“Squid Game” star lee Jung-jae was among the Korean celebrities to lead out a red-carpet parade on the opening night of the 29th edition of the Busan International Film Festival. The festival kicked off Wednesday with a bright show of international solidarity and a spectacular,
The British Film Institute and Chanel have named their latest crop of winners for the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards. The third annual awards — presented to three rising U.K. directors, with a prize of £20,000 ($26,000) to each — went to Luna Carmoon, writer/director of “Hoard”
Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights for Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice Special Jury prizewinner “April.” The festival standout earned unanimous critical praise upon world premiering at Venice with Variety describing it as a “radical, shattering exploration of women’s lives, rights and bodies in peril.” The
Michael Krummenacher’s World War II drama “The Traitor” (“Landesverräter”) tells the true story of a young man in Switzerland who, seeking to escape the repression of militarization during World War II, falls into the hands of a manipulative German spy. The film, which world premieres
Crypto market drops as Iran launches missile strikes into Israel. Bitcoin falls to $62k; Ethereum drops below $2,500. The global crypto market cap declines by 2.72% to $2.18 trillion. The global cryptocurrency market has witnessed a sharp decline following reports of Iran firing missiles into
John Amos, the star of “Good Times,” “Roots” and more, died on Aug. 21 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his representative confirmed to Variety on Tuesday. He was 84. “It is with heartfelt sadness that I share with you that my father has transitioned,”
Nicholas Alexander Chavez says his final callback audition to play Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” was not like others he had ever been on. “Usually when you go to a callback, there’s four or five other people
In a bid to tap the burgeoning international interest in content from Latin America and Spain, Chile’s Rizoma, run by Sebastian Freund, and Ángel Zambrano’s Atlanta-based Condeco have launched international sales company, Rizco Content Sales. The new sales agency follows their successful partnership in the