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\nBefore portraying the stepmom to a drug-addicted young man in \u201cBeautiful Boy,\u201d Maura Tierney asked the real Karen Barbour how she and her husband survived it. \u201cShe said, \u2018Nobody freaked out at the same time,\u2019\u201d Tierney recalls. Relying on a partnership is how the Globe winner, a \u201cbasic dresser,\u201d approaches fashion. \u201cYou get into a […]
20th Century Fox Film producer Kira Goldberg is departing the West Los Angeles lot leading up to Disney\u2019s upcoming takeover of the studio. Goldberg, who has a long-standing relationship with departing Fox Film CEO Stacey Snider, is moving to a production role in Netflix\u2019s original film group, two individuals familiar with the transition told Variety. […]
An acting coach, casting director and performer himself, Markus Schleinzer has been a fixture of the Austrian film industry for over two decades. In 2011, he became an internationally renowned director in his own right once his feature debut \u201cMichael,\u201d about a pedophile who holds a child captive, premiered in Competition in Cannes. Now he\u2019s […]
Producer Jess Wu Calder has managed to cover the waterfront of genres over the past decade with a wide-ranging slate of projects (\u201cYou\u2019re Next,\u201d \u201cThunder Soul,\u201d \u201cThe Guest,\u201d \u201cAnomalisa\u201d) through her Snoot Entertainment shingle, which she runs with her husband, Keith. Her next film, Abe Forsythe\u2019s \u201cLittle Monsters,\u201d is headed to Sundance in the new […]
Nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globes were announced on Thursday morning, and going hand in hand with nods for the year\u2019s best in film are the five contenders for original song in a motion picture. The star-studded category is comprised of Kendrick Lamar (\u201cBlack Panther\u201d), Dolly Parton (\u201cDumplin’\u201d), Annie Lennox (\u201cA Private War\u201d) Troye Sivan (\u201cBoy Erased\u201d), […]
PLAYBACK is a Variety \/ iHeartRadio podcast bringing you conversations with the talents behind many of today\u2019s hottest films. New episodes air every Thursday. A film like \u201cMary Poppins Returns\u201d is sure to connect this holiday season. Why? Because there are so few films this year that make you feel the way it does. And […]
Since Bill Duke the Sundance Special Jury-prize winning film \u201cThe Killing Floor\u201d (1984), the multi-hyphenate talent has rarely been out of sight on screens big and small. In the \u201990s, Duke directed acclaimed crime films focused on black themes and characters, including the Cannes Fest competitor \u201cA Rage in Harlem\u201d; \u201cHoodlum,\u201d with an enviable cast […]<\/p>\n