Category Archives: Variety

First off, kudos to the Television Academy for finally doing something about the paltry talk and scripted variety categories. The return of a combined outstanding variety series category was necessary...

Bill Lawrence and Warner Bros. Television have optioned the brand new Steven Rowley novel “Take Me With You” with plans to adapt it as a series, Variety has learned exclusively. The book w...

View TV Studios, the production and distribution company behind View TV ONE, has closed a deal to acquire U.S. rights to “Gray,” AGC Television's espionage thriller, starring Patricia Clar...

Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis, are the most influential creative duo currently working in Spain. The two are behind the hit series "Veneno" and "Dressed in Blue," with their thr...

“This land has too many love stories buried in its fields,” says the Spanish poet Federico Garca Lorca in a brief dramatized appearance at the tail end of “The Black Ball” - a ...

We have a winner! Lucas Acher's "Laser-Cat" has come out on top of La Cinef section at Cannes. For its 29th edition, La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sen...

Hailed by critics as "grippingly offbeat," "as extravagant as it irresistible" and "impactful and very funny," French director Sarah Arnold's Too Many Beasts" ("L'Espce explosive") has scooped this ye...

“Summer of ’94” documentary filmmakers Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker joined U.S. soccer figures Alexi Lalas, Ed Foster-Simeon and John Harkes at SXSW for a panel moderated by Variet...

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is headed to Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights as a haunted house experience. Halloween Horror Nights begins Aug. 28 at Universal Studios Orlando Res...

"Cliffhanger," a reimagining of the Sylvester Stallone climbing thriller starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan, is shoring up a new strategy for its summer theatrical release, multiple insiders told ...