As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to diversify its voting membership, with 55% of 2025’s invitees hailing from outside the U.S., these efforts have not only resulted...
Most biopics persuade you to empathize with the main character. But as actress-turned-writer/director Kristen Stewart explains, her screenplay adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir “The Chronology of Water” allows you to virtually...
“The Turning Door” is rare: an independent and ambitious animated feature based on an original story and script, with original songs. Nicholas Ashe Bateman (“An Almost Christmas Story”) directs, wrote the...
Highland Film Group have released the first look at spy thriller “The Mark,” featuring Tom Hopper and Jessica Alba. Highland Film Group is handling international rights and co-financing the project alongside...
The American Film Market returns to Los Angeles and sets up at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel from Nov. 11-16. Nestled in the heart of the entertainment biz after 2024’s edition...
Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” was the big winner at the San Diego International Film Festival, winning both the best Gala Film (jury award) and the Audience Choice Gala Award. Eddie Vedder-starring documentary...
Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s 2021...
Variety’s Faith & Media Impact Report returns Dec. 3. The list recognizes a thriving segment of the entertainment industry that includes storytellers across the religious spectrum who are offering...
