The story of “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” is driven by multiple family-related conflicts, but these succeed because of the depth of character, says Pat Boonnitipat, director of the comedy-drama that is Thailand’s first movie to ever make the Oscars’ international feature film shortlist. Boonnitipat, a TV director who makes his feature debut […]

As part of Variety’s Directors on Directors series, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan weighed in on Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” In Ridley Scott’s first “Gladiator,” Maximus asks us, “Are you not entertained?” and we’re confronted with the truth of why we’d visit the Colosseum through a movie. Scott knows we’re not there for insights into Roman […]

Over the last several years, the entertainment industry has been rocked by a succession of body blows. It came out of a global pandemic only to be hit with dual strikes (WGA and SAG-AFTRA) that caused historically long labor stoppages, which were followed by a work slowdown brought on by a deflation of the streaming […]