Home

A Week in Middle East Feels Like a Youthquake of Positive Vibes and Monumental Cultural Change
There’s a dance music fest this week in Riyadh with 730,000 attendees headlined by Bruno Mars, who also lit up the opening night of the second annual Red Sea International Film Fest, and Sharon Stone is in Jeddah talking about her vagina. If Variety news reports from RSIFF are scrambling your preconceived notions about film […]
David Harbour: ‘Hellboy’ Box Office Disaster Taught Me ‘Not to F— With Established IP, That’s For Sure’
David Harbour found success in the blockbuster film world with “Black Widow,” where he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Red Guardian, but his first go-around with studio tentpoles was more or less a disaster. Harbour led Neil Marshall’s 2019 “Hellboy” reboot, which only grossed $21 million in the U.S. on a $50 million production […]
Oscar Predictions: Best Actor – Colin Farrell’s Academy Moment Has Arrived, Paul Mescal and Adam Sandler Gain Traction
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages are Davis’ assessment of the current standings of the race and […]
‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ Gets Full Season Order at NBC
“Lopez vs. Lopez” has been given a full season order at NBC, Variety has learned. The multi-camera comedy starring George Lopez and his daughter, Mayan Lopez, will now run for 22 episodes in its first season. Per the official series logline, the show “tells the story of a working-class old-school Latino (George Lopez) who moves […]