Variety

Leslie Odom Jr. Returning to ‘Hamilton’ on West End Tonight After Exiting Mid-Performance (EXCLUSIVE)

Leslie Odom Jr. was forced to exit a matinee performance of “Hamilton” in London mid-show Thursday. Variety understands Odom bowed out after the first act and was replaced by Manaia Glassey-Ohlson. He did not appear in the evening performance of the show. A spokesperson for “Hamilton” declined to elaborate on what caused Odom’s exit but […]

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Variety

MIFFest Founder Joanne Goh Pushes Kuala Lumpur’s Ambitions as Southeast Asia’s Film Hub

As the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) approaches its 10th anniversary next year, founder Joanne Goh is looking beyond expansion. “We expect the festival to become a hub of Southeast Asia,” Goh tells Variety, outlining her vision for MIFFest as a meeting place for filmmakers, producers and industry leaders across the region. That vision gained […]

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Variety

Lee Chang-dong on His Eight-Year Gap Before Venice-Bound ‘Possible Love’ and MIFFest Lifetime Achievement Honor: ‘Thanks to Cinema, I Feel Connected to Something Much Bigger’

Eight years after “Burning,” Lee Chang-dong is preparing to return with Venice competition title “Possible Love,” but the acclaimed Korean filmmaker says the long gap was never about stepping away from cinema. Speaking with Variety at the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Lee says the years since “Burning” […]

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Variety

Madison Wells Balances Art, Commerce and Audience Demands as Gigi Pritzker’s Banner Backs Movies, TV Shows, Live Events and More

On today’s episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, Madison Wells Media chief Gigi Pritzker and newly appointed president and chief content officer Dan Steinman discuss how the well-positioned indie navigates the ups and downs of a transforming marketplace. “We have to be smarter,” Pritzker says. “Even inexpensive movies are expensive,” says Steinman. Pritzker explains why […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Facebook Is Testing If People Want to Swap Their Feed For “Immersive Video”

The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.

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Variety

Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Says She Was Pushed to Report on Events ‘That Never Happened’ Under Bari Weiss’ Leadership at CBS News

Cecilia Vega, who was fired as a correspondent from CBS News’ “60 Minutes” in a major shake-up three months ago, is speaking out about her experience at the TV newsmagazine under Bari Weiss’ leadership. Vega said the “new administration” at CBS News — indicating Weiss, whom Paramount installed as editor in chief of the division […]

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Variety

‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ Adds ‘Last Days’ Actor Sky Yang, ‘Summer I Turned Pretty’ Star Sean Kaufman (EXCLUSIVE)

Sky Yang and Sean Kaufman will star alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in Paramount‘s upcoming adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” Set over several decades, the story follows Sadie and her co-collaborator Sam Masur, who meet as children and then reunite as college students, as well as Sam’s roommate and friend Marx […]

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Variety

Music’s Legal Elite 2026: Meet the Attorneys Who Help the Stars Shine

They may not make the music or mastermind the marketing campaigns, but — duh! — the music business wouldn’t and couldn’t exist without lawyers. The best of them oversee the mega-million deals and catalog sales of superstars, protect the  creative work of human beings against AI and other entities that would steal it, prevent young […]

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The Guardian Culture

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film

Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice-of-yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?The Wimbledon lawn tennis championships are not generally a hotbed of crime. Yet this year, unprecedented infringements ocurred. Eleven players were fined a total of £34,000 for “audible obscenities” and “racquet abuse”. Meanwhile, a spectator at the men’s singles final called a heckler a “bumbaclat” before in

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Variety

‘Avatar’ Sequel Film ‘Aang: The Last Airbender’ Revives the Animated Franchise With Breathtaking Visuals: TV Review

It’s a shame most fans of the “Avatar” franchise won’t have the chance to see its first animated feature on the big screen. (M. Night Shyamalan’s risible 2010 live-action film will be acknowledged here and here only.) “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” is the first official release from Avatar Studios, the shingle set up half […]

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Variety

The Pool Films Acquires Tokyo-Based Photographer and Director Xavier Tera’s Debut, ‘The Color of the Sun,’ Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

Paris-based The Pool Films has taken world rights to coming-of-age drama “The Color of the Sun,” which marks the feature film debut of Tokyo-based photographer and commercials director Xavier Tera, who has collaborated with the likes of Harry Styles, Kaytranada and Rosalia. “Color of the Sun,” which will soon launch from the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Sales Veteran Fred Tsui to Lead Hong Kong International Film Festival

The Moebius Entertainment founder and longtime Media Asia sales chief succeeds Albert Lee on Sept. 23, ahead of the festival's 51st edition next spring.

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Hollywood Reporter

Chris Brown Pleads Guilty After London Nightclub Attack

The singer plead guilty to affray, which in the U.K. is a public order offense where the defendant uses or threatens unlawful violence against another person.

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Variety

Rebel Wilson Defamation Case Ruling Appealed by ‘The Deb’ Star Charlotte MacInnes

Charlotte MacInnes has appealed her defeat in a defamation case against Rebel Wilson, challenging the findings that Wilson’s Instagram posts were not defamatory and did not cause serious harm to her reputation. MacInnes filed her notice of appeal on Thursday, one day after Justice Elizabeth Raper dismissed her defamation and breach-of-confidence claims in the Federal […]

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Variety

Chris Brown Pleads Guilty Over ‘Vicious and Unprovoked’ Attack at U.K. Nightclub

Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to affray in the U.K. in relation to a “vicious and unprovoked” attack at a London nightclub in 2023. His co-defendant, Omololu Akinlolu, also pleaded guilty. The U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service (similar in function to the District Attorney) described Akinlolu, a Florida rapper also known as HoodyBaby, as Brown’s vocal […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Spain Scores World Cup Docuseries at Prime Video

The four-part series boasts exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Spain's journey to World Cup glory, including from matches against Argentina and France.

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The Guardian Culture

‘An anthem for the co-dependent’: Bad Magpie’s corvid carnage with a side of existential angst

Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havocAmid the gleeful anarchy of Bad Magpie’s debut trailer, there’s a striking note of melancholy. The game’s protagonist – a wounded corvid that creates havoc wherever she goes – calls out forlornly as a flock of her kind passes above, with a conspicuous gap in their formation.Milktooth games designer and co-founder Daisy Fernandez has h

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The Guardian Culture

‘I know what it’s like to be vulnerable’: musician This Is Lorelei AKA Nate Amos on addiction and finding peace

The singer-songwriter and Water from Your Eyes guitarist was unstoppably prolific, despite a growing dependence on substances. Now sober, he reflects on his new album and the songs that helped him turn his life roundFor most of his life, Nate Amos made music just to get through the day. There was plenty of it: dozens of self-produced albums and EPs uploaded – since his This Is Lorelei project launched in 2012 – to what was then a plucky, independent platform called Bandcamp. Now 35, he

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The Guardian Culture

‘You can’t paper over the cracks of history. It will haunt you’: Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her race-horror thriller

She paved the way for Bridgerton, lit up Black Mirror’s most joyful episode – and now she stars in a grisly supernatural horror about slavery. The Belle star talks about Possession, partying with Prince and why she loves to shake things upGugu Mbatha-Raw seems blissfully immune to the heat. London is pushing 40C on one of those heatwave mornings when everyone is wearing the weather: damp collars, flushed faces, hair slicked to foreheads. Arriving at the cafe of the central London hotel where we

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Variety

India’s Paid Music Subscribers Could Hit 30 Million by 2028, EY-IMI Report Finds

India’s paid music streaming subscriber base could grow to between 28 million and 30 million by 2028, up from an estimated 14 million as of December 2025, according to the EY and the Indian Music Industry (IMI) “How India Listens, Streams and Pays for Music” report, released Friday in Mumbai. The report draws on a […]

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