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U.S. stars Jeff Goldblum, John Turturro, and Moroccan composer-actor Younès Mégri have been unveiled as the honorees of this 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival. Turturro is currently on the festival and awards with The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which plays in the festival’s gala screenings lineup. The Marrakech honor follows a career marked […]

Nicholas Denton (“Talamasca: The Secret Order,” “Dangerous Liaisons”) is attached to portray cult British horror filmmaker Michael Reeves opposite Tim Downie (“Baldur’s Gate 3,” “Outlander”) as Hollywood horror legend Vincent Price in “Tragedy Man: The Making of Michael Reeves.” Hugh Bonneville (“Downton Abbey,” “Paddington”) joins as British producer and distributor Tony Tenser. The elevated folk […]

As he releases a memoir, the actor opens up about the late James Van Der Beek, the magic of the Creek, and facing homophobia for playing gay in the 90s There are worse things to spend a couple of decades chasing than the feeling of being young, successful and surrounded by people who love you. For Kerr Smith, though, the particular magic of Dawson’s Creek has proved just about impossible to replicate. “I’ve spent the last 25 years of my career trying to re-create that experience,” Smith says of the WB teen drama, on which he played the sensitive jock Jack McPhee for five seasons. “I’ve been trying to measure up to it my entire career.” Continue reading...

At the comic-book store Forbidden Planet, the “Say Anything” actor talks about his new graphic novel, in which the philosopher-artist Antonin Artaud is freed from an asylum by Jackie Gleason.

A mansion in LA. The best party clothes of the season. An electric musical duo. A model turned actor. A comedian turned director. At least two podcasters. Come on in and meet the 13 people who just had the biggest, most-spotlight-stealing year of their lives.

EXCLUSIVE: Dominic West (The Wire) has joined the cast of the Irish-set feature A Weekend in the Country. Dominic Geraghty will direct West in his feature directorial debut. The official synopsis reads: Set over a single weekend at a castle in Co. Limerick, the film follows Henry, the 29th Earl of Oughterard, who gathers his […]

Donnie Dunagan, who provided the original voice of Disney’s Bambi, died Wednesday, Nov. 4, of lung cancer, his agents confirmed to Variety. He was 92. “We were proud to represent a Marine, beloved by fans around the world for his roles in ‘Bambi’ and ‘Son of Frankenstein,'” his agents Kris Jones and Nery Lemus of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Riz Ahmed has come on board Forgotten Spaceman, Elham Ehsas’ short film about Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan’s first and only astronaut. Ahmed is now an executive producer on the documentary film, which counts Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films among its producers. The short’s festival run has included Locarno, Toronto and the London’s LFF. It has […]

Kerr Smith is looking inward in his new memoir, “I Don’t Want to Wait.” In the new book, available Tuesday, Nov. 10, Smith details his experiences on “Dawson’s Creek,” including the process of finding out that his character, Jack McPhee, was going to come out as gay. In the exclusive excerpt below, he details his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) and Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Bill Nighy (About Time) are set to star in Dominic Cooke’s (On Chesil Beach) love story Insomniac City about writer and photographer Bill Hayes and celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks. Altitude is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Workaholics‘ Adam Devine and SNL alum Chloe Fineman will headline Miami PI, an indie crime comedy written and to be directed by Michael Diliberti for Endurance Media. Production begins in March with filming planned in Miami. The project is being presented for sales at the upcoming American Film Market. Set against the glamour and […]

With over 120 acting credits to his name, John Turturro has accrued a long list of what-ifs and missed opportunities, including a role as Madonna’s boyfriend. Turturro joined Variety’s co-editor in chief Ramin Setoodeh to chat in partnership with the Miami Film Festival and receive the Creative Vanguard Award. In this conversation, the seasoned actor […]

Creative Artists Agency has signed actor Costa D’Angelo, Variety can reveal exclusively. D’Angelo can currently be seen as Young Adam Trask in Netflix’s limited series “East of East,” alongside Florence Pugh and Christopher Abbot, who plays his older counterpart. Other cast members include Mike Faist, Hoon Lee, Robert Morgan and Christopher Sommers. D’Angelo’s big break […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor Elsinore star Andrew Scott with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for his role in the Focus Features drama. He will be honored at the awards’ gala ceremony January 7 at the Palm Springs Convention Center that serves as a kickoff to the Palm Springs Film […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sinners breakout Miles Caton is set to join Denzel Washington and Teyonah Parris in Mission: Impossible helmer Christopher McQuarrie’s new untitled thriller for Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists. In the film, a former police detective (Washington) serving a life sentence is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Granted compassionate release with six months to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Nnamdi Asomugha, the actor-filmmaker who stars in the buzzy upcoming Netflix series The Body, has signed with Untitled, which will also now rep his production banner, iAm21 Entertainment. In The Body, a faith-themed eight-episode genre-bender from Under the Bridge‘s Quinn Shephard, after a dance-team initiation goes wrong, a group of badly behaved Catholic schoolgirls […]

Christmas came early to London’s Leicester Square on Monday as Johnny Depp touched down for a red-carpet global premiere of Ebenezer in the company of director Ti West and cast including Rupert Grint, Sam Claflin, Tramell Tillman, Ellie Bamber and Robert Strong. The red carpet was decked out with Christmas trees and artificial snow while […]

Breckin Meyer will reprise his Clueless role in the TV series reboot and join the writing team. The actor recently revealed in a podcast that he would play Travis Birkenstock once again, a character he played in the 1995 Amy Heckerling-directed film. “I’ve been in the writers’ room on this show they’re doing of Clueless, […]

“Ebenezer” has officially premiered, and reviews for the Johnny Depp-led film are largely positive among members of the film press, who are praising the star’s return to Hollywood as a “wickedly fun holiday treat” that functions as a “strong comeback vehicle for its star.” UK Film Critic Phil Roberts commended the film as a “bold […]

The Oscar-nominated pair play Evangelical Christian parents torn apart from their children by concerned liberals in the Palme d’Or-winning ‘Fjord’... but don’t call it a ‘MAGA movie’, they say. They talk to Adam White about backlash, ‘self-cannibalising’ Americans, and Stan’s fear of being ‘trapped’ in the comfort of Marvel movies

EXCLUSIVE: Dutch star Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen will headline The Art of Survival. Bakhuyzen’s recent credits include Netflix drama The Perfect Lie and MGM+’s Billy the Kid. In Bart Schrijver’s survival thriller, he will star as Daniel, a man taking part in a survival game show gone wrong. Embarking on a 50-day challenge in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Cooper (Reacher), Stephen Fry (The Hobbit), Rupert Everett (Shakespeare In Love) and Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders) have been set to star in comedy-drama All In The Same Boat, based on the true story of a British passenger ferry sent to the Falklands War in 1982. Paris-based Playtime is handling international sales and will […]

The 'Veep' actor also opens up about his co-stars and creator weighing in on Adam Brody's Gaza comments, and how being on the Jewish show has shaped his own views on religion.

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page He might be the favourite to become the next James Bond, but Jack Lowden has encountered a rather unexpected obstacle on his road to 007: a bicycle. The Scottish actor, 36, who has been heavily tipped to replace Daniel Craig as Britain’s most famous secret agent, was filmed taking an unfortunate tumble while rehearsing a stunt for his hit Apple TV+ series Slow Horses. In footage obtained by TMZ, Lowden can be seen attempting to navigate a London street on two wheels before losing his balance and falling to the ground. It’s hardly the sort of effortlessly suave manoeuvre we’ve come to expect from a man hoping to inherit Bond’s licence to kill, although, in fairness, 007 has generally had the luxury of four wheels. According to TMZ, a stunt double eventually stepped in to film a more demanding sequence involving Lowden’s character, River Cartwright, colliding with a taxi. Naturally, the footage has provided considerable entertainment for Bond fans, some of whom have suggested the mishap should be enough to eliminate him from the running altogether. Jack Lowden suffered an unfortunate tumble while filming scenes for Slow Horses (Picture: JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images) ‘I’m sorry you cannot have a license to Kill if you can’t ride a bike without training wheels,’ one X user declared. ‘That should eliminate him from the running itself,’ another agreed, while a third lamented the ‘generational aura loss’. Several fans also rushed to defend Lowden, noting that the actor was, after all, performing a scene for a television programme in which his character’s professional incompetence is something of a recurring theme. ‘I assume this was for Slow Horses where he plays an occasionally incompetent MI5 agent,’ one observed. ‘Isn’t he doing a film stunt??’ another asked. Indeed, anyone familiar with Slow Horses will…

UPDATE, Nov. 10: Additional cast has been announced for Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming Broadway production of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! New to the revival are: Michael Aronov as Moe Axelrod; Benjamin Pelteson as Sam Feinschreiber; The West Wing‘s Richard Schiff; and Stephen Schnetzer. PREVIOUS, July 30: Micaela Diamond (Broadway’s Parade, TV’s Grotesquerie) and Will […]

The ‘1923’ and ‘Housemaid’ star opens up about his bodybuilding past, producing his buzzy new drama with Eiza González and learning to quiet his harshest critic — himself.

Canadian indigenous director Rylan Oleksyn’s first feature centers on two young people with terminal cancer finding friendship and comic relief as they grapple with possible death.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) and Anson Boone (MobLand) in Brit coming-of-age feature Andy & Orson. Production has wrapped in the UK with additional cast set as Olive Gray (It Gets Worse), Spencer Jones, (Ted Lasso), Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead) and Lee Ingleby (Inspector George Gently). Written and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Stuber’s United Artists has acquired the rights to the 1982 motion picture The Executioner’s Song, and set Oscar-nominee Jacob Elordi to star. Based on Norman Mailer’s landmark 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning true-life novel, Elordi will play convicted murderer Gary Gilmore and will also serve as a producer on the film adaptation. UA’s Stuber and […]

"What we can do for R.J. now is to keep our promise. Honor what we set out to do, and why he signed up to make our film in the first place," says Jeffrey Levine, who helmed Mitte's final role in the social impact film 'SNAFU: Situation Normal All F’d Up (working title),' now in post-production.

The SNL alum and two-time Emmy Award winner, who voices the titular feline in a new adaptation of The Cat in the Hat, knows that kids' movies are for adults, too.

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Gallant (Maserati: The Brothers) has signed to star in crime thriller Nativity, taking its cue from the real-life, unsolved theft of a Caravaggio masterpiece. The picture is being directed by Maltese director and producer Joshua Cassar Gaspar, who is also producing under the banner of his Jericho Dominion and Valletta Pictures, his joint […]

Taye Diggs has joined the cast of Fox’s upcoming “The Chosen” Christmas special, Variety has exclusively learned. Diggs will play Balthasar on “The Chosen: The Three Kings,” which is set to air Monday, Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox (and stream the next day on Hulu). Diggs stars along with Piter Marek as […]

He’s had a long, slow climb to film stardom, but these days, it’s never been better to be “White Lotus” actor Patrick Schwarzenegger. “This is my first time home in six months,” says the 33-year-old, who married his longtime girlfriend, model Abby Champion, last year. “It’s really nice to have a bit of time here […]