Tony Slattery, a British actor and comedian known for his improv skills on Channel 4’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” died on Tuesday. He was 65. Slattery’s longtime partner, Mark Michael Hutchinson, confirmed the news to the BBC and said the cause of death was a heart attack. “It is with great sadness we must
Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo and Hozier will headline the 2025 edition of Governors Ball, New York City’s biggest music festival. Gov Ball — which featured an iconic performance from Chappell Roan last year — will make its return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on June 6-8, once again aligning with New York Music
A new true-crime podcast about the theft of iconic Austrian empress Sisi’s diamond in the 1990s is set to launch on Curiouscast later this month. Written by Emma Jane Kirby and hosted by Seren Jones, “A Most Audacious Heist” will introduce listeners to Daniel Blanchard, who in 1998 stole the Star of Empress Sisi, a
Neo Sora, the filmmaker and artist behind “Happyend,” has signed with Cinetic Media. The move comes after “Happyend,” which Sora wrote as well as directed, premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. It went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival, earning positive reviews
Everyone needs a good pair of sneakers (or six, if you’re into shoes like me) and in 2025, there are seemingly endless options to choose from. True sneakerheads are an entire community amongst themselves, but brands have started to embrace the consumer power of the sneaker as both a branding tool and an aesthetic accent.
“Primavera,” a film about Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned “The Four Seasons,” has been bought by a flurry of major distributors. Represented by Memento International, the movie shot in Rome and Venice, and marks the feature debut of Damiano Michieletto, a leading opera director. Warner Bros. will release the movie
Edinburgh Fringe-originated college comedy series “Big Boys” is set to end after Season 3, Variety can confirm. The show, which launched in 2022 after a run at the famous Scottish arts festival, stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as unlikely flatmates, who are thrown together in their first year at Brent University. The third and
The origin story of Jean Valjean, the iconic protagonist of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece “Les Misérables,” is being brought to the bigscreen by Éric Besnard, the French director of 18th-century set movie “Delicieux.” The movie, which just started filming on Jan. 14 amid the lush landscapes of Southern France, has been boarded by Federations Studios’ sales
DirecTV has stitched together a skinny bundle of sports channels, targeted at people who want to watch live sports without paying for a broad TV package. Launching Tuesday, DirecTV MySports initially includes 40 sports and broadcast channels and is available in 24 metro areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco
Paris-based About Premium Content has boarded international sales on the Finnish sports drama thriller “Guts” from hot creator Jemina Jokisalo, behind the feminist porn tale “Money Shot” which scooped the Student Award for best short form series at Canneseries 2024, and is currently running for Göteborg TV Drama Vision’s Nordic Series Script Award. News of APC’s pick-up on “Guts” comes
The origin story of Jean Valjean, the iconic protagonist of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece “Les Misérables,” is being brought to the bigscreen by Éric Besnard, the French director of 18th-century set movie “Delicieux.” The movie, which just started filming on Jan. 14 amid the lush landscapes of Southern France, has been boarded by Federations Studios’ sales
Stephen Garrett’s U.K. production company Chapter 7 has appointed Anna Higgs as its new managing director. The prod-co, known for shows including Tom Hiddleton-starrer “The Night Manager” and “The Undoing” featuring Nicole Kidman, has also promoted Carly Conway to creative director. Higgs previously led global entertainment partnerships at Meta and was creative director at video
After Korea, Philippines media giant ABS-CBN is positioning itself as the next potential purveyor of hit Asian entertainment, building on the international box office success of “Hello, Love, Again.” “What we want to export or highlight to the rest of the world is what makes the Filipinos great as a people,” says Kriz Gazmen, head
“Kneecap” — the Irish-language music biopic that became one of the buzziest indie films of 2024 and is now tipped for both Oscar and BAFTA recognition — has, perhaps unsurprisingly, emerged far ahead of the pack of nominees for the 2025 Irish Film & TV Academy (IFTA) awards. Rich Peppiatt’s raucous comedy, about (and starring) the Belfast
On the Jan. 13 episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart tackled the devastating L.A. forest fires and the Republican lawmakers who want “strings attached” to incoming relief funds. Stewart opened the show on a positive note, celebrating the “incredible moments of human compassion and kindness” that have arisen from the L.A. fires despite the
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to the air on Monday, after missing a handful of episodes late last week due to the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area. Earlier in the day, Kimmel and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” team turned the parking lot behind the show’s studio — where normally live outdoor music performances are
Hours after donating $2.5 million to fire relief efforts through her BeyGOOD foundation, Beyoncé made another big announcement regarding her Jan. 14 mystery reveal. “The Jan. 14 announcement will be postponed to a later date due to the devastation caused by the ongoing wildfires around areas of Los Angeles,” Beyoncé wrote on Instagram Monday night,
For the final interview of his presidency, Joe Biden will sit down with MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell in the Oval Office. The discussion will air on Jan. 16 at 10 p.m. ET on MSNBC. According to the official release, “Biden will discuss his legacy as he prepares to leave the White House following the inauguration
The wildfire storm raging in Los Angeles County forced the Los Angeles Rams to relocate Monday’s Wild Card playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings to the the Glendale, Ariz., stadium where the Arizona Cardinals play. But the emotion spurred by the devastation in the Rams’ hometown was front and center before the kickoff at the
Susan Zirinsky is once again being asked to help polish up CBS News. The veteran producer, who served as the unit’s president from early 2019 to the end of 2021, has been asked to return to CBS News as an interim “executive editor,” and will oversee standards, helping to vet stories and journalistic practices. Like
Universal Kids, the youth-oriented network that began life as the preschool-centric PBS Kids Sprout (and later, Sprout) before being rebranded as a destination for a wider age range in 2017, is shutting down, Variety has confirmed. The network is expected to go dark on March 6, with an on-screen slate after that directing audiences to
TikTok denied a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to tech billionaire Elon Musk to keep TikTok operational in America amid a looming U.S. government ban. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that “Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok”
On a recent episode of “The Pat McAfee Show,” Travis Kelce discussed how exciting it was to work with comedy legend Adam Sandler. Kelce will appear alongside Sandler in Netflix‘s “Happy Gilmore 2,” which is set for a 2025 release. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is cast in a currently undisclosed role; in a
Lyra Valkyria and Dakota Kai are one match away from the biggest moment of their careers. After clawing their way through a qualifying bracket, the duo will face off in the tournament finals for WWE’s first-ever Women’s Intercontinental Champion. Variety spoke to Valkyria and Kai ahead of their clash on “Monday Night Raw,” which recently
Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation is granting $500,000 to Los Angeles fire relief efforts carried out by the California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Eaton Canyon Fire Relief and Recovery Fund. The Los Angeles wildfires area have caused widespread destruction in communities across the city since Jan. 7. Despite
The Weeknd has canceled his concert at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles that was scheduled for Jan. 25, and will delay the release of his forthcomingalbum, “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” until Jan. 31. “Out of respect and concern for the people of Los Angeles County, i am canceling the Rose Bowl concert originally scheduled for
Ben Stiller was the latest guest on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast and admitted that he still doesn’t understand why he became such a popular comedy movie star in the late 1990s and 2000s. His self-directed work in 1996’s “The Cable Guy” was followed by the one-two punch of 1999’s “There’s Something About
I’ve known of Robbie Williams ever since Take That, the British boy band, burst onto the music scene in the 1990s. Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Williams took the U.K., Europe and most of the world by storm, but they didn’t crack America. When Williams broke away from the band, he
Momentum is everything in the world of pro sports, which the Kansas City Chiefs have had in spades over the past two years. And that’s not even counting Taylor Swift’s presence in the plus-one box. After two consecutive Super Bowl wins and a firehose of unexpected publicity, the NFL franchise has been capitalizing wisely on
Reporting by Jem Aswad, Matt Donnelly, Angelique Jackson, Elsa Keslassy, Gene Maddaus, Marc Malkin, Pat Saperstein, Michael Schneider, Tatiana Siegel, Jazz Tangcay, Chris Willman and K.J. Yossman. Before mid-afternoon on Jan. 7, the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles was a salt-air oasis tucked into the second-largest city in the country. It was “a kind
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