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Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAfter 42 shows and nearly three months, for the final song of his continent-spanning “Love on Tour” tour, Harry Styles wanted just a little bit more.“This is the last song of the entire tour,” Style said, raising his arms in the air, as he cut into the sexually provocative lyrics of the banger “Kiwi” at the new UBS Arena just outside New York City. “I’m going to need a little bit more.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorJoe Manganiello proved that he could change shapes as the werewolf Alcide on HBO’s “True Blood,” and since the hit series wrapped in 2014, he’s starred in films like “Magic Mike XXL” and “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday.”He’s also managed to live a childhood dream by becoming a consultant and designer for some of his favorite fantasy properties, working with Hasbro and Dungeons & Dragons.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorThe Swifties have spoken. If they had their way, “All Too Well: The Short Film” would sweep the Oscars and Grammys too.Before the 10-minute film is released later tonight, Swift attended a premiere of the project — which she wrote and directed — on Friday afternoon at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 (which has the same number of screens as her favorite number) in New York City.

The power this has! Angelina Jolie and daughter Zahara, 16, met poet Amanda Gorman at Variety’s Power of Women dinner in Beverly Hills on September 30. The trio were captured exchanging niceties before posing for a photograph together in a video shared by the outlet’s executive editor Ramin Setoodeh on Twitter on Thursday.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorThe Venice crowd at the Sala Grande theater could not take their eyes off Anya Taylor-Joy during Edgar Wright’s trippy psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho.”But when the movie ended just after midnight on Saturday and the spotlight shone on the cast to receive applause from the festival attendees, as is tradition, Taylor-Joy was nowhere to be found.Had she left her own movie?Director Edgar Wright and Matt Smith applauded along with the crowd — as confusion

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorKristen Stewart as Princess Diana? You better believe it.Judging by the rapturous response at the premiere of “Spencer” at the Venice Film Festival on Friday afternoon, the 31-year-old actor has pulled off one of the most dazzling onscreen transformations of the year.As the closing credits of the dramatic film, which bills itself as a “fable” based on true events, the Venice crowd hooted and cheering, showering Stewart with a three-minute standing ovation.Stewart

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorDirector Denis Villeneuve hopes that audiences will watch “Dune” in movie theaters.“At the end of the day these are difficult times for everybody safety first, if the audience feels comfortable I encourage them to watch it on the big screen,” Villeneuve said at a press conference on Friday at the Venice Film Festival.In December, Warner Bros.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorIn recent years, the Venice Film Festival has become a launching pad for the Oscars, particularly as the Academy has added more international members to its voting body.On Thursday afternoon in Italy, Netflix scored a four-minute standing ovation for what could be one of its stronger awards contenders this year, Jane Campion’s period drama “The Power of the Dog.”As the crowd inside the Sala Grande cheered, Campion embraced stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorJane Campion, only the second woman to ever been nominated for an Oscar for directing, has been encouraged by the efforts she’s seen to get more women in the director’s chair.“All I can say is since the #MeToo movement happened, I feel a change in the weather that’s substantial,” Campion said on Thursday morning at a press conference at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorSome critics were giving Venice bad reviews on the second day of this year’s film festival — but it had nothing to do with the quality of the movies.Long security lines operated by Italian police officers to get into the press screenings of two movies, Netflix’s “The Hand of God” and Focus Features’ “The Card Counter,” meant that some journalists weren’t able to make it inside their seats before the opening credits rolled.At the 8:30 a.m.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAt the Venice Film Festival, the masks stay on, even during the standing ovation.At least that became protocol during the festival’s opening night movie, “Parallel Mothers,” on Wednesday night in Italy.Director Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penelope Cruz didn’t so much as touch their face coverings during an enthusiastic five-minute standing ovation at the historic Sala Grande for the Spanish film.As soon as the credits rolled, Cruz leaned over and clutched

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorPenelope Cruz first fell in love with director Pedro Almodovar at the age of 16, when she snuck in — then too young to see an R-rated film — to watch 1989’s “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!”Since then, they’ve worked together on seven projects, and she’s served as his muse in everything from 1997’s “Live Flesh” to 1999’s “All About My Mother” and 2006’s “Volver.”Their latest project, “Parallel Mothers” premieres as the opening night movie at the 78th annual Venice Film

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorCOVID-19 can’t kill the movies.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorLil Nas X has already shown his acting chops in music videos for “Montero (Call My By Your Name)” and “Industry Baby.”  In this week’s cover story for Variety‘s Young Hollywood issue, the 22-year-old hip-hop star reveals that he plans to one day follow in the footsteps of artists such as Lady Gaga and Beyoncé by starring in movies.“Absolutely, that’s going to happen for sure,” Nas says.When asked what kind of acting he envisions for himself, Nas explains:

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorSharon Stone wasn’t getting the bids that she wanted.Around midnight on Friday night in France, after a dazzling fashion show on the lawn of a mansion in Antibes, the actor-turned-emcee was auctioning off 32 one-of-a-kind gowns by designers such as Versace, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy and Balenciaga at the amfAR Cannes gala.Joined onstage by the 32 models who’d walked a makeshift runway — which was so slippery, two of them had tripped — Stone was ready to pocket

Regina King is attending the Cannes Film Festival, where she spoke at the Kering Women in Motion Talk.

Manori Ravindran International EditorWhen Regina King was asked to take part in this year’s Oscars as a presenter, the “One Night in Miami” director had no idea what she was in for, and found out just 24 hours before the ceremony that she would in fact be opening the whole show with a “country mile” jaunt into the building.In a Kering Women in Motion talk in Cannes on Friday, King revealed the last-minute nature of her iconic entrance to Variety executive editor Ramin Setoodeh.“I knew I was

“Aline” is shaping up to be a hit.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorSean Baker’s “Red Rocket” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday afternoon to another standing ovation, as one of the stronger U.S.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorCeline Dion did not make the trip to 74thCannes Film Festival for the premiere of “Aline,” a French musical drama inspired by the life of the Quebecois superstar.But if she’d attended the premiere on Tuesday night in the South of France, it’s hard to know if she’d be flattered or horrified.

Pranks are always a little more fun with an audience, aren’t they? While Timothée Chalamet, 25, received a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Monday July 12, Tilda Swinton, 60, decided to slap the name tag from her seat onto her French Dispatch co-star’s back. She also slyly turned his back to the camera for the whole auditorium to see. At least it wasn’t a “Kick Me” sign!

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorRacy sex in a convent? Explicit dreams about Jesus Christ? A coming-of-age lesbian love story? Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” featured all that and more, leaving its premiere audience at the Cannes Film Festival searching for words to describe the movie they’d just seen.But in the end, the French approved.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorThe Cannes Film Festival isn’t known for launching sequels. But on Thursday morning, Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II” held its first screening as part of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorSpike Lee is making history at Cannes Film Festival. The Oscar-winning director is the first Black president of the jury, where he’ll head the nine artists and actors — including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tahar Rahim and Song Kang-ho — tasked with voting on the prestigious Palm d’Or.“Cannes is the world’s greatest film festival,” Lee said on Tuesday afternoon in the South of France.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorOn Monday afternoon, Olivia Wilson had arrived from her home in Tennessee to the Cannes Film Festival, where she’ll be working as an intern at the American Pavilion.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAnya Taylor-Joy didn’t hold anything back from “The Queen’s Gambit.” In an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors TV issue, the 25-year-old actor said she committed everything she had to portraying Beth Harmon, the 1950s chess champion in the Netflix limited series.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorWhat’s the origin story of Imperator Furiosa, the ferocious warrior played by Charlize Theron in 2015’s blockbuster “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Director George Miller will tell that story in “Furiosa,” a prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy as the title heroine.The Warner Bros.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorIn the Netflix TV series “Bridgerton,” Regé-Jean Page plays Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, a throwback to previous heartthrobs in literature — ranging from Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” to Mr.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAs far as the internet is concerned, Nicole Kidman must be practicing how to scheme with Ethel and gulping mouthfuls of vitameatavegamin as Lucille Ball in an upcoming biopic about the star comedian.But in an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors TV issue, on newsstands this week, Kidman revealed to Chris Rock that “Being the Ricardos,” the movie that she’s currently filming, will tackle some serious themes.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorIn “Halton,” the bigger the American fashion designer gets, the harder he falls into a life of drug abuse and addiction.It’s familiar terrain for Ewan McGregor, who plays the Halston in the Netflix limited TV series.

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Ramin Setoodeh Executive Editor“Variety Studio: Actors on Actors” looked different this year, with actors talking to each other virtually from the comfort of their living rooms.But it still proved to be a valuable campaign stop for awards hopefuls.On Wednesday morning, 13 movie actors who participated in Variety’s annual franchise — celebrating the best film performances of 2020 — received Golden Globe nominations.The issue kicked off in mid-January with a “Silence of the Lambs” reunion between

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorElyse Bridges lives in a glamorous house in Los Angeles, with her husband and son, where she spends most of her days lost in thought. But despite an idyllic opening shot set in a postcard suburban setting, something isn’t right in Stella Hopkins’ directorial debut, “Elyse.”The black-and-white independent movie stars Lisa Pepper in the role of the film’s title character.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau Chief“Feel the Beat,” a track from the Black Eyed Peas’ recent bilingual English-Spanish album, “Translation,” features the group’s first collaboration with Latin music star Maluma. In an interview this week for Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, frontman Will.i.am.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau Chief“Euphoria,” the critically acclaimed HBO drama starring Zendaya, was meant to start shooting its second season in March.

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