In any year, some successful directors carve out artistic identities through a distinctive visual vocabulary, or by repeatedly mining particular themes. But it’s rare, even among highly acclaimed filmmakers, for a director to establish a new cinematic language. Yorgos Lanthimos is on his way to
Variety has added additional speakers and panels to its lineup for its 2024 Entertainment Summit at CES on Jan. 10 at the Aria. They include Rebecca Panico, VP, global head of media, Hilton; Alexys Coronel, head of U.S. entertainment and telecommunications, Amazon Ads; Jed Dederick,
Goodbye, Christmas and New Year’s. Hello, awards season! The Golden Globes are upon us, and that means the festivities kick off with W Magazine’s annual Friday night soiree toasting its Best Performances Issue. Expect to see well-heeled, A-List celebrities mix and mingle elbow-to-elbow in the
Ridley Scott has found the god of music for his upcoming “Gladiator” sequel. Harry Gregson-Williams has been hired to compose the score for the hotly-anticipated Paramount feature, which is due out Nov. 22, more than 24 years after the Oscar-winning original. The film marks the
Bertrand Bonello’s “Coma,” which won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2022, has been acquired by Film Movement for North American distribution. The film follows a teenager who is stuck at home during once of France’s strict early-pandemic lockdowns. Cut off from the
Kate Hudson appeared on “The View” and reflected on the recent 20th anniversary of her iconic romantic comedy “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” The genre has lost much its box office dominance in the decades since Hudson first linked up with Matthew
In what has become an annual tradition, in the closing days of each year, veteran artists quietly release bootleg-quality recordings in order to preserve their copyrights, owing to a not-entirely-clear European Union ruling stating that artists must “use or lose” (i.e. officially issue) sound recordings
Actor Christian Oliver, his two young daughters and the pilot died in a plane crash near a Caribbean island on Thursday, the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force announced. Oliver, whose real name was Christian Klepser, was 51. His daughters, Madita Klepser and