Variety

‘Half Man’ Star Richard Gadd Breaks Down Hospital Confrontation Scene: ‘The Anger Empties Out of the Room’

Perhaps the most emotionally and physically demanding sequence of “Half Man” — and given the high drama of the HBO limited series, that’s saying a lot — took less than a day to shoot. “We finished 15 minutes early,” series creator, director and star Richard Gadd tells Variety in a Making a Scene conversation presented […]

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The Guardian Culture

Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video

Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it …Madonna’s new video is called Confessions II because it’s the follow-up to her album Confessions on a Dance Floor, released in 2005. Nope, wrong: that was not more than 20 years ago. That was last week. Years are for little people. Madonna can hold back the passage of time with the power of her imagination, and that has always been true. But w

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Variety

‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Steven Spielberg’s Invigorating Chase Thriller Taps Into the Mania for Alien Conspiracy Theory, but It Never Becomes a Close Encounter with Wonder

Scene for scene, the movie is a vigorous and diverting ride. Yet coming after the mountains of real UAP footage we’ve seen, "Disclosure Day" never gives you the contact high of awe that "Close Encounters" did. It’s closer to "Alien Autopsy" with better lighting, or perhaps a Special Edition of "The X-Files."

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Hollywood Reporter

Lesley Manville Boards Brett Goldstein’s Prime Video Comedy ‘Escorted’

The newly crowned Tony winner will play the mother of Goldstein's character.

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The Guardian Culture

Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular

Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster channelling UFO chatThe old school is the new school in this very enjoyable and entirely ridiculous space-alien conspiracy adventure from screenwriter David Koepp and director Steven Spielberg; it is cheerfully mischievous and deadly serious in equal measure. It has something of Hitchcock from Nor

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Variety

Prime Video’s ‘Every Year After’ Is a Dreamy Summer Romance: TV Review

There can be magic to summertime, especially during the teen years. Based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel “Every Summer After” and adapted by Amy B. Harris, Prime Video’s romantic drama “Every Year After” captures the whimsy, nostalgia and heartbreak of first loves and tragic endings. Told over the course of six summers, then picking up […]

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Variety

‘Whalefall’ Director on Taking Moviegoers Inside a Sperm Whale (in 4DX) and Stopping Star Austin Abrams From Doing Certain Stunts: ‘You Will Die!’

“Whalefall” director Brian Duffield is well aware that, in most cases, the main character getting swallowed by an animal would be a bit of a buzzkill. “It would typically feel like the end of a movie,” Duffield tells Variety, cracking a wide grin. “Like, ‘RIP Austin!'” But the team at Disney’s 20th Century Studios felt […]

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Variety

Lesley Manville Joins Brett Goldstein in Amazon Comedy Series ‘Escorted’

Lesley Manville will star alongside Brett Goldstein in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video comedy series “Escorted,” Variety has learned. The show was originally announced in November 2025 with an eight-episode order. The logline states, “A divorced dad (Goldstein) in Manhattan accidentally becomes a male escort in this romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and […]

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Variety

‘The Boys’ Star Claudia Doumit Signs With Verve (EXCLUSIVE)

Claudia Doumit has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. She continues to be repped by Cultivate, Origin PR and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Doumit is fresh off of the hit Amazon series “The Boys,” in which she played supe-politician Victoria Neuman, who fans will remember for her ability to manipulate […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth Lead Steven Spielberg’s Spellbinding Return to What He Does Best

Also featuring Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson and Wyatt Russell, the David Koepp-scripted sci-fi thriller asks, “What if we discover we’re not alone in the universe as our own world teeters toward destruction?” 

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Liberation’ Film From Tony Winner Bess Wohl Among Projects Selected for Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs

Roberto Fatal, Taylor Sanghyun Lee, Smriti Mundhra, Nikesh Shukla, Himesh Patel, Bec Pecaut, Joanna Rothkopf, Philip Thompson, George Watsky, Said Zagha and Renee Zhan are also fellows for 2026.

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Variety

BBC Names Rhodri Talfan Davies Deputy Director General

The BBC has appointed Rhodri Talfan Davies as deputy director general, following his tenure as interim chief of the broadcaster before Matt Brittin was hired. He will be second-in-command to Brittin, who officially joined the BBC as its new director general last month after serving as president of EMEA business and operations at Google. Davies […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Barack Obama Surprised the ‘Disclosure Day’ Set: “Imagine Your Scariest Day at Work and Then Obama Comes to Watch You”

The former president is close friends with Steven Spielberg and one day dropped by the set of the new sci-fi thriller.

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Hollywood Reporter

Charlie Sheen on Sobriety, His Netflix Doc and Other Things He Swears We Wouldn’t Ask “at a Dinner Party in Front of My Parents”

In a candid conversation with THR, Sheen and ‘aka Charlie Sheen’ director Andrew Renzi unpack the archival deep dive into fame, addiction, scandal and recovery.

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Variety

Anna Faris Reveals ‘Scary Movie 6’ Cut Her Melania Trump Takedown: ‘I Was Always Pushing for Cindy to Be Classic MAGA’

Anna Faris revealed in a new interview with Dexerto that her blatant takedown of Melania Trump was cut out of “Scary Movie,” the sixth installment in the long-running spoof franchise that recently topped the box office with a $54 million debut. The actor said she “was always pushing for Cindy to be classic MAGA rabbit […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Will End With Season 3 at Netflix

The streamer has renewed the YA series for a final run in 2027.

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Variety

Accenture Acquires Whalar in Bid to Boost Influencer-Marketing Division

Consulting and professional services giant Accenture has acquired creator and influencer agency Whalar, seeking to boost the scale of its marketing arm, Accenture Song. The deal will see Whalar co-CEOs Emma Harman and Jo Cronk join Accenture Song and continue to lead Whalar in their current roles. Whalar’s now-former parent company, Whalar Group, will enter […]

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Variety

Paramount Accuses Netflix of ‘Panic-Level’ ‘Scorched-Earth Campaign’ to ‘Poison’ Regulators Against Warner Bros. Deal

Paramount Skydance’s top lawyer claims Netflix is so worried about the prospect of competing with a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery that the streaming company is going all-out to try to “poison regulators and other stakeholders” against the pending $111 billion deal. Netflix clinched a deal to buy Warner Bros.’s streaming and studios businesses in late […]

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Variety

Is Bari Weiss Breaking the News? Her Tumultuous ‘60 Minutes’ Overhaul Triggers New Fears at CBS

Scott Pelley’s bombshell interview with The New York Times over the weekend after his firing from “60 Minutes” has drawn even more scrutiny to the management style of Bari Weiss, who in October was installed to oversee CBS News. The former print journalist, who launched the “Free Press” website, had no TV experience when Paramount […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Anthony Guidera, Actor Who Had a Memorable Kiss in ‘Species,’ Dies at 65

A onetime model based in Paris, he also appeared in ‘The Rock,’ ‘Armageddon,’ ‘The Postman’ and ‘The Annihilation of Fish.’

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