The first and second seasons of the hit thriller series “The Tourist,” starring Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald, will shift to Netflix starting next February. The first season originally saw Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max as a co-producer and local streaming partner. The Australia-set first season of “The Tourist” sees Dornan portray a man who, after
Prettay… prettay… prettay… sad. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is officially ending with Season 12, which premieres Feb. 4 at 10 p.m. on HBO and Max. The 10-episode season will conclude with a series finale on April 7. You might be thinking: Isn’t every season of “Curb” potentially its last? While this is sorta true — the
It sounds like “The Golden Bachelorette” could be right around the corner. When it comes to focusing on a female lead, “nothing would make us happier,” executive producer and showrunner Bennett Graebner said during a Producers Guild FYC panel for “The Golden Bachelor” on Monday night. Newly engaged duo Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, as
The Game Awards 2023, the video game industry’s year-end celebration, was bigger than ever this year, according to the kudosfest’s producers. The 10th annual awards show, held Dec. 7, 2023, generated an estimated 118 million global livestreams, up 15% over 2022’s showcase, according to The Game Awards. The festivities were streamed live from the Peacock
Bradley Cooper is struggling to remember the name of the film for which he unsuccessfully auditioned in the early aughts, and Spike Lee, the director who rejected him, isn’t much help. The two men are discussing “Maestro,” Cooper’s penetrating look at the marriage of musical genius Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre (played by a note-perfect
International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed its selection of 16 feature film projects for the 41st edition of CineMart, running Jan. 28-31. In “Another Journey Without Women” six chain-smoking know-it-alls embark on a tragi-comedic polar expedition in Greenland in 1918. The film is directed by Illum Jacobi, whose “The Trouble With Nature” appeared at IFFR
Director Abdulelah Alqurashi sat down with Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay at Variety’s Artisans Screening Series to break down his film “Alhamour H.A.,” Saudi Arabia’s official Oscars submission. The film is based on the true story of one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest con artists, a former security guard named Hamed who grows rich by
Transitions are challenging, and for preteens encountering those first pivotal life shifts, change can feel overwhelming. For 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who has always felt like an outsider, coming of age means godly encounters, foretold prophecies and cross-country quests. Based on the acclaimed books by Rick Riordan, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is a
Cate Blanchett and Coco Francini, who are business partners behind Dirty Films, are collaborating with Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to launch the Proof of Concept Accelerator Program. With support from Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, the program aims to identify filmmakers who promote the perspectives of women, trans and
When Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” came out in 2008, Zac Efron was two movies deep into the Disney Channel’s “High School Musical” franchise, in which he played singing, dancing basketball phenom Troy Bolton. He’d been the swoony romantic lead in the movie musical “Hairspray,” opposite John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer, was shortly to play opposite
In “Downwind,” a documentary executive produced by Matthew Modine, directors Mark Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller chronicle the lethal effects that nuclear testing on American soil has had on U.S. citizens. The Oscar hopeful reveals that from 1951 to 1992, Mercury, Nevada, was the site for the testing of 928 large scale nuclear weapons. Wind
European Film Promotion has revealed the 10 emerging actors who will take part in the 27th edition of European Shooting Stars program, which promotes European acting talent. Past Shooting Stars have included Carey Mulligan, Alicia Vikander, Maisie Williams and Riz Ahmed. From Feb. 16-19, the actors will be presented to the international press and industry,
“Girls5Eva” is officially beginning its new era at Netflix. Season 3 of the musical comedy series is set to premiere on the streamer March 14, with all six episodes dropping that day. “Girls5eva” moved to Netflix from its previous home at Peacock in October 2022. Along with the brand-new Season 3, the first and second
Activist investor Nelson Peltz, who’s looking to shake up Disney‘s board, plans to nominate two directors as candidates for directors of the Mouse House’s board: Peltz himself, and former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo. Peltz’s Trian Fund Management said Thursday it submitted a notice of its intention to nominate the two independent director candidates at Disney’s
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “The Crown” Season 6, streaming on Netflix now. The final episodes of “The Crown” have dropped and, as Netflix boss Ted Sarandos pointed out at the premiere of Season 5, that means Google searches will be going up, since many fans like to fact-check scenes from Peter Morgan’s
Hello, Brooklyn. Is Madonna in the house? It’s after 10 p.m. on Wednesday night, and the Material Girl is nowhere to be found on the first hometown stop of her career-retrospective “Celebration” tour. The promenade down memory lane — by Madonna, for Madonna — kicked off in London in October, and is now belatedly on its North
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the internet giant is expanding Threads to countries across Europe — promising to give the X/Twitter competitor more momentum. The app’s rollout in the region comes with certain changes to conform with European Union rules. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe. Welcome everyone 👋,” Zuckerberg wrote
Endeavor has made a strategic investment in Chess.com, which touts itself as the world’s largest online platform for the classic strategy game. In addition, Chess.com has signed for representation with Endeavor’s WME. Terms of the firm’s investment weren’t disclosed. As part of the investment taking a minority stake in Chess.com, Endeavor will advise the company
Forget Justin Timberlake or Nick Carter, in the late ’90s there was one heartthrob above all others who was guaranteed to make girls go wild: Prince William. With his blossoming good looks, fancy title and tragic backstory, the British royal became the subject of teenage dreams across the globe. His face was plastered across magazines,
Films starring Saoirse Ronan and Justice Smith are set for Berlin Film Festival‘s Panorama section. Panorama announced its first 11 titles on Thursday, seven of which are world premieres. The lineup includes Nora Fingscheidt’s “The Outrun,” which stars Ronan as an antihero who must embark on a journey to find herself. “After years of excess
Gal Rosenbluth, who is Israeli, and Nayef Hammoud, who is Palestinian, met in Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film school and have been together for the past eight years. On Oct. 7, when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, they had to cancel plans to attend Rome’s MIA TV market to personally pitch a series titled “Non Issue”
Emmanuelle Debever, the first actor to have accused Gerard Depardieu of sexual assault, died in an apparent suicide after jumping from a bridge into the Seine river in Paris. Her death was announced in the media on Dec. 7, the day that a bombshell investigative documentary about Depardieu aired on French broadcaster France 2. An
The growing pantheon of films and TV series inspired by podcasts continues apace with such noteworthy spinoffs as “Homecoming,” “The Dropout” and “WeCrashed” leading the pack. It doesn’t seem so common in the Spanish language but Spanish podcast producer TrueStory is hoping to change that. The award-winning three-year-old company, operating from the U.S. and Spain,
Production has wrapped on the wartime coming-of-age feature film “The Collaborator,” based on the international bestseller by Kashmiri novelist Mirza Waheed. The story is set in the 1990s on the Indian side of the Line of Control that separates Indian Kashmir from Pakistani Kashmir. The 17-year old protagonist known only as the “Boy” is forced
Play video content @madhouseboys Bam Margera is up to his old tricks … lending his “Jackass” experience to a new group of wild daredevils and helping them film a brutal knockout video. The former “Jackass” star shot a couple stunts over the weekend in L.A. with the MadHouse Boys… throwing on a boxing glove and
There are two vacuums at the heart of the final installment of “The Crown,” which concludes this week with six episodes to round out its last season. The first is the death of Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki), whose final weeks, tragic car accident and funeral took up the entirety of the season’s first part, released
After launching a feature allowing users to save sounds to third-party streaming services last month, TikTok has announced the expansion of its “Add to Music App” expansion in 19 additional markets. The video-sharing platform is continuing its efforts to translate the success of music on the platform onto DSPs with its latest development. TikTok initially
Parallax, one of the few indie film sales firms in China has picked up two of this year’s best performing mainland Chinese movies. Ahead of the winter festival and markets season, Parallax has taken on comedy-drama “Post Truth” and family-oriented comedy-fantasy “Five Hundred Miles.” Directed and co-written by Dong Chengpeng (aka Da Peng), “Post Truth”
SF Studios has unveiled the trailer for its animated film and TV series based on Arnie Alligator, one of the Nordics’ most popular children’s brand luring 300 million views on Youtube. SF Studios is producing the animated feature and TV series with See You Later! and will release the movie in the Nordics early next
For the fourth consecutive year, Trevor Noah has been tapped to host the 2024 Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy revealed on Wednesday night. “I think it’s also important to acknowledge something. I’m hosting the Grammys,” Noah concurrently announced on his podcast “What Now? With Trevor Noah.” “I’m excited about that, yeah, it’s a lot of