Category Archives: Variety
Facing Backlash Over Firing Its Meteorologists, Allen Media Group Learns an Important Lesson: Take the ‘Local’ Out of Local TV At Your Own Peril
Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best of times. But to do it right as unpredictable and dangerous weather disaster...
Jan 25, 2025
Ryan Reynolds Makes Surprise Appearance at Hugh Jackman’s ‘From New York, With Love’ Opening: ‘He Is Genuinely the Best Human Being I Know’
At the Friday night opening of his stage show, “From New York, With Love” at Radio City Music Hall, Hugh Jackman received a surprise visit from his “Deadpool & Wolverine” c...
Jan 25, 2025
‘Presence’ Writer David Koepp on That Devastating Ending, Steven Soderbergh Playing a Ghost and His Return to the ‘Jurassic’ Franchise
SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses the plot and ending of "Presence," now playing in theaters. As with many ghost stories, the presence in "Presence" has a good reason to haunt its house. After wat...
Jan 25, 2025
Russell Tovey Says ‘Plainclothes’ Co-Star Tom Blyth ‘Is Full of Stardust’ and Teases ‘Doctor Who’ Spin-Off ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’ Feels ‘Like an Indie Film’
It didn't take much for Russell Tovey to connect with "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird’ star Tom Blyth. The actors first met on Zoom before filming writer-director Carmen Emmi's gay ind...
Jan 25, 2025
‘A Complete Unknown’ Director James Mangold Says There’s Hostility to Movies That ‘Wear Their Heart on Their Sleeve’: We ‘Shouldn’t Be Embarrassed to Feel S—’
James Mangold misses the era when movies weren’t embarrassed to make audiences feel something. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Complete Unknown” and comic book adapta...
Jan 25, 2025
Carey Mulligan ‘Just Started’ Filming ‘Beef’ Season 2 and Says ‘Almost Everything’ Is Different, Says She Won’t Appear in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’
Carey Mulligan revealed at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance that she “just started” filming the second season of Netflix’s series “Beef.” The first sea...
Jan 25, 2025
Soledad O’Brien on Exposing the ‘Chaos’ of Stand-Your-Ground Laws With Sundance Doc ‘The Perfect Neighbor’: ‘These Make It Easier to Kill People. Period’
"The Perfect Neighbor" delivers a harrowing look at how a small disagreement leads to tragedy. Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary is screening all weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows the...
Jan 25, 2025
Oh Me, Oh My, ‘Oh, Hi!’: Filmmaker Sophie Brooks on Her Journey to Sundance
I made my first feature over nine years ago, when I was in my mid 20s. We premiered “The Boy Downstairs” at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, and it was all gloriously magical. “Thi...
Jan 25, 2025
Pamela Anderson Didn’t Get an Oscar Nom for ‘The Last Showgirl’ and Says ‘I Couldn’t Even Imagine That’: ‘The Win Is in the Work’
In a recent interview with Elle, “The Last Showgirl” star Pamela Anderson discussed how it feels to miss out on an Oscar nomination for best actress. Anderson, who scored noms at the Golde...
Jan 25, 2025
Questlove’s ‘Sly Lives!’ Shows How Black Artists Are Both Geniuses and Everyday People
Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially integrat...
Jan 25, 2025