Category Archives: Variety

German-Lebanese thesp Kida Khodr Ramadan, the "4 Blocks" standout whose profile jumped internationally via Amazon Prime Video, is set to star in "GZ," a radical contemporary reimagining of Goethe's "G...

International sales and production company EST N8 has acquired worldwide rights to “Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino the Prequel,” a supernatural horror feature from Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stambo...

"Smash" star Katharine McPhee and "E.T.'s" Henry Thomas are set to lead upcoming kidnapping feature "Three People in the Woods." Directed by Joshua Caldwell ("Mending the Line"), the film follows a gr...

Harry Styles has landed his next new gig: festival curator. The pop star is set to curate Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre, which bills itself as the “world’s longest-running ar...

"Outlander" star Rosie Day is set to make her directorial feature debut with "One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days," an adaptation of Giles Paley-Phillips' bestselling novel. Roman Griffin-Davis (“Joj...

“Tehran” producer Dana Eden has died during the Season 4 shoot of the hit Apple TV+ series in Greece. She was 52. No cause of death has been confirmed but Shula and Donna Productions, the ...

New series from the "City of God" director Fernando Meirelles and DP Cesar Charlone, plus Angela Chaves, creator of Netflix Spanish-language mega-hit "Desperate Lies," and "Sissi" co-head writer Rober...

Branded entertainment executives Anthony Damianakis and Pete Fergusson are launching an ambitious startup called IPX headquartered in Dubai, with offices also in London and Sydney. The innovative star...

“Room” and “Normal People” director Lenny Abrahamson is gearing up to shoot his next film for Element Pictures, and has tapped Tom Burke and Eve Hewson to star in the as-yet-un...

The industry section of Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX has unveiled the Summit and Conference program, which runs March 16-19. Featured speakers include U.S. filmmaker John Wilson, Emmy nomin...