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“The Brutalist’s” Lol Crawley has won the British Society of Cinematographers Award for best cinematography in a feature film award. Jody Lee Lipes won for his work on the BBC drama “The Listeners.” Lipes took home the award in the television drama (UK Terrestrial) category. In the television drama (International/Streaming) category, Benedict Spence won his […]

On Thursday night, Billie Joe Armstrong joined his fellow Green Day members to open FireAid, setting off the nearly six-hour benefit with a three-song tribute to those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. It was Green Day operating like Green Day typically does these days: massive shows on massive platforms, not entirely out of the […]

Justin Baldoni has updated his lawsuit against Blake Lively to add new claims about New York Times metadata, while also accusing her husband, Ryan Reynolds, of “bullying” him with the character of Nicepool in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Baldoni’s lawyers filed an amended, 224-page lawsuit on Friday night, and launched a website to host the complaint […]

The flighty mindset of hyper-online living proves an uneasy solution to the rough gravity check of small-town poverty in “Sugar Babies,” Rachel Fleit’s documentary portrait of young, hard-up Louisiana women getting by on their wits, wiles and heavily TikTok-filtered faces. A working-class college student in her early twenties with dreams to chase and fees to […]

Prominent Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson who was Oscar-nominated in 2006 for his short film “The Last Farm,” was handed out the Göteborg Film Festival’s hefty SEK400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film for his fourth feature “When the Light Breaks” at tonight’s closing gala of the festival’s 48th edition. Shot in 16mm, the subtle coming-of-age drama […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers about the entire plot of “Companion,” now playing in theaters. The sci-fi horror film “Companion” has charmed critics and audiences alike on its opening weekend. The twisty thriller has many surprises in store — especially during the third act — which demand post-screening analysis. Luckily, Variety asked writer-director Drew Hancock to break […]

Cate Blanchett “never, ever” thought she “could work in the film industry.” “I was resigned, happily, to a career in theater. I didn’t think I was that girl. There was a sense women had a certain ‘shelf life’ in the film industry and a certain type of women got to parade on the screen and […]

Plenty of cinephiles think fondly of Guy Pearce’s turn as the amnesiac Leonard Shelby in “Memento,” but Pearce isn’t one of them. The 57-year-old actor, who most recently picked up an Academy Award nomination for his supporting turn in Brady Corbet’s historical epic “The Brutalist,” spoke candidly about his performance in Christopher Nolan’s 2000 thriller […]

After announcing their first-ever Premium Live Event in Paris, France coming in August, the WWE first goes to “Indy” for Royal Rumble 2025 in the opening major event of the year. The pro wrestling event features four matchups, including an Undisputed WWE Championship and a WWE Tag Team Championship title bouts, on Saturday, Feb. 1. […]

Talking about the newly launched Displacement Film Fund at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday, Cate Blanchett teased: “It’s the beginning of something wonderful.” “I don’t think it has anything to do with me, but with the urgency of the situation. And yet these stories don’t seem to be getting into the mainstream. These […]