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Megan Moroney, Hitmakers Storyteller of the Year, on Her Narrative Hits
Megan Moroney’s most recent country hit, “6 Months Later,” is like an answer song to Kelly Clarkson (or, sure, Nietzsche), with its great lyrical hook: “What doesn’t kill you calls…
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Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey Benson Boone
Sabrina Carpenter, Benson Boone, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims and Billie Eilish have one thing in common: they each had the same songs appear on Variety‘s Hitmakers 2024 and 2025 lists.…
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Rachid Bouchareb Unveils Algeria-Set Drama ‘Reggane’
Oscar-nominated Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb (“Days of Glory”) is preparing his next feature, “Reggane,” a fiction film set against the backdrop of France’s first…
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Movie Theaters Won’t Go Away
Bong Joon Ho gave a nearly two-hour interview on Saturday at the Marrakech Film Festival, where he serves as this year’s jury president. In between showing clips of his filmography,…
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Juliette Binoche Says She Told Sean Baker She Wants to Work With Him
At the opening night of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah on Thursday, Juliette Binoche was among the top honorees. But alongside being presented with an award from the festival…
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Netflix’s Warner Bros. Takeover Sparks Concerns in France
Netflix’s stunning $83 billion takeover of Warner Bros., announced yesterday, sent French exhibitors into high alert in a market where Warner Bros. — alongside Disney and Universal —…
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Laurence Fishburne Sets Next Directing Gig With Star André Holland
Laurence Fishburne is looking to step back behind the camera and is currently developing a directing project, “The Rule of Nines,” with producer and casting director Bonnie…
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India Multiplex Association Opposes Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal
The Multiplex Association of India has raised alarm over Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, warning that the deal could diminish theatrical content…
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AI Could Drive a Third of Film and Animation by 2026, Tencent Says
Generative AI is poised to reshape the supply of premium screen content, with VP of Chinese online media giant Tencent and CEO of Tencent Video Sun Zhonghuai forecasting that as much…
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Deepa Mehta Reflects on Career, ‘Water’ Controversy
In a wide-ranging conversation at the Singapore International Film Festival, acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta reflected on her decades-long career, the controversies that have…
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