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DC fans will have access to over eight hours of panels, performances and previews available for only 24 hours as part of the DC Fandome stream on Saturday. The event was originally divided up into six “islands” based on the type of content, which would be available on the DC Fandome website during the 24-hour

The issue of whether Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president — or, put more bluntly, whether he suffers from a serious mental disorder — isn’t one to be taken lightly, yet it sometimes seems destined to be tinged with comedy. In 2017, when speculation about Trump’s mental state was first reaching full boil,

Blerds just want to have fun and DC FanDome has two events primed for exactly that – with a panel celebrating the women of color in the DC universe, as well as a virtual after-party hosted by “Club Quarantine” mastermind DJ D-Nice. “I’ve always been a Blerd — I was into comic books growing up

Dwayne Johnson is suited up and ready for battle in the first image from his upcoming film “Black Adam.” Saturday’s “Black Adam” DC FanDome panel will give the first glimpse of the film, which is slated to debut on Dec. 22, 2021. Johnson posted the image on Instagram Friday ahead of the FanDome panel. “The

“The Kissing Booth 2” star Taylor Zakhar Perez made his awards show debut on Thursday during the 30th annual Environmental Media Association Awards. “This is my very first awards show, albeit virtually, but what isn’t virtual these days,” the actor said before presenting the top documentary television series award to “Activate” for its episode “Ending

Rapper and filmmaker RZA, who directed “Cut Throat City,” has culled inspiration from various action films that came before him. The Wu-Tang Clan founding member broke down a list of the top five fight scenes that have served as cinematic inspiration throughout his career. The top spot goes to “Enter the Dragon.” Bruce Lee’s character

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the delay of the Academy Awards until April of 2021, closed theaters, canceled or postponed festivals, shifted countless release dates and switched up the Oscars nominations process itself (as long as a theatrical release was planned, movies that stream online or premiere via an online festival are eligible). But as

Lagging a few weeks behind the rest of the world (where Russell Crowe road-rage thriller “Unhinged” released in several territories late last month), the United States is slowly seeing cinemas reopen in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — still optimistically dated for Sept. 3. But that doesn’t mean film fans don’t have options, opening on

“Golden Arm,” a buddy comedy set in the world of ladies arm wrestling, has sold global rights to Utopia, Variety has learned. The film will be released theatrically in the first half of 2021. HBO has licensed rights to broadcast and stream “Golden Arm.” “Golden Arm” was originally intended to premiere at this year’s SXSW,

Although it’s still up in the air when Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” will be available to all U.S. moviegoers, with many theaters still closed, the reviews are in – and largely positive. “Tenet” is slated for an international premiere on Aug. 26 and will open in select U.S. cities on Sept. 3, after its release date

Disney Plus will be the only place to stream “Mulan” next month — but you’ll also be able to pay $29.99 for access to the live-action remake through third-party device platforms. Starting Sept. 4, “Mulan” will be available to Disney Plus subscribers who pay the additional $29.99 early-access fee, on top of regular $6.99-per-month subscription.

Twenty years after “Bring It On” debuted, “Brr it’s cold in here” and “This is not a democracy, it’s a cheerocracy” have shown no signs of being shunted aside from the cultural lexicon. But in the late ’90s when screenwriter Jessica Bendinger shopped her lengthy 120-page script around Hollywood, every major studio passed on making

As cinemas welcome back audiences this summer, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) is introducing a set of health protocols that it claims will keep customers safe from COVID-19. Dubbed “CinemaSafe,” the standards include asking patrons to social distance and wear masks, encouraging the purchase of tickets online and making hand sanitizer more readily

When Yeon Sang-ho wrote “Train to Busan,” zombie movies were simply unheard of among South Korean audiences. Skeptical of the subgenre’s commercial appeal, the director went along with his producers at Next Entertainment World on promoting it as “a survival story of Koreans infected by a human virus of sort.” “When filming it, I had

“Tenet” was already shaping up as the year’s premier event movie before a certain global pandemic turned it into something closer to a holy grail: an unknown, unattainable object of intrigue, its enigmatic allure intensifying as it moved further and further away on the blighted release schedule. That’s an absurd way to regard any film,

“Odd Thomas” and “Saige Paints the Sky” actor Laurel Harris is narrating PeaceJam Productions’ feature documentary “Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free,” one of 28 films selected for the Venice film festival’s gap financing market. The film is directed by Dawn Gifford Engle, whose previous documentary, “The Dalai Lama: Scientist,” was also narrated by Harris

Saloon Media, a Blue Ant Studios company that produced the award-winning documentary “9/11 Kids,” announced on Friday it will be awarding a new annual scholarship to a high school student at Emma E. Booker School in Sarasota, Fla. “9/11 Kids” chronicles the lives of a group of second-graders — mostly African American children — from

After taking off the spring in Los Angeles due to the coronavirus, Jesse Metcalfe is working again. Last week, the 41-year-old actor began as a lead on a Hallmark TV movie, “Ships in the Night: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery,” on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The production, which was delayed from March, finally got off

In today’s Global Bulletin, the Zurich festival opens with “My Wonderful Wanda,” Philip Garrel, Tsai Ming-liang and Hong Sang-soo are contenders at San Sebastian, a new talent agency launches with “The Crown” actor Emma Corrin, WaZabi picks up Toronto title “Beans,” and the U.K. celebrates returning to cinemas. Bettina Oberli’s “My Wonderful Wanda” will open

Firelight Media, headed by veteran documentarian Stanley Nelson, has set the inaugural list of grant recipients for two programs designed to help develop documentary film projects. Earlier this year Nelson launched the William Greaves Fund to help mid-career filmmakers get a lift toward producing their second film project. As Nelson told Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast

Yulene Olaizola’s “Tragic Jungle,” Natalia Meta’s “The Intruder” and Clarisa Navas’ “One in a Thousand” will compete in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Latinos Horizontes, a showcase of standout recent movies from Latin America that this year underscores the emergence or consolidation of a new generation of female filmmakers in Latin America. In all, women

I’m writing this review from my summer vacation. Loath as I am to invoke the first person, this admission is relevant for two reasons. Like Eva (Itsaso Arana), the main character of Jonás Trueba’s patient, zephyr-like “The August Virgin,” I’ve chosen to stay home during this stifling late-summer heatwave, a decision that can breed ennui

The MPAA has long placed teen movies in a tricky bind: When they reflect the lives of their young target audience a little too relatably, they’re slapped with a rating that excludes the very demographic they’re about. It’s an irony that corners too many films in the genre into a safely sanitized PG-13 space, clean

Caren Pistorius can only describe her experience on “Unhinged” as wonderful but “surreal.” The actor was working at a fabric store in Sydney when she got the call to audition for the road rage thriller starring Russell Crowe. Within hours, she found herself in New Orleans for a screen test. She ended up staying in

Defining a successful movie release has been a fraught task lately due to the coronavirus pandemic, as premium theatrical films shift to digital debuts and massive blockbusters get kicked down the calendar. Thanks to a few transparent scoreboards like the iTunes store, however, the industry can see plainly when a hit is a hit. Last

The wives are not old in Milcho Manchevski’s “Willow,” but their tales have a folkloric resonance — even the two of the three that are set in the present day. Using a tripartite structure the director has been fond of in the past, notably in his Oscar-nominated, Venice-winning 1994 debut “Before the Rain,” Manchevski secures

Don’t call “Chemical Hearts” a YA romance? True, on paper, the story of a precocious teenager named Henry who becomes emotionally entangled with Grace, a psychologically wounded young woman, sounds very much in the vein of “The Fault in Our Stars” or “Looking for Alaska.” But Richard Tanne, the film’s writer and director, said that

Just in case it wasn’t obvious before, the recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd have done much to lay bare just how spotty and incomplete much of America’s understanding of its own racial history has often been. While any schoolkid can rattle off facts about the March on Washington and the 13th Amendment,

Grayson Stroud, an independent film producer and director, pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding lenders out of $550,000. Stroud — who was charged under his legal name, Troy Rustill Stroud — admitted that he moved money between various shell companies in order to dupe lenders into believing that he was engaged in legitimate business. Stroud

WarnerMedia has launched an investigation into the production of “Justice League,” a source with knowledge at the company confirmed to Variety. The decision comes after repeated public statements by one of the film’s stars, Ray Fisher, alleging misconduct by filmmaker Joss Whedon and producers Geoff Johns and Jon Berg while making the film. There have