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
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
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
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
Bruno Mars continues to break streaming records, as he becomes the first artist to cross the 150 million monthly listeners threshold on Spotify. Mars, who has not put out a solo album since 2016’s “24K Magic,” made history on the platform on the back of his hot streak of collaborative singles. “Die With a Smile,”
Critical Role announced a special live one-shot D&D adventure aimed at continued fundraising for wildfire recovery efforts in L.A. Critical Role will host a “chaotic and interactive” one-shot charity livestream titled “Freaky Thursday,” featuring Bells Hells, the characters from its third D&D campaign played by Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel,
British consumers’ appetite for home entertainment reached new heights in 2024, with the sector surpassing £5.1 billion ($6.4 billion) for the first time, according to new data released by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). The milestone marks unprecedented growth across streaming, premium digital and physical formats. The wider U.K. screen industry, including cinema
In the ever-shifting world of the biopic, a biopic can be many different things. It can be like a novel (if it covers someone’s entire life). It can have the more concentrated quality of a short story (if it’s set during one key period). On that score, you might say that “Peter Hujar’s Day” is
“I want to set the record straight on a couple of things, and that’s it.” So says Paul Reubens — better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman — at the outset of “Pee-Wee as Himself,” as he and director Matt Wolf tentatively lay out the terms of the documentary they’re making.
While preparing for his latest couture show, Schiaparelli artistic director Daniel Roseberry indulged in a little time travel. Namely, he took a trip into an archive of ribbons from pre-World War II-era France, now slightly faded and housed in an antique shop. Courtesy of Schiaparelli Some of those very same ribbons found their way into
No matter how a person might feel about “Saturday Night Live”’s jokes or cast or host choices, there’s absolutely no denying that for the better part of the last half century, it has been the most consistently powerful platform in America for musicians, whether they’re superstars, rising stars or falling stars. Virtually every major artist
When it comes to celebrity fashion, I call it like I see it, and last week was an all-time high for Sydney Sweeney. While most of us resorted to layer upon practical layer to survive New York City’s icy freeze, the Euphoria actress held her own against the cold, wearing full ensembles from Chloé one
For its 30th anniversary, Vans Warped Tour is making its grand return with three two-day festivals showcasing 70 to 100 bands including performers from years’ past and a diverse lineup of new acts. Among the first group of announced artists include Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Dance Hall Crashers, Miss May I, Chandler Leighton and
The 2025 Grammys were shaping up to be a lively celebration of a vibrant year in music: the year of Chappell, Charli and Sabrina; of Taylor, Beyonce and Billie; of “Brat,” “Tipsy” and “Not Like Us.” But on Wednesday, January 8, everything changed as wildfires raged across the Grammys’ home city of Los Angeles. For
The annual Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena will feature a set by the newly reunited Rilo Kiley — the band’s first show since 2008 — with the group joining Vampire Weekend as co-headliners of the SoCal gathering May 10. Rilo Kiley last performed together in a headlining show at L.A.’s Greek Theatre on June
SiriusXM has unveiled its “Future Five” for 2025, five artists who it has supported and predicts to break through this year. The class of 2025 is Balu Brigada, Hudson Westbrook, Ken Carson, Leon Thomas and “Messy” singer Lola Young. The announcement notes that the satellite radio network “continues to use human insight,” as opposed to
Lady Gaga has revealed that her seventh studio album, apparently titled “Mayhem,” will be released on March 7. The announcement was teased via billboards that appeared overnight in New York and Las Vegas,. “The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga said in the
As if it weren’t surreal enough to have one outlet of the legendary indie record store Rough Trade in New York’s Rockefeller Center, right next to Radio City Music Hall, there soon will be two. “Rough Trade Below,” the new 4,000 square-foot space, opens this Spring and will be located on Rockefeller Center’s Rink Level,
As a documentary about politically incendiary subjects — including medical transition and the discrimination faced by transgender communities — Italian documentary “GEN_” is unconventionally persuasive. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, the film follows several months in the life of the elderly Dr. Bini, a quirky, fast-talking fertility and hormone specialist in the twilight of his career,
After the submarine-set “Whiskey on the Rocks,” available on Disney + since Jan. 22 outside Sweden, French-Swedish producer Patrick Nebout of Dramanation is turning to the skies, with another Cold War satire spy thriller: the majority English-speaking “Learning to Fly,” Variety has learned in exclusivity. The flagship European series is based on a concept by David Troncoso Conlin
Major League Soccer will move its production arm to new studios at the headquarters of WWE in Stamford, Conn., as part of a renewal of a pact with IMG. Under terms of the new multi-year partnership, MLS and IMG, the latter will continue to produce live match and studio productions and programming for more than
Katy Perry is coming home. Well, sort of. Nearly eight years ago, when Perry put a cap on her “Witness” tour, the singer unintentionally left the stage as a traveling headliner for the last time. A global pandemic, and the birth of her’s and Orlando Bloom’s daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom, sent Perry on a unplanned
Spotify has set up a velvet-roped VIP section for its most listened to podcasters — with Joe Rogan and Audiochuck’s “Crime Junkie” getting the top honors in the streamer’s inaugural Creator Milestone Awards. Evaluated quarterly, Spotify’s Creator Milestone Award are being bestowed on podcasters who reach certain streaming thresholds on the platform. The first group
Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following explosive allegations involving former SMAP frontman Masahiro Nakai and claims of a corporate cover-up, the Associated Press reports. Network president Koichi Minato and chair Shuji Kanoh announced their immediate resignations Monday as fallout continues over Nakai’s alleged sexual assault
Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, will open this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. The film, which is world premiering Monday night at Sundance Film Festival, will have its international debut on March 19 at London’s BFI Southbank with Ahn in
France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, the body behind national film ceremony the César Awards, has departed X. The Academy made the announcement in a press release on Monday, having already deleted its account on the Elon Musk-owned platform. “The Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques has decided to end its presence on the
“The Talent,” a glitzy party-set psychological thriller toplining Ester Expósito, one of the biggest breakouts of “Elite” stars, will be brought onto the market at Berlin by Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment. Handling many of Spain’s biggest non-global streamer movies, Film Factory has acquired worldwide rights to “The Talent”outside Spain. It will present at next month’s
Action icon Jackie Chan has completed principal photography on “The Shadow’s Edge,” a high-stakes thriller that marks his second collaboration with Chinese helmer Larry Yang. The duo previously struck gold with “Ride On,” which dominated Asian box offices in 2023, becoming Japan’s highest-grossing Chinese import and landing among Malaysia’s top three Chinese releases of the
European TV giant Banijay Entertainment — whose more-than 60 labels have produced recent shows such as “Rogue Heroes,” “Ripley” and “The Rig” — has expanded the roles of two execs as it rejigs its global scripted division. As part of a new combined leadership structure, Steve Matthews has been named head of scripted, creative and Johannes
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” will be partly filmed in Sicily which, according to scholars, was a location for Odysseus’ wanderings in the epic composed by Homer around 8th century BCE. Shooting of the Sicilian portion of Nolan’s “Odyssey” is expected to start in roughly two months on the island of Favignana, known as
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