Category Archives: Variety

Documentaries have flooded streaming services and arthouse theaters for years, with good reason: They're usually the most inexpensive indie films to produce and can spark cultural conversations that a...

The announcement of the U.K.’s new Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC) back in March had a near instantaneous impact, at least in the case of one film production. “Giant,” the biopic ...

Production kicked off in Seoul on Sept. 3 for “Hana Korea,” an ambitious Denmark-Korea co-production based on the real-life story of a North Korean defector. “Hana Korea” is co...

Lea Thompson (“Back to the Future”), Kevin Pollak (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Leanne Melissa Bishop (“The Weight of Perfection”) and Aaron Ashmore (Gin...

With a co-production forum and sold-out Spotlight on Incentives seminar complementing its pavilion and robust industry delegation, Spain is giving Toronto industry attendees a taste of what will unfol...

Midway through its runtime, Mike Flanagan's “The Life of Chuck” introduces a mantra of sorts, via a line of dialogue pulled from Stephen King’s eponymous story: “Would answers ...

By now, boxing movies are such an overplayed genre, it's tough for any filmmaker to innovate how the sport appears on screen. Sean Ellis’ “The Cut” finds a way around that problem by...

It's been more than half a century since Helen Reddy sang, "I am woman, hear me roar!" but the line remains as good a mantra as any for Amy Adams' ferocious lead performance in Marielle Heller's tamer...

Its a dog-eat-dog world for “Nightbitch” at TIFF. Marielle Heller’s long-awaited dramedy had its world premiere on Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, exactly five y...

The Weeknd doesn't do anything by half, and for his "One Night Only" concert Saturday night at MorumBIS Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he rose to the moment with cameos from Anitta and Playboi Carti, a...