By Cynthia Littleton | Variety Prolific producer Will Packer has set up a TV, digital and branded content production venture with Discovery Communications and Universal Pictures. As part of the deal, Will Packer Media will have a first-look programming pact with OWN,...
By Todd Longwell | Los Angeles Times Pasted in a corner of Eddie Smith’s scrapbook is a small, yellowed newspaper clipping from 1969 telling of a helicopter crash on the set of a war movie in which a pilot and two stuntmen “escaped injury.” The movie was “MASH”; Smith...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Set production on the Kasi Lemmons-directed Harriet has started, prompting new criticisms of Cynthia Erivo, who has been cast as Harriet Tubman. According to Deadline, the film will focus on Tubman's life, including her time as a...
https://youtu.be/HhZUooOr-tk Olivia Munn and Keegan-Michael Key teach you Japanese and Detroit slang words. Olivia and Keegan-Michael star in The Predator, out in theaters September 14th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKq0DaQzBU 'Farming' director and star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, along with co-stars Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Damson Idris, visit IMDb at Toronto. READ STORY
from Variety Variety is pleased to announce its annual list of 10 Actors to Watch, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998. Past honorees include many future Oscar winners and nominees, such as Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer,...
By Daniel Holloway | Variety Atop the coffee table inside the house where Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Prods. lives sit some very on-brand periodicals — titles like Heavy Metal, Fangoria and Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine. The Twilight Zone issue is a gem. It not...
By Erin Nyren and Christi Carras | Variety “Black Panther” actor Sterling K. Brown is torn about the Academy Awards’ new popular film category. At an FYC event for “This Is Us” at Paramount Studios, Brown, who played N’Jobu in the Marvel blockbuster, told Variety his...
By Kristopher Tapley | Variety Nearly a decade ago, the controversial best-picture snub of superhero hit “The Dark Knight” sparked the motion picture Academy to action. In an attempt to stoke the Oscar odds for populist cinema and to be more inclusive, the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfT3Hc0Nibg Laura Dern and Angela Bassett discuss how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement has changed Hollywood for Variety's Actors on Actors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgseWz45zGo Colin Jost and Michael Che give each other a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Is Colin funny because deep down he's miserable? Does Colin think he's better than Michael cause he went to Harvard? Does Michael think he knows...
...Women and Minorities Aren’t Getting Better Movie Roles (Study) By Brent Lang | Variety Time’s Up and #MeToo is dominating the talk in Hollywood, and not an awards show nor a red carpet interview seems to take place these days without filmmakers and actors being...