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Chris Rock Says Scott Rudin’s ‘Hard Coaching’ Made Him a Better Filmmaker: Some Creatives Don’t ‘Respond to a Hug’

Chris Rock believes that tough love from one of Hollywood’s most notorious, half-cancelled figures helped make him a better filmmaker. Following a triumphant Toronto International Film Festival premiere for his latest directorial effort “Misty Green,” Rock sat for a keynote chat on Sunday to discuss his expansive career. The comedian told the crowd his chops […]

VarietyVariety•Varietymattdonnelly13 Sept

Hollywood Ventures Group, Canada’s Big Picture Cinema Group, and Morocco’s Pink Sheep Team on Casablanca-Set Thriller ‘The Final Bet’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Hollywood Ventures Group (HVG), Canadian film finance and production outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, and Morocco’s Pink Sheep Productions are teaming up to bring bestselling Moroccan crime thriller “The Final Bet” to the big screen.  The acclaimed Casablanca-set thriller by Moroccan author and award-winning screenwriter Abdelilah Hamdouchi was first published in 2001. It is touted as […]

VarietyVariety•Nvivarelli13 Sept

‘Severance’ Producer Nicholas Weinstock Boards Indian Fantasy-Horror ‘Tongue’ Starring Sayani Gupta (EXCLUSIVE)

Nicholas Weinstock, executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” has boarded “Tongue,” an Indian fantasy-horror feature written and directed by Krishnarjun Bhattacharya and starring Sayani Gupta. Weinstock produces through his banner Invention Studios alongside Divya D’Souza, with Gupta serving as the film’s Indian producer. The film earned a spot in the South Asian Canadian […]

VarietyVariety•Naman Ramachandran13 Sept

‘Union Town’ Review: Barbara Kopple’s Labor Rights Documentary Is Both Aptly Angry and Optimistically Community-Minded

Across the harrowing financial realities of late capitalism, an indisputable global fact is the injustices faced by countless workers who deliver everything we have come to rely on, from food orders to Amazon purchases. Despite their hard work under unideal, sometimes even unsafe conditions, it’s no secret that delivery staff have been barely compensated with […]

VarietyVariety•Tomilaffly13 Sept

TNT’s Iraq War Drama ‘High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam’ Is Dull and Deeply Disturbing: TV Review

Twenty-three years after the United States invaded Iraq, the American public now knows that despite his horrific reign and brutal dictatorship, Saddam Hussein never had any weapons of mass destruction. Based on former CIA analyst John Nixon’s 2016 memoir “Debriefing the President,” and adapted for television by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham, TNT’s limited series, […]

VarietyVariety•Aramide Tinubu13 Sept

TIFF 2026: 20 International Titles to Track, From Feng-I Fiona Roan’s Shuhua Starrer to a Taxidermy Musical and a John Madden Parkinson’s Rom-Com

Helen Mirren, Laura Linney, Rhys Ifans, Erin Doherty and James McAvoy star in three of the biggest U.K. titles world premiering at Toronto and making Variety’s 2026 selection of 20 International Titles to Track at this year’s Toronto.Jodie Comer sings (very creditably Variety suggests), in a fourth U.K. package, gothic rom-com “Stuffed” as romance takes […]

VarietyVariety•Roberto Prieto13 Sept

‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ Star Adia On Film Debut Opposite Mahershala Ali, Getting Certified as a Doula: ‘Birth Work Fills My Soul’

Twenty-five-year-old newcomer Adia never really imagined becoming a movie star. Growing up, she was focused on becoming a professional dancer before a hip injury derailed that dream. That’s when the high school senior discovered acting. “I decided to take an acting class, just to try it out and see if that would be comparable or […]

VarietyVariety•Angelique Jackson13 Sept

Melissa Rivers on Her Glorious Return to the Emmys Carpet, Remembering Her Mom Joan and Why ‘It’s Been Really Hard’ to Watch ‘Hacks’

Melissa Rivers is returning to the red carpet. Fashion expert and author Rivers — who rose to fame reporting outside awards-shows with her late mother, the comedian Joan Rivers — will be joining Variety co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh and CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister at the two brands’ Emmys pre-show broadcast. On “CNN & Variety […]

VarietyVariety•Daniel D’Addario13 Sept

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Gets Modern War-Zone Update From Lakeem Rose (EXCLUSIVE)

British writer-director Lakeem Rose, is developing his feature debut, a contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” with Canadian producers Plato Fountidakis and Paul Rapovski and Hong Kong-based producer and casting director Mike Leeder. In Rose’s version, the story shifts to a world just after a modern-day war, centering on four returning soldiers […]

VarietyVariety•Naman Ramachandran13 Sept

Ayo Edebiri, Lily-Rose Depp, Fala Chen, Patricia Arquette, Michelle Yeoh, Courteney Cox and More Salute Women in Film With Variety and Chanel at TIFF

Variety and Chanel’s annual Women in Film dinner was the place to see and be chic at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday night. When Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh entered the bar for the evening cocktail hour, Emmy winners Sarah Paulson and Colman Domingo greeted her with hugs. Soon, Patricia Arquette breezed in too, pulling […]

VarietyVariety•Angelique Jackson13 Sept