This year proved to be one full of surprising moments, particularly when it came to the world of entertainment. There have been several controversial moments to take place over the course of the year, ...

Note: This article is an offshoot of Variety Intelligence Platform’s special report “The New Face of Content Piracy,” available exclusively to VIP+ subscribers. Tom Cruise may have ruled the box ...

From full-funded MFAs to LED walls for new virtual production curriculums, these film programs are trying to entice and educate the next generation of blockbuster directors and award-winning auteurs.

Amid endless agonizing over the State of Cinema, the actual releases proved a bounty for film lovers, whether fans of the art house or the multiplex. By Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott Manohla Dargis In ...

These storied global institutions offer foundational filmmaking instruction, from Italy to Israel. By Scott Roxborough, Etan Vlessing, Patrick Brzeski, Alex Ritman Students at the in-house studio of ...

Ruben Östlund won his second Palme d’Or for “Triangle of Sadness,” a biting satire of the rich and (Insta-)famous, bringing the 2022 Cannes Film Festival to a close. Östlund’s follow-up to his 2017 ...

This brilliant prequel to Goth and West’s previous collaboration, X, is a cine-fever dream set in the dying days of Spanish flu The Venice film festival is springing some surprises on us, and one of ...