Category Archives: Variety

Tom Hardy Out of ‘Mobland’ Season 3 After Season 2 Wraps Production
Tom Hardy is out of “Mobland.” Variety has confirmed with sources that Hardy will not appear in a third season of the Paramount+ crime drama. Production has already wrapped on Season 2, wh...
Joseph Otterson May 22, 2026

‘Vought Rising’ Trailer: ‘The Boys’ Prequel Reveals Soldier Boy’s Bloody Origin Story Set in 1950s
“The Boys” may have ended with its fifth and final season this week, but there’s still more left to explore in the Vought Cinematic Universe. Prime Video’s prequel series, R...
Jordan Moreau May 22, 2026

‘Peaky Blinders’ Sequel First Look: Charles Shelby is All Grown Up as ‘Stranger Things’ Star Charlie Heaton Steps Into the Role of Tommy’s Son
Charlie Heaton is swapping the 1980s for the 1950s in the first image of him on the set of the untitled sequel to "Peaky Blinders." Heaton, best known for his role as Jonathan Byers in Netflix monster...
K.J. Yossman May 22, 2026

Nicolas Cage’s ‘Spider-Noir’ Is a Beautiful Bore: TV Review
Based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir, and adapted for television by Oren Uziel, Prime Video's latest superhero series, "Spider-Noir," follows an older web-slinger living in New York Ci...
Aramide Tinubu May 22, 2026

Italian Global Series Festival in Cannes Launches Second Edition, Aiming to Boost Italy’s Status in the International TV Landscape
The Italian Global Series Festival (IGS) came to Cannes to celebrate the ambitious event that aims to bolster Italy's status as an international TV player and announce highlights of its second edition...
Nvivarelli May 22, 2026

Estonia Plans to Triple Its Film Industry as Two New Sound Stages Take Shape
Estonia is targeting a threefold expansion of its film industry within five years, with two new sound stages under construction forming the cornerstone of a bid to become a full-service hub for intern...
Naman Ramachandran May 22, 2026

‘Congo Boy’ Review: Congolese Filmmaker Rafiki Fariala Finds Poetry in the Chaos of War Displacement
"Congo Boy" opens with a big setpiece set in a dance club: The camera follows two young men as they walk around searching for someone, the audience immediately thrown into a vibrant milieu of throbbin...
Murtada Elfadl May 22, 2026

How Japan IP Adaptation ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cracked France’s Youth Audience – and What the Global Rollout Taught Its Makers
The live-action French remake of Tsukasa Hojo’s “Cat’s Eyes” manga captured 46% of France’s 15-to-24 audience on TF1 - a figure its distributor described as “totall...
Naman Ramachandran May 22, 2026

Cannes Palm Dog Award Goes to Yuri, Chilean Rescue Dog and Star of ‘La Perra’
The Palm Dog, Cannes’ beloved, unofficial awards show celebrating the best canine performances across the official selection and various sidebars, has crowned its winner for 2026. For many atten...
Alex Ritman May 22, 2026

Oscar-Winning Producer Guneet Monga Kapoor on Genre Pivot, Women in Film India at Cannes: ‘I Am Ambitious, and I’m Not Scared About That Ambition’
A year after founding Women in Film India, Guneet Monga Kapoor - whose “The Elephant Whisperers” took the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 2023 Oscars - was at Cannes w...
Naman Ramachandran May 22, 2026