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When it comes to new movies on streaming this February, the one title sure to bring in a ton of eyeballs is Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” The long-awaited sequel actually premiered on Paramount+ at the end of January, but February marks its first full month of availability and it should be a sizable hit for

“Dog Man” enjoyed a barking good start at the domestic box office, collecting a leading $36 million from 3,885 North American cinemas in its first weekend of release. Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s animated canine-crime-fighting film, set in the “Captain Underpants” universe, opened at the higher end of expectations thanks to great buzz and pent-up demand for family

Danish director Mads Hedegaard had to invent new languages for the Stone Age epic “Stranger.” “I have a background in documentaries [‘Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest’], so it had to feel real to the audience. I was like: ‘We’re not going to buy it if the actors talk in Danish or English,’” he explained

“The Brutalist’s” Lol Crawley has won the British Society of Cinematographers Award for best cinematography in a feature film award. Jody Lee Lipes won for his work on the BBC drama “The Listeners.” Lipes took home the award in the television drama (UK Terrestrial) category. In the television drama (International/Streaming) category, Benedict Spence won his

Justin Baldoni has updated his lawsuit against Blake Lively to add new claims about New York Times metadata, while also accusing her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of “bullying” him with the character of Nicepool in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Baldoni’s lawyers filed an amended, 224-page lawsuit on Friday night, and launched a website to host the complaint

The flighty mindset of hyper-online living proves an uneasy solution to the rough gravity check of small-town poverty in “Sugar Babies,” Rachel Fleit‘s documentary portrait of young, hard-up Louisiana women getting by on their wits, wiles and heavily TikTok-filtered faces. A working-class college student in her early twenties with dreams to chase and fees to

Prominent Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson who was Oscar-nominated in 2006 for his short film “The Last Farm,” was handed out the Göteborg Film Festival’s hefty SEK400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film for his fourth feature “When the Light Breaks” at tonight’s closing gala of the festival’s 48th edition. Shot in 16mm, the subtle coming-of-age drama

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers about the entire plot of “Companion,” now playing in theaters. The sci-fi horror film “Companion” has charmed critics and audiences alike on its opening weekend. The twisty thriller has many surprises in store — especially during the third act — which demand post-screening analysis. Luckily, Variety asked writer-director Drew Hancock to break

Cate Blanchett “never, ever” thought she “could work in the film industry.” “I was resigned, happily, to a career in theater. I didn’t think I was that girl. There was a sense women had a certain ‘shelf life’ in the film industry and a certain type of women got to parade on the screen and

With “Enigma,” director Zachary Drucker (“The Stroll”) makes another intriguing film about trans history. From the sidewalks of New York, this time she takes the audience to glamourous Parisiannightclubs and the fringes of British aristocracy to tell the story of Amanda Lear and April Ashley. The film is a straightforward chronological documentary relying on archival

Plenty of cinephiles think fondly of Guy Pearce‘s turn as the amnesiac Leonard Shelby in “Memento,” but Pearce isn’t one of them. The 57-year-old actor, who most recently picked up an Academy Award nomination for his supporting turn in Brady Corbet’s historical epic “The Brutalist,” spoke candidly about his performance in Christopher Nolan‘s 2000 thriller

‘You know there’s got to be something better,” sang the iconic Marianne Faithfull. Similarly Göteborg market’s head of TV Drama Vision Cia Edström and Josef Kullengård, head of industry and Nordic Film Market, were determined to bring “good energy and hope” to their 2,000-plus guests – and not only as DJs of the closing Nordic Film Market

The Dutch film industry, often overshadowed by its European counterparts, finds itself at a potential turning point. Industry insiders are vocal about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, painting a picture of an industry at a crossroads. In recent months, Dutch titles have impressed on the global stage. Johan Grimonprez’s Netherlands-Belgium-France co-production “Soundtrack to

“Twinless,” a comedic drama starring Dylan O’Brien, has been pulled from Sundance’s streaming site after sex scenes and other content from the film leaked online. The leaks came as “Twinless” won the festival’s coveted Audience Award on Friday. It’s the second movie to be pulled from Sundance’s site this year. “Selena y Los Dinos,” a

“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón took to Instagram early Saturday morning to write a lengthy response after a series of controversial social media posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, resurfaced on Thursday. Accompanied by an image of a Nichiren Buddhist symbol and the words, “As with ‘Emilia Pérez’: We can all do better.

Talking about the newly launched Displacement Film Fund at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday, Cate Blanchett teased: “It’s the beginning of something wonderful.” “I don’t think it has anything to do with me, but with the urgency of the situation. And yet these stories don’t seem to be getting into the mainstream. These

Who let “Dog Man” out? Universal Pictures did, and the party is nice, the party is pumpin’ for the studio, as the DreamWorks Animation caper earned $10.8 million across Friday and preview screenings. That’s the biggest opening day gross yet for this still very young year. Playing in 3,885 locations, “Dog Man” is now fetching

The marriage of Fulwell 73 and SpringHill Co. is complete. Fulwell Entertainment is the name of the overarching banner led by the Fulwell 73 partners – Ben Winston, Leo Pearlman, James Corden, Ben Turner and Gabe Turner — and Springhill’s Maverick Carter and LeBron James. Jesse Collins Entertainment is also under the umbrella; in 2022,

The Copenhagen sauna and sex club where Johan (Magnus Juhl Andersen) works is called Adonis, and he does his best to represent the brand. Tall, toned and tan, with a center-parted mop of wavy blond hair, he’s the very picture of Scandi male beauty — and a gay man who has never had his desirability questioned

Twelve years after co-directing Berlinale entry “The Man of the Crowd,” renowned director Marcelo Gomes (“Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures”) is once again joining forces with filmmaker and visual artist Cao Guimarães (“From the Window of My Room”) for a new film, titled “Cape of Pleasures.” The dystopian thriller is one of the projects selected at

After the hopeful signs of recovery over the last two years, attendance in all five markets dropped again in 2024, by a small margin of 3% in Denmark to nearly 13% in Norway. Post COVID effects and Hollywood strikes that led to a lack of U.S. tentpoles were blamed for the decline, however mitigated in

Golden Globe nominee Alma Pöysti, known for “Fallen Leaves,” is now leading “Orenda.” The film, which premieres at Rotterdam and Göteborg festivals, is directed by Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo (“Concrete Night”) and written by Pirkko Saisio. It sees Nora (Pöysti), a famous opera singer, escaping to a remote archipelago following the suicide of her husband.

Elongated noses, like wrinkly pickles or deflated balloons, protrude from the faces of the comically offbeat characters in the zany, rambling and historically relevant animated documentary “Endless Cookie” from animator Seth Scriver, a white man, and his half-brother Peter, who is an Indigenous person from the Shamattawa First Nations in northern Canada. Pete’s memories, which

A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration and lament. Family farming has been endangered, but for African American farmers, the land — holding onto it, cultivating it — is even more precarious and precious. Considering recent, breakneck attempts to gut civil rights, director Brittany Shyne’s debut

An unexpected controversy has upended the Oscar race in an awards season defined by historical milestones. Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans woman nominated for best actress, is now facing intense scrutiny after resurfaced tweets exposed years-long patterns of Islamophobic and racist rhetoric. Freelance culture writer Sarah Hagi, a Canada-based journalist and co-host of

Exceptional Minds, the California-based non-profit training academy that works to bring young adults on the autism spectrum into digital arts roles has appointed four new professionals to its Board of Directors; Doug Gardner, Tim Gobran, Renard T. Jenkins and Maria O’Hollearn. “These individuals bring a broad range of expertise to lead EM as we expand

In “Khartoum,” five protagonists and four filmmakers tell the story of a city brimming with such life that even a long and vicious war could not dim it. The filmmakers started making “Khartoum” before the war broke out in April 2023. When all of the participants were forced to leave Sudan before they could finish

Unbothered, Isabelle Huppert vapes while wearing a chic dress after a night out in Paris. The actress’ requisite ferocious grace this time is lent to Sabine, an ailing French artist who refuses to waste her final days bedridden. But she is only one of the four pieces that conform “Luz,” Flora Lau’s alluring narrative diptych

Alyssa (Eya Bellagha), a high schooler in Tunis, has as many familial responsibilities as she has dreams to escape to Europe. Her older neighbor Mehdi (Slim Baccar) is a talented painter looking for any job since art doesn’t pay the bills. The poignant friendship that develops between these two characters is at the center of

Will Ferrell recently told People magazine that some of his fans were not too thrilled with his decision to revive Buddy the Elf as a grizzled drinker and smoker. The comedian went viral on social media after attending the Dec. 29 hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers in his Buddy the