Category Archives: News

Apparently, you can ignore the memo. CBS has indicated that staffers at CBS News will not be disciplined if they don’t respond to a much-scrutinized message sent last week by Bari Weiss, the div...

English actor James Norton will play Brian Epstein, the longtime manager of the Beatles, in the upcoming four-part musical biopic by director Sam Mendes. He’ll star in “The Beatles - A Fou...

Focus Features has acquired “Obsession,” a low-budget horror film from YouTube breakout and first-time director Curry Barker. The deal reportedly closed for $14 million. Barker wrote and d...

Writer and showrunner Alena Smith has signed with WME for representation in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively. The agency will work with Smith to further develop her approach to storytelling ...

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs may have more than 2.2 million followers on his personal Instagram account, but he wasn't always a fan of the social media app. "For someone who was so anti-Instagram in t...

Max Michael, the head of Asian business development at UTA, is departing the agency after nearly two decades. Variety has learned exclusively that Michael will now be launching M3 Global Strategy, whi...

Neo-soul pioneer D’Angelo has died aged 51, his family have confirmed. This afternoon (October 14), TMZ reported that the musician died this morning after privately living with pancreatic cancer...

Lisa Ann Walter started her career as a stand-up comedian in the late 1980s before booking film and TV roles and eventually landing on the hit ABC sitcom “Abbott Elementary.” She continues...

Alex Wallau, who rose from working as a director and producer at ABC Sports to calling play by play for boxing matches to advising Disney mainstays ranging from Robert A. Iger to Jimmy Kimmel, died Fr...

Keira Knightley has a mystery to solve in psychological thriller The Woman In Cabin 10. Directed by Simon Stone (The Daughter), the film follows a journalist who witnesses a passenger being thrown ove...