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Laurie Metcalf's four decades-long acting career spans comedy and drama across television, film and stage. However there's one dream she has yet to fulfill. "I've always wanted to do a musical," Metca...

The Motion Picture Association, the trade group that represents major Hollywood studios, apparently didn’t get a heads up that Meta’s Instagram was going to borrow the MPA’s PG-13 ra...

Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed cov...

Universal Music Publishing Group has signed composer, producer and artist Daniel Lopatin to a worldwide publishing agreement through the company's classics and screen division. Lopatin is best known u...

Kathleen Chalfant - a venerated stage actress with memorable turns in film and television - is officially entering the gauntlet for this year's best actress prize. Star of "The Affair" and "House of C...

Banijay Mexico & U.S. Hispanic, part of Banijay Americas, is gearing up for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with a new travel docu series, "Tres hinchapelotas" (a working title), which roughly translates ...

Grizzly Bear reunited for their first live show in six years last night (October 13) – check out footage from the gig below. The Brooklyn indie four-piece went on hiatus in 2019, two years after...

As awards season contenders continue to take shape, the Hamptons International Film Festival has delivered the winners of its 33rd outing in the luxurious beach haven. "The President's Cake," from fil...

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety‘s Leo Barraclough talks about the mood and the buzz along the Croisette on Day 2 of the Mipcom content market in Cannes, ...

Three of Netflix’s most popular documentaries in the last seven weeks have one thing in common: director Skye Borgman. Known for her 2017 Netflix true crime doc “Abducted In Plain Sight,&#...