‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Star Marielle Heller Worries About COVID-19’s Impact on Filmmaking and Movie Theaters

Coleen Nolan may be happy in blossoming relationship, but she's now expressed her worries over being eight years older than him.The Loose Women star, who opened up about her fears of getting cancer, met her new man on a dating app last year but has opted to keep his identity a secret. Speaking to The Mirror, the 55 year old expressed: "I have moments of worrying I'm a bit too old for him.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPray for movie theaters.“The Marksman,” a Liam Neeson thriller from Open Road, held onto first place for the second weekend in a row, grossing just over $2 million.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe inauguration television special “Celebrating America” was only about six weeks in the making. “We did election night, and people are calling me and going, ‘Okay, what are we doing for the inaugural?,’” producer Ricky Kirshner tells Variety.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKate Elliott has been working in and around New York’s theater scene for about 20 years, after graduating from Boston University with a BFA in sound design and music.

There are filmmakers working today that not only see themselves as storytellers, but they see themselves as the folks carrying the torch in the fight to push the medium of film forward into the future. You have James Cameron inventing technology and doing ridiculous special effects work in his films, such as “Avatar” and the future sequels.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis ain’t your grandparents’ Avengers.In the new Disney Plus show, “WandaVision,” each episode finds Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living in different comedy sitcom-inspired worlds, including “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bewitiched,” “The Brady Bunch” and more.“There’s a moment in the second episode where we’re trying to sneak away and we’re literally doing sneaking-acting,” Bettany tells Variety.

Veteran exhibition analyst Eric Wold of B. Riley has given Cinemark stock a big shot in the arm, so to speak, upgrading it to “buy” from “neutral” and doubling his price target.

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, Dr.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorEmma Corrin should pay attention to her brother more often.

Politics and Covid-19 have been intertwined ever since the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China a year ago. But when director Hao Wu made 76 Days, his harrowing film documenting hospital workers and Covid patients in Wuhan as the city went through lockdown, he left political questions aside.

In a highly rare occurrence, Buckingham Palace has released a statement about the private health matters of the Queen and for a really important reason.

As the United Kingdom continues its rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Buckingham Palace has revealed that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have both been vaccinated.On Saturday, a spokesperson from Buckingham Palace confirmed, "The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have today received COVID-19 vaccinations." Meanwhile, a royal source revealed that a household doctor at Windsor Castle, where the queen and her husband have been residing throughout much of the pandemic, administered the

With her turn in The Queen's Gambit, Marielle Heller proved that she's just as talented in front of the camera as she is behind it. The director of such critically lauded films as The Diary of a Teenage Girl and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood returned to her acting roots with a surprise part in Netflix's record-breaking miniseries about fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy).

When this is all over—Covid, unrest, financial reconstruction—will Los Angeles still be the Movie Capital? Perhaps not.

Gilligan's Island, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of causes related to COVID-19. She was 82.