Category Archives: Variety

Nicole Kidman won the best actress prize at Venice Film Festival for her performance in “Babygirl” on Saturday night, but was not on hand to accept the prize because of some devastating ne...

Dakota Johnson was feeling a little jittery while shooting “Loser Baby,” a short film that serves as her directorial debut and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. But...

It’s been a good week for Basque directors Jon Garao and Aitor Arregi, who, along with Jose Mari Goenaga, world premiered "Marco" at Venice and landed a spot on the shortlist for Spain's Oscar e...

It was technically a surprise performance, but nearly everyone who jammed into "Poppi World," the soda brand's pop-up shop in New York's SoHo district on Friday night, knew what was coming: a performa...

There was something about the Paiva family’s house that Walter Salles never forgot. It was a few blocks from the beach in Rio de Janeiro. The doors and gates were always unlocked, the windows op...

Nick Hamm’s “William Tell” is a throwback. It’s a big-budget - roughly $45 million - action pic based on popular folklore and loaded with rousing action sequences, inspiring sp...

With six Luxembourgish projects on display, this year's Venice Film Festival served as a victory lap for a modest state with an outsized impact. Boasting 1,200 professionals, a vibrant animation secto...

We already know a lot about Elton John. Anyone who hasn't followed at least some of the ups and downs of his 50-year-plus career as they happened can easily get the gist from the 2019 musical biopic "...

Barry Keoghan didn't miss a chance to promote his young “Bird” co-star Nykiya Adams during an interview at the Variety Studio, sponsored by J.Crew and SharkNinja, during the Toronto Film F...

Ron Howard, the director behind “Hillbilly Elegy” and “A Beautiful Mind,” stressed to Variety the importance of exercising one’s right to vote in this upcoming presidenti...