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The Golden Globes may take place in Los Angeles but the weekend’s festivities kicked off on Palm Springs on Friday night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Film Awards. The annual event saw Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), the cast of “Emilia Pérez,” Ariana Grande (“Wicked”) and more being honored. The following morning Jennifer Lopez and

Film Independent announced the winners of its three Emerging Filmmaker Awards at its annual Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch on Saturday. Winners for the remaining categories are set to be announced on Feb. 22. Opening remarks were delivered by Brenda Robinson, chair of the board at Film Independent, who remembered the organization’s late president Josh Welsh

If you watched “The Six Triple Eight” on Netflix over the holidays (and more than 23.3 million viewers did, according to the streamer), you might’ve wondered why the World War II movie — about the battalion of 855 Black women and women of color who untangled a three-year backlog of mail (17 million pieces of

Voting for the National Society of Film Critics is underway, with films like “Nickel Boys” and “A Real Pain” taking home top honors. NSFC was founded in 1966 and is comprised of over 60 critics hailing from outlets nationally. These journalists mark their annual voting selections for categories such as best picture, director, actor, actress,

Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes had a mini-“Maid in Manhattan” reunion at Variety‘s 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards brunch at the Parker Palm Springs on Saturday morning. While presenting Lopez with Variety‘s Legend and Groundbreakers award in honor of her recent film “Unstoppable” and for the breadth of her career, “Conclave” star

Mel Brooks, who helmed the classic “Star Wars” parody “Spaceballs,” has not returned to the franchise since his 1987 feature. And at a pitch meeting for the “Spaceballs” sequel, it was up to producer and star Josh Gad to catch Brooks up on the happenings of “Star Wars” during the last 38 years. “Mel is

Don’t expect any mention of Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively‘s legal fallout at the 82nd Golden Globes. While speaking to Yahoo Entertainment, this year’s Globes host Nikki Glaser said she is steering clear of the “It Ends with Us” drama at Sunday’s award show, which sparked Dec. 21 after Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment

The holiday box office is winding down this weekend as “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” continue to lead charts and draw family audiences before schools go back in session. Though “Mufasa” was above “Sonic 3” across much of the holiday weekdays, this third outing will mark its first three-day weekend frame

Jeff Baena, a screenwriter and director whose credits include the offbeat comedies “The Little Hours” and “Life After Beth,” has died. He was 47. A spokesperson for Baena confirmed his death. His body was discovered on Friday at a Los Angeles residence, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. A cause of death was

The Palm Springs International Film Awards was an evening brimming with emotion, highlighted by a heartfelt tribute from Nicole Kidman, who received the International Star Award for her performance in the erotic thriller “Babygirl.” The Academy Award-winning actress moved much of the 1,000-plus audience at the Palm Springs Convention Center to tears as she dedicated

The room was overflowing with emotion, gratitude and appreciation Friday night as the Golden Globe Awards’ inaugural Golden Gala paid tribute to two singular and beloved stars, Ted Danson and Viola Davis. Danson took the audience at the Beverly Hilton through his journey as an actor as he accepted the Carol Burnett Award for his

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are revealing which scenes cut from “Wicked” left them most heartbroken to see deleted from the Jon M. Chu-directed movie. Several of the scenes are featured in recently released bonus content included in streaming versions of the movie. “I love them all. They all have a cozy spot in my

“Edward Norton is Pete Seeger.” How likely was it that much of the moviegoing world would be thinking or saying those words at the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025? Or that Norton’s portrayal in the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” would even be leading younger generations to find out more about who

A new year brings the long-awaited return of Cameron Diaz to the movies — at least as far as streaming is concerned. Diaz is ending her 11-year break from acting by starring in Netflix’s “Back in Action,” a spy comedy that pairs her with Jamie Foxx. Diaz’s return alone is enough to ensure “Back in

Ricky Gervais will not be hosting the 2025 Golden Globes, but he did recently post on X some of the jokes he would’ve made had he been emceeing the awards ceremony. Gervais is perhaps the Globes’ most iconic and controversial host, having presided over the annual ceremony five times. He last hosted the Globes in

Back in 2019, Cynthia Erivo received the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Breakthrough Performance Award. Just six years later, she will be lauded with Variety’s Creative Impact in Acting Award, commemorating the Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning performer’s latest achievement: playing Elphaba in “Wicked.” Her performance has received rave reviews, and she has been nominated

Lily-Rose Depp recently told Harper’s Bazaar UK that she was left “traumatized” by her father Johnny Depp‘s 1990 fantasy movie “Edward Scissorhands.” The Tim Burton-directed classic stars Johnny as a societal reject who has blades for fingers. But it wasn’t the character’s physical appearance that distressed Lily-Rose as a child. “I was traumatized by it.

“Conclave” and “The Brutalist” are among the nominees for this year’s Set Decorators Society of America Awards. “Anora,” “Emilia Perez” and “The Substance” are also among the films recognized by the SDSA. The awards celebrate excellence in the art of set decoration for film with the decor and design categories. Now in its fifth year, the

The Golden Globes are just around the corner. In other words, Hollywood will be rolling out red carpets all over town before, during and after the big show on Sunday. Here, Variety presents the ultimate Golden Globes party guide. Friday, Jan. 3 Golden Gala: A Celebration of ExcellenceViola Davis receives the Cecil B. DeMille Award from

Both Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door“) will be in attendance at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night as they compete for the Golden Globe award for best actress (drama). There’s a chance they’ll both leave empty-handed, with Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), Kate Winslet (“Lee”) and Pamela

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring the list, looking for suddenly free intellectual property to turn into horror fare. Hence the slasher films that have already been

Jacques Audiard has always been unpredictable. Throughout his 30-plus year career, the Palme d’Or-winning French filmmaker has delivered the gritty prison drama “A Prophet,” chronicled destructive passion in “Rust and Bone,” told a tale of Tamil Sri Lankan refugees in “Dheepan” and explored Westerns with his English-language debut, “The Sisters Brothers.” His latest effort is

Many of the 140,000 people expected to attend CES 2025 in Las Vegas (Jan. 7-10) will come just to browse the 2.5 million square feet of exhibit space, crammed with the latest innovations in everything from bird feeders and prosthetic limbs to automotive OLED displays. But for those eager to find out what’s coming next

Bruce Springsteen is providing more insight to his upcoming biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, saying that “The Bear” star “sings very well” in the film. Titled “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the Scott Cooper-directed movie follows Springsteen in the early ’80s as he writes his personal sixth album “Nebraska.” Both Springsteen and his manager, Jon Landau

David Fincher bristles at being labeled a perfectionist.   He makes an unconvincing case in the shadow of his filmography, which includes “Fight Club,” “Zodiac” and “The Social Network” among several other films marked by a meticulous and unerring technical precision. But Fincher’s objections ring especially hollow when it comes in the midst of an explanation

Even body horror fans will likely be shocked by the amount of blood in French director Fargeat’s “The Substance” — though slightly less so if they saw her ultraviolent 2017 debut, “Revenge,” in which a woman is impaled upon a sharp tree branch after being shoved off a cliff. In America, many directors get their

Nikki Glaser is ready to take on the biggest night of her career. After a breakout 2024 — one that saw her earning awards attention for her HBO comedy special “Someday You’ll Die” and dominating the discourse for her excoriating performance on Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady” — the stand-up has been tapped to

Acclaimed Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will attend the upcoming 2025 Göteborg Film Festival with his latest film, family drama and political thriller “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Germany’s submission to this year’s international feature Oscar race which made the Oscar shortlist on Dec. 17. Variety rates the film, which he also wrote and co-produced,

The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 25 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with two very different thrillers leading the pack of longlisted features. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language music-thriller that was picked up by Netflix in Cannes, has emerged ahead of the race

Kieran Culkin has confessed. The star of “A Real Pain” and “Succession” admitted that he once swapped a prop joint for one spiked with real marijuana when he was cast in a stage production alongside Mark Ruffalo in 2000. “I was 17 and stupid,” Culkin said in a new interview with The Guardian. “I’m like,