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“The Last of Us” has been renewed by HBO for a third season, in advance of the premiere of Season 2 on April 13. While the first season adap...

Female directors have gained significant ground in the U.S., U.K. and France since 2015, according to an Annenberg Inclusion Initiative stud...

Focus Asia, the industry arm of the Far East Film Festival, has unveiled its full 2025 lineup featuring Indonesian star Reza Rahadian’s dire...

The Locarno Film Festival’s industry side is launching a U.S.-European film financing initiative at the Swiss event in tandem with Oxbelly,...

When Darrell D. Miller looks out at the crowd gathered to honor him at Variety’s Power of Law breakfast on April 9, he can be confident that...

The fights have been the same for years: Pepsi wrestles with Coke; Verizon tangles with T-Mobile; and Fox News jousts with CNN and MSNBC. In...

Like everyone else, the entertainment attorneys honored on this year’s Legal Impact list — who’ll be gathering at the Variety Power of Law B...

Move over Bollywood, India’s animated heroes are taking center stage. Warner Bros. Discovery is significantly ramping up its kids entertainm...

Don’t expect Darren Aronofsky to step into the Actors Studio anytime soon. “I hate Method actors,” the filmmaker said at a Saturday mastercl...

ECAM Forum and Conecta Fiction & Entertainment have announced a groundbreaking collaboration to jointly host a delegation of international i...

iHeartPodcasts is expanding its Gen Z lineup with “The K-Factor With Beomhan,” a deep dive into the K-pop industry hosted by former trainee...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu may be currently shooting his latest starry big screen spectacle, an as-yet-untitled film for Warner Bros. led by Tom...

Indie rock husband-and-wife team Jillie Simon and Thomas Simon have commenced principal photography on their debut feature “Real, True, 100...

Indian serial entrepreneur Vipul Agarwal is betting $3 million that the next superhero universe won’t have an American accent. In a world sa...

Tim Riedel’s upcoming psychological horror film “Ancestral Beasts” is poised to make a chilling debut at this year’s Frontières program duri...

Norway’s recent contribution to genre movies has largely been via disaster (“La Palma,” “The Quake”), horror comedy (“The Ugly Sister”), sup...

Cannes Frontières buzz title “Skin Side Up,” the directorial feature debut of “Drag Race Down Under” Season 4 winner Robert Ten Eyck, heads...

Acclaimed Dutch genre filmmaker Richard Raaphorst (“Frankenstein’s Army”) is returning to feature directing with “Children of the Moor,” a f...

Robert Ten Eyck’s “Skin Side Up,” Sebastian McKinnon’s “The Stolen Child” and Richard Raaphorst’s “Children of the Moor” look like three pot...

Doha Film Institute CEO Fatma Al Remaihi has confirmed plans for a new film festival to be launched in the Qatari capital in November 2025,...

Beta Film has struck a major deal on the Mafia series “Cold Summer” with Walter Presents for the U.S. and Canada, ahead of its linear premie...

Danish queer sex drama “Sauna,” a Sundance Festival hit, has closed its first significant international market deals, sales house TrustNordi...

Hilary Swank is opening up about the challenges of being a young actress in a male-centric industry. In a recent sit down with Women’s Heath...

MrBeast has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. The YouTube personality and television host took to X on Tuesday to...

FCC commissioner Anna M. Gomez warned broadcasters of her grave concerns over what she sees as a “disturbing” pattern of efforts by the Trum...