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When Greg Daniels wants to be friends with you, he won’t invite you to grab a drink at a local bar. He’ll ask you if you want to write comedy. “It’s kind of like my invitation to play tennis or hang out,” he says. “I’ve worked with some really amazing collaborators, and I’ve soug

Sacha Baron Cohen is going from Ali G to the West End. The actor and comedian is set to make his stage debut in the London production of Quentin’s Tarantino’s upcoming production “The Popinjay Cavalier,” Variety can confirm. Baron Cohen will reportedly play the title character in

Starz has set the premiere date for “P-Valley” Season 3, which will also be the show’s final season. The drama series will return for its third and final season on Dec. 4, meaning it will launch over four years after Season 2. The first two episodes will drop on Dec. 4, followed

Jennifer Lawrence has officially joined Instagram, earning nearly 1 million followers in less than 24 hours. But the Oscar winner is issuing a warning to toxic social media users: She will quit Instagram if people start being mean. “So yeah, I am giving it a shot and if anyone sa

Television’s biggest night of the year is almost here. In other words, let the partying begin. The festivities kick off with Gold House’s One House Toast to the Emmys as well as the Creative Coalition’s Humanitarian Awards dinner. Agencies like UTA and WME will have pre-parties.

Jan Holoubek’s TIFF premiere “Wild Wild East” is set in 1943, but it no longer feels safely stored away in the past.  “When I first read the script 12 years ago, it felt like a period drama. It was about something that happened a long time ago and wouldn’t happen again. Today, I

The first New York Games Week will take place Oct. 4-11 with video game industry-themed events, showcases, conferences, tournaments, summits, professional mixers and meetups across the five boroughs of New York City. From gaming industry vets Guy Blomberg (Games Industry Gatherin

Jack Quaid isn’t giving up his acting career, but the “Boys” star jokes he’s on his way to becoming a supermodel now that he stars in the Fall 2026 campaign for menswear brand Bonobos. “I guess I can add that to the résumé,” he cracks. The campaign is an episodic video series fea

Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller “Counting Miracles” has found its writer/director in “The Peanut Butter Falcon” co-filmmaker Tyler Nilson. Starring Alan Ritchson, “Counting Miracles” follows Army Ranger Tanner Hughes (Ritchson) as he crosses the c

As we go into college and pro football seasons, T-Mobile Fiber has a limited-time deal aimed at making the switch to fiber easier for blazing-fast high-speed internet for streaming games. Right now, you can get fiber starting at the “Fast” plan,  for $35/month with AutoPay (plus

Marvel’s “X-Men” cast is expanding with the new addition of “Gen V” star Asa Germann as the high-flying mutant Angel, Variety can confirm. He joins the new mutant team consisting of Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as R

A filmed version of the hit Broadway and West End play “Oh, Mary!” will debut on HBO in 2027. HBO dropped the news in a teaser featuring playwright and star Cole Escola opposite “Sex and the City” stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. As Mary Todd Lincoln, Escola rushes i

France has unveiled a robust shortlist of five films in the pipeline to represent country in the best international feature film race at Oscars, with Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prize winner “Minotaur” and Antonin Baudry’s WW2-set “The Battle of De Gaulle: The Iron Age” amo

Paul Walker’s brother does not want to be involved in bringing back the late actor’s character, Brian O’Conner, for Universal’s next “Fast and Furious” movie. He knows AI could be used to do it, but he doesn’t think it should be done.  “AI was not a thing back in 2014, so they co

A movie version of the police procedural “Hawaii Five-O” is in the works at Paramount. Destin Daniel Cretton, whose summer blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has remained a box office sensation, has been hired to direct the film from a script by Chris Bremner (“Bad Boys for

Andrew Scott will receive the Mill Valley Film Festival’s Acting Award for his latest performance in “Elsinore.” Scott stars in the Focus Features film portraying Ian Charleson in his celebrated performance as Hamlet at London’s National Theatre, before the actor, known for starr

“NAZA,” the new documentary from Israeli “No Other Land” directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, earned a massive 24.5-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Thursday. This marks the longest-ever standing ovation in Venice — besting the 22 minutes for “The Voice

The irksome controversy over “No Other Land” upon winning both the Berlinale Documentary prize and the Academy Award was never really about the film. It was hardly the first strong documentary to call attention to Israel’s official policy of ethnic cleansing, and there were no re