Category Archives: Variety

Streaming sports on a stand-alone basis won’t be cheap. Venu, the streaming joint venture backed by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery and built around the sports offerings of all three comp...

As the 2024 Paris Olympics captures the zeitgeist, the “Summer of Gold” podcast - about the American female athletes who dominated the 1996 Atlanta games - is set to become a limited ...

Dubai-based Front Row Productions and new Saudi production company Alamiya Filmed Entertainment have teamed on "My Treat" ("Mahmool Makfool"), a Saudi-Turkish road-trip comedy about the misadventures ...

"Has anyone worn a tracksuit to the Oscars?" It's not a question Naoise O’ Caireallin - one-third of the fast-rising Irish-language hip-hop group Kneecap, who is better known by his st...

BBC Studios have formed a new division for U.K. entertainment to be headed by Suzy Lamb, Variety has learned. The new unit comes after Studios, the BBC's commercial arm which produces content sold aro...

Under the leadership of new CEO Annamaria Morelli, The Apartment — the Fremantle-owned outfit which will attend Venice with three hot titles including Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”...

Parallax has acquired two titles from this year’s Locarno lineup: Aruan Anartay’s “Joqtau,” playing in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente, and Mickey Lai’s short film ...

“A Man and a Woman” director Claude Lelouch is set to receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The annual award is given to “a pers...

John Turturro is to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia, which runs from Aug. 16 to 23. The award is in recognition of his contribution to the fil...

Jisoo, a member of Korean music sensation Blackpink, is confirmed to lead the cast of upcoming zombie thriller series "Newtopia." The series, hatched by local streaming service Coupang Play, involves ...