Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. In retrospect, it read like a last hurrah. Under Paris’s Pont Alexandre III this past January, models play-acted as 19th-century roués, French cabaret singer Lucky Love performed live with a gospel choir, Gwendoline Christie strutted in a latex corset, and everyone
The “Friday Night Lights” reboot series has landed at Peacock in a highly competitive situation, Variety has confirmed. The series is now in development at the NBCUniversal streaming service. It was reported in November that a new version of the series was in the works, but it was not set up at a streaming service
When you build a film around an action star (Jason Statham, say), he’ll do a lot of things that only happen in the movies: lay waste to five goons with his bare hands in two minutes, drive vehicles at dizzying speeds down the ancient staircases of a European metropolis, leap from balconies and hang from
Having conquered Bollywood before moving to Hollywood in the mid-2010s, Priyanka Chopra Jonas now has her sights on new challenges. In October 2024, she hired veteran producer Anne Carey as president of film and TV of her shingle, Purple Pebble Pictures. Attending the Red Sea Film Festival for a special tribute – which will be
“Tangled” is the latest Disney movie to get the live-action treatment. The studio is developing a reimagining of the 2010 animated movie, a musical take on the Brothers Grimm story about the magically long-haired princess Rapunzel. “The Greatest Showman” filmmaker Michael Gracey is in talks to direct the film from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson,
The fourth edition of the Red Sea Souk, the market arm of the Red Sea Film Foundation, came to a wrap on Wednesday afternoon after five days of activities nested within the dates of the Red Sea Film Festival. Winners include “The Mother of All Lies” director Asmae El Moudir with “Holy Cow” and “Hiding
It was Rob McElhenney who first let it slip — via social media — that a long-rumored crossover between “Abbott Elementary” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” was in the works. And in the first teaser spot for that episode (scroll down to watch), “Abbott” star and creator Quinta Brunson is letting McElhenney have it.
As the French Canadians who attended the final night of Taylor Swift’s epic road show in Vancover might say: Au revoir to all that. The Eras Tour is now one for the history books, after 149 sold-out stadium shows, 10 million tickets sold and $2 billion in face-value sales … aside from spinoffs like a
In 1999, there was a film released about a child who sees ghosts that was a massive hit. Five weeks after it came out, “Stir of Echoes” was released. “There’s no way that ‘The Sixth Sense’ wasn’t going to be a massive hit,” remembers Kevin Bacon. “Both myself and [writer-director David Koepp] — and probably
At the Variety Lounge presented by Film AlUla at the Red Sea Film Festival, Variety‘s Alex Ritman spoke with Bettany Hughes, the host, historian and producer of the documentary “Lost Worlds With Bettany Hughes: The Nabataeans” as well as Zaid Shaker, acting executive director of Film Alula. The film traces the historical lineage of the Nabataean
Elon Musk, who seems to consider himself a comedian, has opined that “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.” So it seemed reasonable to ask Grok, the artificial-intelligence chatbot from Musk’s xAI startup that last month became public to all users on X (née Twitter): Who would be the most hilarious actor to portray
Rising indie filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s latest, “Dead Lover,” has attached sales agency Yellow Veil Pictures to shop the project out of the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. She serves as director, star and co-writer. Premiering in the Midnight section, the film stars Glowicki as a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses. When she finally meets her
Kendrick Lamar opened the door for California rapper Lefty Gunplay to make history — a move Wack 100 is calling a historic FAIL!!! Play video content BackOnFigg While speaking on ‘Back on Figg’s podcast, Wack expressed his disgust for Lefty’s feature on Kendrick’s “TV Off” from his chart-topping “GNX” album. Lefty closes the track with
Nexstar Media, which has built itself up in recent years with an acquisition spree that includes TV stations and the CW network, now has to make some trims. “Our broadcasting and sales divisions are streamlining their organizations to reduce our operating expenses and accelerate collaboration across the company,;” the company said in a statement. “While it is
“Dancing With the Stars” boogied to tremendous ratings growth throughout its Season 33, and that remained true for its season finale. The multiplatform numbers are out for the Nov. 26 finale, and after seven days of viewing on ABC, Disney+, Hulu and other digital platforms, the final episode of “Dancing With the Stars” averaged nearly
Gerry Turner, who starred in the premiere season of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” revealed Wednesday that he was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. Turner, 72, was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a form of blood cancer. He opened up to People about it and his split from Theresa Nist, who was the winner of his
Austin Butler is set to star in Luca Guadagnino‘s new interpretation of the book “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis for Lionsgate. While there had been rumors that Jacob Elordi was being eyed to play Patrick Bateman, that casting didn’t come to pass. Elordi and Butler have something in common, having both played very different versions
After the viral Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest held in New York City in October, several other contests began to pop up across the globe, from a Harry Styles one in London to a Paul Mescal one in Dublin. Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel got his very own lookalike competition in San Francisco in November in an
About half of the Jewish characters depicted in scripted TV shows were played by Jewish actors, according to a study of portrayals of contemporary Judaism in TV released by the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center Media Impact Project. The “Jews on Screen” study conducted as part of the center’s Media Impact Project sought to examine
Ahead of the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special, Peacock is launching a four-part docuseries about the legendary sketch-comedy show titled “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night.” Streaming on Jan. 16, the docuseries will feature more than 60 contributors and “SNL” alumni, diving into various aspects of the show. The first episode, “Five Minutes,” will focus on
In January 1999, the Critics Choice Awards presented “Saving Private Ryan” with its top prize of best picture. The film’s director, Steven Spielberg, took the stage and proclaimed of the organization, “This group is here to stay.” Never doubt the master, as 25 years later, the awards show is set to celebrate three decades with
The bottom of a TV screen isn’t the only place CNBC fans will be able to follow its famous ticker. The NBCUniversal-backed business-news outlet plans to launch a stand-alone streaming outlet, CNBC+, in the first quarter of 2025, according to two people familiar with the matter. The venue isn’t going to offer new shows and
Ted Danson appeared in almost all 12 seasons of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as one of Larry David‘s nemeses. Playing a pretentious and smug version of himself, the “Cheers” star became a fan-favorite on the show, most recently appearing in the series finale. But Danson was initially quite skeptical of the unscripted HBO sitcom — and only
“Love Actually” director Richard Curtis and songwriter and musician Ed Sheeran go way back: Sheeran’s first girlfriend even babysat Curtis’ children. Since then, they’ve collaborated on several projects, including Comic Relief and the Danny Boyle-helmed 2017 film “Yesterday,” in which Sheeran stars and Curtis co-wrote. So when Curtis was conceiving his first animated project “That
The Weeknd is planning to celebrate having the most songs to hit one-billion streams on Spotify with a performance for the first-ever Billions Club Live in Los Angeles. The concert, taking place on Dec. 17, will be held exclusively for The Weeknd‘s top fans on Spotify. The setlist will likely include selections from the 24
It may come as no surprise that Jack Antonoff — polymath collaborator with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lorde and most recently Kendrick Lamar — thinks of his brain as a hard drive. “Yeah, it’s full of folders,” he says, in the middle of talking about the new Christmas single from his band, Bleachers (and
The hottest sport on TV isn’t football, basketball or even pickleball. It’s the game of trying to find how to watch your favorite team. As more streaming services focus on offering sports, fans have a seeming infinite number of games they can watch. The trouble now comes in finding the exact one a viewer wants
Shohreh Aghdashloo will star in the upcoming third season of “The Wheel of Time” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned. It had long been rumored that Aghdashloo would appear in the series, but nothing had been confirmed until now. She will play Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, one of the Aes Sedai like Rosamund Pike’s
Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez‘s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life, he refused to sell the rights to the novel because he felt a film adaptation would not come close to scratching the surface of this
The Pokémon Company are teaming up with stop-motion animation studio Aardman for a new mystery collaboration. Billed only as a “special project,” it’s unclear whether it will be a feature film, series or something else entirely but promises that Aardman will bring “their unique style of storytelling to the Pokémon universe in brand-new adventures.” It
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