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Keira Knightley is back in the first trailer for Netflix’s “Black Doves” Season 2. All six hour-long episode will release on November 5. The logline for Season 2 teases: “Helen (Knightley) is still betraying her…
Scottish pop trio Chvrches have signed with Futures Music Group and alongside that announcement have released their first single in three years, “Roses.” The group will play two shows in the U.K. next month, in London…
Lionsgate has released a trailer for “Day Drinker,” the Marc Webb-directed thriller starring Johnny Depp, Madelyn Cline and Penélope Cruz. The film will hit theaters on March 26, 2027. “Day Drinker” follows a…
Sky’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” series has found its leads in David Oyelowo and Viola Prettejohn. Oyelowo (“Silo,” “Selma”) will play disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist alongside Prettejohn (“The Crown,” “The…
Puck, the five-year-old media upstart, has a new owner: RedBird Capital Partners, the investment firm that is a backer of other media companies including Paramount Skydance’s merger bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.…
It’s at the tail of its closing credit scroll that “Ancestors” drops its final, plainly worded message, also setting its title in context: “No survivors, only descendants.” As the sign-off for this heartbroken drama of…
Meta’s given its glasses a virtual-reality upgrade. Meta unveiled its new $1,299 VR glasses at its annual Meta Connect event on Wednesday, an upgraded version of its Quest headset line. The product, the company…
Everyone knows Jeff Koons or Marina Abramović, but the art world has been hiding another celebrity: star auctioneer and former Sotheby’s chairman Simon de Pury. “He’s in the shadows but also in the spotlight. It’s…
The new MS NOW streaming “Membership” comes with perks. The Versant-backed news outlet will give subscribers to its recently-launched subscription app a chance to win tickets to attend the first Power to the People…
Tribeca Festival and AT&T have opened submissions for the 10th anniversary of AT&T Untold Stories, the filmmaker development program that awards one emerging director $1.2 million to produce a feature film. The…
What happens when an emotionally stranded young film worker becomes indispensable to one of the world’s biggest stars who may also be a murderer? That collision drives “Copy” (“El participio del verbo oír”), Miguel…
If one film could define this year’s Zurich Film Festival, it would be Peter Farrelly’s “I Play Rocky,” a heartfelt drama about the making of the Sylvester Stallone-starring classic that is playing as one of the…
Carat named Sarah Stringer and Brian Meuleman to key global roles aimed at helping bridge gaps between strategic theory and commercial results. Stringer was named global chief strategy and innovation officer. Her remit…
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad has ruffled some feathers at San Sebastián with her feature debut “Cute.” “I find it interesting and exciting that the film creates such strong reactions,” she tells Variety. “It’s never…
Very few production companies can boast about landing major international festival premieres for every project in their slate. Brazil’s Desvia Filmes is one of them, with all of its 16 features launching at festivals…
Terence Winter and Dan Farah are partnering for a series take on the memoir of former U.S. Intelligence official Jay Stratton titled “Out of the Shadows,” Variety has learned. In the memoir, which will be published by…
The mere mention of “The Swan” is enough to send chills down one’s spine. Created by former Telemundo exec Nely Galán, the Fox reality series selected 16 female contestants — from over 250,000 applicants — who were…
Jessica Lange is not only reprising her four previous “American Horror Story” roles in Season 13 — she’s debuting a new one. When asked on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday what made her want to return to Ryan Murphy’s…
A total of 10 projects are taking part in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Latin America and Europe WIP competition showcases, which will help the winning projects jump their last hurdles towards release. Selected from…
For years, Fidelio Films producer Björn Hering wanted to make a film about the tragedy of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Canadian coast of Halifax in 1998. Hering, the son-in-law of flight pilot Urs…