“The Devil Wears Prada 2” director David Frankel says he would’ve liked to see Adrian Grenier reprise his role as Nate, Andy Sachs’ (Anne Hathaway) boyfriend from the first film. Frankel told Entertainment Weekly that he tried “sneaking” Grenier in for a cameo. But ultimately, “it was just too late in our production schedule to […]

With the LA28 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games two years away, technology is shaping the way LA28 will be delivered to fans across the globe. Alex Merchan, Chief Marketing Officer at LA28, spoke to Deloitte’s Chief Data & AI Officer Michelle McGuire, at Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit presented by Deloitte about the Olympics’ marketing, use […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains stories from Episode 7 of “Imperfect Women,” now streaming on Apple TV. Elisabeth Moss is no stranger to portraying a desperate mother on TV.  The “Imperfect Women” star spent almost a decade playing June — the lead character of “The Handmaid’s Tale” who recently made a reappearance in the spinoff series […]

Tina Knowles has worked as a businesswoman, fashion designer, and hairstylist, but the job she’s proudest of is her role as “Matriarch,” which is also the apt title of her 2025 autobiography. At Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit presented by Deloitte, Knowles and Variety’s Senior Entertainment Writer Angelique Jackson dove into her history and talked about […]

Frameline, the non-profit that hosts the San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, along with the Colin Higgins Foundation, has announced the recipients of the 2026 Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant. The winners, who must be 25 years old or younger, are franny trinidad and Kelly Liu for “Babaylan,” Edward Nguyen for “Sweat” (Mồ Hôi) and Matthew […]

Nadia Farès, the Moroccan-French actress who starred in “The Crimson Rivers,” died on Friday. She was 57. Farès was found unconscious in a swimming pool last week and had been in a coma after. Her daughters confirmed she died of cardiac arrest in a statement to Agence France-Presse. “It is with immense sadness that we […]

The Tribeca Festival has announced the HBO original documentary “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World)” will open the 25th annual festival on June 3. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the film will be screened at the Beacon Theatre, followed by a live performance by […]

Crayola Studios is teaming with Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival to launch a new initiative aimed at discovering and developing original kids content, with finalists set to pitch live at the 2026 event. The program will invite emerging creators to submit one-page concepts for children’s projects, with selected finalists presenting their ideas during the festival, […]