‘Bloody Tennis’ Director on What His Horror Film Says About Society: ‘Ruthlessness Is Rewarded, Not Compassion’ (EXCLUSIVE)

For this week’s episode of “Strictly Business,” Variety was on the ground at MagicCon 2026 in Las Vegas, a convention centered not around slight of hand tricks, but Hasbro’s hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering. The three-day event featured 25,000 attendees engaging in multiple activities, everything from a headliner panel featuring the MCU’s Paul […]

Uri Singer’s Passage Pictures has secured the rights to “In the Blue,” the next feature film from writer-director duo Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers. The pair’s feature “Floating Carousel” premiered this year at the Woodstock Film Festival, where it won the Ultra Indie Award for Best Narrative Feature. Their first feature film, “Voyeur,” which they […]

Andana Films has boarded worldwide sales on “Detention” (“La Détention”), Guillaume Massart’s second feature, ahead of its world premiere in the ACID sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. The French documentary is set inside the country’s prison officer academy, where the film observes trainees as their language, movements and certainties gradually align […]

The first weekend of Millennium Docs Against Gravity – the prestigious international film festival in Poland – is underway after opening with Closure, the new film directed by Warsaw native Michał Marczak. The wrenching documentary about a father’s desperate search for his missing teenage son won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival […]