Netflix Snaps Up Big-Budget ‘All Quiet on The Western Front’ Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)

her departure from on Showtime with coveted supporting roles as a younger version of Kerry Washington’s character on, a forgery specialist on the Jordan Peele-produced alternate history series, and an astronaut in George Clooney’s ambitious film . And that’s just 2020, with next year promising to be even bigger thanks to, the anticipated Hulu miniseries led by Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy.

Comedian, actor and writer Blaire Erskine, known for sharing viral videos on social media, has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas. She has also signed with Sweet 180 Management.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Donovan (Fargo, Burn Notice) and Brett Gelman (Fleabag, Stranger Things) have joined Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, and Michael K. Williams in the Bron Studios drama Surrounded, which is being directed by Anthony Mandler.

Sky Deutschland, the German arm of Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky, on Thursday unveiled plans for original series The Ibiza Affair. The four-part fictional show from Sky Studios and German studio Leonine’s W&B Television tellsthe story behind a real-life political scandal in Austria.

Berlin Film Festival, one of the world’s leading gathering points for the international film industry, is set to radically alter its 71st edition, Variety has learned exclusively.The festival was originally scheduled to run as a physical event from Feb. 11-21, but rising COVID-19 infections in Germany have forced a rethink.

on Netflix, playwright August Wilson’s celebration of Black lives once again takes center stage. The film, produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo, chronicles the day in the life of the legendary blues singer and her backing band as they record music one afternoon in the 1920s.

EXCLUSIVE: Cruella and Little Joe actress Emily Beecham is set to star in Netflix’s anticipated European series 1899, we can reveal.

We were beginning to think that no films would be hitting the big screen this year but thankfully, the time has come for one of the most anticipated films to be released.

Veteran German producers Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and Michael Lehmann will adapt Max Sprenger's best-selling autobiography Tsunami im Kopf (Tsunami in the Head), about Sprenger's life with locked-in syndrome, for the screen. German director Marco Petry (Heiter bis wolkig) will helm the feature and co-write the script with partner Janina Petry.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPeter Langenberg, the newly appointed COO of Banijay following the Endemol Shine takeover, will be ramping up the company’s content strategy in key territories, notably in Benelux, Germany and India.In Benelux, where Banijay just bowed the new label Simple Zodiak, a merger of Simple Media and Zodiac Nederland, the company is developing a packed slate of shows under the new leadership of Peter Lubbers, who was tapped as CEO of Banijay Benelux, the new

Manori Ravindran International EditorAmazon Prime Video is finally landing on Sky.The streamer has struck a multi-year deal with Comcast-backed pay-TV provider Sky that will see the Prime Video app launch on set-top box service Sky Q and SVOD service Now TV across Europe. Sky’s markets cover the U.K., Ireland, Austria, Germany and Italy.

Netflix has revealed some color about its subscribers’ viewing habits during 2020.

, the reality show? HBO Max's new docusoap, follows the Hos, a wealthy Vietnamese American family in Houston, Texas, as they go through power struggles and family drama surrounded by luxury.Led by patriarch Binh and matriarch Hue, immigrants who achieved the American dream and built a multimillion-dollar empire in banking and real estate development, they attempt to control the lives of their children, son Washington and daughter Judy, who find themselves under pressure to live up to their

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentTrustNordisk has sold U.S. rights to “A Taste of Hunger,” an anticipated romantic drama starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal (“A Fortunate Man”), to Magnolia Pictures.Directed by Christoffer Boe, “A Taste of Hunger” has also been acquired in a raft of territories, including Germany (Koch Films), Spain (Adso Films), Brazil (Synapse) and Greece (Rosebud).

Dave McNary Film ReporterCleveland Berto has booked roles in the upcoming Sony drama “A Journal for Jordan” opposite Michael B. Jordan and as a series regular in the NBC drama “Chicago P.D.,” Variety has learned exclusively.Denzel Washington will direct and produce “A Journal for Jordan,” which is written by Academy Award nominee Virgil Williams and based on Dana Canedy’s New York Times best-selling memoir, which was published in 2008.

Tenet, Christopher Nolan's latest outing was a huge talking point in 2020, as it was amongst the highly-awaited movies of the year. Starring an eclectic cast featuring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh and our very own Dimple Kapadia, Nolan once again plays Russian Roulette with 'time' as the key element.