Month: February 2025

Julia Sweeney appeared on “The View” ahead of the “SNL” 50th Anniversary special and admitted that she “took it to heart” and “thought about it a lot” when her sketch comedy character Pat was met with controversy from the LGBTQ community. Pat was a recurring character on “SNL” in the early 1990s and headlined the
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“Cobra Kai” has covered a lot of ground in its six seasons — from the San Fernando Valley to Okinawa to Barcelona and back. But the heart of the show has always been the relationship between Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and his first pupil, Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña). In an interview with Variety, Maridueña revealed
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Taylor Lautner is set to star in a very self-aware(wolf) TV series. Variety has learned exclusively that Lautner will star in and executive produce the scripted series “Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter,” which is currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios. The project was brought to Amazon by Tornante, the independent studio behind shows like “BoJack
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“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Teddi Mellencamp announced that she is undergoing surgery to remove several brain tumors. “For the last several weeks I’ve been dealing with severe and debilitating headaches. Yesterday the painwas unbearable and required hospitalization,” she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday. “After a CT scan and MRI, doctors found multiple
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has taken the Trump administration’s war on diversity, equity and inclusion to a new target: Comcast and NBCUniversal. Carr said he sent a letter Tuesday (Feb. 11) to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts “to let him know that I’ve asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation into Comcast & NBCUniversal.”
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More than eight years after the Apple TV streaming app first came out, the tech giant has finally released a version for Google’s Android. On Wednesday (Feb. 12), the Apple TV app for Android was published on the Google Play store. It’s compatible with all Android devices including smartphones and tablets running Android 10 and
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Takashi Yamazaki, the Oscar-winning writer, director and VFX supervisor of “Godzilla Minus One,” was among the honorees who shared their views on AI at the Visual Effects Society Awards on Tuesday. The filmmaker – who accepted the Society’s Visionary Award – also confirmed that he’s currently working on the screenplay and storyboards for the new
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President Trump said Wednesday that he’d been “unanimously” elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, which the president announced on his social media site Truth Social, comes after Trump moved to oust members of the organization’s board who had been appointed by his
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Rebecca Kutler was named president of MSNBC Wednesday, dropping an “interim” designation from her title and taking on the mantle of moving the progressive network forward as it grapples not only with coverage of President Trump but splitting off from NBC in a spin-off being orchestrated by corporate parent Comcast. In her short tenure at
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Alicia Keys, Beck, Cher, Trey Anastasio, Mavis Staples, the War and Treaty, Michael McDonald, Peter Frampton, Kate Hudson, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Dave Stewart Eurythmics feat. Vanessa Amorosi, Eric Burton of Black Pumas, Grace Bowers, Jesse Malin, Luke Spiller, and more will performed at the ninth annual Love Rocks NYC 2025 benefit concert, taking place March
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Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “When Fall Is Coming,” a mystery-filled thriller directed by French auteur François Ozon. Represented internationally by Playtime, “When Fall Is Coming” premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where it won best screenplay and supporting actor for Pierre Lottin. The movie had its U.S. premiere at
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Jeremy Strong is set to lead a series adaptation of the Ira Levin novel “The Boys From Brazil” at Netflix, Variety has confirmed. The project hails from Peter Morgan, the creator of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “The Crown.” Morgan is writing the adaptation and will executive produce along with Suzanne Mackie of Orchid Pictures. Reps
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“Election season is not for the weak.” Even this statement in the Telluride Film Festival program last fall couldn’t have guessed how directly German director Edward Berger’s stunning papal thriller “Conclave” would tackle our then-ongoing election season.  The start of Berger’s eight-Oscar-nominee sees the sudden death of its fictional pope, with Ralph Fiennes’ Cardinal Lawrence
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Millie Bobby Brown spoke out in a Vanity Fair cover story about her film contracts leaking online. Reports surfaced in July 2022 that Brown was making $10 million for starring in and producing Netflix’s “Enola Holmes 2,” which would be the highest salary ever for an actor under 20 years old. Then came the constant
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Noomi Rapace is set to star in female-led action thriller “Traction,” which WestEnd Films is bringing to the EFM. “Traction” is directed by Lorraine Darrow (“Pas Sages”) and is produced for Elizabeth Bay Prods. by Janette Day (“Close,” “Ghost World”), Dennis Davidson and Simon Moseley (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”). Jon Gosier and Chandler Heinz
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“Pretty Little Liars” and “Which Brings Me to You” star Lucy Hale will topline the romantic comedy “Princess” from “The Cooler” screenwriter Frank Hannah. Daniel Baur’s K5 Intl. has boarded “Princess” as its international sales agent and will commence sales at Berlinale’s European Film Market. The plot centers on a woman who finally meets the
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Bill Skarsgård’s transformation into the hideous-looking vampire Count Orlok for Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” was an arduous process — with the end goal of making the Swedish actor completely unrecognizable. “I was not so interested in Bill’s features, aside from his eyes,” Eggers says of Skarsgård. “The things that make [Orlock] not just an intimidating, masculine
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Spotify says it will give $50,000 in grants to writers of unpublished stories with the aim of “ending the stigma surrounding mental health.” The company is partnering with The Black List, a platform for filmmakers and writers to showcase projects to industry professionals, and The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping prevent suicide
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“Captain America: Brave New World” is the first Marvel movie in six months — but more than that, it’s the first since 2022, the year of “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” to build itself around a superhero you’d categorize as Marvel Classic. Those three years define an era when many began
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Nebojša Slijepčević, the director of the Oscar-nominated short “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,” is working on a feature adaptation of “Dark Mother Earth” by Kristian Novak, Variety has exclusively learned. “Dark Mother Earth” follows an amnesiac writer, Matija, who is missing a major portion of his memory. Upon writing his third book, Matija
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New Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle underscored the vital role of independent cinema, her efforts to expand the festival beyond Berlin and the importance of young filmmakers in a discussion on Wednesday at the Cinema Vision 2030 conference organized by German independent cinema association AG Kino – Gilde. To mark the Berlinale’s 75th edition, the festival
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In “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the neurotic, lovelorn heroine hasn’t just swapped cigarettes for Nicorette. She’s traded the big screen for Peacock, a second-tier streaming service where the franchise’s fourth entry will debut on Feb. 13. “[People] will watch this one at home,” says Helen Fielding, the author who created Bridget Jones. “If
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