Category Archives: News
Venice Film Festival Reviews: ‘The Smashing Machine,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘After the Hunt,’ ‘Bugonia,’ ‘A House of Dynamite’ and More
Ciao! The 82nd annual Venice Film Festival is underway and the stars have hit the canals, with this year’s world premieres including Yorgos Lanthimos kidnap thriller “Bugonia,” Noah ...
J. Kim Murphy Aug 28, 2025
‘The Chosen’ Team Sets Biblical Animated Series at Amazon, Paul Walter Hauser and Yvonne Orji Among Cast
Amazon Prime Video is expanding its Christian programming offerings once again with a series order for the animated adventure comedy “The Chosen Adventures.” Prime Video has ordered 14 11-...
Joseph Otterson Aug 28, 2025
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Guest Star Patton Oswalt Breaks Down Playing a Sexy Vulcan
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not seen “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 3, Episode 8 titled “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans” This week’s episode of “...
Joseph Otterson Aug 28, 2025
Adam Sandler and George Clooney Make Venice Swoon With 8.5-Minute Standing Ovation for Hollywood Bromance ‘Jay Kelly’
George Clooney braved a sinus infection and a rainstorm on Thursday night for the Venice premiere of Noah Baumbach's “Jay Kelly,” which soaked in an 8.5-minute standing ovation. Clooney wa...
Rebecca Rubin Aug 28, 2025
Heidi Gardner Exits ‘SNL’ After Eight Seasons
Heidi Gardner is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after eight seasons, multiple sources tell Variety. The news comes amid a shake-up at the NBC sketch comedy series, which this week saw the d...
Ethan Shanfeld Aug 28, 2025
Kim Kardashian Laments Trump’s Immigration Policy Before Accepting DVF Award for Prison Reform Work: ‘Protect the People’ That ‘Supported and Built Our Country’
Kim Kardashian was honored in Venice on Thursday night at Diane von Furstenberg’s DVF Awards, which recognized her work as a prison reform advocate. Kardashian took the opportunity to speak out ...
Ellise Shafer Aug 28, 2025
Pete Davidson and Casey Affleck Team Up With Doug Liman on Bitcoin Thriller Film ‘Killing Satoshi’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Satoshi Nakamoto is a man whose very existence remains hotly debated. Now the Bitcoin creator is getting the big-screen treatment. Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith") has signed...
Tatiana Siegel Aug 28, 2025
Mindy Kaling Hulu Comedy Series ‘Not Suitable for Work’ Sets Five Main Cast Members
Mindy Kaling’s upcoming Hulu comedy series “Not Suitable for Work” has found its five series leads. Variety has learned that Ella Hunt (“Saturday Night,” “Dickinson...
Joseph Otterson Aug 28, 2025
My WGA Expulsion Sends a Chilling Message to Writer-Producers (Guest Column)
On August 8, the WGA announced that Director Park Chan-wook and I had been expelled from membership for our work on “The Sympathizer,” an HBO show that had been in postproduction during th...
Gmaddaus Aug 28, 2025
Sony Pictures CEO Says Every ‘The Studio’ Episode Has a ‘Kernel’ of ‘Brilliant’ Truth but ‘Everything Else Is Horse S—‘: ‘Most Days We’re Not Morons’
Seth Rogen satirized Hollywood with his Apple TV+ comedy series “The Studio” earlier this year, in which he plays the head of a fictional movie company called Continental Studios. The Emmy...
Jordan Moreau Aug 28, 2025