Fox revealed its 2025-2026 schedule Monday ahead of its upfront presentation to advertisers at the Manhattan Center in New York. Among the biggest highlights of the slate were the return of Fox-turned-TBS-now-Fox-again animated series “American Dad!,” as well as Jane Lynch’s “Weakest Link” (moving over
Almost a year to the day that Francis Ford Coppola sent Cannes into a meltdown with his self-funded and hugely polarizing epic “Megalopolis,” details of a secret fly-on-the-wall making-of doc have emerged alongside a U.S. distributor. Variety can reveal that Utopia has acquired North American
Sheng Wang will return to Netflix with another stand-up special in 2026. The comedy hour will be directed by Ali Wong, who also directed Wang’s 2022 special “Sweet & Juicy.” The special will be filmed on Nov. 8 at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C.
Here comes another start-up aiming to empower creators — and do an end run around traditional Hollywood studios. Shibuya, a crowdfunding streaming platform at shibuya.film, on Monday officially launched “Season One,” a collection of live-action and animated short films. The company, formed in 2022, is
For the second year in a row, Variety partnered with the Mary Tyler Moore Vision Initiative to present the Mary Tyler Moore Visionary Award, presented this year to Jean Smart at the 2025 Variety FYC TV Fest. Introduced last year, the Visionary Award honors women
Ludi Lin, who stars as Liu Kang in the upcoming “Mortal Kombat II,” is making moves behind the camera. The Chinese-Canadian actor has signed on as both lead actor and producer for “The Unlucky,” a new sci-fi chiller from filmmaker Quentin Lee. The project is
TV aficionados already have Fox News and Fox Sports. Soon, they will have Fox One. Fox Corporation intends to launch a new stand-alone subscription streaming service under the Fox One moniker before the start of the next NFL season, CEO Lachlan Murdoch said during a
Amazon’s Prime Video has been working on its holiday ad game. After debuting an NFL game on “Black Friday” in 2023, the streaming giant plans to add NBA games to the mix, bolstering its efforts to woo some of the millions Madison Avenue typically spends