Category Archives: Variety

“Moana 2” is still making a splash at the domestic box office. The Disney animated sequel added $11.4 million on Friday, on its way to roughly $50.4 million for its second weekend of relea...

Add Tyler Perry to the list of filmmakers not interested in directing a superhero movie. "You've got to have a passion for it. I’m not a big superhero person," the prolific multi-hyphenate told ...

Prominent industry insiders are gathering support for Oscar consideration for the documentary “We Will Dance Again,” which chronicles the horror that unfolded at Israel’s Nova Intern...

Everyone loves a guitar hero. And young talents who seem to have arrived fully formed, too. So there's a lot of love in the room for Grace Bowers, the 18-year-old who this year became the fretboard's ...

Andrew Matarazzo ("Teen Wolf") is co-writing and will star in "Roses," an 1800s-set spaghetti Western-style short. Directed and co-written by Alexander Rain, “Roses” will co-star Ronen Rub...

Paul Hudson's Outsider Pictures has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Venezuela's 2024 International Feature Oscar submission "The Shadow of the Sun" by director Miguel Angel Ferrer. "The Shadow of t...

Hollywood heavyweight director Fede Alvarez returned to his home country of Uruguay this week to host a masterclass at the Ventana Sur market, held in Montevideo for the first time this year. Elicitin...

Since bursting on the scene in 1998 as a scruffier and scrappier distant cousin to the BAFTAs, the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have been an early bellwether for future talent in front of a...

UPDATED: After being denied entry into Saudi Arabia to present her film “Sima’s Song,” which is playing in competition at the Red Sea Film Festival, and denouncing this, Afghan filmm...

Dubai-based distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has taken global distribution rights for two Saudi Arabian short films premiering at the Red Sea International Film Festival that were developed ...