Category Archives: News
Huge Gaza Protest Marches Toward Venice Film Festival as Thousands Attend Rally
The Venice Film Festival on Saturday became the focus of possibly the largest protest ever seen at a major film event over Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Thousands, young and old, ma...
Aug 30, 2025
Mads Mikkelsen Delivers Another Wild Look in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Boundary-Pushing ‘The Last Viking’: ‘Part of Him Wants to Be Ugly’
Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen makes Mads Mikkelsen look bad. Literally. "It actually comes from him. Everybody thinks about Mads as this iconically beautiful man, so a part of him wants t...
Aug 30, 2025
Box Office: ‘Caught Stealing’ Grounds Into $3.2 Million Opening Day, ‘Weapons’ Winning Yet Again
The debuts of Austin Butler’s crime thriller “Caught Stealing,” Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman’s comedy “The Roses” and an unrated remake of “The Toxi...
Aug 30, 2025
Variety’s Venice Digital Daily, Day 2: Julia Roberts Plays Defense at Press Conference
If you can't be in Venice this year, Variety is bringing Venice to you. We're publishing daily digital editions, running Aug. 29 – Sept. 2, including all the latest news, reviews and star-studde...
Aug 30, 2025
‘Late Fame’ Director Kent Jones and Writer Samy Burch on Casting Willem Dafoe as a Forgotten Poet and Paying Homage to a Lost New York Art Scene: ‘It’s a World That Was There, and Then It Was Gone’
For Kent Jones and Samy Burch, nearly everything about making their new Venice-premiering drama, “Late Fame,” was kismet. The two had never met before discussing the film - an adaptation o...
Aug 30, 2025
Noomi Rapace’s Turn as Mother Teresa Lures International Buyers for Kinology (EXCLUSIVE)
“Mother,” Teona Strugar Mitevska‘s thought-provoking film starring Noomi Rapace as Teresa, has lured a raft of international buyers. The movie, which world premiered on opening ...
Aug 30, 2025
Lee Corso Signs Off ESPN’s ‘College Game Day’ After 38 Years
It’s the end of an era for ESPN’s “College Game Day” on Saturday as Lee Corso, the renowned college football coach and football analyst, bows out of the show after 38 years. Co...
Aug 30, 2025
Mohamed Hefzy, Valérie Garcia Team on French-Lebanese Dramedy Series ‘Nadine’ Set in Parisian Fashion World (EXCLUSIVE)
Mohamed Hefzy, the Egyptian producer whose banner Film Clinic is presenting three movies at the Venice Film Festival, is teaming with French producer Valerie Garcia's banner Gabman on a coming-of-age ...
Aug 30, 2025
Guillermo del Toro Says ‘Frankenstein’ Isn’t a Metaphor for AI: ‘I’m Not Afraid of Artificial Intelligence, I’m Afraid of Natural Stupidity’
It’s alive! And it’s at Venice Film Festival! But it’s not a metaphor for artificial intelligence. Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” starring Jacob Elordi and Os...
Aug 30, 2025
Every song on ‘The Roses’ soundtrack
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a warring married couple in The Roses. Directed by Jay Roach (Meet The Parents), the satirical black comedy film follows Theo and Ivy Rose as the faç...
Aug 30, 2025