Warner Bros. is planning to remake “The Bodyguard” with Sam Wrench on board to direct. Wrench directed the box office smash “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” Jonathan Abrams, who debuted as a feature screenwriter with Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama “Juror #2” last fall, has been
Clarisa Navas’ “The Prince of Nanawa” claimed Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel’s top prize, while Iranian filmmaker Bani Koshnoudi’s “The Vanishing Point” took the top Burning Lights honor. Clarisa Navas’ “The Prince of Nanawa” has taken home the Grand Prix at international Swiss doc
“Black Mirror” has shocked, creeped out and warned audiences of the dangers of technology for more than a decade, and it’s returning with Season 7 on Netflix. Originally conceived as an anthology program on the British outlet Channel 4, “Black Mirror” moved to Netflix starting
Ted Kotcheff, the Canadian filmmaker who introduced moviegoers to Sylvester Stallone’s traumatized Vietnam War veteran John Rambo with “First Blood” and helmed comedies like “Weekend at Bernie’s,” “Fun With Dick and Jane” and “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” died Thursday. He was 94. His death
Tomasz Wolski’s documentary “The Big Chief,” which world premiered this week at Visions du Réel, follows the life of Soviet spy ringmaster Leopold Trepper. Variety speaks to Wolski about the film. Trepper, a Polish-Jewish communist, ran a network of Soviet spies across Western Europe, named
After three decades, the stunt community is finally getting its due, after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of a new competitive category for achievement in stunt design. “It validated the whole stunt community,” stunt designer Chris O’Hara told Variety.
A month ago, if you mentioned “A Minecraft Movie” in a public place, an exasperated groan could be heard from every movie fan in a two-mile radius. However, despite audiences’ increasing impatience with half-baked IP vehicles (see “Snow White” and “Captain America: Brave New World”),
The first 14 episodes of “The Pitt” are averaging 10 million viewers. Measured by Warner Bros. Discovery, this total accounts for the worldwide average number of people who have watched the medical drama to date, including delayed viewing — not the number of people who