Category Archives: Variety

Cannes Grand Prix Winner Andrey Zvyagintsev Uses Acceptance Speech to Address Putin: ‘Put an End to This Carnage’
Standing at the Cannes podium Saturday night to collect the Grand Prix for “Minotaur,” exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev used his acceptance speech to issue a direct, personal ple...
Naman Ramachandran May 24, 2026

Box Office: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Lifts Off With $102 Million Over Memorial Day Holiday, ‘Obsession’ Scores $28 Million in Huge Second Weekend
For the first time in nearly seven years, “Star Wars” fans finally had a reason to go to the movies. And plenty of ’em showed up for “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which co...
Rebecca Rubin May 24, 2026

‘Euphoria’ Season 3 and the Strange Case of Rue’s (Mostly) Missing Mom
The third - and likely final - season of "Euphoria" is a case study in excess. It is the Artemis II of TV shows, going so far over the top it passes the Moon before crashing back down to Earth. What w...
Marlow Stern May 24, 2026

‘Everytime’ Review: A Grieving Family Finds a Strange Path Towards Healing in Sandra Wollner’s Poised, Haunting Third Feature
Everyone who has ever experienced serious grief knows the strange, unsettling things it can do to time: stretching it or compressing it by turns, consigning some passages of it to a black hole of memo...
Guy Lodge May 24, 2026

Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé Among Athletes Fronting Monopoly and Panini Trading Cards World Cup Team Up
The merch rollout for the 2026 FIFA World Cup has started, with Hasbro unveiling two new Monopoly collaborations with the global soccer tournament. The first is a collaboration between Monopoly and po...
Tim Chan May 24, 2026

‘My Hero Academia Final Season’ Lands Top Prize at 10th Annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards
“My Hero Academia Final Season” took home the top prize for Anime of the Year at the 10th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, held on Saturday, May 23, in Tokyo. Voice actress Sally Amaki and entert...
Varietyschneider May 24, 2026

Cannes Jury President Park Chan-wook Teases: ‘I Didn’t Want to Award the Palme d’Or to Any of the Films’
Cannes’ jury president, Park Chan-wook - long a Cannes favorite, never a Palme winner - managed to roast himself and plug his latest movie at the closing press conference of the 79th Cannes Film...
Cynthia Littleton May 23, 2026

Live Nation Operates in ‘Climate of Fear,’ Finds U.K. Trade Committee, Urges ‘Full Market Investigation’
The U.K.'s Parliamentary trade committee has urged the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the live music industry as a matter of urgency, saying that Live Nation operates in a "climate o...
K.J. Yossman May 23, 2026

Neon Extends Cannes Run to Seven Consecutive Palme d’Or Wins With Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
Cristian Mungiu claimed his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night, as “Fjord” brought Neon its seventh consecutive top prize from the Croisette. The win ext...
Naman Ramachandran May 23, 2026

Alfred Molina on ‘The Boroughs’ Spoilers, Working With the Duffer Brothers and Doc Ock’s Legacy: ‘I Would Do It Again, No Doubt’
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from "The Boroughs," now streaming on Netflix. Alfred Molina turns 73 years-old this weekend, but like his character on Netflix's "The Boroughs," he's showi...
Andrew McGowan May 23, 2026