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Ethan Hunt could be hitting the Croisette. Though no decision has been made, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is weighing a Cannes Film Festival bow, which could see Tom Cruise…
Upcoming German series previewed at the EFM’s Berlinale Series Market on Tuesday offered a range of genres and challenging subject matter, from Nazi drug runners and quirky fantasy to teen…
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” star Rose Byrne and director Mary Bronstein discussed working with “renaissance man” ASAP Rocky at Berlin Film Festival ahead of the film’s international debut…
Nationally syndicated talker “Tamron Hall” has been renewed for a seventh season, Variety has learned. The daytime strip, which has become Disney’s second longest-running syndicated talker…
Berlinale Series Market Selects pick “My Dear Mother” might start with a brutal murder, but it’s not really about the crime, “It’s a unique love story,” says writer Raoul Suvi. “Maybe not…
The Roots are bringing back the annual Roots Picnic to Philadelphia, PA with a lineup that includes D’Angelo, Lenny Kravitz, Meek Mill, GloRilla and more. The event, scheduled to take…
Paris, May 1968, becomes more than a backdrop in “The Safe House” (“La cache”), Swiss filmmaker Lionel Baier‘s latest. It’s an adaptation of Christophe Boltanski’s Prix Femina winning…
Kicking off a new chapter for one of Europe’s premier independent animation studios, Marco Balsamo has taken over as President and CEO of TeamTO following its acquisition by Riva Studios…
Dieter Kosslick may be out of the Berlinale limelight, but he continues to champion two things that remain dear to his heart, film and the environment, and as the director of a new…
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has temporarily suspended downloads of its chatbot applications in South Korea while working with local privacy regulators to address concerns, officials confirmed…
Italian director Silvio Soldini’s “The Tasters,” which reconstructs the true story of the women conscripted to be Adolf Hitler’s food tasters, is scoring a slew of sales at the European…
Spanish sales company Filmax has secured international rights to “The Hanged Woman,” the latest film from director Miguel Ángel Lamata. Known for films such as “Our Lovers” and “The…
French-Moroccan multi-hyphenate Roschdy Zem (“Days of Glory,” “The Innocent”) and Italy’s Barbara Ronchi (“Kidnapped”) are set to star in psychological drama “Elisa — Io la volevo…
Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostai makes a case for optimism with the Berlinale doc “Timestamp.” “It’s a sad film, but there’s a lot of hope in these kids and in our education system…
Robert De Niro and Rachel Dratch faced off on “SNL50,” with the Oscar winner confronting the former cast member in her Debbie Downer character, playing a bartender, during a sketch in the…
At “SNL50,” Kate McKinnon reprised her popular character Miss Rafferty from her series of Close Encounter sketches, surrounded by the all-star ensemble of Pedro Pascal, Jon Hamm, Woody…
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunited at the “SNL50” anniversary celebration for a star-studded segment framed around a Q&A segment in which they took “Saturday Night Live” questions from the…
Kristen Wiig revived her classic “Saturday Night Live” character Dooneese on the show’s 50th anniversary special on Sunday night. Wiig appeared during the first sketch of the evening, “The…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. With the WWE coming off a successful Royal Rumble…
German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s mesmerizing, mostly English-language “Islands” opens with a scene that for many would mark “rock bottom” — reason to check oneself into rehab — as Sam…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then every shot in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s cine-kaleidoscopic “Reflection in a Dead Diamond” is worth its weight in cubic zirconia. The…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The 2025 NBA All-Star Game has the best of the best…
After winning the BAFTA Award for best supporting actress, “Emilia Pérez” star Zoe Saldaña dedicated the prize — and the film itself — to her trans nephew. Though she didn’t have time to…
The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore‘s 2007 children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” from schools operated by the Department of Defense, the “Far from Heaven” star shared on…
