows Springsteen in the early ’80s as he writes his personal sixth album “Nebraska.” Both Springsteen and his manager, Jon Landau
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“Gavin & Stacey: The Finale” has broken viewing records in the U.K. since airing on Christmas Day. According to the BBC, the final episode of the hit British sitcom — co-created by Ruth Jones and James Corden — is now the U.K.’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since current records began in 2002.
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Gas-guzzling trucks carrying gear from city to city. Food waste emitting potent methane. Plastic utensils, plastic bags for merch (where is that sweatshirt coming from?), plastic light-up bracelets, plastic water bottles. Fans traveling tens to hundreds of miles to the arena. Single-use outfits from Shein and Amazon. These are just a few of the reasons
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The NAACP is launching original podcast series “Our Culture, Our Stories,” promising intimate and “unfiltered” conversations with an array of media and entertainment luminaries about navigating adversity, celebrating excellence and fostering community strength. Guests appearing in the 12-episode series include: actors Sterling K. Brown, Ryan Michelle Bathé, Hill Harper and Aja Naomi King; comedian Roy
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Canela Media has hired media and entertainment veteran exec Philippe Guelton as global president, where he’ll be tasked with leading the Hispanic digital media company’s growth and profitability in the U.S. and international markets. Guelton joins New York-based Canela after his previous employer, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, shut down after filing for bankruptcy
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