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Rian Johnson ("Knives Out," "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery")  will receive the Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting at this year’s Austin Film Festival. Johnson is set to receive the a...

The Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group is enacting a round of layoffs that will see jobs cut across its marketing, production strategy, operations and theatre ventures divisions. Roughly 10% of the stu...

Robert Carlyle will play Sherlock Holmes in “Watson” Season 2 at CBS, Variety has learned. Carlyle will play the legendary detective in a recurring guest star role opposite Morris Chestnut...

Could have been worse. Could have been better. That's the collective takeaway on Marvel Studios' "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," which pulled in $218 million globally following its July 25 bow. But...

SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents actors, hosts, broadcasters and more, said it had renewed its deal with measurement giant Nielsen that will have the company stand as its primary arbiter of viewer...

"Destination X" crowned Rick Szabo its first-ever winner as the first season came to an end. Szabo, a bird watcher, was one of the three finalists (along with Biggy Bailey, a sports bettor, and Peter ...

Neal McDonough, the veteran character actor who has appeared in everything from “Band of Brothers” to “Desperate Housewives,” “Minority Report,” “American Hor...

MGM+’s upcoming drama series “The Westies” has rounded out its main cast with the addition of four series regulars. Variety has learned exclusively that Allen Leech, Hamish Allan-Hea...

Edward Saatchi isn’t totally sure people will flock to Showrunner, the new AI-generated TV show service his company is launching publicly this week. But he has a vote of confidence from Amazon, ...

Dark Star Pictures has acquired the North American rights to Brandon Daley’s feature debut, “$Positions,” ahead of its Quebec premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival. The official tit...