Новости за 10.04.2024

Ice Spice is set to appear in Spike Lee’s upcoming English-language reinterpretation of the Akira Kurosawa crime thriller “High and Low.” “High and Low” will mark Ice Spice’s acting debut, and she’s already begun shooting for the project starring Denzel Washington. The rapper skyrocketed to fame following the release of her breakthrough single, “Munch (Feelin’ U),” […]

Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for “Megalopolis” Francis Ford Coppola has made quite the return to directing. Industry chatter about his new film “Megalopolis,” a passion project more than 20 years in the making, has been churning since a late March screening for prospective buyers. This week, reports said Coppola was struggling to find a splashy […]

“Velma” Season 2 has set its premiere date at Max. The 10-episode second season of the animated series centered on the titular “Scooby-Doo” character will debut on April 25. The official logline for the season states: “When an even spookier mystery grips Crystal Cove, Velma (Mindy Kaling) must find a way to balance her detective […]

Clive Owen hopes to divide and conquer with his dual Emmy submissions this year. With two competing limited series in the Emmys race, the star will be submitting his two acclaimed performances in AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” and Hulu’s “A Murder at the End of the World” in separate acting categories, Variety has learned exclusively. For […]

Fockers who? Meet “The Zweiflers” instead: Brand new winners of Canneseries.    Created and showrun by David Hadda, the show picked up multiple awards at the French TV fest on Wednesday, including best series and music. Selected as a Variety Hot Pick earlier this month, “it’s destined to be billed as a Jewish ‘Succession’ set in contemporary […]

Jane Wiseman, who was previously VP of original series at Netflix, has joined Sister Entertainment Group as the head of U.S. television, according to Cindy Holland, global CEO of Sister Entertainment Group. Wiseman is based in Los Angeles and will lead the U.S. television business for Sister, specifically focused on development and production of premium […]

In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. has landed “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule’s next project, which takes on the legendary Yasuke, an African warrior who became the first Black samurai. Sources tell Variety that Warner Bros. beat out three other studios and streamers’ bids on the script, tentatively titled “Black Samurai,” which Bazawule wrote […]

The upcoming HBO series “The Sympathizer” is bringing an unsung voice to a story that has been told and retold from the American point of view, providing actors like Sandra Oh a chance to finally be involved in a project that puts the Vietnamese refugee experience into focus.  “This perspective has been missing for 50 […]

The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC announced on Wednesday. This continues the trend of holding the Academy Awards ceremony in March, following a three-year streak of increased viewership. Notably, it will no longer overlap with Austin’s SXSW festival, a conflict that […]

Mystery thriller “Moresnet,” which had its world premiere this week at TV festival Canneseries, is set in a sleepy village in Belgium, Moresnet, but underneath the placid surface dark forces lurk. Variety spoke to writer Jef Hoogmartens and director Frank Van Passel about the show, which is being distributed by Newen Connect. The series centers […]

Even Eli Roth can’t believe that two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett was willing to learn to twirl guns and shoot baddies in “Borderlands,” the director’s gonzo adaptation of the popular video game. Roth noted that since people loved seeing Blanchett wield a baton in “Tár,” where she portrayed a fictional world-famous conductor embroiled in controversy, […]

Netflix has greenlit a six-episode dark comedy series from Tom Segura. Per the official description, the currently untitled series “centers on Segura, who also serves as the show’s narrator, as he takes us through each episode in a series of vignettes. The twisted comedic sensibility of Tom’s standup is the core DNA of this series, […]

As we await the long-gestating “Community” movie, co-stars Joel McHale and Ken Jeong are back together again on Wednesday’s new episode of McHale’s Fox comedy “Animal Control.” It also marks the return of “Kensday,” as “Animal Control” airs right after “The Masked Singer,” in which Jeong is a panelist (and McHale has been a frequent […]

Civil rights icon and labor leader Dolores Huerta is getting the biopic treatment in a new film. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gregory Nava (“El Norte,” “Selena”) is set to direct. He will also write and produce alongside the Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Barbara Martinez. Huerta, who turns 94 today, is a renowned American labor leader and civil […]

Bravo officially confirmed on Wednesday the much-rumored news that its popular fan convention, BravoCon, will be skipping this year, but will return to Las Vegas in 2025. The network announced BravoCon’s future dates — Nov. 14-16, 2025 — and that the convention will once again be at the massive event space Caesars Forum. In 2023, BravoCon moved to […]

The fourth and final season of “Evil” will premiere Thursday, May 23, on Paramount+, the streamer announced Monday. Production recently began in New York City on the previously announced four bonus episodes. Season 4 will include 14 episodes premiering weekly. The series is a psychological thriller that investigates the origins of evil and the church’s […]

Blackpink’s Lisa and Lloud Co. have announced a new partnership with RCA Records. Under the deal, Lisa (Lalisa Manobal) will release new solo music with RCA Records and have full ownership of all her recordings, according to the announcement. Speaking on the deal, Lisa shares: “I’m super excited to be joining the RCA family and I am confident […]

The talk inevitably turned political at the press conference for Michael Douglas’ forthcoming series “Franklin,” in which he stars as the scientist and statesman. “The show was a great reminder for me about how fragile democracy is,” Douglas said in response to Variety‘s question during the press conference on Wednesday morning ahead of the Apple […]

In an unprecedented move, Netflix has struck a multi-year creative partnership with Colombian writer/director team Camilo Prince and Pablo González of Miracol Media, best known for their lauded 2020 thriller drama series “The Great Heist” and their 2019 anthology series, “Crime Diaries: Night Out,” both for Netflix. This is the first creative pact Netflix has […]

R&B maestro Babyface will return to the Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas over three weekends this year. The shows will be held over Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26; Labor Day weekend on Saturday, Aug. 31 and Sunday, Sept. 1; and Friday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, […]

Cal Ripken Jr., the MLB baseball hall of famer and Baltimore Orioles co-owner, will serve as the executive producer on an upcoming docuseries in development at MoonBall Media, the production company announced on Wednesday.  MoonBall Media launched in February and is an MLB player-owned media and production company. It’s led by Anthony Seratelli, former minor […]

While speaking at the For Your Consideration Panel for “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” Drake Bell shared that those who wrote letters of support for his abuser, Brian Peck, included “Drake and Josh” crew members, such as his “favorite director” whom he “requested” for the Nickelodeon sitcom and a woman whom […]

The first sound you hear in every episode of “The Sympathizer” is the whir of a projector. Like the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on which it’s based, the seven-part HBO series is structured as a prisoner’s confession, written under duress in a Vietnamese reeducation camp in the years after the war. Except unlike the book, published […]

The Cannes Film Festival has announced it is launching a new competition section dedicated to immersive cinema. In a statement the fest said that in 2017, Alejandro González Iñárritu “made history at the 70th edition of the Festival de Cannes with his groundbreaking virtual reality piece, ‘Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible)’ marking the first immersive […]

The big and small screens are stuffed full of post-apocalyptic adventures, yet despite that cluttered landscape, few shows and films stick out to offer something unique for viewers. However, in “Fallout” for Prime Video, a thrilling adaptation of the beloved video game series, creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan present an off-kilter and fascinating look […]