Quentin Tarantino is making equal space for being a dad and an iconic movie director, he told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. Tarantino flew to Utah from Israel for a single conversation with Elvis Mitchell, the esteemed film critic, academic and host. Mitchell hosted a weekend of cinema talks on Park
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World leaders have rarely been captured with as much intimacy as in Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz’s “Prime Minister.” While the duo — whose credits include “Chasing Great” and “American Factory” respectively — are its ultimate architects, the shape the movie takes is largely owed to Clarke Gayford, partner and eventual husband to the doc’s
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Christopher Walken told The Wall Street Journal that his relationship with technology is nonexistent to the point that he doesn’t own a cell phone and only watches television via a satellite dish on the roof of his house. Walken had to have Apple send him DVD copies of “Severance” in order to watch his performance
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In late 2021, Barry Levinson and Robert May knew that they wanted to make a documentary about America’s deep political divide. After listening to an episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” which focused on school board wars in Bucks County, Pa., the directing duo decided to visit the once-idyllic swing county located
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Arlan Ruf, a promising, up-and-coming young actor, will co-star opposite Jason Bateman and David Harbour in the HBO limited series “DTF St. Louis,” Variety has learned. The seven-episode show comes from creator and showrunner Steven Conrad (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” “Wonder”). HBO describes “DTF St. Louis” as a dark comedy about a love triangle
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If a live performance can be deemed hallowed ground, then Selena Quintanilla at the Houston Astrodome in February 1995, a month before her untimely death, certainly qualifies. From that night, the heartfelt opening verse of her anthem “Como La Flor” sounds like a prayer, before the bittersweet jubilation of the cumbia ballad begins. Footage of
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Bachelor Mondays are back. Grant Ellis will begin his journey for love (and social media fame) tonight during the Season 29 premiere of “The Bachelor.” The long-running dating show returns to its typical Monday
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Ben Stiller shared how Noah Baumbach’s directing style rubbed off on him while working on “Greenberg.” Stiller starred in Baumbach’s 2010 rom-com and recalled on Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast that the director had “no chairs” on set. “I think it was like 10 days into shooting, and I’m like, ‘Where’s the chairs? Oh
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Six years after his death, Pittsburgh-based rapper Mac Miller posthumously appears on atop the Billboard 200 with “Balloonerism,” a 14-song set that dates back to 2014. Debuting at No. 3, “Balloonerism” grants Miller his eighth appearance in the top five of the list with 81,000 equivalent album units earned. “Balloonerism” is Miller’s second posthumous album
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André Holland is bringing Black romance to Sundance with his latest independent film “Love, Brooklyn.” Directed by Rachael Abigail Holder (in her feature debut), it’s a charming story about a man named Roger (Holland), who is suffering from writers’ block while he attempts to pen a story about the changing landscape in Brooklyn. As the
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Reese Witherspoon recently revealed on “The Graham Norton Show” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she got the shock of a lifetime when she was called for jury duty years after the release of 2001’s “Legally Blonde.” But it had nothing to do with the case itself. The Oscar winner found out that her fellow jurors actually
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“Bluey” and “Grey’s Anatomy” were the most-streamed programs of 2024, according to a year-end Nielsen report. The Australian preschool program racked up 55.62 billion viewing minutes on Disney+, while the long-running hospital drama nabbed 47.85 billion across Hulu and Netflix. Animated series on Hulu took the next two spots — “Family Guy” with 42.44 billion
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Sony Pictures Television has hired Disney TV exec Jennifer Rogers Doyle for the newly created position of executive vice president of franchise management. In this role, which Rogers Doyle begins effectively immediately, the Disney vet will lead and oversee the franchise strategy of valuable intellectual properties (IP), collaborating closely with various teams to maximize revenue
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Kevin Costner will host and executive produce a three-part docuseries titled “Yellowstone to Yosemite” for Fox Nation. Premiering on Feb. 8 with episodes dropping weekly, the project is the second of its kind, following the deal Costner made to produce “Yellowstone: One-Fifty” with the network in 2022. “Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner” sees Costner
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Selena Gomez posted and deleted an emotional video of herself crying over deportations of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which resulted in her getting conservative backlash online. “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry,” a crying Gomez said in a video on her Instagram Story Monday. “All my people are
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In James Griffiths’ delightfully eccentric comedy “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” Charles (Tim Key) is the kind of sweet human being you instantly want all the good things for. It might be tough, for instance, to feel genuinely happy that someone who isn’t in urgent financial need had won a big-time lottery twice — unless
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Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” leads the 7th annual Latino Entertainment Film Awards with an impressive 17 nominations, including best picture, director, and four acting nods for Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel “Dune: Part 2” follows with 10. The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA), which celebrates the
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed that 14 scientific and technical achievements, represented by 37 individual recipients, will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony, which has been rescheduled from Feb. 18 to April 29 amid the L.A. fires. The venue remains the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. This
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Director Andrew Ahn was just 8 years old when he first watched Ang Lee’s 1993 “The Wedding Banquet,” and the queer romantic comedy about a gay Taiwanese American man who marries a Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card had a profound effect on the budding young filmmaker. “My mother
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Jeanne Lanvin may have been one of the first creators of what we now call a “lifestyle brand.” The designer’s empire expanded quickly and exponentially, accordion-ing out from interiors and perfume to athletic wear and bridal. She even developed her own
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Peacock has ordered a series adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel “The Five-Star Weekend” with Jennifer Garner attached to star, Variety has learned. The project was first reported to be in development at Peacock in April 2024 as part Sue Naegle and Ali Krug’s overall deal with UCP under their Dinner Party Productions banner. The
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