Pornhub and other affiliated adult websites have blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the Lone Star State’s attorney general over an age-verification law. Last week, a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring pornography sites to institute age-verification measures to ensure only adults 18 and older are able to
Some film festivals take themselves entirely too seriously. Not South by Southwest, the Austin-based multidisciplinary megaevent where amped-up crowds welcome comedies with open arms — the raunchier, the better. This year, one logline stood out as especially promising: “A 30-year-old Indian American virgin gets a job teaching high school Sex Ed.” Alas, “Doin’ It,” doesn’t
“Snowpiercer” Season 4 will see the light of day after all. AMC has acquired the exclusive U.S. linear and streaming rights to all four seasons of the post-apocalyptic drama series after it was previously axed at its original network home, TNT. It had already been announced Season 4 would be the show’s last before TNT
As this slow broadcast network pilot season continues, ABC has ordered its second comedy pilot of the year: “Forgive and Forget,” a multi-camera comedy set to star Emmy-winning “Modern Family” alum Ty Burrell. Burrell is also on board as an executive producer (through his Desert Whale Prods. shingle) on “Forgive and Forget,” while Eugene Garcia-Cross
Netflix has revealed a slew of commissions out of the U.K., including a political thriller series starring Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones, the reality show “Buying London” and a TV adaptation of Marian Keyes‘ bestselling novel “Grown Ups.” As reported by Variety exclusively earlier, Netflix has also commissioned the Jamie Dornan crime noir series “The
“Vanderpump Rules” producer Alex Baskin has tapped Joe Kingsley and Jeff Festa to join the creative executive team of his new company, 32 Flavors. He recruited both Kingsley and Festa from Evolution Media, his former company, where they all previously worked on unscripted projects together. At 32 Flavors, Kingsley has been appointed executive vice president
Netflix has greenlit the limited series “Black Rabbit” starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law. The series was originally announced as being in development at the streamer back in October 2022. With the greenlight announcement, it is also confirmed that Cleopatra Coleman (“Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire”), Amaka Okafor (“Bodies,” “The Responder”),
CMA Fest has announced its lineup for the festival’s 2024 edition, taking place in Nashville June 6-9, and as usual, the roster for the nightly stadium shows is a who’s who of recent country charttoppers and awards contenders, with Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson foremost among the newer crop of headliners. The names gracing the
On the eve of his official retirement from YouTube, Game Theorist creator Matthew Patrick, better known as MatPat, walked down into his basement where he’s edited and uploaded nearly 3,000 videos on his various YouTube channels throughout his 13-year career. The room was utterly dark, with the only light coming from a dimly lit blue
Universal has announced the release date for its latest action flick “With Love,” starring “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan. This marks Quan’s first major leading role in his 40 years in Hollywood. “With Love” is scheduled to hit theaters February 7, 2025. While plot details remain under wraps, seasoned stunt
London-based outfit Dogwoof has boarded international sales for the Sundance title “Look Into My Eyes,” from director Lana Wilson. Dogwoof will attend CPH:DOX, where the film will receive its European premiere next week. The filmmaker’s previous films include Emmy Award winner “After Tiller,” “The Departure” — also handled by Dogwoof — and the Taylor Swift
In the digital age, there is a tendency to think of the phrase “film preservation” only as it relates to the care and restoration of movies from the 1950s or earlier. But while classic films need care, so too do newer projects. Digital formats not only become obsolete but degrade over time. When global IP
Ah, the conclusion of Oscar season. The anticipation and mystery build as Hollywood’s most glamorous evening approaches. Yet even the most ardent awards show enthusiasts concede that the season overstays its welcome. Despite all its efforts at splendor, the telecast faces declining viewership and criticism for being out of touch. If the venerable institution wants
Memento International has closed a raft of deals on “Fremont,” a critically acclaimed film starring Anaita Wali Zada, an Afghan refugee and first-time actor, and featuring “The Bear” actor Jeremy Allen White. Directed by BAFTA-nominated Iranian-born director Babak Jalali, the black-and-white movie tells the story of Donya, a young woman working at a Chinese fortune
“Kinds of Kindness,” the next collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone, will debut in theaters this summer. Searchlight, the indie studio that’s distributing the film, added it to the release calendar on June 21. Though the plot remains under wraps, “Kinds of Kindness” is an anthology film that reunites Stone with her
Fresh from his Academy Award win for best actor, “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy now has a chance to claim the same honor at his local awards. The Irish Film and TV Academy (IFTA) has unveiled the nominees for its 2024 awards, with Murphy going up against “Saltburn’s’” Barry Keoghan and “All of Us Strangers” star
“Power Book II: Ghost” will end with Season 4 at Starz, Variety has learned. The series, which was the first spinoff of the premium cabler’s hit crime drama “Power,” was renewed for its fourth season in January 2023. Season 4 will air in two parts, with part one debuting on June 7, while part two
Jamie Dornan will lead the cast of a new crime noir series that has been ordered at Netflix titled “The Undertow,” Variety has learned exclusively. “The Undertow” is based on the Nordisk Film Production AS television series “Twin” created by Kristoffer Metcalfe. Dornan will star in the series as twin brothers Adam and Lee. Along
Warner Bros. Discovery is hoping to convert college hoops excitement into a bumper crop of new Max subscribers this spring. The media company, ahead of the upcoming 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, is offering U.S. Max subscribers a 30% across all yearly plans (for the first 12 months). This year marks the first
Play video content CNN Don Lemon volvió a la cadena que lo despidió para hablar de su entrevista con Elon Musk que le hizo perder su acuerdo con X e incluso emitió algunos clips de la conversación. El ex presentador de noticias fue presentado como invitado de Erin Burnett en CNN el miércoles, donde hablaron
The Max series “The Girls on the Bus” wants to be a frothy workplace comedy about female empowerment. Such proudly escapist fluff has a valued place on TV; “The Bold Type” got five seasons out of its more optimistic spin on “The Devil Wears Prada,” and while “Glamorous” was quickly canceled by Netflix, it had
The sitcom “Girls5eva” follows the attempted comeback of a fictional girl group that peaked in the early 2000s, now reunited as middle-aged women. But headed into its third season, it’s “Girls5eva,” not just Girls5eva, that’s trying to start anew. After two critically acclaimed, if evidently little-watched, seasons on Peacock, the show has been resurrected by Netflix,
Jennifer Lopez has canceled seven dates of her first North American tour in five years, in support of her new album “This Is Me… Now” and its pair of companion films. The dates spanning Aug. 20-31 in Cleveland, Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans and Houston were listed as canceled on Ticketmaster at some point on
After a year-long hiatus the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 25th edition, which will take place in Durham, N.C., from April 4-7. The festival will kick things off with “Girls State,” the Apple Original docu that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. It’s been five years since Full Frame,
“Food, Inc. 2,” the follow-up to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary on the effects of agribusiness on American consumers, is set for a special screening event from Magnolia Pictures on April 9. The feature documentary will be released on digital platforms on April 12. Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo direct the film from Participant and River
Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for Rupert Sanders’ remake of “The Crow,” starring Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs. The film is set for release on June 7. Both the 1994 version starring the late Brandon Lee and the upcoming remake are based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr. In Sanders’ iteration, Skarsgård plays Eric Draven,
The curtains have closed on the Oscars, and as we peer over the horizon following a six-month Hollywood hiatus due to the union strikes, the initial trepidation over a sparse cinematic future will be sure to dissipate once you look at the road ahead. Contrary to fears, the film landscape appears not just replenished but
Patty Jenkins‘ “Star Wars” movie “Rogue Squadron” might not be dead after all. The project, centered on fighter pilots in the “Star Wars” universe, was first announced at the end of 2020 and was put on the calendar for a December 2023 theatrical release. By September 2022, however, Disney had pulled the title from its
Prime Video is diving into genre in the Nordics with a new slate of shows, including the Swedish mystery crime series “Blind Spot” starring Ida Engvoll (“Love & Anarchy”) and Pål Sverre Hagen (“Furia”), and Henrik Georgsson (“The Bridge“)’s dystopian thriller “VAKA,” starring Emmy-award nominated Jonas Karlsson and Aliette Opheim. Based on Anne Holt’s best-selling novel “1222” which revolves around
The Australian author Liane Moriarty provided the source material for the first season of “Big Little Lies,” one of recent TV’s great success stories. Since that then-limited series exploded in 2017, dominating the discourse with a supernova of star power, conspicuous consumption and domestic strife, producers have continued to mine Moriarty’s catalog in search of