Daily Archives: May 16, 2025

WNBA Livestream: How to Stream the 2025 Season Online Without Cable

The WNBA returns for the league’s 29th season with games starting on Friday, May 16. For a new season of hoops, the New York Liberty look to defend the WNBA Finals championship, while Caitlin Clark continues to draw in a larger audience for 2025. There’s

This Year’s Emmy Trends: Severed Arms, Ibérico Ham and Ron Howard are Some of the Strange Motifs Popping Up in Shows

In the world of journalism, we love a good trend. And there never seems to be a shortage of them in entertainment — the industry that once decided we needed two movies at once about volcanoes, and a pair of thrillers at the same time

Nicole Kidman Says She and Sandra Bullock Were ‘Definitely’ Thinking About a ‘Practical Magic’ Sequel While Making First Movie Almost 30 Years Ago: ‘We’re So Excited’

It may have taken almost 30 years for the sequel to “Practical Magic” to happen, but the cast was already thinking about a followup when they shot the first one. “When we were making it, we definitely did,” Nicole Kidman told me Thursday night at

‘Eddington’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Square Off in Ari Aster’s Brazenly Provocative Western Thriller, Set During the Pandemic the Film Says Made America Lose Its Mind

“Eddington,” while not a comedy, presents an angry, sinister, and maybe crazy new America that it views with a deadpan tone of trepidatious glee. And the movie presents us with a fully scaled vision of that transformed society.

Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson Sign With WME (EXCLUSIVE)

Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson have signed with WME for representation in all areas, Variety has learned exclusively. The pair continue to be represented by United Agents in the UK and Linden Entertainment. Clive and Robertson broke out with their performances as the “Britney” sketch

‘Tomb Raider’ Producer Story Kitchen Renews First-Look TV Deal at Amazon MGM Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Story Kitchen has renewed its first-look television deal at Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively. Formerly dj2 Entertainment, Story Kitchen is currently producing the “Tomb Raider” live-action TV series in the works at Amazon from creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The company specializes in adaptations of

NWA and Women of Wrestling Head to Streaming with Roku FAST Channel (EXCLUSIVE)

Paramount Global Content Distribution is soon launching an all-wrestling FAST channel called Wrestling Central, it announced ahead of its LA Screenings presentation Saturday. The new channel will stream on the free ad-supported The Roku Channel in the U.S. and Canada and feature matches from the

‘Sons of the Neon Night’ Director Juno Mak Breaks Down His Hong Kong Crime Thriller: ‘There’s a Nightmarish Poetry to It’

During a special Hong Kong Cinema panel at Hong Kong’s pavilion in the Cannes international village, “Sons of the Neon Night,” director Juno Mak and Cannes Film Festival international consultant Michael Werner spoke to Variety’s Leo Barraclough about thematic inspirations and how Mak crafted the