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Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson on Their Life-Changing ‘Mummy’ Friendship, Loneliness and Learning to Stop Trying So Hard: ‘Why Am I Doing This?’ Dwayne Johnson and Brendan Fraser first met making “The Mummy Returns.” The 2001 sequel continued Fraser’s burgeoning leading-man career, but it was the first ever film role for Johnson, then better known as WWE’s The Rock. In recent years, both actors

At age 79, the veteran director, who first came to international attention as the scriptwriter on Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece “Taxi Driver” and has more recently won kudos, including his first ever best screenplay Oscar nomination, for a trilogy of films on his favorite “man in a room” theme – “First Reformed” (2017), “The Card Counter” (2021) and “Master Gardener” (2022), is still very muc

When the Providence Place Mall was constructed in the late ’90s, it was touted by Rhode Island leaders as a sign of urban renewal for its struggling capital city. For eight artists, it became something else — home. These friends constructed a makeshift apartment — complete with a sofa, a TV and video game system, a microwave and a cinderblock wall — in a hidden alcove of the shopping complex’s gar

‘Goonies 2’ Officially in the Works With Steven Spielberg Producing “The Goonies” are officially back. Warner Bros. has hired Potsy Ponciroli to write the script for the sequel, it was announced Friday — almost 40 years after the original movie hit theaters back in 1985. Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will produce for Amblin Entertainment alongside Chris Columbus, who wr

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” died Jan. 15. He was 78. Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able to leave his house to direct any longer. His family a

On Aug. 28, Amandla Stenberg, the lead of the “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte,” posted an eight-and-a-half-minute video to her Instagram Stories about Lucasfilm’s abrupt decision not to pick up the show for a second season just a month after the Season 1 finale streamed on Disney+. “It’s not a huge shock for me,” Stenberg said. Since the series was announced in 2020, she continued, “we started exp

J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win (EXCLUSIVE) UPDATE: J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newly crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif. Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khe

The group’s statement says: “We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination.” Glazer declined to comment. With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, “La La Land” producer Gary Gilbert and “The Americans” creators

“Today we are evolving our Pitchfork team structure by bringing the team into the GQ organization. This decision was made after a careful evaluation of Pitchfork’s performance and what we believe is the best path forward for the brand so that our coverage of music can continue to thrive within the company,” Wintour wrote in the memo. According to Wintour, “Both Pitchfork and GQ have unique and val

Long before Bethenny Frankel began fighting for reality stars’ rights, there was  “Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes,” a Japanese reality show that began airing in 1998. The show starred aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi.  In a room by himself and naked, Nasubi had to fill out contest coupons in order to win what he needed to survive. What Nasubi didn’t realize was that his experien

Nolan’s film centers on the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led American efforts to create the atomic bomb. In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians. Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s 2005 biography of Oppenheimer, Nolan’s film focuses on the scientist’s tumultuous life and i

Warner Bros. Apologizes After ‘Barbenheimer’ Posts Spark Criticism From Studio’s Japan Unit The Warner Bros. Film Group in the U.S. has made a public apology about social media activity concerning the “Barbenheimer” meme that has caused major offence in Japan. “Warner Brothers regrets its recent insensitive social media engagement. The studio offers a sincere apology,” the company said in a statem

“Drive My Car” star Hidetoshi Nishijima has signed with CAA for representation. Nishijima starred in the acclaimed 2021 Japanese feature “Drive My Car,” which was nominated for four Academy Awards, and walked away with the Oscar for best international feature film. He earned several awards for his performance in the Cannes-premiering critical darling, including best actor from the National Society

He continued, “It was clearly not ‘Cowboy Bebop’ and I realized at that point that if I wasn’t involved, it would not be ‘Cowboy Bebop.’ I felt that maybe I should have done this. Although the value of the original anime is somehow far higher now.” Netflix’s remake was led by John Cho and developed by Christopher Yost. Cho said last year that he was shocked by the streamer’s decision to cut the li

The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of arde

On Tuesday, Sono responded to the allegations with a statement from his company. “To whom it may concern. Thank you very much for your continued support. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and concern this may have caused to all parties concerned. We will make a new announcement after sorting out the facts.” His upcoming acting workshop has been canceled. The same day, Milla Araki, who i

According to the Pixar letter, that claim is at odds with employees’ experience of trying to create content with same-sex affection approved by Disney executives. “We at Pixar have personally witnessed beautiful stories, full of diverse characters, come back from Disney corporate reviews shaved down to crumbs of what they once were,” the letter states. “Even if creating LGBTQIA+ content was the an

The scene cuts to a sunset, or possibly a sunrise, as a choral version of the group’s song “Touch” plays. The song is from the duo’s 2013 “Random Access Memories” album, which in many ways was a culmination of their career. The album, which included the global hit single “Get Lucky,” won the Grammy Award for Best Album the following year. The duo has largely kept a low profile since then, with the

Tom Cruise expressed his frustration with crew members on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7″ after he saw them breaking COVID-19 guidelines, two sources close to the production confirm to Variety. As first reported by The Sun, after Cruise saw two crew members standing too close to one another in front of a computer screen, he told the crew: “If I see you do it again you’re f—ing gone.” In audio o

Arashi has bolstered its global social media presence by creating their first accounts, released the behind-the-scenes doc TV series “Arashi’s Diary Voyage” on Netflix and put out their first three English-language singles. The most recent, “Party Starters,” produced by Sam Hollander (Panic at the Disco, Fitz and the Tantrums), dropped last week and follows the ballad “Whenever You Call,” a collab

Rolling Stone A$AP Rocky’s ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ Is Overstuffed. It’s Also a Lot of Fun Robb Report Land Rover Returned to the Dakar Rally as a Factory Race Team. Here’s What Happened.

The mouse has officially killed the fox. In a move at once unsurprising and highly symbolic, the Walt Disney Company is dropping the “Fox” brand from the 21st Century Fox assets it acquired last March, Variety has learned. The 20th Century Fox film studio will become 20th Century Studios, and Fox Searchlight Pictures will become simply Searchlight Pictures. On the TV side, however, no final decisi

Netflix is keeping its foot pressed firmly on the gas pedal in the streaming-video road race. The streamer will invest around $17.3 billion this year in content on a cash basis, according to a new forecast by Wall Street firm BMO Capital Markets. That’s up from around $15.3 billion in 2019. And Netflix is not expected to ease up anytime soon: Its content spending will top $26 billion by 2028, per

After briefly breaking up, Sony Pictures and Marvel have found a way to get back in the Spider-Man business together. On Friday, the two companies jointly announced that Marvel Studios and its president, Kevin Feige, will produce the third film in the “Spider-Man: Homecoming” series. It will once again feature Tom Holland reprising his role as the titular hero. The rumor mill roared back to life t