Category Archives: Variety

‘Gladiator’ Actor Spencer Treat Clark on Altadena’s ‘Unique Charm’ and Losing Personal Letters and Sketches After His Family Home Burns to the Ground
Spencer Treat Clark’s family home burnt down in the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif. “We have had so many friends and family reach out,” Clark tells Variety over the phone. “I...
Jazztangcay Jan 10, 2025

Bill Byrge, Who Played Bobby in ‘Ernest’ Movies, Dies at 92
Bill Byrge, an actor who appeared in many of the “Ernest” comedy films as “Bobby,” died on Thursday at the age of 92 in Nashville, Tenn. Byrge’s cousin, Sharon Chapman, c...
Abigail Lee Jan 10, 2025

TikTok Ban: Supreme Court Appears to Lean Toward Upholding Law That Would Force Sale or Shutdown, Despite First Amendment Issues
The Supreme Court on Friday heard arguments in TikTok’s emergency appeal seeking to block a federal law from going into effect that would ban the popular video app unless Chinese parent ByteDanc...
Todd Spangler Jan 10, 2025

‘The Prosecutor’ Review: Donnie Yen Directs and Stars in a Lively if Somewhat Melodramatic Action-Drama
The action's hot but the dramatic temperature varies in "The Prosecutor," a flashy combination of Hong Kong crime story and legal drama starring and directed by Donnie Yen ("Ip Man" series, "John Wick...
Richard Kuipers Jan 10, 2025

Aaron Sorkin Praises Pamela Anderson’s ‘Last Showgirl’ Performance Amid Oscar Buzz: ‘One Scene After Another, She Keeps Astonishing Us’
We were distracted. For most of her life, Pamela Anderson was being upstaged by "Pamela Anderson." Then Gia Coppola sent her a screenplay by Kate Gersten, and now Ms. Anderson, having given one of the...
Angelique Jackson Jan 10, 2025

‘Birdeater’ Review: Effectively Disorienting Ensemble Piece Handles Friendship and Romance with Razor-Sharp Incisiveness
In a rare instance of introspection, Dylan (Ben Hunter), a rowdy bro type in his 20s, beams at the possibility that another person might genuinely be offering the kind of friendship he yearns for. A s...
Peter Debruge Jan 10, 2025

IATSE, PGA, DGA and Other Guilds Offer Grants and Assistance to Those Displaced by Wildfires
IATSE is offering assistance to its members displaced due to the wildfires. In a release, IATSE, the union that represents the workers behind-the-scenes said, “If you or a fellow member has been...
Jazztangcay Jan 10, 2025

‘Eat the Night’ Review: A Dying MMORPG Evokes the Apocalypse in a Tender-Hearted Queer French Drama
Over more than half a century on the market, video games have achieved true cultural ubiquity - arguably more than narrative filmmaking in the current day. How wrong it is, then, that movies have larg...
J. Kim Murphy Jan 10, 2025

Hollywood’s Private Firefighter Debate: Amid Blazes, L.A’s Rich Attacked for Flexing Cash to Save Their Houses
"When your house catches on fire, the first thing you do is call a lawyer," Camille Meyer famously said on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." The opulent home of Kelsey Grammer's ex-wife was dest...
Varietymattdonnelly Jan 10, 2025

How ‘September 5’ Director Tim Fehlbaum Drew ‘Strength From a Limitation’
Director, writer and producer Tim Fehlbaum and writer Moritz Binder took guests behind their riveting thriller “September 5,” about the game-changing, real-time broadcast coverage of the 1...
Carolyn Giardina Jan 10, 2025