After headlining two movies that debuted on the fall festival circuit — “Suburbicon” and “Downsizing” — Matt Damon has found a new project. He's set to star as John R. Brinkley, a real-life 20th…
Brazil has selected "Bingo – The King of the Mornings," one of its most awaited debuts of 2017, as its entry for next year's foreign-language Academy Award. Produced by Brazilian production…
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Lady Gaga is vulnerable and reflective in the trailer for her Netflix documentary “Gaga: Five Foot Two.” “When producers wanted me to be sexy, I always put some absurd spin on it that made me feel…
Year-old global content rights specialist BidSlate has launched a partnership with leading distributor Premiere Digital, Variety has learned exclusively. The companies are touting the partnership as…
Robin Campillo’s sprawling AIDS activist drama “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” has been chosen to represent France in the foreign-language Oscar category. “BPM” world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival…
If political courage were a measure of artistic merit, Moroccan director Nabil Arouch's "Razzia," a kaleidoscopic drama about intolerance and social tumult in Casablanca, would be a formidable…
The rediscovered 16mm material is shaped to re-tell a remarkable life story in terms greatly benefitting from the trust the cameraman had achieved with his subjects--chimps as well as spouse.
PARIS – Warner Bros. has signed a first-look deal with Marvelous Productions, the Paris-based outfit launched at Cannes by former top-level execs at Pathé, Romain Le Grand and Vivien Aslanian and…
Horror-thriller, "Dearest Sister" has been selected by Laos as its first submission of a film in the Academy Awards foreign-language category. The film is directed by Mattie Do, regarded as one of…
Writers Guild of America West members have given screenwriter John August the most votes for a two-year board seat and re-elected incumbents Andrea Berloff, Luvh Rakhe, Meredith Stiehm, and Zak Penn…
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