In the upcoming second season of “The Last of Us,” the brotherly bond between Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Gabriel Luna’s Tommy continues to be a significant relationship that grounds the characters amidst the surrounding apocalyptic horror. During a press conference moderated by Variety‘s Jazz Tangcay
A judge has granted and denied charges brought against Sean “Diddy” Combs in a $30 million lawsuit from former producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleging sexual assault. Jones initially filed his suit against Combs in New York in Feb. 2024, stating that Combs made unwanted
Seeing oneself through someone else’s eyes can be illuminating, but it can also be quite intoxicating — especially when said eyes belong to an artist eager to look at everything around him as fodder for his own artmaking. Koya Kamura’s “Winter in Sokcho” (an adaptation
Theo Kingma, former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president, died March 21 in his Los Angeles home. He was 58. Kingma’s death was confirmed to Variety by Kingma’s publicist. While a cause of death was not given, the obituary wrote that “he passed away unexpectedly.” Vera
Propounding one specific pro-Israel, American Jewish point-of-view, the independently financed social-issue documentary “October 8” charts and laments the alarming increase in antisemitism — particularly on university campuses and in social media — following the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel that resulted in over 1,200
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” is reportedly missing after being attacked, according to a series of posts on X from co-director Yuval Abraham. “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film ‘No Other Land,’” Abraham
“The White Lotus” saw its highest viewership ever with the airing of Season 3’s sixth episode — with a little help from the most shocking sex scene yet in a series full of shocking sex scenes. Titled “Denials,” the episode hit 4.2 million viewers on
Jigsaw won’t be returning to theaters in 2025 after all. “Saw XI” has been axed from the release calendar. Lionsgate’s gory slasher, the 11th installment in the long-running franchise, was scheduled to open on Sept. 26, 2025. The studio will instead release another blood-soaked horror