Category Archives: Variety

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chair of India’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), hailed the landmark partnership with Disney and revealed ambitious AI plans at the company’s annual general m...

Young Italian director Giovanni Tortorici, who is 28, studied ancient Italian literature before realizing that filmmaking was his real calling. Shortly thereafter he intersected with fellow Sicilian L...

Making good on a recent slew of awards at Venice for Chilean films, Chile will be the Venice Production Bridge's Focus Country in 2025. The announcement will be made Thursday from the Venice Film Fest...

Gaumont's vice CEO Christophe Riandee has exited the company, it was confirmed today. In a short statement, the "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld" producer said: "After more than 20 years within the company, C...

MK2 Films has closed a raft of major deals on “Peacock” which world premieres at the Venice Film Festival in the Critics’ Week section. “Peacock” marks the directorial de...

Cate Blanchett skirted a question about a dress she wore on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet that some interpreted as a pro-Palestinian statement at a Venice Film Festival press conference on Thurs...

Canada’s Oscar entry “Universal Language,” a critically acclaimed movie directed by Matthew Rankin, has been acquired by distributors in most major territories ahead of its North Ame...

Cheng Pei-pei, the beloved Chinese actor who died last month, will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Horse Film Awards in November. Cheng, considered a pioneer of martial arts...

Four years after being Oscar-nominated for "The Edge of Democracy," director Petra Costa is back prodding at the current state of Brazilian politics with the documentary "Apocalypse in the Tropics," w...

Investment in content for the theatrical film, TV and streaming markets of India and East Asia amounted to $15.5 billion in 2023, a new report shows. But spending slowed to a growth rate of just 4%, a...