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Pop quiz, hotshots: How many years has it been since Speed was blowing up at the box office? Well, let's see, its lead stars haven't aged a day, so Wait, 30 years? Indeed, the action

Stop-motion maestro Claude Barras (“My Life as a Zucchini,” “Savages!”) will back “Ogresse,” a tragicomic musical directed by three-time Grammy winner Cecile McLorin Salvant and Belgian animator Lia Bertels. Variety can share this first look. Led by Miyu Productions – the studio behind last year’s Annecy Animation Festival top-winner “Chicken For Linda!” – the upcoming project […]

Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has boarded his acting coach Vinod Rawat’s feature directorial debut “Pushtaini” (“Ancestral”) as a presenter. Rawat, who previously directed Season 1 of Disney+ Hotstar’s Emmy-nominated series “Aarya” alongside Ram Madhvani, has served as Roshan’s acting coach since “Kaabil” (2017). In “Pushtaini,” Rawat stars as Bhuppi, a struggling actor who is desperate […]

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” enjoyed one day at the top of the mainland China box office before being deposed by a crop of local new releases that opened in time for the Dragon Boat holiday. “Civil War” performed even more slowly. China’s Friday to Sunday weekend box office saw “Be My Friend” score $8.1 […]

From documentaries about war in Ukraine and Gaza to the sweetness of “Bluey” to the earthiness of “Somebody Somewhere” and “Reservation Dogs” to the Mel Brooks canon, the 84th annual Peabody Awards ceremony on Sunday saluted an array of standout TV programs, movies, documentaries, podcasts, video games and more. The respected awards, adminstered by the […]

In one of several headline-grabbing moments from her epic set at New York’s Governors Ball festival on Sunday, fast-rising singer Chappell Roan revealed that she turned down an offer to perform at a White House Pride event. “In response to the White House, who asked me to perform for Pride,” Roan, dressed in a glammed-up […]