Best movies of all time

Hong Kong star-director Stephen Chow once told K2 Pictures founder Kii Muneyuki that Japanese filmmakers should stop imitating kung fu and build action films on their own martial arts instead, Kii said Saturday at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. “He said, ‘You have karate, judo, jujitsu and kendo. That is Japanese culture. Only […]

Writer-director Myrsini Aristidou's feature debut, starring Maria Petrova and Christos Passalis ('Dogtooth'), tells the story of an 11-year-old girl whose father she has never known comes to town.

French animation filmmaker Sylvain Chomet, the four-time Oscar nominee behind “The Triplets of Belleville” and “The Illusionist,” is pushing back against accusations that generative AI was used to create his animated short for Dior featuring a voice cast led by Robert Pattinson, Rihanna, Josh O’Connor, LaKeith Stanfield, Louis Garrel and Camille Cottin. The whimsical six-minute […]

Banjong Pisanthanakun, the Thai director of horror hits “Shutter” and “Pee Mak,” tells Variety his new psychological horror film “Inherit” will get a sequel, with star Davika Hoorne set to return. “Inherit,” a Centrepiece selection at the Toronto Film Festival, where it world premiered in September, is closing the Jakarta World Cinema festival. Pisanthanakun and […]

The Estonian fest has been showing solidarity with Ukraine across its film, industry and other programs since the 2022 full-scale invasion of the country by Russia, and its 30th edition is no different.

The monster-romance movie, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, is a Chaucerian romp, and, at times, it is even sexy. But one wishes the film were braver—that it had more to say about the grotesque and its power to drive attraction.

"The Magnificent Seven" remake isn't as good as the original, but with familiar stars like Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, it's the perfect starter Western movie for modern audiences.

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard “It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years. The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard. Continue reading...

Sorry, Dr. Seuss — “The Cat in the Hat” was no match for “Godzilla Minus Zero,” which thrashed its way to the top of the box office on Friday. “Godzilla Minus Zero,” the highly anticipated sequel to 2023’s “Godzilla Minus One,” generated $14.5 million from 3,254 North American theaters on Friday, easily taking the No. […]

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […]

It’s been just over two years since “Godzilla Minus One” collected the Oscar in visual effects. Writer, director and VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki became the first helmer to receive a VFX trophy since Stanley Kubrick for 1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Reflecting on that historic night, Yamazaki, speaking through a translator, said, “It was just […]

We know Adam Driver has no plans to return to Lena Dunham’s Girls reboot, but what about the Star Wars franchise? Any chance fans will see Kylo Ren again? Nah. “Yeah, yeah, it’s over,” Driver said this week on The Rich Eisen Show podcast with regard to the possibility that he’d return to play Kylo […]

Some of the most compelling stories in contention for the Academy Awards aren’t unfolding across two or three hours. They’re being told in a fraction of that time. The race in the short film categories is taking shape, offering a showcase for emerging filmmakers, well-known talents and storytellers pushing the boundaries of what can be […]

EXCLUSIVE: Heated Rivalry fans who have been eagerly awaiting Season 2 of Crave’s hockey series are in for a great surprise. The hugely popular romantic drama starring Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams has not one but two six-episode seasons on the way, sources tell Deadline. And that’s not all, there is a movie coming up, […]

French cinema may be enjoying a golden run on the festival circuit and in the awards race, but getting those films into U.S. theaters, and persuading American audiences to buy tickets, has become an increasingly uphill battle. That paradox was at the heart of a lively discussion at the American French Film Festival on Thursday, […]

According to Andy Richter, U2’s the Edge penned a script for a sequel to “Elf” — but fans will likely never get to see (or read) it. On a recent episode of “Obsessed: The Podcast,” the actor explained that Shauna Robertson, who’d produced the original film, once received a message saying that the band member, […]

“Should we do a bump?” It’s a line said, in various forms, numerous times across the first half of “Club Kid,” Jordan Firstman’s hedonistic and heartfelt coming-of-age comedy drama about a hard-partying New York club promoter suddenly forced to grapple with life and responsibilities. But the most hilariously-timed utterance comes in the middle of a […]

Halfway into his first time as DGA president, Christopher Nolan is holding the studios’ feet to the fire in protecting copyrighted materials from AI. In a new interview, the 2x Oscar winner explained that it’s “down to the studios” to go after AI recreations of their work, noting that he was “very pleased” his current […]

Papua New Guinea’s most expensive film to date, the $4.5 million historical drama “Mussau: The First Song,” has wrapped principal photography after a 40-day shoot across two provinces. Filming took place on Mussau Island in New Ireland Province and in Goroka, in Eastern Highlands Province. PNG-based producer NAFA Productions celebrated the wrap at a Thanksgiving […]

As Camerimage turns 34, its director explains how the world's leading festival on the art of cinematography continues to embrace new technology while drawing the line on fully AI-generated films.

AI is already slashing the cost of commercials, but runaway token fees and piecemeal revisions could leave feature producers paying more than in the days of 35mm film, a Korean AI production pioneer told Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. Kim Kwang-jib, founder and CEO of AI content studio Studio Meta-K, said that with […]

Sylvester Stallone is reminiscing about his now-infamous rivalry with fellow action star Arnold Schwarzenegger through the 1980s and 1990s — and why they only laid down the hatchet when the latter ran for governor of California. In a recent interview on “The Rest Is Entertainment” podcast, the “Rocky” actor answered whether he felt the competition […]