‘Bridgerton’s Luke Newton Signs With Verve & Conway Van Gelder Grant

Willa has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Take Me Home,” the debut feature from writer-director Liz Sargent. “Take Me Home” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival and made its international premiere at the Berlinale in the Perspectives competition section this year. In “Take Me Home,” 38-year-old Korean adoptee Anna cares […]

Greetings from Variety Awards Headquarters! Today is May 26, 2026, which means it’s 16 days until nominations-round voting begins on June 11; 27 days until nominations-round voting ends on June 22 at 10 p.m.; and 45 days until Emmy nominations are announced on July 10. And looking far ahead, it’s 111 days until the 78th Emmy Awards on Sept. 14 on NBC. Hope you all had a restful Memorial Day weekend — […]

The Cannes premiere from Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz offers personal insight into lessons learned by the director in a very similar situation some years ago.

Richard Gadd is fast establishing himself as the master of uncomfortable viewing. If “Baby Reindeer,” the super-viral 2024 Netflix series he wrote and starred in, raised difficult questions about masculinity, power and sexuality, his follow-up, “Half Man,” does the same — on steroids. The HBO/BBC co-prod, which ends its six-episode run on May 28, follows […]