“Final Destination Bloodlines,” the sixth installment in the long-running horror property in which people die in increasingly insane incidents, collected a bloody-good $51 million in its opening weekend. The Warner Bros. and New Line film towered over domestic box office charts, overtaking the No. 1 spot from reigning champion, Marvel’s “Thunderbolts,” and trouncing fellow newcomer, […]...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes spoilers about “Overcompensating,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. When making his first series, “Overcompensating,” Benito Skinner wanted to channel the spirit of all his favorite movies and TV shows growing up: “Freaks and Geeks,” “American Pie,” “Clueless,” “Mean Girls” and even “The Real World.” “All of these things helped […]...
Just a few days before the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicked off, a leaked sizzle reel of a film called “Kung Fury 2” caused something of a stir online. The 10-minute promo — uploaded to an anonymous YouTube account (and removed less than a day later) — showcased an insane medley of action comedy and martial […]...
Nicole Kidman has touched down at the Cannes Film Festival, where she is set to receive the Woman in Motion Award from Kering chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault, Cannes president Iris Knobloch and festival director Thierry Fremaux. Ahead of the awards dinner, Kidman joined Variety’s Angelique Jackson for a Kering Woman in Motion talk in which the […]...
New Zealand-based sales outfit Black Mandala has secured a slate of international distribution deals for “1978,” the acclaimed supernatural horror film from the Onetti Brothers that has been making waves across the festival circuit since 2024. The deals, closed at the Cannes Film Market by Black Mandala’s Co-CEOs Nicolás Onetti and Michael Kraetzer, along with head […]...
In “The Phoenician Scheme,” Michael Cera finally got to realize a long-held dream: working with director Wes Anderson. With his offbeat humor and awkward charm, it’s shocking that this is the first time the “Scott Pilgrim” and “Barbie” actor is stepping into Anderson’s whimsical, colorful world. But it wasn’t supposed to be — Cera was […]...
The first official image has been unveiled of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz in “The Sacrifice,” a psychological horror film currently in production in the Philippines. The award-winning director has intermittently stepped in front of the camera before. The newly released still offers a glimpse of Diaz as Pilo, a quiet and enigmatic jungle guide […]...
We’re still a few days away from the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded each year by the Cannes Film Festival, but the annual French Riviera gathering was made all the more golden on Saturday night thanks to the Variety and Golden Globes Breakthrough Artists Party. Continuing its tradition of teaming up at global film […]...
Even after winning an Oscar, a Palme d’Or and six Cesar awards with Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” French producer Marie-Ange Luciani isn’t resting on her laurels. The Paris-based producer, who runs the company Les Films de Pierre, still strives to work with emerging filmmakers and newcomers, such as Laura Wandel, whose second feature, […]...
Alec Baldwin, Heather Graham, Simon Baker and Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the Hollywood talents booked to attend the upcoming eighth edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna festival, which will be held June 19-22 on the island of Sardinia. Baldwin, who has recently been seen in the ill-fated Western “Rust” and in numerous appearances on “Saturday Night […]...