I spent my first decade in New York working at Variety’s former offices on Park Ave. South and more than once found myself sharing an elevator with James Earl Jones while he was on his way to or from Verizon to shoot commercials. The giant of an actor, who died today at age 93, never
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‘Relay’ Review: Riz Ahmed Excels in David Mackenzie’s Mostly Clever Paranoid Thriller
A striking legacy of 9/11 is how the United States government exploited national grief and panic to pass aggressive legislation stripping Americans of privacy rights. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, also known as the Patriot Act, was passed in October 2001, 45 days after
K-Pop Stars Jisoo of Blackpink, Felix and Lee Know of Stray Kids Look Perfectly Preppy at NYFW
Fashion’s love for K-Pop stars continues to expand, as Blackpink‘s Jisoo and Stray Kids members Felix and Lee Know stole the spotlight at Tommy Hilfiger’s New York Fashion Week show. The Spring 2025 collection show featured a slew of preppy and nautical looks on guests and models alike. Tommy Hilfiger welcomed attendees aboard a decommissioned
‘The Brutalist’: Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About the Tireless Seven-Year Journey Behind His Buzzy Epic
A monumental triumph of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally secured a U.S. distribution deal over the weekend. The movie, which won Corbet the Venice Film Festival‘s best director prize Saturday, will be released by indie tastemaker A24 sometime later this year with
Max Minghella Sees a Lot of ‘Look Who’s Talking’ in ‘Shell,’ His Second Feature as a Director
Shell is Max Minghella‘s second feature film as a director. Dubbed a “dark comedy and body horror about society’s obsession with youth and good looks,” it stars none other than his The Handmaid’s Tale colleague Elisabeth Moss as a struggling actress opposite Kate Hudson as the CEO of a mysterious, and potentially monstrous, beauty company. The
CMA Awards: Beyoncé Snubbed; Morgan Wallen, Post Malone Earn Multiple Nominations
The 2024 CMA Awards have showered Morgan Wallen and Post Malone with multiple nominations but heavily snubbed Beyoncé, though she had one of the year’s biggest country albums with Cowboy Carter and biggest country songs with “Texas Hold ‘Em.” Wallen leads the way at the CMAs with seven nominations. He’s followed by Chris Stapleton and
Rising Star Drew Starkey on ‘Queer’ and How U.S. Audiences “Can Be Very Uptight” About Sex Scenes
Drew Starkey was a day into rehearsals for Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer when he found himself rolling around the floor in a sweaty clinch with Daniel Craig. “We jumped into it, just grabbing and throwing our bodies on top of one another, rolling around, getting intermingled,” Starkey recalls, “I think it unlocked something subconsciously, gave us
A24 Buys Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ for U.S.
A24 has won the bidding war to acquire U.S. rights to Brady Corbet‘s buzzy Venice Film Festival winner The Brutalist . A24 announced the deal, brokered with CAA Media Finance, on Sunday, ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10. Adrien Brody stars in the historical epic as
Toronto Hidden Gem: ‘Universal Language’ Is An Absurdist Homage to Iranian Cinema Via Winnipeg
Matthew Rankin’s second feature, Universal Language , certainly echoes the comic sensibility of fellow Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World, Rumours). But its fantastical and multilayered structure — intended to pay homage to the Iranian cinema he loves — is difficult to explain. Asked to describe what Universal Language is about
XYZ Films COO on Launching Henry Golding Sci-Fi Romance ‘Daniela Forever’ at TIFF and How the Genre Specialist Became an Indie Studio
Independent film production, financing, and sales company XYZ Films, based in L.A., knows genre fare better than most, “elevated genre” that is. Founded in 2008 by Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin, and Nick Spicer, it has made a name for itself with its focus on such international genre movies as Gareth Evans‘ cult classic The Raid and Panos