Category Archives: Variety

"First time in a long time I didn't hear any buzz at all about a July 4th blockbuster movie," a friend texted me last week. His message struck me as odd, since I can't turn a corner without being bomb...

When Variety broke the news last month that HBO and Max content CEO Casey Bloys had changed the delineation between what an "HBO show" and a "Max show" is, there was an asterisk attached. Max's big-bu...

Brazilian social impact entertainment company Maria Farinha Films is expanding stateside by opening a Los Angeles office operated by U.S. producer Miura Kite, formerly EVP of global television at Part...

Donald Trump fired back at George Clooney on Truth Social after the Oscar-winning actor published an op-ed for The New York Times in which he urged Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee for...

The highly anticipated sequel to sci-fi horror "The Platform" has set a release date, with the residents of The Pit returning to screens after five years. The film is set to hit Netflix on Oct. 4, jus...

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley learn the price of perfection - and the pressure of the male gaze - in the first red band trailer for director Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes body-horror sensation "The...

Larry Miller is a professor and director of Music Business at NYU Steinhardt. He is the Music Business Association's Educator of the Year, and producer and host of the Musonomics podcast. Variety welc...

Call it Deadbox. In another nail in the coffin of physical media, Redbox is shutting down after more than two decades of serving up DVD rentals from thousands of kiosks across the U.S. Redbox’s ...

CreatorIQ, a vendor of influencer-marketing software, hired digital marketing veteran Chris Harrington as CEO. Harrington takes over the role from interim CEO Jon Namnath, co-founder of creator analyt...

Actor Martin Delaney has stepped into the shoes of a tech visionary in the new film “The Man Who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower.” Delaney portrays Robert Ryan, the founder of Ascend C...