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Amazon MGM Studios has hired veteran TV executive Stacy Fung as part of its drama series team, Variety has learned exclusively. In her new s...

Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of the upcoming indie horror-thriller “Dead of the Night.” At the same time, it was announced that Scott...

The documentary television program “Dear Santa, The Series” is set to return to Hulu on Nov. 29 and on the ABC-Owned Television Stations on...

Emmy award-winning U.S. filmmaker Pamela Hogan’s doc “The Day Iceland Stood Still” has been acquired by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE and...

Overseas revenues of Japanese animation exceeded local consumption for only the second time last year. But the export-led boom is expected t...

As a broad spectrum of short films draw attention at film festivals and screening events, identifying frontrunners becomes increasingly diff...

The third season of “The Lincoln Lawyer” was the top title on Luminate’s weekly measurement of streaming originals for the Oct. 18-24 viewin...

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, the Toronto International Film Festival and Universal Filmed Entertainment Group have announced the in...

“Slumdog Millionaire,” the Oscar-winning film about a young man from an impoverished background who competes on India’s version of “Who Want...

A mystery-shrouded documentary about Kanye West has surfaced, with Variety able to reveal details for the very first time alongside its titl...

Freddy Krueger has joined the cast of the next IP-smashing slasher from the makers of microbudget hit “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.” We...

“Small Hours of the Night,” by Singapore director Daniel Hui, has been removed from the lineup of the Singapore International Film Festival....

Click here to get the full report In an effort to quantify how streaming has impacted the way audiences around the globe are served by diffe...

As the November election looms, director Emily Harrold isn’t focusing on the U.S. political divide. Instead, she’s turning to five politicia...

“Wasteland Chronicles,” directed by Viera Čákanyová, Barbora Sliepková and Lucia Kašová, has received the New Visions Award at Ji.hlava Docu...

Finn Keane is holding a funeral for himself — or for his pseudonym, anyway. On Halloween during his label PC Music’s Pop Crypt event in Lond...

You get home from a day at the office and find a Netflix crew in your living room. This is what Domantas Sabonis has experienced during the...

Christian Jeune, director of the film department at Cannes Film Festival, has hailed the next generation of filmmakers chosen for the Tokyo...

Star-studded animated holiday feature “The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland” has set a streaming release date in the U.S. and U.K. The m...

Japan’s Agency for Cultural affairs, Friday, announced the first young filmmakers to receive support under its new Film Frontier Global Netw...

At a campaign event for Kamala Harris in Nevada on Thursday night, Jennifer Lopez called out the comments about Puerto Rico made at Donald T...

In the tradition of “Death of a Salesman,” “The Assassination of Trotsky” and “Penn and Teller Get Killed,” “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” ar...

Acclaimed Japanese director Lisa Takeba (“The Pinkie,” “Signal 100”) is developing “Children of the River,” a Japan-Italy co-production that...

Purin Pictures, a non-profit film fund supporting independent cinema in Southeast Asia, has unveiled $170,000 of grants in its autumn fundin...

The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) is partnering with Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) to launch Beyond Japan,...