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The “Life Is Strange” TV series adaptation at Amazon Prime Video is building out its main cast. Variety has learned exclusively that Tom Cullen, Leisha Hailey, Ral Castillo, and Owen Teagu...

Billy Eichner knows he has a reputation for being loud, brash and in-your-face. When you find fame yelling questions at strangers on New York City streets as he did as the host of "Billy on the Street...

America's 250 th anniversary this summer may be a bittersweet celebration, but Christina Aguilera, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff, the Roots, Jill Scott, Seal, State Property, Kathy Sledge, Infinity Song a...

First off, kudos to the Television Academy for finally doing something about the paltry talk and scripted variety categories. The return of a combined outstanding variety series category was necessary...

Bill Lawrence and Warner Bros. Television have optioned the brand new Steven Rowley novel “Take Me With You” with plans to adapt it as a series, Variety has learned exclusively. The book w...

View TV Studios, the production and distribution company behind View TV ONE, has closed a deal to acquire U.S. rights to “Gray,” AGC Television's espionage thriller, starring Patricia Clar...

Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis, are the most influential creative duo currently working in Spain. The two are behind the hit series "Veneno" and "Dressed in Blue," with their thr...

We have a winner! Lucas Acher's "Laser-Cat" has come out on top of La Cinef section at Cannes. For its 29th edition, La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sen...

Hailed by critics as "grippingly offbeat," "as extravagant as it irresistible" and "impactful and very funny," French director Sarah Arnold's Too Many Beasts" ("L'Espce explosive") has scooped this ye...

“Summer of ’94” documentary filmmakers Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker joined U.S. soccer figures Alexi Lalas, Ed Foster-Simeon and John Harkes at SXSW for a panel moderated by Variet...