Palestinian actor Tawfeek Barhom, best known for Tarik Saleh’s Cannes winner “Cairo Conspiracy” in 2022 and Palme d’Or winner 2025 for his short film “I’m Glad You’re Dead Now,” is set to headline the French pic “Borderline” by first-timer Yves Piat. A very loose feature-length version of Piat’s Oscar-nominated live action short “Nefta Football Club,”
Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” retained the No. 1 spot at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a fourth consecutive week, collecting £3.6 million ($4.8 million), according to Rentrak. The superhero blockbuster pushed its running cumulative gross to $117.9 million. Universal’s “The Odyssey,” directed by Christopher Nolan, held firmly in second place during its
Target is issuing an apology. The retailer spoke out to address backlash over a children’s Halloween costume that it was allegedly selling under the name “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown.” “An apology from us: We pulled an offensive Halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment,” Target wrote in a statement
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The eight best basketball dunkers in the world are coming to primetime television this week as the Dunkman World Championship final airs on TNT. The final eight take center court August 25 at 8
India’s Zee Studios has unveiled a diversified multilingual, multi-genre content slate for 2026-27, spanning Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada cinema. The portfolio brings together commercial entertainers, action spectacles, thrillers, mythology-driven epics and regionally rooted stories. On the Hindi-language side, the slate includes “Baap,” starring Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff and Mithun
Hulu will not be moving forward on a second season of its recent comedy “Not Suitable for Work,” from creator Mindy Kaling. The series, which Kaling executive produced with showrunner Charlie Grandy and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Howard Klein, launched in June and ran for nine episodes. Warner Bros. TV, which produces the series, plans to
