“The Way Home” is coming back … home. Last month, Variety broke the news that the hit series was moving to Hallmark+, the company’s new streaming service, for its third season, debuting in January. It was set to make its linear debut in the fall. However, “after hearing from the many passionate, loyal fans,” the
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the series premiere of Showtime’s “Dexter: Original Sin” now streaming on Paramount+. “Things were a little messy in the beginning…” That’s how Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) described his first kill when audiences saw it 18 years ago in Season 1 of Showtime’s serial killer series “Dexter.” And
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the ending of “Kraven the Hunter,” now playing in theaters. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is suiting up as the famous Spider-Man villain Kraven the Hunter in Sony’s latest (and possibly final) Marvel movie. After the “Venom” trilogy, “Morbius” and “Madame Web,” “Kraven the Hunter” is the last Spidey-less movie
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Before “Sing Sing” became a critical hit and awards darling, it almost failed to launch. The film, which shows the positive impact that the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program has on a group of incarcerated men, features Colman Domingo as a playwright incarcerated after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Domingo is one of
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is not throwing away his shot to make the perfect “Hamilton” movie. “I’ve always said I’m open to it, if I hear a director with a great take,” Miranda told Variety during an interview for his latest film “Mufasa: The Lion King.” (He wrote the original songs for the Disney prequel, in theaters
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Jim Carrey recently expressed interest in reprising the Grinch, but what about some of his other iconic characters? The comedian was recently asked by ComicBook.com about making a sequel to “The Mask,” his 2004 comedy that introduced the world to Cameron Diaz and became a blockbuster with $351 million at the worldwide box office. That
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Viola Davis said that probably her proudest achievement was the creation of her game-changing character Annalise Keating in legal drama thriller “How to Get Away With Murder,” during an onstage interview Thursday at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where many in the ecstatic audience had greeted her by declaring, “I love
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Greek-American opera superstar Maria Callas is the subject of Pablo Larrain’s latest feature. “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie, picks up with Callas at the end of her life, as she mourns the end of her career. The film, now streaming on Netflix, is mapped with flashbacks showing snapshots of her stardom; performing at La Scala and
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Quentin Tarantino was a recent guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and spent a considerable amount of time reflecting on the current relationship between television and film. He argued that even a TV show that he loves to watch like “Yellowstone” can hardly compare to the power of a good movie. In Tarantino’s eyes, “Yellowstone”
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The early word on James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” has rightly centered around a tremendous Timothée Chalamet performance, and an exciting discovery in Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. But there’s a dark horse hiding in this story of Dylan’s overnight success and controversial decision to use electric guitars in the mid-‘60s: an
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The Producers Guild of America has revealed nominees in the children’s, short form and sports categories for its upcoming awards. Winners will be announced at the PGA awards ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 8 in Los Angeles. The 2024 Producers Guild Awards nominees in the children’s, short form (which are all, notably, PR-style extensions of regular
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Berlin-based sales agent M-Appeal has acquired world sales rights for “In Ashes,” the debut feature film by Denmark’s Ludvig Christian Næsted Poulsen, set to premiere next year. The film follows Christian, a young twenty-something gay man, who is trying to get over the heartbreak of his first love. Looking for meaningful connections through online dating
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“The Night Agent” is building out its cast for Season 3. Variety has learned that David Lyons (“ER,” upcoming Netflix series “The Beast in Me”), Jennifer Morrison (“House,” “This Is Us”), Stephen Moyer (“True Blood,” “Sexy Beast”), Genesis Rodriguez (“Lioness,” “Umbrella Academy”), and Callum Vinson (“Chucky,” “Dead Ringers”) have all joined the third season of
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from “Black Doves” Season 1, now streaming on Netflix. “Black Doves,” Keira Knightley’s first television series in more than two decades, has already proved a massive success for Netflix, which, knowing it had a hit, had ordered a second season from Knightley and creator/showrunner Joe Barton before the show even
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Authentic Studios and Baz Luhrmann are having a little more conversation about Elvis Presley. Luhrmann is directing and producing a new documentary about the King of Rock & Roll, centered on never-before-seen footage and recordings of Presley that he unearthed while creating his film “Elvis.” That’s one of several projects in the works at Authentic
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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual
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David Foster, composer-producer-songwriter extraordinaire, never stops. “I am a workaholic,” he confesses, “and I move around a lot.” Foster and his wife, singer-actress Katharine McPhee, will tour during December and January, with multiple dates scheduled for California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. “Kat and I started touring together four or five years ago,” he
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Harrison Ford is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in next year’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” and it sounds like it wasn’t too much of an acting challenge for the 82-year-old legend. Ford stars in the film as U.S. president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (taking over the role from the late William Hurt), who happens to
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Guy Pearce revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that he was blocked from starring in Christopher Nolan movies after 2000’s “Memento” because a Warner Bros. executive just didn’t like his acting. The director’s relationship with the Hollywood studio started right after “Memento” with the 2002 psychological thriller “Insomnia.” Nolan and Warner Bros. then
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Life isn’t that unfair, it turns out. A “Malcolm in the Middle” revival has been ordered at Disney+, Variety has learned. The new iteration of the series hails from original series creator Linwood Boomer, with original stars Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, and Jane Kaczmarek set to reprise their roles. Disney Branded Television has ordered four
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Dunder Mifflin — the people person’s paper people — is sending its top employees into “Funko Fusion” as characters from NBC’s “The Office” join the action-adventure video game Friday. Developed by 10:10 Games, the game, which released in September, is filled with Funko Pop! figurine versions of iconic pop culture figures. The game is a
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