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Springsteen Apologizes to Bono for Rejecting Gap Ad
Bruce Springsteen publicly apologized to Bono at the Tribeca Festival for rejecting a 2008 request to license 'Girls in Their Summer Clothes' for a Gap commercial supporting Bono's (RED) AIDS foundati
Remembering Actor James Handy For The Right Reasons – Guest Column
Carl Kurlander's guest column remembers James Handy — character actor with 143+ credits including The Verdict and Top Gun: Maverick, stabbed to death at his Tarzana home — as a man of rare warmth whos
Cucinelli's Docufilm Heads to Shanghai Festival
Brunello Cucinelli is bringing Giuseppe Tornatore's docufilm "Brunello: The Gracious Visionary" to the Shanghai International Film Festival, telling Variety his philosophy of "humanistic capitalism" c
Emmy TV Movie Category Rewards Comedies Over Prestige
The Emmy race for outstanding television movie increasingly rewards comedies, action thrillers, and crowd-pleasing genre fare rather than prestige dramas, as serious films migrate to the limited serie
Tyra Banks Sues Netflix Over 'ANTM' Doc Defamation
Tyra Banks has sued Netflix for defamation, claiming her 3.5-hour interview for the 'Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model' docuseries was 'surgically manipulated' into a 16-minute false narr
BTS to Release Lyric Book and Korean Cookbook for Festa
BTS will release a lyric-analysis book featuring all seven members and a Korean recipe cookbook this September, launching a multi-year publishing partnership with Running Press, CAKE Corp, and BigHit
Wanda Sykes Reveals Why She Turned Down Kevin Hart’s Netflix Roast & What Bill Maher Had To Say About Her Golden Globes Joke
Wanda Sykes detailed on Vulture's Good One podcast why she turned down Kevin Hart's Netflix Roast, calling it 'lazy writing,' and recounted her post-Golden Globes confrontation with Bill Maher over he
Gilligan Rewrote Pluribus As Female Lead For Seehorn
Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn reunite for Apple TV+'s Pluribus, revealing that Gilligan deliberately reshaped his decade-long sci-fi project from a male lead to one tailored for Seehorn, and that Se
Box Office: ‘Disclosure Day’ Makes First Contact With $19 Million
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' debuted at No. 1 with $19 million on opening Friday and is tracking toward a $44 million domestic weekend, while Focus Features' $1 million horror 'Obsession' conti
Crowe: 'Gladiator II' Failed Over Lost Moral Core
Russell Crowe declared 'Gladiator II' 'failed' at the Taormina Film Festival for lacking the original's moral core, recounting how he blocked sex scenes in the 2000 film and previewing his wrapped 'Hi
NYC Concert Counters Trump's White House UFC Birthday
Trump is hosting a UFC event on the White House South Lawn for his birthday, estimated to cost upwards of $60 million in taxpayer funds, and Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, an
DiCaprio Warned Danes Off Prop Guns on Romeo + Juliet
Claire Danes recounted that Leonardo DiCaprio pulled her aside on the "Romeo + Juliet" set to warn her against playing with a prop gun before filming her character's suicide scene.
The David Hockney Painting That Makes You Look, and Then Look Again
British artist David Hockney, who spent two weeks painting a single splash in 'A Bigger Splash' and embraced everything from iPads to fax machines as tools of image-making, has died at 88.
Kristin Scott Thomas Teases Second Directorial Film
Kristin Scott Thomas received a Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival, discussed her role as icy MI5 boss Diana Taverner in Apple's Slow Horses (seasons 6 and 7 confirmed), and revealed he
Louis de Bernières Slams 'Like' as Worst Verbal Filler
Novelist Louis de Bernières publishes a polemic against the verbal filler 'like' and other imprecise speech, blaming it for wasted conversation time and mourning the loss of regional dialects like Nor
‘We eat and drink risk’: higher costs bring curtain down on more UK music festivals
At least 20 UK independent music festivals have been cancelled, postponed, or gone into liquidation this year as soaring artist fees, infrastructure costs, and competition from corporate giants like L
Shankman's Drag Race Film Is a Mainstream Crossover
Director Adam Shankman's 'Stop! That! Train!' is a Drag Race-fronted disaster-comedy pitched explicitly as a mainstream crossover rather than a cult spinoff — though its launch has been complicated by
Mark Haddon, Zadie Smith Pick Summer's Best Reads
Authors from Zadie Smith to Marian Keyes share their summer reading picks, spotlighting International Booker winner 'Taiwan Travelogue,' Siri Hustvedt's Paul Auster memoir, and a long-awaited Daniyal
G’wed: this underrated gem of a comedy is filthy, heartwarming and packed with ideas
A new review champions G'wed, a scouse-language Liverpool school comedy now in its third series, as a broad 30-minute show that dares to tackle grief, class, anorexia, consent and the Premier League a
Popular US movie critic Gene Shalit dies aged 100
Gene Shalit, the mustachioed, bow-tied film critic who became a fixture on NBC's Today show for four decades, has died at age 100, his family confirmed to the network.
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