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Comedian Mojo Brookzz Bringing Debut Special ‘I Know You Lying’ To Netflix In October
Comedian Mojo Brookzz will premiere his debut special "I Know You Lying" globally on Netflix on October 6, capping a rise that saw him sell more than 100,000 tickets across 40 cities on his 2025 headl
Cuoco Tears Up Honoring John Ritter at Foundation Gala
Kaley Cuoco fought back tears at the John Ritter Foundation's annual gala Saturday, recounting how the '8 Simple Rules' actor's 2003 death from an aortic dissection on set felt like losing her real fa
Gerard Way Hints at New MCR Album After 16 Years
Gerard Way told fans at My Chemical Romance's San Antonio show that the band plans to record their first full-length album in over 16 years, framing the project as something fans 'deserve.'
Box Office: ‘Practical Magic 2’ Fizzles With $30 Million Debut
Warner Bros.' 'Practical Magic 2' opened to a disappointing $30 million domestically and $46 million globally, ending Spider-Man's six-weekend No. 1 reign on a box office weekend down 43% from the sam
White's Prima Facie Film Starring Erivo Premieres at TIFF
Director Susanna White's feature film adaptation of Suzie Miller's Olivier- and Tony-winning one-woman play "Prima Facie," starring Cynthia Erivo as barrister Tessa Ensler, premieres at the Toronto In
Nilsson's 'Masc' Premieres At TIFF With Intersectional Story
Bertil Nilsson's feature directorial debut Masc, co-written by and starring Joshua Griffin as a queer, biracial, autistic man, world-premiered at TIFF's Next Wave Selects section with a Deadline exclu
Betty Thomas, Billy Crystal & The Curious Case Of The Emmy-Thieving Imposter
At the 1985 Primetime Emmy Awards, Barry Bremen — a Michigan marketing executive with no industry ties and a track record of sneaking onto sports fields — walked onstage and accepted Betty Thomas's Be
Araújo's 'Josephine' Reaches TIFF After 11-Year Wait
Beth de Araújo's "Josephine," an 11-year labor inspired by a childhood assault she witnessed in San Francisco, premieres at TIFF after earning acclaim at Sundance, starring non-actor Mason Reeves alon
Adia Debuts Opposite Mahershala Ali, Certified as Doula
Twenty-five-year-old newcomer Adia makes her feature film debut opposite two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali in Bassam Tariq's "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother," which premiered at TIFF and opens
‘Scooby-Doo: Origins’ Season 1 Production Has Rrrr-Wrapped
Production has wrapped on Season 1 of Netflix's live-action 'Scooby-Doo: Origins' series, set for a 2027 global premiere with a real Great Dane in the title role.
Melissa Rivers on Her Glorious Return to the Emmys Carpet, Remembering Her Mom Joan and Why ‘It’s Been Really Hard’ to Watch ‘Hacks’
Melissa Rivers is returning to the red carpet for the first time in 20 years, joining CNN and Variety's Emmy pre-show on Sept. 14 alongside Ramin Setoodeh and Elizabeth Wagmeister, with a stated missi
Burning Man at 40: Aging Crowd, 3 Deaths at 2025 Festival
Burning Man turned 40 this year, and its participant base is graying fast — under-30s have collapsed to 10% while three men over 50 died at the 2025 festival, fueling concerns that the once-radical de
Olivia Wilde Has Entered Her ‘Lack of F-cks Given’ Era
Olivia Wilde made a Sundance splash with two new films — directing and starring in 'The Invite' opposite Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton, and starring in Gregg Araki's 'I Want Your Sex' —
Variety & Chanel Host Women in Film Dinner at TIFF
Variety and Chanel hosted their annual Women in Film dinner at TIFF, drawing Michelle Yeoh, Courteney Cox, Ayo Edebiri, and others to celebrate women and nonbinary filmmakers behind 35% of this year's
Chicago Exhibition Imagines Life Emmett Till Never Lived
A new photography exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography, co-curated by Harvard professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr — Till's cousin and last witness to h
Willy Chavarria Directs Don Julio Día de Muertos Film
Willy Chavarria directed 'El Puente Eterno,' a short film for Don Julio's new Día de Muertos campaign built around a bottle designed by emerging Mexican designer Patricio Campillo — part of his push t
Tom Nicoll Premieres Indie Debut 'Salvation' at TIFF
Scottish writer-director Tom Nicoll premieres his debut feature "Salvation" at TIFF's Discovery section, a blackly comic thriller about an aspiring life coach whose self-reinvention spiral pulls him i
Aardman's Shaun the Sheep Beast of Mossy Bottom sparkles
Aardman's third Shaun the Sheep stop-motion feature, 'The Beast of Mossy Bottom,' earns a glowing review as a near-silent, gag-driven Halloween family caper starring sheep, giant GM pumpkins, and a ha
Mandel's Exit Party Maps Twin American Dystopias
Emily St John Mandel publishes her seventh novel, 'Exit Party,' a speculative work that alternates between two potential future Americas — one torn by civil war, the other a surveillance state — built
‘You start to worry you’ll never listen to anything else’: 25 years of Can’t Get You Out of My Head, the song that saw the future of pop
A 25th anniversary retrospective traces how 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' — demoed in three hours by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis in a Surrey garage — became the defining track of Kylie Minogue's imper
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