Category Archives: Variety

West, in "Maxxxine," applies his genre-movie scholasticism to a form that seems, on the face of it, to be the definition of disreputable: the '80s sexploitation thriller - the kind of badly lit grindh...

“Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oc...

Future Frames, a program for up-and-coming European filmmakers, is celebrating its 10th anniversary at Karlovy Vary Film Festival next week. So far, 104 filmmakers from 29 European countries have take...

MALAYSIA FESTIVAL SELECTIONS The Malaysia International Film Festival (Miffest), which runs July 21-28, will open with horror film "Indera" by local director Woo Ming Jin and starring Shaheizy Sam and...

Cinekid Festival, touted as the world's largest festival for children's film and media, opens October 20 at Path Amsterdam Noord with Beta Film’s "Benjamin Bat," an animated musical adventure pi...

Some of the world’s best cricket players are in North America for the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the biggest ICC World Cup ever, with 20 countries competing across 55 matches in the U.S. and West I...

Creativeland Studios has tapped industry veteran Shobha Sant as its new CEO, Variety can reveal. In her new position, Sant will lead Creativeland’s filmed entertainment division and oversee the ...

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have reached a tentative agreement on issues for the Hollywood Basic Ag...

Jeremy Allen White will soon be swapping his chef’s knife for a guitar pick. “The Bear” star is set to portray Bruce Springsteen in "Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the 20th Century ...

Pearls are often clutched in the Hamptons, the famous Long Island escape for well-to-do New Yorkers, but perhaps prematurely in the case of a fledgling music festival which just went up in one of its ...