Horror-movie directors are always looking for new ways to transgress. Eli Roth is a prime example — he once transgressed brilliantly, in “Hostel: Part II” (an eerily plausible movie about members of the elite paying huge sums to murder people in a warehouse in Slovakia), and he did it in an impish way in “Thanksgiving,”
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” reached 15.2 million views globally in its first five days of streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. That total, calculated by dividing the total amount of time the film was streamed by its 119-minute runtime, makes the Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-led sequel the Disney streamers’ biggest live-action movie debut since
Richard L. O’Connor, an Emmy-winning producer known for his work as an executive in charge of productions like “The Muppet Movie,” “On Golden Pond” and “Hickey & Boggs,” died July 22 in Palm Desert, California. He was 96. O’Connor’s death was confirmed to Variety by his family. O’Connor won an Emmy back in 1990 for
“The Inbetweeners” — the hit Brit teen comedy series from the late 2000s that spawned two successful spin-off films — is officially back. A reunion movie is now in the works at Netflix, Variety has confirmed, with the original lead cast of Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and James Buckley understood to be attached, although final
In May 2025, Christopher Nolan revealed that his next epic, “The Odyssey,” would be the first feature film shot entirely with 70mm Imax cameras. As “The Odyssey” grosses nearly $650 million worldwide, including $140 million in Imax, and with the company’s coveted 70mm screenings sold out for weeks, an Imax source suggests the success could
“Train to Busan” showed that humans cannot escape from the infected. “Colony” shows that they can’t be outwitted. Director Yeon Sang-ho returns to the zombie genre with his third live-action thriller, “Colony,” expanding the “Yeoniverse,” the cinematic universe he built through his genre-defining horror films. The South Korean film marks the long-awaited return of Gianna