Magnolia Takes Global Rights To Sundance-Winning Thriller ‘Plainclothes’
Carmen Emmi
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey thriller Plainclothes from filmmaker Carmen Emmi...
April 24, 2025
Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” Deal: A Paradigm Shift for Creative Ownership in Hollywood
Ryan Coogler & Proximity Media
When Ryan Coogler’s Sinners—a genre-blending horror-thriller set in Jim Crow-era Mississippi—sparked a studio bidding war in early 2024...
April 23, 2025
‘Sterling Point’: Ella Rubin & Amélie Elisabeth Hoeferle To Lead Amazon’s Megan Park YA Series
Megan Park
Ella Rubin (Until Dawn, The Idea of You) and Amélie Elisabeth Hoeferle (One Mile, Night Swim) have been tapped as the co-leads of Amazon MGM...
April 23, 2025
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Unveils 2025 Lineup
Hasan Hadi & Leah Chen Baker
Directors’ Fortnight will open its 57th edition next month with Enzo, written and developed by late Cannes d’Or winner Laurent Cantet before...
April 17, 2025
Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2025: Meet Hollywood’s Top Entertainment Attorneys
Jeff Cohen & Jonathan Gardner
Partners: Jeff B. Cohen, Esq., Jonathan Gardner, Esq. Like everyone else, the entertainment attorneys honored on this year’s Legal...
April 9, 2025
‘Sinners’ Early Reactions Call Ryan Coogler’s Vampire Movie ‘Scary, Sexy, Gory and Horny’
Ryan Coogler & Proximity Media
The early reactions to Ryan Coogler‘s new supernatural thriller “Sinners” are rolling in, and the consensus is that the vampire-laced...
April 4, 2025
Asghar Farhadi Sets Paris-Shot Film ‘Parallel Tales’ with Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney & Adam Bessa
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi will shoot his next film Parallel Tales in Paris this coming fall, with Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel...
April 24, 2025
‘Sinners’, Coogler and Questions of Ownership
Ryan Coogler & Proximity Media
It’s not often that a movie comes out of the gate and instantly feels essential to the art form, filling a void in our culture that many...
April 23, 2025
Jenna Mattison Adapting Josh Malerman’s ‘Decorum At The Deathbed’ For ‘Bird Box’ Scribe’s Spin A Black Yarn
Jenna Mattison
Rising screenwriter Jenna Mattison has been tapped to script an adaptation of Decorum at the Deathbed, the 2021 novella from Bird Box‘s Josh Malerman...
April 21, 2025
2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony Puts Science in the Spotlight
Ke Huy Quan
This year’s Breakthrough Prize—popularly known as the “Oscars of Science”—brought the world’s leading scientists together with Hollywood’s..
April 11, 2025
Visit Films Strikes North American Deal for BFI Flare London Selection ‘Rent Free’
Fernando Andrés & Jacob Roberts
Andrés’s second feature after 2022 Tribeca and Outfest drama Three Headed Beast follows best friends Ben and Jordan who, after hitting...
April 7, 2025
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz Reads His Book to Children at Para Los Niños Elementary School
Lalo Alcaraz
To celebrate National Reading Month, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Lalo Alcaraz read his book, Poquita’s Garden, to second...
