Posts by Kim Browne
‘Wuthering Heights’ Audiobook, Voiced by Aimee Lou Wood, Sees 440% Increase in Downloads Following Film Release
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Heights are indeed getting wuthered. Not only did Emerald Fennell’s bold take on the classic novel collect an impressive $83 million at the global box office this past weekend, but the audiobook version of…
Read MoreNeon Buys Ryusuke Hamaguchi‘s Paris-Set ‘All of a Sudden’
Neon has scooped U.S. rights to Ryusuke Hamaguchi‘s (“Drive My Car”) French movie “All of a Sudden.” The project is produced and sold internationally by Cinefrance. It’s the first major deal – believed to be in the seven-figure range — of the European Film Market so far. The movie shot in Paris with a glamorous female…
Read MoreSan Diego Man Impersonating ICE Agent Violently Attacks Latino Man
A 40-year-old man allegedly walked into a San Diego McDonald’s, asked for the manager, and violently put him in a headlock—all while claiming to be an ICE agent. “Why do you think your 911 calls aren’t f—king working?” Joshua Cobb can be heard telling McDonald’s employees in a video of the incident last week. “Why…
Read MoreEvery time a startup stalls, these 5 blind spots are to blame
You know the feeling. Growth flattens. The energy dips. The metrics are not terrible, but they are not moving. You tell yourself it is just a slow month, a weird cycle, the market. But deep down, you sense something is off. Most startups do not stall because founders are lazy or untalented. They stall because…
Read MoreNoem Pulled Coast Guard Plane off Search and Rescue to Deport People
“I still strongly believe in Trump’s immigration laws about, ‘Let’s get the bad guys out of here.’ You know, they’re murderers, they killed people, they molested people, let’s get them out of here,” Ceballos said to the publication. “But I feel like I don’t fit that category. And I feel like that’s how they’re treating…
Read MoreJohn Fetterman Hits New Low in Quest for Donald Trump’s Approval
“I still strongly believe in Trump’s immigration laws about, ‘Let’s get the bad guys out of here.’ You know, they’re murderers, they killed people, they molested people, let’s get them out of here,” Ceballos said to the publication. “But I feel like I don’t fit that category. And I feel like that’s how they’re treating…
Read MoreTobias Nölle Returns to Berlinale Panorama With Hybrid Island Portrait ‘Tristan Forever’
A decade after “Aloys” won the Fipresci Prize at the Berlin Festival’s Panorama, Swiss filmmaker Tobias Nölle returns to the section with “Tristan Forever,” a meditative, genre-elusive hybrid that tracks a French doctor’s 30-year obsession with Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most isolated inhabited island, and his bid to settle there permanently. Produced by Hugofilm…
Read MoreAI Video ‘Jia Zhangke Wishes Everyone Happy New Year’ Emerges Online
An AI-generated video titled “Jia Zhangke Wishes Everyone Happy New Year” has surfaced online and is also circulating widely across social media, featuring a digital recreation of the acclaimed Chinese filmmaker in a scripted, meta-fictional exchange about authorship, technology and artistic control. The short clip, posted on YouTube by COMA — the Chinatown Organization for…
Read MoreHillary Clinton and Kevin Spacey Attend Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin as Kaouther Ben Hania Awarded Prize for ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’: ‘I Feel Responsibility More Than Gratitude’
Kaouther Ben Hania‘s Oscar and BAFTA nominated feature “The Voice of Hind Rajab” was awarded “most valuable film” at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin on Monday night. The annual event, attended by Hillary Clinton and Kevin Spacey and hosted by Bob Geldof, also honored Noam Tibon, a former Israeli general and subject of…
Read MoreChristian Nationalists Are All in on Trump—and Vice Versa
As compared to “skeptics” or “rejecters” of Christian nationalism, adherents and sympathizers are also more likely to agree that “because things have gotten too far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” Christian nationalist beliefs were also strongly correlated with support for authoritarianism. Seventy-three percent…
Read MoreWhat’s Behind the Centrists’ Resistance to the “Resistance Liberals”?
The point of stressing Epstein isn’t merely the immediate harms to his victims (though these are not trivial). Many who feared the worst about Trump pointed to the fact that he was an abuser because, to them, it showed how he thought about power. This was the correct inference. It is not incidental to Trump’s…
Read MoreData Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For
It also shows that many of us rise to the occasion when we are given something to do. One ubiquitous complaint about climate change is that it can be hard to know, as an individual, what to do about such a global, diffuse problem. And similarly, it’s hard to know what an individual can do…
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