Category Archives: Variety

Runway, the generative AI company that recently inked a first-of-its-kind deal with Lionsgate, will dole out grants of up to $1 million to filmmakers working on AI-powered projects. Runway is launchin...

Fresh from winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his English-language debut “The Room Next Door,” Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar moved closer to home to the San Sebastian...

Hoda Kotb, an NBC News mainstay who stepped up to co-anchor the flagship hours of NBC’s “Today” when longtime host Matt Lauer was ousted in 2017, will leave the program at the beginn...

Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a streaming platform called Al Jazeera 360 that the Qatar-based news network is hailing as a digital milestone and a gateway for the public to watch its news cont...

The European Film Academy has added a further 16 feature films to the longlist – known as the Feature Film Selection – for the European Film Awards. With the already announced 29 films the...

Paramount Global Content Distribution today announced a new licensing agreement with MONO in Thailand to create a Paramount+ brand extension on the streamer Monomax, scheduled to launch in November. T...

LONDON SCREENINGS LINEUP “Peaky Blinders” distributor Banijay Entertainment, All3Media International, Fremantle and ITV Studios are among the distributors confirmed for 2025's London Scree...

They came with their visions for the offbeat and the absurd, with the genre-bending and narrative-defying, some bearing props as they pitched their projects under trippy psychedelic lighting in Helsin...

AMC and Oble Studios’ Hungarian revenge period drama “Fata Morgana” executive produced by Bela Tarr, the Irish/Canadian spy thriller “The Reluctant Contact” from writer S...

Next Narrative Africa and HEVA Fund have unveiled a $40 million fund to support content creators in Africa and the diaspora. The announcement came during the United Nations General Assembly in New Yor...