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Neon has acquired the North American rights to the Japanese thriller “Exit 8.” The film screened as part of the Midnight section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will have its North…
Variety can exclusively reveal the first teaser for “The Resurrected,” Netflix‘s supernatural revenge thriller starring Shu Qi and Lee Sinje in their Chinese-language streaming debuts.…
Mel Gibson’s return as Max Rockatansky in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is now just a click away. The 1985 post-apocalyptic thriller, often considered the most ambitious and theatrical entry…
Mickey Rourke, Mekhi Phifer and Udo Kier are teaming to lead “Mascots,” an independent thriller beginning production in Southern California in the fall. Written and directed by Kerry…
Jack Nicholsonreceived many accolades over the course of his impressive career, and for good reason. He’s just one of three male actors to win three Oscars and the only one, other than…
Crime thrillers are one of the only places where you can be almost certain that the bad guy will be brought to justice. It’s a versatile genre that encompasses spy dramas, drug…
India’s Colour Yellow and Bhanushali Studios Limited are launching a slate of multiple films with their first collaboration, “Tu Yaa Main,” a high-concept thriller that the filmmakers are…
Gianna Jun will star alongside Gang Dongwon, John Cho and Michael Gaston in “Tempest,” a Korean spy thriller coming to Disney+ internationally and Hulu in the U.S. The nine-part series…
It looks like this is a pretty good year for German movies on Netflix. A couple of weeks ago, the world was taken by storm when it was announced that Exterritorial became one of the most…
American virtual reality and generative AI pioneer Eliza McNitt will preside over the jury of Venice Film Festival‘s Immersive section, which has unveiled its selection of 69 projects from…
Award-winning XR studio New Canvas has partnered with Australian production house Jacaranda Productions on “Coltrane,” a five-part VR noir thriller that blurs the line between viewer and…
Classics like The Hunt For Red October and Das Boot may have stood the test of time, but there have been relatively few modern entries in the subgenre of submarine thrillers. Even if…
Taylor Kitsch, the star of “Friday Night Lights” and “Lone Survivor,” is set to lead the independent survival thriller “Eleven Days.” Set in Texas during the summer of 1974, “Eleven Days”…
Prolific Indian advertising filmmaker Prasoon Pandey is set to make his feature film directorial debut with a contemporary mythological thriller backed by MovieVerse Studios and Ellipsis…
“Sovereign,” the crime thriller starring Nick Offerman (“Parks & Recreation”) and Jacob Tremblay (“Room”), has been acquired by Signature Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland. The film,…
Summer is in full swing, which means steamy murder mysteries are also all the rage. Every streaming service is firing at full-speed with prestige television dramas, and it's easy to get…
In 2017, Steven Spielberg felt a fire inside of him, and it pushed him to rush a movie into production so fast that it came out before the one he had already filmed. Despite the fast…
Singapore’s Mocha Chai Laboratories and Thai entertainment company The One Enterprise are co-producing “Decalcomania,” an eight-part mystery thriller featuring a body-swapping premise. The…
Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo is next set to produce an adaptation of author Adrian Tchaikovsky’s sci-fi action thriller “Saturation Point” at Universal. Minnie Schedeen…
SPY SAGA The U.K.’s ITV and Mammoth Screen have commenced production on “Betrayal,” a four-part espionage thriller exploring the psychological toll of modern intelligence work. BAFTA and…
SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains plot details from the first two episodes of “Smoke,” now streaming on Apple TV+. Three years ago, crime writer Dennis Lehane and actor Taron…
South Korean psychological thriller “Doubt,” written by Han Ah-Young, won the top international drama series prize at the inaugural edition of the Italian Global Series Festival on…
As Netflix continues to be one of the most successful and prominent distributors of both film and television in the modern era of streaming services and digital media, they have made waves…
There is no excuse for “Off the Grid.” Writer-director James Agnew’s hackneyed action-thriller is woefully short on action and thrills, and generic enough to suggest it was scripted by AI.…
