How Variety’s Marc Malkin Learned to Own His Sobriety (Column)

Emerald Fennell has watched her fair share of revenge films — but she hadn't ever seen one that felt realistic. So she set out to make one herself with Promising Young Woman.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLive from New York or Beverly Hills, it’s the 78th Golden Globe Awards.While the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC announced earlier this month that the Globes would be broadcast live from both costs, with Tina Fey from New York’s Rainbow Room (at the top of Rockefeller Center) and Amy Poehler at the Beverly Hilton, plans were not revealed for how presenters and nominees would appear.Variety has learned that Globe producers are

Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor a who's who of major awards season contenders: The acting honorees include Riz Ahmed, Viola Davis, Andra Day, Daniel Kaluuya, Carey Mulligan, Leslie Odom, Jr., Gary Oldman and Yuh-Jung Youn, with an ensemble award for, directing award for Chloé Zhao and career achievement for Anthony Hopkins.The festival and film awards gala will not take place as an in-person event this year due to the ongoing pandemic, but ET will be exclusively sitting down

While the conditions are improving for a woman in Hollywood, there is still work to be done.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJoe Allen may have named his New York City restaurant after himself, but he was never one to seek the spotlight, even as the eatery became more renowned than he could have ever imagined.“He would never brag about himself,” Chita Rivera, Allen’s longtime friend and former girlfriend, told Variety. “In fact, if people would carry on too much about him, he would say, ‘Come on now.

review from writer Dennis Harvey, which was written at Sundance in 2020, had sparked online backlash and a rebuke from Mulligan herself, who said in a recent interview that the review was “basically saying that I wasn’t hot enough to pull off this kind of ruse.” It led Variety to amend the review with an editors note and apology.“Variety sincerely apologizes to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuation in our review of “Promising Young Woman” that minimized her daring

Andra Day is being honored at this year's Palm Springs International Film Awards. The singer and actress will be the recipient of the Breakthrough Performance Award for, the festival announced on Friday.«Few jazz vocalists are more beloved than Billie Holiday, and Andra Day brings Holiday and her iconic voice back to life through a sympathetic and nuanced portrayal that sheds new light on the U.S.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has launched the “Just for Variety” podcast, a companion to the weekly magazine column of the same name.The rebrand of the podcast previously titled “The Big Ticket” comes on the heels of the revival of the legendary column that ran for 60 years in the pages of Daily Variety.

Carey Mulligan “felt like a chancer” early in her career.The actress – who has children Evelyn, five, and Wilfred, three, with husband Marcus Mumford – used to spend months preparing for her roles because she felt she needed to justify her casting because of a lack of formal training, but she admitted these days she just doesn’t have enough time to spend so long on research.“I didn’t go to drama school, I kind of felt like a chancer, so I figured that I had to do loads of homework so that I was

(CNN)Carey Mulligan has doubled down on her thoughts about a review which referenced her looks.Variety published a review written by freelancer Dennis Harvey of her film "Promising Young Woman," a darkly comic #MeToo revenge tale.In it he wrote, "Mulligan, a fine actress, seems a bit of an odd choice as this admittedly many-layered apparent femme fatale — Margot Robbie is a producer here, and one can (perhaps too easily) imagine the role might once have been intended for her.

Netflix‘s new movie, The Dig, just premiered tonight and fans are praising the film on social media.

On the eve of World War II, a self-taught archaeologist was hired by a local woman to excavate her land. She thought it might contain Viking remnants.

suicide by her abusive boyfriend. Emily Drouet died after suffering a vicious campaign of mental and physical abuse by Angus Milligan at Aberdeen University.

, is getting Oscar buzz—and backlash. Euphoria creator Sam Levinson wrote the film for Zendaya, but her age gap with love interest John David Washington is causing some criticism among fans.

Palm Springs International Film Awards.The organization announced on Wednesday that the 38-year-old actor will receive this year's Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor. «Riz Ahmed delivers one of the most complex and moving on-screen performances of the year,» Festival Chairman Harold Matzner said in a statement. «In Sound of Metal, the film tells the emotional journey of Ruben, a musician who learns he is losing his hearing and must deal with this new reality.

Carey Mulligan has responded after Variety apologised for its 'insensitive language' in a controversial review about her new film Promising Young Woman in which it suggested Margot Robbie would've been a better lead actress. In the film Mulligan portrays Cassie who seeks to avenge her best friend Nina after she is raped.

Variety for their “sexist” review of her new film Promising Young Woman.In a new interview with Zendaya for the publication’s Actors on Actors series, Mulligan addressed Variety‘s apology after she called out the language of the review in a New York Times profile last year.“It made me concerned that in such a big publication, an actress’ appearance could be criticised and that could be accepted as completely reasonable criticism,” Mulligan told Zendaya.“It stuck with me, because I think it’s

If you haven’t seen or heard of the recent film “Apples,” you probably should seek it out. It’s the film by the first-time director, Christos Nikou, who is a sort of protege to Yorgos Lanthimos.

Variety‘s “Actors On Actors” issue is here and it features the year’s brightest stars.