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The two big Thanksgiving titles, Walt Disney Animation’s original Hexed and Universal/Paramount comedy Focker-in-Law starring Ariana Grande, Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, hit tracking with a forecast of $40M-$50M over five-days. Remember, there’s the second weekend of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping in the mix and that also the potential to best […]

Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, who directed the Oscar winner “A Fantastic Woman,” died Friday at his home in Santiago. He was 52. His partner, actress Amalia Kassai, posted on Instagram, saying his death was “due to health reasons.” According to Chilean news outlet El Mercurio Online, Kassai contacted police after he was found at his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Elliott Against the World, the Oscar-contending documentary about the Iowa educator who opened the eyes of Americans to the pernicious mechanism of racism, will soon reach theaters. Judd Ehrlich’s film, winner of the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Bentonville Film Festival, opens December 4 at The Quad in New York City […]

Ben Leonberg, in collaboration with Republic Pictures, is set to direct and co-write a film adaptation of “Look Out,” a horror novella from Artists Writers and Artisans and Vertigo Entertainment, Variety can reveal exclusively. Leonberg will co-write the script with Alex Cannon, who previously worked on Leonberg’s breakout hit “Good Boy.” Roy Lee and Andrew […]

Michael Dougherty really loves October 31. “Some of my earliest memories were Halloween,” Dougherty said during a Variety-moderated production masterclass in partnership with genre festival FilmQuest in Provo, Utah. “Carving a pumpkin with my dad, going out trick-or-treating. That, combined with my love of horror movies and the occult, made me go down the Halloween […]

EXCLUSIVE: The feature adaptation of Francisco Goldman’s award-winning novel, Say Her Name, is rolling cameras with Alejandra Márquez Abella directing and Manuel García-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Jurassic World: Rebirth) and Renata Vaca (K-POP: The Debut) leading the cast. The pic is title Am I The Wave? Set between Brooklyn and Mexico City, the English-language film […]

Common, the Academy Award, Emmy and Grammy-winning artist and actor, has joined Dana Nachman’s documentary short “The Second Life of Freddie Nole” as an executive producer, Variety can reveal exclusively. According to an official logline, “‘The Second Life of Freddie Nole’ follows an extraordinary man on what initially appears to be an ordinary day. Freddie […]

The sequel to 2023's 'Godzilla Minus One' looks to lead the way for the weekend that also sees the launch of Oscar hopeful 'Wild Horse Nine' and religious epic 'Ramayana: Rise of a Legend.'

“The aesthetic was to try to be lo-fi and homemade rather than cinematic and sweeping,” director Amir Bar-Lev says of his new film, which just screened at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.

The movie tells the story of Judy Heumann and a group of disability rights activist who staged a sit-in in San Francisco in 1977 to put pressure on the enforcement of legislation.

He’s been dissolved at the bottom of the ocean, frozen solid in an iceberg, blown up in a volcano, disintegrated in an atomic meltdown, and killed by missiles on the Brooklyn Bridge, but thanks to the millions of fans who love him, Godzilla will never die. Japan’s biggest star returns again in “Godzilla Minus Zero,” […]

Adam Driver opened up about why he said yes to playing Mister Sinister in the “X-Men” reboot after turning down many Marvel movies over the years. “I was a big fan [of ‘X-Men]. I mean, I was a fan of the other things too, but this one felt like the right time,” Driver said during […]

UPDATED with new trailer: Netflix on Friday released a new trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the David Fincher-directed follow-up to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spotlighting Brad Pitt’s stuntman Cliff Booth. Tarantino wrote the screenplay but decided against helming the pic, which is now gearing for its November 25 […]

EXCLUSIVE: STUDIO: We hear that Michael Montemayor is writing the first draft of a live-action Medusa movie for Disney which Seven Bucks is developing under their deal with the Mouse House. Medusa is the famed snake-haired woman, one of three Gorgons in Greek mythology who would turn any person to stone who looked upon her. […]

Honoring Agnieszka Holland, Thierry Frémaux and Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, the Seville European Film Festival bows Friday with a main competition featuring Dani de la Orden’s “The Director” and Andrew Haigh’s “A Long Winter” and the ambition to capture the genius, true gamut and new talents of Europe’s productions. Of Seville’s three 2026 honorees, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez has signed on to executive produce the award-winning short documentary Water Cooler, joining a distinguished group of talents. Along with Gutiérrez (director of Frida and editor of RBG), the ICE-themed film is executive produced by Oscar nominees Sam Pollard, Geeta Gandbhir, and Alisa Payne through their production company Message Pictures, […]

Paramount’s reimagining of G.I. Joe under director Danny McBride and starring Bradley Cooper as Duke will hit theaters on Oct. 20, 2028. As we previously told you McBride wrote the screenplay with Jeff Fradley and John Carcieri. The plot is being kept in a high security location much like the G.I. Joe team’s base. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA winner Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible and Star Trek franchises) has joined two-time Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti in horror pic Boutique. The film will follows an American tourist (Giamatti) who travels to the eerie English seaside town that inspired the work of his favorite reclusive author (Pegg), only to become entangled with a murderous […]

EXCLUSIVE: A fire continues to burn for Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping when it comes to its presales, which we now understand are well ahead of Universal’s Wicked. In addition, advance tickets are the best that Lionsgate has ever seen post-Covid for any title. Yes, Sunrise on the Reaping is ahead of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has identified its next exciting literary property for feature adaptation, snapping up rights to The Heartstring Duet, the bestselling dark fantasy romance series by Liv Zander. The series consists of books Crown Me Dead and Crown Me Yours, blending dark fantasy, horror and romance, which went viral following their self-publication just one […]

I Play Rocky steps into the ring in NY, LA and Philly for a weekend of contenders from Club Kid, Wild Horse Nine and Mouse to Jimmy and Godzilla Minus Zero and Academy runs for Everytime and Nusiance Bear. Screen counts range from one to wide. La Bola Negra from Netflix expands to its widest […]

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winner and BAFTA and Emmy nominee Idris Elba is set to star in and direct the action-comedy In Laws, which A Higher Standard is launching for sales ahead of the American Film Market. Principal photography is scheduled to start in March 2027 in Spain. Additional casting is in process. In Laws “follows […]

Sarah Finn is no stranger to the world of casting. Many will know her as the casting director for Marvel — she’s assembled every film in the MCU since 2008’s “Iron Man.” Her credits also include “Everything, Everywhere All at Once,” 2019’s “The Lion King” and “Chef.” Searchlight’s “Wild Horse Nine,” now in theaters, reunites […]

Robert Aramayo is kicking back, eating a doughnut. A red box of SK’s Donuts sits open on the table between us, lid flipped back, “Best Donuts in Los Angeles, Est. 1989” stamped across the top. I joke with Aramayo before the mics are hot: This is why I booked the interview. I wanted some free […]

Some genre movies are stripped-back exercises: lean, mean and to the point. Some films, like “Kung Fu Deadly,” take the opposite approach, dipping into multiple genres in a sumptuous visual feast. “Deadly” follows Danny and Frank (Steven He and Michael Tient), two hapless exterminators in Dublin, as they are called upon to combat a supernatural […]

Jesse Eisenberg has a confession about the biggest moment in “The Debut.” When the crowd at the Telluride world premiere broke into mid-film applause after a showdown between Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, also known as “the rent is due” scene, his first thought wasn’t relief. “Oh no! Can they go on the ride?” he […]

An archangel ends up in a grungy dive bar in a new indie horror movie. “One Night In Purgatory” is the debut feature from writer-director Robert Husted and stars Alejandro Edda (“Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!”), Nick Stahl (“Sin City”), Grace Dove (“The Revenant”) and Michelle Mylett (“Letterkenny”). Per the official synopsis, the movie “follows a […]

As one of Hollywood’s staunchest Republicans, the late James Stewart perhaps wouldn’t be rolling in his grave in response to “Jimmy,” a biopic that — in focusing rather less on his artistry than on his military service — paints him in a glowingly conservative light. But either way, he deserves better than this hokey, superficial […]

Natalia Dyer and Elijah Wood are set to join original cast members Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack, who are currently negotiating the terms of their return, in a sequel to the 2007 supernatural horror film “1408″ from Spyglass, Variety can reveal exclusively. Mikael Håfström, who directed the first film, returns to helm the sequel, […]

A man who has no memory of his past finds out that a patient is the sister he lost in “Wilderness of the Greenriver,” an animated feature from Barcelona-based Hong Kong director Ellis Kayin Chan that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The film is set in a world where technology […]

“Enjoy Your Stay,” the Berlin Film Festival drama from “Goliath” director Dominik Locher and Filipino filmmaker Honeylyn Joy Alipio, has been acquired by Indonesian distributor Falcon and has its Indonesian premiere at Jakarta World Cinema. The film follows Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner at a Swiss luxury ski resort. “We heard about [stories of] Indonesian […]

Miky Lee, vice chair of Korea’s CJ Group, was handed the Asian Hall of Fame’s Centennial Medal of Lifetime Achievement in Los Angeles. K-pop pioneer Lee Soo-man did the honors. Lee Soo-man, the SM Entertainment founder who is now key producer at A2O Entertainment, reminded the audience that Miky Lee had introduced him at the […]

The 21st Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) will open with Lawrence Fajardo’s Filipino drama “Silenced Nights” and close with Ueda Makoto’s Japanese comedy-drama “You Are the Film.” The festival will screen 254 films from 34 countries across its competitive and non-competitive sections. The festival runs Nov. 28–Dec. 5 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, under the theme “Influx.” […]

Chang Chen, chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee and last year’s Golden Horse best leading actor winner for “Lucky Lu,” advised six of Taiwan’s rising performers on working across different film sets at a Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) showcase in Taipei. The “TCCF x The Golden Horse Awards: Taiwan Emerging […]

Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecom operator, announced 10 new investments at its “Chunghwa Telecom Content Slate and Partnership Showcase,” spanning film, TV and music projects as well as stakes in two production companies. The company pitched the slate as a way to back Taiwanese original IP and link local creators with partners abroad. The event […]