“Eighth Grade” writer/director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fisher discussed portraying the ambivalence of the internet in their new film.
“This is a good portrayal of what the internet is. It’s not always smiles or obsessing on emojis. It’s its own thing. It’s not bad or good; it’s both,” Fisher said at the Variety Studio presented by AT&T at the Sundance Film Festival.
Plus find out where Burnham and Fisher came up with their main character’s catch phrase, ‘Gucci!’
Ted Danson’s second Emmy nomination for his role on “The Good Place” turned out to be bittersweet. The cast just finished shooting the comedy’s final season, and Danson told Variety’s Angelique Jackson at the NBC Emmy Celebration on Tuesday that he was sad to be done with the series. Winding it down is still new to [...]
In the crime drama “The Kitchen,” Elisabeth Moss and Melissa McCarthy play mob wives who must take over their husbands’ shady business and learn how to look out for themselves. After being used to having their husbands take care of them, the women thrive and soon grow into powerful crime bosses of their own. Speaking [...]
When “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” arrived on Netflix, some fans weren’t happy about the beloved character’s updated white costume. The new look featured a much less-revealing top and a pair of boy shorts under the costume’s original tiny skirt. But creator and executive producer Noelle Stevenson doesn’t care. “We’ve seen this play out [...]
For Variety‘s Power of Young Hollywood issue, Grammy-nominated singer Camila Cabello sat down to talk about her childhood idols such as Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, the lessons she’s learned since rising to fame with Fifth Harmony (and eventually leaving to pursue her solo career in 2016) and — of course — her latest duet […]
The real reason behind Forky’s odd name choice.
Cult movie legend and horror staple, John Carpenter reflects on his legacy.
