Kieran Culkin has confessed. The star of “A Real Pain” and “Succession” admitted that he once swapped a prop joint for one spiked with real marijuana when he was cast in a stage production alongside Mark Ruffalo in 2000. “I was 17 and stupid,” Culkin said in a new interview with The Guardian. “I’m like, […]

“Happy New Year. For me, this is a dream come true,” said Frances Ford Coppola, surveying the audience that had come to see his passion project, “Megalopolis,” at an American Cinematheque conversation-and-screening event to kick off 2025. The dream part of it, for him, was the chance to spend 100 minutes talking not very much […]

Thirty years after Tejano icon Selena Quintanilla-Perez was murdered in her native Texas, her killer, 64 year-old Yolanda Saldívar, is under review for parole. Saldívar is currenly serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas — nearly five hours away from the scene of Selena’s death in Corpus Christi. According […]

Variety’s fourth annual FYC Fest: The Shortlist will return on Thursday, Jan. 9 featuring conversations with the top contending filmmakers and artisans that were shortlisted by the Academy in the categories of original song, score, visual effects, international feature film, live action short film and more. This year’s program includes seven conversations: Each conversation will […]

Tom Holland recently told Men’s Health that he chooses not to walk the red carpet alongside his girlfriend Zendaya at her movie premieres “because it’s not my moment, it’s her moment, and if we go together, it’s about us.” The two actors are happy to join forces when it’s a movie they’ve shot together, like Marvel’s […]

Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast made a huge impression when its debut episode hit No. 1 on the Spotify charts, dethroning “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The two podcasts continue to trade between first and second place on Spotify, while Kelce remains in the top spot on the Apple podcasts charts. On her Jan. 2. […]

Georgia’s Savannah College of Art and Design has launched the second phase of its film studio backlot. The 11-acre, three-phase expansion now includes the backlot, new state-of-the-art production, modern costume design sewing labs, classrooms, an LED volume stage for virtual productions, a hair and makeup studio and a massive, high-tech prop making shop with tools […]

ABC’s annual “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” special brought the network its first big ratings win of the year. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest for the 20th year in a row, the telecast averaged 17.9 million viewers with a 4.7 rating among adults age 18-49 during Part 1 of its late night portion, which aired […]

Meta’s president of global affairs, former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, is leaving the social giant after more than six years. Taking his place: Joel Kaplan, a Meta lobbying exec with ties to the Republican party. Clegg is stepping down from the role just weeks before Donald Trump is set to be sworn in […]

Andrew Garfield recently told GQ UK that rumors claiming he has signed on to star in Marvel’s “Spider-Man 4” are not true, although he is blatantly aware that no comic book movie fan is going to believe him. After all, Garfield spent all of 2021 denying he’d be back as the web-slinger in “Spider-Man: No […]

Angel Studios will distribute the documentary “Breaking Into Beautiful” which is based on the life of Kim White, one of the world’s first “illness influencers.” She has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram by sharing her journey with cancer.   “Kim’s story is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to find beauty in […]

Wayne Osmond, one of the original members of the Osmonds sibling singing group, died Wednesday in Salt Lake City. He was 73. Merrill Osmond, one of Wayne Osmond’s brothers, shared on Facebook that Wayne suffered a massive stroke, and that he was able to get to the hospital in Salt Lake to say his goodbyes […]

Not even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights. Domestic ticket sales have wound up at $8.7 billion for the year, down than 3.3% from 2023 (when revenues hit $9.04 billion) and […]

The visual effects Oscar race was narrowed down to 10 shortlisted movies in mid-December. And next, branch members will be invited to attend or view online its “bake-off” – a sort of show-and-tell scheduled for Jan. 11, during which contenders will present clips and discuss their work before the branch votes on which five films […]

Peacock has unveiled the trailer for a new Diddy documentary in which his bodyguard, intern, makeup artist and producer speak out against the disgraced music mogul. “Honestly, I didn’t want to be around him unless there was cameras,” one of the people in Sean Combs’ inner circle says in the trailer for “Diddy: The Making […]

Lauren Davis has been promoted to associate chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She will work alongside Nick Sansano, chair of the Clive Davis Institute. Davis is a highly-experienced music attorney who has represented high-profile musicians, producers and publishers, among others. She’s been teaching at NYU since 2006 and served […]

More than a decade after the swift cancellation of the underrated show “Enlisted,” Fox has taken another bite at the apple of a broadcast workplace sitcom set within the United States military. As with its predecessor, the midseason premiere “Going Dutch” counters the global scope of its central employer with the intimate one of immediate […]

Timothée Chalamet hasn’t even turned 30, but that isn’t stopping the American Cinematheque from embarking on a week-long retrospective of the Oscar-nominated actor’s red-hot career. “He’s an extraordinary talent,” says Imani Davis, film programmer at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. “I can’t think of many other times where we’ve highlighted the work of someone so […]

No one else can claim the kind of television career that Ted Danson has had. Sure, there are several actors who have appeared on multiple hit shows. But Danson has been a primetime staple over five decades now, with continual hit shows since the moment he hit superstardom as Sam Malone on “Cheers” in 1982. […]