By Jenelle Riley | Variety Variety has announced its 10 Actors to Watch for 2021, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998. Past honorees include many future Oscar winners and nominees including Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Adam Driver, Brie...
by Niko Rose | Shadow and Act Singer and actor Tyrese Gibson may be a heartthrob and pinnacle, but his recent Instagram post states Hollywood thought otherwise. Tyrese originally took to social media to talk about his experience with colorism. In a later interview...
By Cynthia Littleton | Variety In the 1980s, it took Stanley Nelson seven years to make “Two Dollars and a Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker,” his first documentary film. It took him another seven years to make his second feature doc: “The Black Press: Soldiers...
Chris Williman | Variety Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, singer-actor Bette Midler, Motown chief Berry Gordy, “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels and opera singer Justino Díaz will be feted when the 44th Kennedy Center Honors take place in Washington, D.C....
By Elaine Low | Variety Netflix and Shonda Rhimes are extending their creative relationship, inked in 2017, beyond television to feature films and gaming. Under the terms of the expanded deal, which encompasses Rhimes’ Shondaland Media and her longtime producing...
Angelique Jackson | Variety Filmmaker Dee Rees made history on June 29 when her debut feature “Pariah” joined the Criterion Collection, making the Oscar and Emmy nominee the first Black American woman to have her work included. Before Rees, Euzhan Palcy, who is from...
by Michael Appler | Variety The question of work — who gets it and who doesn’t — has driven the Hollywood zeitgeist for years, from #MeToo to recent reckonings over race and equity. At the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Wednesday, Emmy winner Lena Waithe, her...
DESCRIPTION Regé-Jean Page (“Bridgerton”) and Emma Corrin (“The Crown”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors. For more, click here. Thanks to Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” Regé-Jean Page became an overnight sensation as a heartthrob, and his work as...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8r4wEKJaBs DESCRIPTION Chris Rock and Nicole Kidman discuss 'Fargo,' 'The Undoing' and more in a virtual chat for Variety's Actors on Actors. Read Full Article
Trey Mangum | Shadow and Act Amazon Studios has inked a first-look deal with Russell Wilson and Ciara, Shadow and Act has learned. Under the deal, through their Why Not You Productions, the duo will develop and produced scripted series and films with Amazon. “We’re so...
by Marc Malkin | Variety Michael B. Jordan hopes “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” isn’t the last audiences will see of him as John Clark. “At the end of the day we wanted it to be a franchise, but we also know that you got to do one good movie first,” Jordan tells me on...
by Michael Schneider | Variety When Steve McQueen first approached John Boyega about playing London police officer Leroy Logan in his Amazon Prime Video anthology series “Small Axe,” they were both amazed and puzzled by the story of the real-life trailblazer. Logan...