The Dominican Republic’s Jose Maria Cabral, best known for his reality-grounded prison drama “Woodpeckers” (“Carpinteros”), has ventured into documentary filmmaking for the fourth time with his bracing portrait of Santo Domingo’s titular “42nd Street” (“La 42”). He debuts its trailer exclusively in Variety ahead of
The streaming era has brought rapid change to the media industry — so much so that one TV mainstay is revamping its corporate moniker. The company once known as A+E Networks, an entertainment joint venture backed by Disney and Hearst, is dialing back its connection
“You want to see something cool?” On July 3, 2019, Neil Druckmann first said those fateful words to Craig Mazin inside the Santa Monica offices of Naughty Dog, the developer behind the blockbuster 2013 video game “The Last of Us.” As the game’s writer and
Tyler Perry Studios and Pantheon Media Group, which last year formed a joint venture to create and produce unscripted content, have sealed a multi-seres development deal with A+E Global Media (the company formerly known as A+E Networks). A+E Global Media announced the partnership Wednesday during
Oscar winner Alex Gibney has signed on to executive produce “Speechless,” a feature-length documentary about the culture wars being waged and the threats to freedom of speech on university and college campuses across the United States. Directed by Ric Esther Bienstock (“Enslaved”), the doc will
HBO’s “The Last of Us” is filling out its supporting cast for Season 2 with six actors, Variety has learned exclusively. They are Joe Pantoliano (“Bad Boys for Life,” “The Matrix”), Alanna Ubach (“Euphoria”), Ben Ahlers (“The Gilded Age”), Hettienne Park (“Hannibal”), Robert John Burke
Jesse Eisenberg is officially a Polish citizen. The actor, writer and director was granted citizenship by President Andrzej Duda at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday, just days after his film “A Real Pain” won Kieran Culkin an Oscar for best supporting actor. “I’m
Taskovski Films has acquired Kristina Shtubert’s “Adobe of Down,” which is set to have its international premiere in the Next:Wave competition section at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Festival, also known as CPH:DOX. Over the course of nearly a decade, the documentary follows a religious community