China’s film market enjoyed a record-breaking Lunar New Year, amassing a staggering RMB9.51 billion ($1.31 billion) in total box office revenue over the seven-day holiday period ending Feb. 4, according to a new report from Maoyan Research Institute. With 187 million tickets sold, the lucrative holiday window set an all-time high for the period. The
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Saturday Night Live star Chloe Fineman recently took to her front-facing camera for what she jokingly described as a PSA. “There is no such thing as a capsule wardrobe,” she said. “You’re not capsuling, curating…you’re just buying.” Fineman’s tone may have been arch, but she was tapping into a collective frustration with prescriptive personal style—if
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In Prime Video‘s “Newtopia,” love doesn’t just survive the apocalypse — it thrives in it. The Korean series pairs Blackpink‘s Jisoo and acclaimed actor Park Jeong-min in a romantic comedy with undead twists that’s being billed as a fresh take on the zombie genre. The series follows Lee Jae-yoon (Park), a late military conscript, and
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A24 has signed a deal with Nordic studio and distributor Nordisk Film to release its films across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The first titles covered by the non-exclusive agreement are Josh Safdie’s comedy “Marty Supreme” with Timothée Chalamet, Benny Safdie’s sports drama “The Smashing Machine” with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, Mark Anthony Gordon’s
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“Dog Man” is expected to lead the box office pack as two newcomers, Universal’s action comedy “Love Hurts” and Sony’s gory slasher “Heart Eyes,” join the fray. In what’s expected to be another chilly winter weekend for cinemas, “Love Hurts” and Heart Eyes” are each targeting single-digit debuts of $7 million to $8 million. That
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Thirteen years after “Mummy Is Coming,” American filmmaker Cheryl Dunye (“The Watermelon Woman”) is gearing up to produce a new feature film with “Black Is Blue” through her production company Jingletown Films. The film, loosely based on her eponymous 2014 short, is one of the projects selected at this year’s CineMart, the co-production market of
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A drama featuring Sylvester Stallone and France’s minister for gender equality, Aurore Bergé, is becoming a catalyst for a battle pitting Europe’s thriving dubbing industry against the existential threat of AI. For 50 years, Bergé’s father, Alain Dorval, was known as the “Voix de Stallone.” From the 1970’s onwards French audiences identified Dorval’s baritone with
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Universal has unveiled the trailer for “Jurassic World Rebirth.” This feature will mark the seventh film in the 31-year-old cinematic franchise. The official synopsis for “Jurassic World Rebirth” reads: “Five years post-‘Jurassic World Dominion,’ an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.” Scarlett Johansson plays
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Netflix has revealed its slate of original series and films from Thailand and Indonesia set to premiere throughout 2025, as the streaming service continues to invest in Southeast Asian content at a time when “the competition is pulling back,” according to Minyoung Kim, VP of Netflix Content (APAC, ex-India). The Thai slate features nine titles,
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Animated blockbuster “Moana 2” put wind into Disney‘s sales for the last three months of 2024. The sequel’s strong showing at the box office, along with another profitable quarter for Disney+ and Hulu, helped the Mouse House beat Wall Street forecasts for revenue and earnings. Disney’s entertainment streaming business, comprising Disney+ and Hulu, delivered its
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Gaëtan Bruel, the former director of the French Cultural Services in the U.S., has been appointed president of France’s National Film Board (CNC), the country’s most powerful film institution. The 36-year-old joins the CNC from France’s Ministry of Culture, where he’s worked as chief of staff since January 2024. Prior to that, he spearheaded the
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British pop royalty Take That will take the stage at the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, performing their hit single “Greatest Day,” featured in the BAFTA-nominated film “Anora.” Jeff Goldblum will play the piano for the In Memoriam segment. The actor-musician, who recently wowed audiences as The Wizard in the hit “Wicked” film adaptation, brings his
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The first trailer for drama series “Other People’s Money,” which has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, debuts here. Variety spoke to its producers and the creator-showrunner about how they crafted the show, which is inspired by the real story of the biggest tax fraud in European history. Beta Film is handling worldwide
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No one lauds the “Wicked” quite like Billie Eilish, at least when she is in full Ariana Grande fangirl mode, as she was in interviewing her longtime singing heroine after a screening of the movie musical in Hollywood Tuesday night. The Q&A at the Directors Guild of America’s theater, held for Academy and guild members,
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“Scream 7″ star Mason Gooding says with Kevin Williamson at the helm, who wrote the original 1996 movie-centric slasher, franchise villain Ghostface is “the most brutal he’s been” in the seventh installment. “It feels like an amplification of what’s came before, and there’s no better indication of that than Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original,
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After Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated with director Jon M. Chu on the 2021 movie musical “In The Heights,” the pair almost worked together on 2024’s biggest Broadway adaptation: “Wicked.” During a recent appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Miranda explained that he had his eye on the role of a munchkin who delivers a
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A 14-year-old is obliged to stay at her grandparents’ lake home after her impulsive mom elopes and decides to prioritize her new husband. At the competitive music camp across the water, a determined young violinist pushes himself to be named first chair, sacrificing the personal connections he covets more. Meanwhile, at the local bar, a
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Scarlett Johansson said in an interview with Vanity Fair that she spent years forwarding trade reports of new “Jurassic Park” movies to her agents because she was desperate to join the long-running franchise. She’s finally getting her chance with this summer’s “Jurassic World Rebirth,” co-staring Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali. “I was really crazy about
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from the Feb. 4 episode of Hulu’s “Paradise,” titled “Agent Billy Pace.” “Paradise” twisted the knife with its latest shocker, revealing the tragic backstory of Agent Billy Pace (Jon Beavers) and his double-crossing ways between friend and boss Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and his actual boss, tech mogul and
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Over the last few years, the state of comic book films and shows has grown increasingly uncertain with the phrase “superhero fatigue” getting thrown around following the surprise underperformance of major Marvel films. But Robert Kirkman, co-creator, co-showrunner and executive producer of “Invincible” — the violent animated show ready to unveil Season 3 — remains
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