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Green Day to Kick Off Super Bowl LX Opening Ceremony
Bay Area natives Green Day will kick off Super Bowl LX’s opening ceremony, the NFL announced on Sunday. It all takes place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.,...
Francois Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’ Tops France’s Lumières Awards as Richard Linklater Wins Best Director With ‘Nouvelle Vague’
Francois Ozon‘s “The Stranger,” an adaptation of Albert Camus’ literary masterpiece which world premiered at Venice, topped the 31st Lumières Awards, taking best Film, best Actor for Benjamin Voisin, and...
Variety Hosts French Cinema Dinner at Parisian Landmark Laperouse With Cannes Boss Thierry Fremaux, Josh Safdie, Isabelle Huppert, Lea Seydoux and More
Just hours after landing from Los Angeles, where he attended the Golden Globes that saw two Croisette alumni – “Sentimental Value” and “The Secret Agent” — take home major...
Roger Allers, ‘The Lion King’ Director, Dies at 76
Roger Allers, a longtime Disney writer and the co-director of the 1994 animated classic “The Lion King,” has died. He was 76. Allers’ death was confirmed by veteran visual...
‘Landman’ Season 2 Episode 10: Craziest Moments and Burning Questions, From [SPOILER] Dodging Murder Charges to a Huge Change That Will Shape Season 3
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of “Landman,” “Tragedy and Flies,” now streaming on Paramount+. After an annoying penultimate episode that finished with two shocks,...
‘Heated Rivalry’ Stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams Invited to Australian Open by Coco Gauff: ‘I’m Their Number One Fan’
Tennis champion Coco Gauff is a “Heated Rivalry” fan. Following a gushing review of HBO Max’s queer hockey romance series on social media, the American sports star said, “I’m...
White House Threatened to Sue CBS Over ‘Evening News’ Interview With Trump
CBS News got more than it bargained for when it arranged for an interview earlier this week between President Donald Trump and anchor Tony Dokoupil on his still-nascent tenure...
Mark Jones, ‘Leprechaun’ and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ Director, Dies at 72
Mark Jones, a veteran animation writer and the director of B-horror comedy classics like “Leprechaun” and “Rumpelstiltskin,” died on Jan. 16 in Los Angeles after a brief stay at...
Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck recently appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” to promote their new Netflix film “The Rip,” and the long-time friends and collaborators shared their thoughts...
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star EJAE Gets Emotional as She Accepts Best Original Song for ‘Golden’ at American Cinematheque Tribute: ‘It Helped Bring Light in a Very Dark Time in my Life’
“KPop Demon Hunters” continues to rack up the accolades. The film’s song “Golden” was honored by the American Cinematheque Tribute to the Arts for best original song. Songwriters EJAE...
Rian Johnson Says He Was Not ‘Spooked’ by Toxic ‘Star Wars’ Fans After Kathleen Kennedy Cites ‘Last Jedi’ Backlash as to Why He Never Directed Another Entry
Rian Johnson took to X on Friday night to shut down a claim from former Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy that he was “spooked by the online negativity” and never...