Category Archives: Variety

Actor and filmmaker Asia Argento will be guest of honor at this year's Neuchatel Int'l Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), a choice the NIFFF director sees as emblematic of the festival’s own self-...

In 16th century England, Lady Jane Grey was a 16-year-old girl who became the Queen of England for a paltry nine days before her head was swiftly removed from her body. Historians and fans of the Tudo...

More than a million and a half people live on the island of Manhattan. "A Quiet Place: Day One" focuses on two: Samira (Lupita Nyong’o), a Stage 4 cancer patient, and Eric ("Stranger Things" act...

Netflix has renewed unscripted dating series “Perfect Match” for a third season. The show’s first season was released last year and debuted at No. 2 on the English-language TV rankin...

Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years. So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games, especially compared to the amount of marketing Netflix’s gaming divi...

Max Lousada is buzzing. Warner Music Group's CEO of Recorded Music is back in his hometown, London, and the sun has come out for what feels like the first time in a spectacularly sodden summer, even b...

France's Les Films du Losange is taking international sales outside Italy on "Sicilian Letters" ("Iddu"), the hotly anticipated drama about Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro - who was dubbed R...

“Barefoot Contessa” star Ina Garten has signed a new exclusive multiyear deal at her longtime home Food Network that includes a Season 5 renewal for her latest show, “Be My Guest Wit...

“Baby,” which premiered in Cannes Critics' Week where it won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for joint acting lead Ricardo Teodoro, has closed further sales. Berlin-based s...

Since taking over in 2022, NIFFF director Pierre-Yves Walder has made the festival's socially tinged retrospective program a hallmark of his tenure. Rounding out a so-called trilogy that started with ...