Category Archives: Variety

‘Monsters’ Star Cooper Koch, Kim Kardashian Praise D.A.’s Call for Menendez Brothers’ Resentencing: ‘I Hope to See Erik and Lyle Free From All This’
"Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" star Cooper Koch is reacting to the Los Angeles District Attorney announcing Thursday afternoon that he is seeking a resentencing for the brothers. The sib...
Marcmalkin Oct 24, 2024

Helen Mirren Says ‘It’s So Sad Kurt Cobain Died When He Did Because He Never Saw GPS’
Helen Mirren has a relatively unique perspective on how she thinks Kurt Cobain would navigate the world if he hadn’t died in the 1990s. During an interview with Evening Standard’s Brave Ne...
Steven J. Horowitz Oct 24, 2024

Tim Burton Says Going on the Internet ‘Scared Me’ and ‘I Got Quite Depressed’: ‘I Try to Avoid It’ and Look at Clouds to Feel Better
Tim Burton is chronically not online. Speaking to the BBC ahead of the The World of Tim Burton exhibit opening at the Design Museum in London, the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” filmmaker admit...
Zack Sharf Oct 24, 2024

Oscar Predictions: Best Production Design — Horror Deserves More Awards Recognition. Why Not ‘Nosferatu?’
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys,...
Clayton Davis Oct 24, 2024

Yankees-Dodgers World Series Already Has Advertisers on Base With Fox
The World Series between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers doesn’t start until Friday night, but Madison Avenue has already taken a big swing at the audiences projected to turn up for...
Brian Steinberg Oct 24, 2024

Randy Newman, Music’s Most Biting Storyteller, Gets His Own Story Told: Ex-L.A. Times Critic Robert Hilburn on Penning the Singer-Composer’s Biography
For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and t...
Chris Willman Oct 24, 2024

Robert Downey Jr. Confronts Elon Musk ‘Cosplaying Tony Stark’ By Saying: ‘I Just Wish He Would Control His Behavior a Little More’
Robert Downey Jr. and Elon Musk briefly shared the screen together in 2008’s Marvel tentpole “Iron Man 2,” in which Downey’s hot shot business tycoon Tony Stark met Musk while ...
Zack Sharf Oct 24, 2024

Alison Pepper, CBS News Executive Overseeing Talent Development, to Exit
Alison Pepper, a longtime talent executive at CBS News who has recently been in her second run at the Paramount Global unit, will leave following the 2024 presidential election, she revealed to staffe...
Brian Steinberg Oct 24, 2024

Menendez Brothers’ Sentences Should Be Reduced, D.A. Says
Los Angeles D.A. George Gascn will seek a reduced sentence for Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who murdered their parents, Jose and Kitty, in 1989. Gascn’s office will ask a Los Angeles jud...
Kate Aurthur Oct 24, 2024

Has Netflix’s Long Journey to Win Best Picture Finally Arrived With ‘Emilia Pérez?’
Is the Netflix Oscar drought finally about to end? The streamer has long been chasing the elusive Academy Award for best picture. After a series of near misses, 2024 might just be the year the streami...
Clayton Davis Oct 24, 2024