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‘Best of the Best’ Director Lena Khan on Making a Bollywood Fusion Dance Movie for Netflix, Working With Hasan Minhaj and Telling Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to Bring ‘Channing Tatum Energy’

Competitive Bollywood fusion dance has thrived on American college campuses for decades, but it has rarely been the subject of a scripted feature film. Lena Khan’s “Best of the Best,” premiering Friday on Netflix, follows childhood best friends Maya and Anjali as they join UCLA’s competitive dance team, only to discover that the road to […]

VarietyVariety•Naman Ramachandran18 Sept
  • neutral toward Netflix · 98%

Best of the Best review – college comedy formula gets a Bollywood makeover

What’s engaging in this tale of two best girl friends and a dance competition is not the familiar plot but the whip-fast telling and brilliant choreograpy There is absolutely nothing unexpected about this Netflix comedy set in the world of rival Bollywood dance groups on American campuses. Each plot twist is instantly familiar, every character recognisable, the essential formula untweaked from a dozen previous college comedies. But it’s funny and snappy, and directed with infectious energy by Lena Khan, one of the few Muslim female film-makers working in Hollywood. The scriptwriters are Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam, a pair of millennial comedians who look as if they’ve done enough research on the inner workings of gen Z behaviour to write a PhD. Maya (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and Anjali (Priyanka Kedia) star as lifelong best friends who enrol together at UCLA. Maya is the clever difficult one; Anjali is the nice pretty one. (It goes without saying Maya is also a total babe.) During freshers’ week they join the college’s Bollywood dance club where, predictably, Maya locks horns with leader Ronak (Ankur Rathee) over the choreography. He wants to base their new-season routine on Bollywood weddings, which, as Maya points out, is a bit trad. If they are going to beat their rivals they will need to come up with something modern and fresh. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Cath Clarke18 Sept

Nick Kroll Delivers Heartfelt Appeal for Productions to Shoot in L.A.: ‘It Will Bring Life Back’ to the City

Nick Kroll said upcoming Netflix comedy series “A Hundred Percent,” which he co-created and stars in, is a “love letter” to Los Angeles — and he expressed hope that a “thriving” entertainment production community will bring “vitality” to the city. The comedian, writer, producer, director and actor was a featured keynote speaker at the Variety […]

VarietyVariety•Todd Spangler18 Sept

Netflix Orders Dark Comedy ‘All the Rage’ From ‘Dead to Me’ Duo Liz Feldman, Kelly Hutchinson

Liz Feldman has extended her overall deal with Netflix, with the streamer greenlighting the dark comedy “All the Rage” with Feldman onboard as co-creator. “All the Rage” hails from Feldman and Kelly Hutchinson, who previously worked with Feldman on the Netflix shows “Dead to Me” and “No Good Deed.” Both are also executive producers. Will […]

VarietyVariety•Joseph Otterson17 Sept

‘All The Rage’ Dark Comedy Series Lands At Netflix From Liz Feldman & Kelly Hutchinson As ‘Dead To Me’ Creator Extends Overall Deal

Liz Feldman is staying in business with Netflix after scoring another comedy series at the streamer. The Dead to Me creator has teamed with Kelly Hutchinson, who was a writer on the Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini-led series and also worked on Apple’s Palm Royale, on All the Rage. The dark comedy has received a […]

DeadlineDeadline•Peterdeadline17 Sept

Rei Ami on Her New Pop Girl Era, and How Feeling Confident Inspired Her New Single ‘2 Loud’: ‘It’s a Clapback’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Rei Ami is loving life, and she’s also learned to love herself. But it wasn’t an easy journey getting to this stage. Before breaking out as one-third of Huntr/x in Netflix’s smash “KPop Demon Hunters,” Ami largely released rap songs like “Snow Cone” and “Body Bag,” which she says came from a place of anger […]

VarietyVariety•Jazztangcay17 Sept

Ms. Rachel to Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Support Palestine: ‘I Invite Every Wealthy White Celebrity’ to Do the Same

Rachel Accurso, the children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel who rose to prominence on YouTube before striking a deal to bring her videos to Netflix, announced on Instagram that she is matching Macklemore’s $1 million donation to organizations supporting Palestine. “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it […]

VarietyVariety•Zack Sharf17 Sept

Variety’s 10 Animators to Watch 2026: Meet the Artists Behind ‘Wildwood,’ ‘Hexed,’ ‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse’ and More

Over the past two decades, animated features have pushed the boundaries of art and storytelling while dominating the box office. Earlier this year, Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” made history by winning the animated feature Oscar. The triumph was powered in part by its chart-topping original song “Golden.” But behind every animated victory stands a group […]

VarietyVariety•Sylvia Tan17 Sept

Noah Baumbach Signs First Look Deal with Warner Bros.; Sets New Theatrical Movie With Studio Label Clockwork (EXCLUSIVE)

Noah Baumbach is getting back to work, setting his next film project for theaters and moving his business to Warner Bros. The Oscar-nominated writer and director has signed a three-year, first-look agreement for features at the Burbank studio, following a long exclusive pact at Netflix. The new deal takes effect in 2027 and Baumbach’s inaugural […]

VarietyVariety•Varietymattdonnelly17 Sept
  • neutral toward Warner Bros · 98%

Netflix’s ‘Monster’ Finally Delivers an Outrageously Engaging Season With ‘The Lizzie Borden Story’: TV Review

“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monster” series, takes the anthology in a new and exciting direction with its first female killer. Set in Fall River, Massachusetts in the late 19th century, the show follows Lizzie Borden (an engaging Ella Beatty), a peculiar young woman suffering under […]

VarietyVariety•Aramide Tinubu17 Sept
  • favorable toward Netflix · 99%

Darkling review – Stranger Things’ Linnea Berthelsen confronts a gruesome Indian disaster

Bush theatre, London Titas Halder’s coming-of-age monologue is set against the 1984 Bhopal toxic gas leak – but the poetic script doesn’t quite capture the horror Ominousness permeates Darkling. In Titas Halder’s dramatic monologue, we witness a young girl’s coming of age set against the backdrop of the 1984 toxic gas leak in the Indian city of Bhopal, an environmental catastrophe that remains one of the worst industrial disasters in global history, leading to thousands of deaths. Actor Linnea Berthelsen – best known for her role as Kali in Netflix series Stranger Things – makes her UK stage debut and gamely takes on the singular role in a tightly wound, physical performance. Leaping across Simon Kenny’s artful, soil-filled set, Berthelsen embodies childlike wonder as she recounts her early years playing in the rain, savouring bowlfuls of plain rice and idolising her older sister. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Ammar Kalia17 Sept

‘Tyson’ Trailer: Mike Tyson Chronicles His Journey From Dropout to Heavyweight Champion in Netflix Docuseries

A trailer has been released for “Tyson,” a four-part Netflix docuseries set to explore the life of the “feared and fascinating” heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson. The series will premiere on the platform on Oct. 13. “Tyson” will chronicle the sports legend’s life, “from his chaotic upbringing in Brooklyn to global superstardom,” per the official synopsis. […]

VarietyVariety•Payton Turkeltaub17 Sept