Category Archives: Variety

Poland's American Film Festival is continuing to bet on U.S. independent films, ignoring the Hollywood blockbusters and bigger budget auteur films from the mini-majors. "The fest selects a very precis...

ESPN Films has greenlit a “30 for 30” documentary about Billie Jean King, which is now in production with Ridley Scott Associates and Story Syndicate, in association with Elton John's Rock...

Lee Daniels co-created Fox’s drama series “Empire,” which was one of the biggest shows on broadcast television during its six-season run on Fox between 2015 and 2020. The show, headl...

Paramount+ has released the trailer for its new drama series “Landman” from “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan. Adapted from Christian Wallace's 2019 podcast “Boomtown...

When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in the early hours of Feb. 24, 2022, documentary filmmaker Olha Zhurba was seized by an "apocalyptic feeling" that life as she knew it had come to an end. Her first...

Just days after Sabrina Carpenter's "Short n' Sweet" hit No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, Island Records has promoted Jackie Winkler - who signed Carpenter to the label - senior vice president/ he...

When adapting novelist Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel “The Perfect Couple” for Netflix, series creator Jenna Lamia could have made it an intense murder mystery, or leaned towa...

In "They Will Be Dust," Carlos Marqus-Marcet, the Goya-winning director of "10,000 KM," heads into a genre-bending exploration of life, love, and death. World Premiering at this year's stacked Toronto...

The challenge is on: the industry sidebar of Poland's American Film Festival, U.S. in Progress, is ready to top its "exceptionally successful" 2023 edition in November. "U.S. in Progress alumni are ta...

Producers Charles Tolbert and Jenna Mack have joined forces in a production partnership designed to nurture movies and documentaries that “challenge perceptions and established conventions.̶...