Category Archives: News
James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader Returns to ‘Fortnite’ Using AI Technology
Fortnite players can channel their inner dark side as James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader returns to the game. Players will be able to recruit the Sith Lord and be able to talk to him, he will respond...
May 16, 2025
Comedian Matteo Lane on His ‘Al Dente’ Stand-Up Special, Gayle King Using the F-Slur and Why He Thinks ‘There’s Nothing Gayer Than the Catholic Church’
Stand-up comic Matteo Lane recalls meeting Katy Perry several years ago backstage at one of her concerts in Las Vegas. "She was very nice," Lane says on today's episode of "Just for Variety.” "S...
May 16, 2025
Kristen Stewart Says It’s a ‘Bulls— Fallacy’ That You Need ‘Experience’ to Direct: ‘It’s a Real Male Perspective’ and ‘Anyone Can Make a Movie if They Have Something to Say’
Kristen Stewart is speaking out against the barriers that exist when it comes to directing films, calling it a “bullshit fallacy” that you need “experience or technical adeptnessR...
May 16, 2025
Tom Hollander Joins Jean Reno in Tom Edmunds’ Action-Thriller ‘The Butler’ (EXCLUSIVE)
"The White Lotus" actor Tom Hollander has joined Jean Reno in the period action-thriller "The Butler," directed by Tom Edmunds, helmer of "Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back).” In the film, Reno...
May 16, 2025
‘Mountainhead’ Trailer Sees Tech Moguls Scheme as AI Causes ‘Ethnic Tension’ Worldwide: ‘We Literally Have the Resoures to Take Over the World’
In “Mountainhead,” as the world falls apart, a group of tech billionaires considers consolidating their power. The HBO film, written and directed by “Succession” creator Jesse ...
May 16, 2025
‘Tomb Raider’ Producer Story Kitchen Renews First-Look TV Deal at Amazon MGM Studios (EXCLUSIVE)
Story Kitchen has renewed its first-look television deal at Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively. Formerly dj2 Entertainment, Story Kitchen is currently producing the “Tomb Raider...
May 16, 2025
NWA and Women of Wrestling Head to Streaming with Roku FAST Channel (EXCLUSIVE)
Paramount Global Content Distribution is soon launching an all-wrestling FAST channel called Wrestling Central, it announced ahead of its LA Screenings presentation Saturday. The new channel will stre...
May 16, 2025
‘Sons of the Neon Night’ Director Juno Mak Breaks Down His Hong Kong Crime Thriller: ‘There’s a Nightmarish Poetry to It’
During a special Hong Kong Cinema panel at Hong Kong’s pavilion in the Cannes international village, “Sons of the Neon Night,” director Juno Mak and Cannes Film Festival internationa...
May 16, 2025
Cassie Threatened Man in 2014 Over Fears of Leaked ‘Freak-Off’ Video: ‘I Will Kill You and Hide You’
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers played a 2014 audio recording in court Friday morning in which Casandra “Cassie” Ventura threatened a man who had alluded to seeing a sexually...
May 16, 2025
‘A Man Called Ove’ Producer Nicklas Wikström Nicastro Preps Swedish Cycling Biopic ‘SteelGrandpa’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The remarkable true story of Gustaf Hkansson, affectionately known as "Stlfarfar" or "Steel Grandpa," is being brought to the big screen by Strive Stories, the Stockholm-based production company found...
May 16, 2025