New NYC Film Commissioner Rafael Espinal Is Wooing Wary Financiers & Frustrated Filmmakers, What’s His Plan? — The Deadline Q&A

Top helmers and other industry insiders gathered May 5 in West Hollywood to sip and dish at the Variety High Tea Celebrating Female Directors. The invitation-only gathering brought together a group of production professionals who were treated to sandwiches, tea cakes and extremely scrumptious scones and brownies. The High Tea kicked off Variety’s TV Week […]

A year ago, viewers demanded for Jax’s removal from the cast of the ‘Vanderpump Rules’ spinoff. Now, discourse surrounding the series has critiqued it for lacking content — and some believe that’s because of his absence.

Director James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company have been sued for unauthorized use of an Indigenous actress’ likeness without her knowledge and consent. In the complaint, obtained by Variety, actress Q’orianka Kilcher alleges that when she was 14 and had recently appeared as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s film “The New World,” Cameron extracted her […]

It was an “I know you’re bittersweet, but what am I?” evening. The annual Netflix Is a Joke festival kicked off Monday night at L.A.’s Greek Theatre with a “Pee-wee’s Playhouse 40th Anniversary” show , featuring comics and musicians paying tribute to a Saturday morning kids’ show — or was it — that they grew […]