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Actors and multi-hyphenates Wilmer Valderrama and Cara Santana Leto have joined the filmmaking team behind the acclaimed short documentary “Rat Rod” as executive producers. The film, directed by Jared Jakins...

Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser has joined the Oscar-qualifying short documentary “Saving Superman” as an executive producer, revealed to Variety exclusively. “Saving Superman” chronicles the remarkable true story of Jonathan,...

Zoey Deutch has ideas. They’re sharp, original and delivered with the kind of disarming charm that makes you wonder why Hollywood hasn’t already followed her lead. “Don’t you think there...

Nina Hoss enters a conversation about “Hedda” the way her character Eileen Lövborg enters that fateful party: She commands the space, is unapologetically present and utterly impossible to overlook. The German...

Is it time for “Wicked” to conquer the Oscars, for good? Universal Pictures’ musical fantasy sequel appears poised to match or exceed its predecessor’s impressive showing at the Academy Awards, based...

There are performances that remind us of what we already know, and then there are performances that shatter our assumptions entirely, forcing us to reckon with a talent we’d somehow managed...

Gus Van Sant is still moving. “I think a lot of the films I’ve made, even unintentionally, have been based on real things,” Van Sant says with his familiar mix...