Category Archives: Variety

Donald Trump’s defense secretary Pete Hegseth was widely mocked in April after he read a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 classic “Pulp Fiction” during a Pentagon worsh...

Indonesia is officially targeting Country of Honor status at Cannes in 2028. Culture Minister Fadli Zon, speaking to Variety at Cannes, laid out a sweeping strategy to move Indonesia from the margins ...

Pijama, the TVOD platform just launched by Pablo and Juan de Dios Larran, director and producer of "Jackie," "Spencer" and "Maria," has cut its first major commercial deals with MK2, Alpha Violet, Vis...

France's Urban Factory and Mexico's Fidelio Films have boarded Colombian filmmaker Mauricio Leiva-Cock's psychological thriller "Los Eastman," selected for the Fantastic Round Robin at Cannes' Fantast...

Iman Vellani, who broke out as the lead of Marvel's "Ms. Marvel," is set to headline the climate thriller "Suffering Is Optional," a Canadian co-production written and directed by Zarrar Kahn for City...

Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to "Virginia Woolf's Night & Day," which stars Haley Bennett, Lily Allen, Jack Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders, Timothy Spall and Elyas M’...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's "The Beloved" ("El ser querido"), which world premieres in Cannes competition on May 16, begins in a plush Madrid restaurant. The scene lasts 20 minutes.  In it, a world-famou...

Adri Mons' Fasten Films, producer of Cannes-selected "The End of It," "Strawberries" and "Rehearsals of a Revolution," has announced a new slate of films led by Catalan talent Mar Coll, Maria M. Bayon...

Guy Ritchie is a filmmaker and series creator whose prodigious busyness in terms of both workload and story approach has its compensations. It's foolish to expect what is so rarely a part of Ritchie's...

More than 120 Indian filmmakers and producers have united to establish the Independent Filmmakers Assn. of India, a not-for-profit collective designed to improve theatrical access, distribution pathwa...