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At the Taormina Film Festival, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur spoke to Variety about romantic drama “Touch,” his adaptation of the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. The film was released…
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The Durban FilmMart began Friday in South Africa with the spirited, hopeful, often contentious representatives of the host nation weighing in on the highs and lows of its screen industries three…
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Oscar-nominated U.S. director Debra Granik (“Winter’s Bone”) will preside over the jury of  the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons (Orizzonti) section dedicated to more cutting-edge…
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Arab distributor Mad Solutions has taken world rights to Firas Khoury’s “Dear Tarkovsky,” the Palestinian filmmaker’s follow-up to his fiery Cairo Film Festival winner “Alam” (The Flag). Khoury…
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. We’re into the halfway point of the 2024 WNBA season,…
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The 2024 Republican National Convention hit its highest viewership on its final night, averaging 25.4 million viewers across networks on Thursday. Viewership peaked at 28.4 million from 10:45 to…
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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming…
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Both Paxton and Hunt had expressed interest in making a sequel to “Twister” over the years, but their projects never got off the ground. On Feb. 25, 2017, Paxton died after complications…
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 6, Part 1 of “Cobra Kai,” now streaming on Netflix. While Kim Da-Eun — Alicia Hannah-Kim’s character in “Cobra Kai”— was one of the…
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Nattawut ‘Baz’ Poonpiriya, the director of 2017 pan-Asian hit “Bad Genius,” has joined forces with Thailand’s leading film studio GDH559 to launch new production company BASK. GDH, a…
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