Category Archives: Variety
‘The Footballest II,’ a Live Action Family Movie Adapting the Hit Children’s Book Saga, Pounced on by Filmax (EXCLUSIVE)
Looking to IP and the resilient market for live action family fare, Filmax has swooped on kids adventure caper "The Footballest II," the second big-screen adaptation tapping into the children's book s...
Nov 02, 2024
Donald Trump Slams Julia Roberts for Narrating Ad Urging Wives to Vote for Kamala Harris: ‘She’s Going to Look Back at That and She’s Going to Cringe’
Donald Trump criticized Julia Roberts on “Fox & Friends” Saturday for narrating a Harris-Walz campaign ad that reminds women that their vote is their choice, regardless of how their hu...
Nov 02, 2024
Robert Zemeckis Breaks Down the Cutting Edge Tech That Powered ‘Here’: ‘We Could Not Have Made This Movie Five Years Ago’
Three decades after making "Forrest Gump," director Robert Zemeckis is once again looking back in time and pushing filmmaking boundaries as he reteams with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for his latest ef...
Nov 02, 2024
‘Emilia Perez’ Has France Poised to Win the International Feature Oscar — Could Another Country Pull Off an Upset?
"Waterdrop"Director: Robert BudinCountry: AlbaniaBudina's feature debut "Agon" was Albania's 2013 submission. His fourth feature, "Waterdrop," premiered internationally at Warsaw. It tells the story o...
Nov 02, 2024
‘Sopranos’ Star Drea de Matteo on Joining OnlyFans, Coming Out as a MAGA Supporter and Why She Believes ‘Half of Hollywood Is Voting for Trump’
Drea de Matteo never was particularly political. Her only partisan statement came via a 2010 music video she directed for Shooter Jenning's "Summer of Rage" - a not-so-subtle jab at the Bush-Cheney ad...
Nov 02, 2024
‘The Diplomat’ Star Keri Russell and Creator Debora Cahn Break Down Season 2 Ending, From That Major Death to Whether [SPOILER] Is a Villain and More
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of "The Diplomat," now streaming on Netflix. Season 2 of "The Diplomat" has finally dropped, as promised, just days before the...
Nov 02, 2024
Box Office: ‘Here’ Not Moving Much With $1.9 Million Opening Day, ‘Venom 3’ Stays Ahead
As Americans prepare to watch the election next week, they seem less inclined to watch the movies. Theaters are seeing a somewhat muted weekend to start November, with the widest new release, Robert Z...
Nov 02, 2024
Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes Get Tearful Speaking About Reuniting for Uberto Pasolini’s Homer Epic ‘The Return’: ‘It Was Destiny’
Returning to Greece with the historical drama "The Return" proved an emotional affair for Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and director-producer Uberto Pasolini. "Meeting this dream, this need inside U...
Nov 02, 2024
‘A Nice Indian Boy’ Review: Bollywood Dreams Come True In an Appealing Indian American Romcom
The prize catch of the title isn't exactly who you might expect in "A Nice Indian Boy," a romantic comedy that brings a welcome queer angle to that substantial subgenre of love stories tangled up in I...
Nov 02, 2024
‘Papa’ Review: A Moving Study in Grief and Redemption Based on a Shocking Hong Kong Crime Case
The almost unimaginable grief of a husband and father is chronicled in "Papa," an affecting drama based on the true story of a 15-year-old boy whose murder of his mother and sister shocked Hong Kong i...
Nov 02, 2024