Gaëtan Bruel, the former director of the French Cultural Services in the U.S., has been appointed president of France’s National Film Board (CNC), the country’s most powerful film institution. The 36-year-old joins the CNC from France’s Ministry of Culture, where he’s worked as chief of staff since January 2024. Prior to that, he spearheaded the
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British pop royalty Take That will take the stage at the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, performing their hit single “Greatest Day,” featured in the BAFTA-nominated film “Anora.” Jeff Goldblum will play the piano for the In Memoriam segment. The actor-musician, who recently wowed audiences as The Wizard in the hit “Wicked” film adaptation, brings his
The first trailer for drama series “Other People’s Money,” which has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, debuts here. Variety spoke to its producers and the creator-showrunner about how they crafted the show, which is inspired by the real story of the biggest tax fraud in European history. Beta Film is handling worldwide
No one lauds the “Wicked” quite like Billie Eilish, at least when she is in full Ariana Grande fangirl mode, as she was in interviewing her longtime singing heroine after a screening of the movie musical in Hollywood Tuesday night. The Q&A at the Directors Guild of America’s theater, held for Academy and guild members,
“Scream 7″ star Mason Gooding says with Kevin Williamson at the helm, who wrote the original 1996 movie-centric slasher, franchise villain Ghostface is “the most brutal he’s been” in the seventh installment. “It feels like an amplification of what’s came before, and there’s no better indication of that than Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original,
After Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated with director Jon M. Chu on the 2021 movie musical “In The Heights,” the pair almost worked together on 2024’s biggest Broadway adaptation: “Wicked.” During a recent appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Miranda explained that he had his eye on the role of a munchkin who delivers a
A love letter to the the people and places of the New York borough for which it’s named, “Love, Brooklyn” is also a showcase for the talents of its three attractive lead actors. In this entry at Sundance’s US dramatic competition, Andre Holland, Nicole Beharie and DeWanda Wise play upwardly mobile creative New Yorkers in
As a sequel series to the beloved “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is in the works with a near pilot order at Hulu, the original show’s 1997 premiere date is nearing its 30th anniversary. Sarah Michelle Gellar is in final talks to reprise the iconic title character and there are dozens of prolific actors who, like
A 14-year-old is obliged to stay at her grandparents’ lake home after her impulsive mom elopes and decides to prioritize her new husband. At the competitive music camp across the water, a determined young violinist pushes himself to be named first chair, sacrificing the personal connections he covets more. Meanwhile, at the local bar, a
The Peacock horror thriller series “Hysteria!” has been canceled after just one season, Variety has learned exclusively. The show aired its one and only season at the streamer in October 2024. It had originally been ordered to series in August 2022 and began production in 2023, but was forced to shut down after filming just
Scarlett Johansson said in an interview with Vanity Fair that she spent years forwarding trade reports of new “Jurassic Park” movies to her agents because she was desperate to join the long-running franchise. She’s finally getting her chance with this summer’s “Jurassic World Rebirth,” co-staring Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali. “I was really crazy about
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from the Feb. 4 episode of Hulu’s “Paradise,” titled “Agent Billy Pace.” “Paradise” twisted the knife with its latest shocker, revealing the tragic backstory of Agent Billy Pace (Jon Beavers) and his double-crossing ways between friend and boss Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and his actual boss, tech mogul and
Over the last few years, the state of comic book films and shows has grown increasingly uncertain with the phrase “superhero fatigue” getting thrown around following the surprise underperformance of major Marvel films. But Robert Kirkman, co-creator, co-showrunner and executive producer of “Invincible” — the violent animated show ready to unveil Season 3 — remains
If you’re a Mary J. Blige fan at a tour called “For My Fans,” you’d better know what to do, and how and when to do it. If you’re singing along with her 2007 hit “Just Fine,” you’d better belt “Ooooo!” at the top of your lungs after she hits the song’s title six times.
Alamo Drafthouse has laid off approximately 70 workers from its Manhattan and Brooklyn locations. These cuts were implemented ahead of an expected strike at two of the company’s New York City venues. Alamo Drafthouse declined to comment, but sources say these layoffs were part of the annual seasonal slowdown at the movies. Cinema chains usually staff
Jimmy Kimmel said during his Feb. 3 monologue on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that Will Smith should’ve slapped Kanye West on the Grammys red carpet. Smith made his first televised awards show appearance since the notorious Oscars slap at the Grammys, where he presented a musical tribute to the late Quincy Jones. West, meanwhile, did not
Key Huy Quan thinks the last time he was in the same room with most of his “The Goonies” co-stars was at least 20 years ago. Corey Feldman thinks it was more like four decades ago at the film’s Los Angeles premiere in 1985. Whatever the case may be, Quan was joined Monday at his
Warner Music Group and streaming platform Audiomack have agreed to expand their current licensing deal, signed in 2019, to include 47 additional countries — including much of Europe and Africa and the Caribbean. Audiomack’s previous deal with WMG, which was its first licensing deal with a major label, covered the United States and Puerto Rico,
Electronic Arts (EA) confirmed its lower-than-expected results for its latest quarterly earnings, mainly attributed to a rough start for “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” and “EA Sports FC 25,” on Thursday. In preliminary results released Jan. 22, EA first revealed its negative adjustment, stating “Global Football,” which is how the company classifies its “EA Sports FC”
YouTube, the internet’s biggest streaming video platform, delivered a healthy 13.8% increase in global ad revenue for the year-end 2024 quarter to surpass $10 billion for the first time. YouTube’s record Q4 ad sales of $10.473 billion topped Wall Street analysts’ consensus estimate of $10.23 billion. That’s just one piece of YouTube’s business, not including
Golden Globe-nominated actress Constance Wu has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas. Wu is best known for playing the lead role in John M. Chu’s hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” starring opposite Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical
Netflix is distancing itself from “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón in an effort to salvage the film’s Oscar prospects. And as the Spanish actress tries to defuse the blowback for her past social media posts, in which she shared offensive views that were seen as Islamophobic and racist, she’s doing it on her own,
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“The Recruit” returned to the Netflix Top 10 in second place, with Season 2 achieving 5.9 million views in its first four days on Netflix. On the English-language TV chart, it came behind only “The Night Agent” Season 2, which hit 15.2 million views in its second week on top. Both series’ previous seasons also
As recently as 2020, only 27.5% of production designers in the Art Directors Guild were women. What a difference five years makes. That number has increased, according to the guild’s president Dina Lipton. “I feel seeing more women nominated each year is exciting,” Lipton says. “We also have lots of young people coming out of
The second season of Apple TV+’s psychological thriller “Surface” has a new trailer for its eight-episode season, teasing Sophie’s (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) ambitious venture to London. The new chapter of the show follows Sophie as she is forced to unravel the secrets of her past with an injury that has wiped her memories clean. She embeds
The sequel to “A Simple Favor,” the 2018 comedic thriller directed by Paul Feig and starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, has gotten an official title and been set as SXSW‘s opening night premiere. In “Another Simple Favor,” Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Lively) travel to Capri, Italy for Emily’s wedding to a rich
“How to Die Alone,” the comedy series created by and starring Natasha Rothwell, has been canceled after one season on Hulu. The series hailed from Onyx Collective, a Disney content brand that produces projects created by people of color and from underrepresented communities. Onyx gave “How to Die Alone” a series order in November of
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Jelly Roll has sealed a deal to join this upcoming season of ABC’s “American Idol” as the show’s first-ever “artist in residence.” According to the network, the Nashville artist will join the show during its “Hollywood Week” episodes, and then continue to appear throughout the season. Jelly Roll previously served last season as
Whoopi Goldberg passionately defended Beyoncé’s Grammy wins on “The View” (via Entertainment Weekly) after conservative figures expressed outrage over the singer winning such major categories as best country album with “Cowboy Carter,” which also took home the prize for album of the year. Conservative author Raymond Arroyo notably went on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle”
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