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Month: March 2025
Bong Joon Ho‘s “Mickey 17,” the first of Warner Bros.‘ eclectic, pricey 2025 slate of original films from name-brand directors like Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, isn’t getting the warmest arrival at the box office. The sci-fi comedy, starring Robert Pattinson as a pair of interstellar doppelgangers, earned $7.7 million across Friday and preview…
The 18th annual Women in Film Oscars party celebrated the achievements of the 65 women nominated at the 97th annual awards. The organization, Women in Film, has been advocating for gender equality since 1962 and has provided support during the #MeToo movement, COVID, the unions strikes, and more recently, the devastating wildfires. This year, WIF
Editor’s note: Variety has revived its “Tenpercenteries” column that chronicles the inner-workings and client signings of Hollywood’s top talent agencies and management firms. Tenpercenteries was a staple of Variety from the mid-1990s through the early 2010s. We’re happy to bring it back with a heightened focus on deals and dish involving showbiz’s top talent representation
Sunday might be billed as Hollywood’s biggest night, but it certainly won’t be outside of the Oscars ceremony. As the town readies for the last evening of awards season, theaters are seeing another muted weekend. Focus Features’ underwater thriller “Last Breath” is projecting a measured opening at $7.3 million. Meanwhile, Disney’s “Captain America: Brave New
David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to become a lounge singer under the name Buster Poindexter and act in films such as “Scrooged,” has died. His daughter Leah Hennessey confirmed that he died Friday at home in New York. He was 75. A statement
It’s a blockbuster month on streaming as “Wicked” and “Moana 2,” two of 2024’s biggest movies, make their arrivals on Peacock and Disney+, respectively. The former was a musical sensation with $728 million worldwide and 10 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, while the latter crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide and proved Moana is
Netflix has emerged victorious in the bidding war for Lena Dunham‘s new rom-com “Good Sex,” starring Natalie Portman. The film was revealed to buyers at last month’s European Film Market by CAA Media Finance and FilmNation, and Netflix is now closing a worldwide deal around the $55 million mark — one of the largest to
President Trump wants to vindicate late baseball great Pete Rose, who was banned by Major League Baseball from the game for life and from eligibility to be inducted into the Hall of Fame legacy over his gambling activities. Late Friday, Trump’s thoughts turned toward seeking to exonerate Rose, with the president saying he plans to
If at first you don’t succeed — and if, in fact, at first you misfire badly enough that it starts a national conversation — try, try again. After a healthy seven-month interval, in this case. Since singing what turned out to be a notorious version of the National Anthem at a high-profile ballgame last July,
Talk about a star-packed Oscar Week. The days and nights leading up to Hollywood’s biggest event of the year began this time around with the NAACP Image Awards and SAG Awards on Feb. 23. Just a couple of nights later, most of the nominees of the 97th Academy Awards gathered at the Academy Museum for
Following the tragic accident on the set of the film “Rust” that led to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the documentary “Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna” aims to tell the true story of what transpired. The Hulu documentary takes viewers inside the fateful day of Oct. 21, 2021 and the spectacle
Sean Combs, long known by rap aliases like Diddy and Puffy, is facing an avalanche of lawsuits and legal trouble. The latest in his ongoing issues includes a new lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was drugged and assaulted by Combs in 2000 when she was 16 years old. In the suit, filed
The Golden Globes organization is ending its policy of paying a $75,000 annual salary to former Hollywood Foreign Press Association members, who vote on the organization’s annual film and TV honors. The move comes as the former HFPA members were one year into a five-year deal, reached in June 2023 between the group and its
Robert Richter, an independent filmmaker and producer whose credits include nearly 90 documentaries on a wide range of subjects, died at his home in New York City on February 16 following complications associated with heart failure. He was 95. A three-time Academy Award nominee for best documentary short, Richter’s expanse of accolades included a 2008
The New York Times is asking a federal judge to dismiss Justin Baldoni‘s defamation suit against the paper for its role in publishing a bombshell report that ignited his legal battle with Blake Lively. Baldoni has accused the Times of working in coordination with Lively and her PR team on the Dec. 21 article entitled