Reed Van Dyk’s first feature film “Atonement” explores the aftermath of an Iraq War tragedy. The film is inspired by the 2012 New Yorker article by Dexter Filkins. Speaking ahead of the film’s Toronto Film Festival premiere, Van Dyk recalls coming across the article many years ago. He says, “I wouldn’t have been able to […]
Variety•Jazztangcay3h ago
CAA has recruited agent Steve Roy to its Motion Picture Literary department. Roy was previously at Buchwald, where he started his career as an assistant. He was promoted to agent in 2023. While at Buchwald, Roy’s client list included writers and directors such as Juan Pablo González (“Dos Estaciones”), Nicholas Colia (“Griffin in Summer”), Alan […]
Variety•Jack Dunn3h ago
Juanpa Zurita, the multihyphenate Mexican actor, producer and content creator with a huge internet following, has signed for representation with WME. WME will work alongside Zurita’s longtime management team at DW Entertainment & Media to further expand his global career across acting, producing and original IP. Zurita had previously been repped by CAA. Zurita, 30, […]
Variety•Todd Spangler3h ago
Isabella Cohn’s doc “Watch You Rise” has added Indya Moore and Dr. Annie Farmer as exec producers. The film, which probes the roots of sexual harm, makes its premiere at the Denver Film Festival in October. The film is co-written by Maria Marrone and Cohn. Elizabeth Woodward and Marina Hunt at Willa produced. CAA is […]
Variety•Carolehorst3h ago
Kate Berlant will make her HBO comedy special debut with “Parmesan,” a new hour from the beloved alt comic out Oct. 16. Directed by Doron Max Hagay and filmed at the historic Plaza Nightclub in Los Angeles, “Parmesan” is described as a “hilarious tour-de-force that skewers the many contradictions of modern life and the art […]
Variety•Ethan Shanfeld4h ago
Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo will be the guest of honor at documentary film festival IDFA, which takes place from Nov. 12 to 22. The program of the section titled Dead Angle: Common Ground has also been announced, alongside a spotlight on pioneering American filmmaker William Greaves, and the lineup for the 20th anniversary of IDFA […]
Variety•Leo Barraclough4h ago
In “Edward Said: Between Worlds,” documentarian Maiken Baird does not follow the tried-and-true formula of a bio-doc. Instead of trying to cram a whole lifetime in under two hours, she lets the protagonist speak for himself. Edward Said, the late Palestinian literary and cultural critic, academic and fierce defender of his people, tells his story […]
Variety•Murtada Elfadl4h ago
There’s a certain wavelength of hangdog humor that denizens of the former Soviet Republics seem able to tune into at will, and Georgian director Levan Koguashvili more than most. In his fourth feature film, and his first since 2021’s “Brighton 4th” won top honors in Tribeca, Koguashvili’s starkly unsparing perspective on a nation rough-ridden by […]
Variety•Jessica Kiang4h ago
After a flurry of fall festival activity in Venice and Telluride, the curtain is coming down on another year at TIFF. Careers were boosted, dark horses gained traction and blades were sharpened. Here are our biggest takeaways. Everybody Loves Chris “I love messy women,” Chris Rock told the soldout crowd at the world premiere of […]
Variety•Clayton Davis4h ago
His "Resident Evil" is different, and much better, than the other "Resident Evil" movies — it’s a creepy-crawly squishfest that takes its time and has a weird innocence about it. (At moments it reminded me of "Planet Terror.")
Variety•Owen Gleiberman4h ago
Rachel Kaly’s one-woman show “Hospital Hour” is coming to New York. The comedy will begin a six-week off-Broadway run on Oct. 16 at the Culture Club in Chelsea, with comedy heavies Chris Fleming on board as director and Bob Odenkirk as executive producer. Tickets are on sale now for “Hospital Hour” here, with all first-week […]
Variety•Ethan Shanfeld4h ago
Macro, the multi-platform entertainment company founded by Charles D. King, has acquired Allblk, the streaming distribution platform dedicated to Black audiences, from AMC Global Media. “At a time of significant disruption and consolidation across the media industry landscape, Macro sees an opportunity to invest in a focused platform with a clear audience and strengthen it […]
Variety•Angelique Jackson4h ago
Toward the end of the deep-feeling, deliciously histrionic drama “Closing Night,” the film shifts tone. The first two acts — a whirlwind of long-deferred confrontations and fiery disclosures — lean on lively dark comedy as a pair of warring sisters explode with decades of rage and resentment. Then the film slows its pace, doubling down […]
Variety•Guy Lodge5h ago
Metallica has confirmed a series of new North American stadium dates that extend the band’s M72 World Tour into 2027. Having played 99 shows in 26 countries since its April 2023 kick-off, the Live Nation-promoted tour will resume May 8, 2027 at BC Place in Vancouver – hitting a dozen new cities for the first […]
Variety•Jem Aswad5h ago
Viewers are still taking a little time to enjoy ABC’s “The View.” The daytime talker, which has been in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration’s FCC, averaged 2.518 million total viewers when it returned for Season 30 last week — up 8% from last year’s audience (2.324 million) and posting the show’s largest overall premiere […]
Variety•Michael Schneider5h ago
It’s almost enough to un-break your heart, if you’re a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fan. The four members of the original/classic lineup of Petty’s longtime band will reunite on stage for the first time in more than 20 years this week, fronted by Chris Stapleton for an opening performance at Wednesday night’s Americana Honors […]
Variety•Chris Willman5h ago
HBO Max is expanding its French originals slate with two new shows, the medical drama “Rush” and police horror-thriller “Bodycam,” both of which will start shooting this fall. Unveiled Tuesday at the Festival de la Fiction in La Rochelle, the projects follow HBO’s recent French originals, from Marie Monge and Vladimir de Fontenay’s “Privilèges” to […]
Variety•Elskes5h ago
Veteran actor Anant Nag will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India’s highest honor in cinema. Nag will receive the award at a ceremony in Kevadia, Gujarat, on Sept. 22, the Government of India announced. The award will be presented as part of the 72nd National Film Awards. The award – instituted in 1969 in memory […]
Variety•Naman Ramachandran5h ago
Long before Nia Long could picture her name pressed into the concrete of Hollywood Boulevard, she was a little girl on a city bus rolling down that same street — and her mother was at the wheel. “We used to walk down the block and look at all the stars,” Long recalls. She remembers stopping […]
Variety•Clayton Davis5h ago
“Roses fade. True love lasts forever,” says Chris Harrison in a cheeky teaser for “The Vow,” his return to reality television five years after his controversial exit from the “Bachelor” franchise. The new dating show premieres on Fox Nation on Nov. 11, with six episodes rolling out weekly until a series finale on Dec. 9. […]
Variety•Ethan Shanfeld5h ago