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During this year’s banner 60th anniversary edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Variety hosted a panel in collaboration with Allwyn to discuss the longstanding success of the European Film Promotion’s Future Frames program, which acts as a springboard for up-a

Apparently the call wasn’t out there at all for “Moana,” which brought in just $52 million in its international box office debut. Disney’s latest live-action remake struggled to make waves with $43 million domestically and $95 million worldwide, a catastrophic start given the fil

In honors, Richard Gadd (“Half Man”) and Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face,” “Russian Doll”) were among the big winners at this year’s Italian Global Series Festival, which wrapped July 11. The two received the Breakthrough Storyteller Award and the Maximo Excellence Award respectively

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Little House on the Prairie,” now streaming on Netflix. “Palm Royale” star Crosby Fitzgerald swears she “manifested” her role as Caroline “Ma” Ingalls on Netflix’s new “Little House on the Prairie” adaptation by watching a lot of

The first clear look at Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom mask has arrived, courtesy of some concept art posted by a Marvel Cinematic Universe icon. Former Marvel visual department director Andy Park took to X on July 11 to share an illustration from the upcoming blockbuster. “AVEN

The construction of the glass box where Hillary Clinton would eventually concede the 2016 election may not sound like the stuff of riveting television. And sure enough, it isn’t — at least in “The Westies,” the MGM+ drama about how the titular Irish gang worked to profit off the

“Michael” has surpassed $1 billion in global ticket sales, becoming the first biopic to achieve the coveted box office milestone. The crowd-pleasing film about Michael Jackson has generated $629.8 million overseas and $371.8 million domestically, bringing its global tally to $1.0

“Moana” failed to make a splash at the box office, earning $43 million from 3,827 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Those ticket sales, though enough for No. 1 on box office charts, are disastrous given the live-action “Moana” remake has a massive $250 million produ

Thousands of people in Colombia have been “forcibly disappeared”, as the euphemistic expression goes, since conflicts began in the mid-1960s between the Colombian government and various paramilitary and guerilla groups. This reality is well-known, and has been so for a while — an

Jay-Z was almost entirely truthful to the source material for his 25th anniversary Yankee Stadium show on Saturday to celebrate “The Blueprint,” setting guests artists to high wattage but low frequency as he trotted out Eminem, Pharrell Williams and Slick Rick for a curtailed 90-