Among the films in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s virtual Sundance is the darkly comic “El Planeta,” the debut feature of Spanish-Argentine artist Amalia Ulman, who has worked in video, sculpture and performance art. Ulman is best-known for her 2014 performance art piece “Excellences and Perfections” (more on that here), which was included
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“The Long Song” knows what an audience might expect from a period drama airing on the BBC, as it did in the UK in 2018, or under the PBS Masterpiece banner, as it will in the US starting on January 31. The camera, helmed with a steady hand by director Mahalia Belo, pans across still
Particular Crowd, the fledgling U.S.-based film division from WarnerMedia’s Turner Latin America, has nabbed all Latin American rights to Argentine filmmaker Marcos Carnevale’s latest film, the dramedy “El Cuartito.” Shot and produced entirely in Puerto Rico, “El Cuartito” refers to the security screening room that five Latinos are confined in when they run afoul of
“On the Count of Three” is a trifle, but an original one: an existential buddy comedy of despair. It opens with Val (Jerrod Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott) standing outside a strip club in the middle of the day, pointing handguns at each other in what looks like a tense Mexican standoff. But the two
A 38-year-old man died of natural causes during a taping of the TBS show “Wipeout” last fall, the L.A. County Coroner’s office has determined. Michael Paredes lost consciousness after falling from the show’s obstacle course on Nov. 18. He died a day later. A coroner’s report, released on Friday, showed that Paredes died of a
Last year, Ben Wheatley released a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” in which his heroine suffers a trippy newlywed’s nightmare. She’s married to Armie Hammer, following him through the halls of Manderley, and the hallway carpet turns to crawling ivy, grabbing her ankles and pulling her down toward hell. This hallucination stands out in the
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The ashes of the Woodstock 50 festival that wasn’t are still smoldering, but one of the key financial disputes appears to have been stomped out. A lawsuit that the aborted festival’s producers filed last year against the financial backer that pulled out before the gathering was canceled, Dentsu, was resolved with a confidential settlement. Variety has
Breaking News An ex-Northwestern cheerleader is suing the school — claiming she was pressured to present herself as a “sex kitten” to please the fan base … and subjected to sexual harassment and assault in the process. The woman behind the suit is Hayden Richardson — who cheered for the Wildcats from 2018 to 2020.
If you ever found yourself staring at an old childhood photograph, scrutinizing what your younger self was thinking in that moment, the idiosyncratically existential comedy “How It Ends” will leave a bittersweet aftertaste. Especially if you happen to catch this oddly sedative (if not tiresomely repetitive) Sundance 2021 premiere amid the loneliness of the ongoing
There’s an abandoned bunker in John’s backyard. Most kids would probably see it as a place to play, the basis for a hideout or secret fort. Some might climb in and get trapped, and then we’d hear all about it on the news. Not John. John goes through life in kind of a daze, a
CBS has set in motion “an external investigation” into allegations of racist and misogynist behavior by senior executives at its local-TV unit, a sign that the ViacomCBS company continues to grapple with these issues even though it has probed them in the recent past. In a memo sent to staffers Friday, George Cheeks, CEO of
The April dates of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and its companion Stagecoach country music festival have been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser. A rep for the officer tells Variety that it remains possible that the festivals could be rescheduled for
After the arduous months we’ve had, who has the energy or brain space to sit through a more than two-hour-long heavy drama, especially when real-life is daunting enough as it is? Naturally, Variety has you covered with a list of the 35 best feel-good romantic comedies streaming now on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max
If there’s one word that captures the spirit of New York City-based brand Tier, it’s family. Drawn together by their Brooklyn roots, the Tier trio—Nigeria Ealey, Esaïe Jean-Simon, and Victor James—are longtime friends who evolved their brand from word-of-mouth startup to celebrity favorite in six years. But following a long period of divisiveness that took
NBC has given a put pilot order to a reboot of the classic sitcom “Kate and Allie.” The updated series hails from writer and executive producer Erica Oyama. It follows two best friends raising their kids together in one household. They are like sister wives, only they don’t have to pretend to love the same
In today’s TV news roundup, OWN announced it will honor the late Cicely Tyson with a special re-airing of “Oprah’s Master Class: Cicely Tyson,” and NBC announced the premiere date for “New Amsterdam” Season 3. DATES Discovery Plus will stream “If I Can’t Have You: The Jodi Arias Story,” a two-hour special on the infamous
“When You Finish Saving the World” creator and performer Jesse Eisenberg reflected on the creative freedom that comes with producing an Audible original drama. Variety, in partnership with Audible, hosted a conversation with the team behind the original drama, including Eisenberg, actor and musician Finn Wolfhard and Audible’s executive vice president and head of content Rachel Ghiazza.
Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot have brought on “The Batman” series showrunner Joe Barton to write the script for an untitled sequel to “Cloverfield,” the studio has confirmed. Abrams will produce with Bad Robot head of film Hannah Minghella. The 2008 monster movie became a viral hit, grossing $172 million worldwide, and was the
It’s not often one sees a film arguing against its own topicality, but that’s what happens at the outset of “The Pink Cloud,” a subtly fevered quarantine drama that is so of the moment, you all but wonder how they had time to shoot and cut it just last week. But they didn’t, as an
ABC has picked up three comedy pilots for the 2021 pilot season. Two of the pilots — a reboot of “The Wonder Years” and “Maggie” — are single-cams and will be produced by 20th Television. The third, an untitled multi-cam from Regina Hicks, is produced by ABC Signature. The “Wonder Years” reboot was originally announced
Last night’s episode of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” at 8 p.m., the star-studded ABC spinoff of the original game show led by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, was the winner of Thursday’s Live+Same Day overnight, fast affiliate numbers. The series garnered a 0.8 rating in the key, adults ages 18-49 demographic, and 6.39 million viewers.
The rebirthed G4 TV is kicking off a weekly content series — dubbed “B4G4” — to get fan feedback on the programming ahead of the gaming network’s official summer 2021 bow. G4, which is being revived under the auspices of Comcast’s Spectator sports unit, will publish content under the B4G4 (“before G4”) banner on its
The creators behind Baobab Studios will talk about building their award-winning VR animation house as it celebrates its five year anniversary during a PreVIEW virtual talk on Saturday, Jan. 30, beginning at 10 a.m. PT, presented by the VIEW Conference. Baobab is behind the innovative animated VR shorts ““Asteroids,” “Invasion,” “Crow the Legend,” “Bonfire,” “Jack:
Rita Moreno’s most indelible screen moment, which had her and a “West Side Story” ensemble sizing up the pros and cons of their adopted U.S. homeland, remains an eternally clever musical argument over whether “America” is a dream or nightmare for immigrants, settling in at a 50/50 split. The balance is skewed more along the
Believe the accolades: Maria Sødahl’s perceptive, heartfelt “Hope” richly deserves all the attention it’s gotten at festivals and award ceremonies since premiering in Toronto in 2019. Naturally, any movie with such a title dealing with a terminal cancer diagnosis will have some kind of sting, but “Limbo” director Sødahl, who mined her own brush with
ABC has ordered two drama series to pilot in some of its first pilot pickups of the 2021 pilot season. The broadcaster has given out pilot orders to the one-hour shows “Queens” and “Epic.” Both will be produced by ABC Signature. They join the previously announced ABC drama pilot “Acts of Crime,” which hails from Sam
Even Peak TV felt the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The number of original scripted series to premiere in 2020 was 493, according to data released Friday by FX Networks — down 7% from 2019. That marks the first such year-to-year decline since FX first began an annual count of scripted series on broadcast, cable
“Night of the Kings” director Philippe Lacôte reflected on the creative flexibility required to make his film and the birth of a new cinematic industry in the Ivory Coast. Lacôte spoke at Variety Sundance Studio, presented by AT&T TV, on his experiences putting together the cast. “Night of the Kings” is a drama fantasy pic
As voting opens for the Oscar shortlists on Feb. 1, the picture is slowly coming into focus: Academy composers and songwriters are faced with one of the most diverse batches of scores they’ve ever heard. The approximately 350 members of the Academy music branch are sifting through dozens of films to try and single out