‘Uncle Frank’ Star Peter Macdissi Talks Working With Partner Alan Ball on the Indie Gay Drama

Peter Andre lives in an incredible mansion in Surrey with his wife Emily MacDonagh, and the Mysterious Girl hitmaker has shared a debut home tour. From the gym to the cinema room and his bedroom, Peter has revealed every single space inside.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor In “Wander Darkly,” Sienna Miller and Diego Luna star as a Los Angeles couple who get into a horrific car accident.What happens after the crash, isn’t entirely clear. Maybe it was a fatal crash that left one or both of them dead or maybe not.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJack Dylan Grazer has been spending a lot of time at his computer during the pandemic. And it’s not just to Zoom with friends or for school.“I’ve written a few scripts, and I’m really proud of them,” the 17-year-old star of Luca Guadagnino’s HBO series “We Are Who We Are” tells Variety.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor “Saturday Night Live” player Chloe Fineman spent most of the pandemic in Los Angeles, but returned to New York City when NBC late-night sketch show came back on air in October.In addition to getting rave reviews and crazy social media love for her impressions of Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore and Nicole Kidman (did you see her as Kidman in ‘The Undoing’ in the cold open this past Saturday?!), she has teamed up with the Prisoner Wine

Being a comedy star wasn’t always in the cards for Chloe Fineman.

Mean Girls and The Christmas House star Jonathan Bennett has gotten engaged to his partner TV host Jaymes Vaughn.

 Selena Gomez ” began trending this week after Peacock’s Saved By the Bell reboot joked about the star’s health multiple times. Enraged Selenators took to social media to voice their disdain over the series using the 28-year-old entertainer’s kidney transplant as a punchline.

Sir Elton John and husband David Furnish are sending a positive message in a difficult time.

Watch Video: Alan Ball Found His 'Inner Tennessee Williams' to Write 'Uncle Frank'Except he doesn’t: Crashing a party at his apartment one night, Beth learns that Frank is gay, and his partner of ten years is Walid (Peter Macdissi, “Here and Now”). She’s barely begun to process all this new information when Frank gets a call that his father, and Beth’s grandfather, Daddy Mac (Stephen Root) has died.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen Darcy C. Scanlin was hired as the production designer of “Uncle Frank,” she had a very good idea of what writer and director Alan Ball wanted.All she had to do was read the script.Scanlin tells Variety that the pages were full of notes describing every location in exacting detail.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorGetting to play Selena, one of the most popular Mexican American entertainers in modern times, was reason enough for Christian Serratos to take the titular role in Netflix’s new bio series “Selena.”But more than that, Serratos wanted her 3-year-old daughter, Wolfgang, to see her portray the late singer.“I grew up loving Selena so much,” she says during this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “She has

Great British Bake Off is upon us and just a few nail-biting challenges stand between the final three and the winning trophy. Last week's semi-final saw Scottish contestant Peter Sawkins triumph as he was rewarded with a coveted Paul Hollywood handshake after his outstanding technical bake.

Bachelor alumni, which is why it’s not a stretch to suggest that Adam Todd and Bella Varelis would make a *very* cute couple. But it seems we may be waiting a while for the pair seal the deal.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWith a cast like Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland, it takes a special sort of someone to stand out in the crowd. But that’s exactly what Noma Dumezweni has done in “The Undoing,” David E.

Ricky Schroder, 50, is making headlines after he contributed to accused killer Kyle Rittenhouse‘s recent release from jail by donating a whopping $150,000 to his $2 million bail bond, according to TMZ. Rittenhouse’s lawyer, Lin Wood, took to his Twitter account on Nov.

He’s had tremendous success in both film — winning an Oscar for his screenplay for “American Beauty” — and in TV, creating iconic series such as “True Blood” and “Six Feet Under.” Now, Alan Ball — who was born in Marietta — is back with a new project, the character-driven “Uncle Frank,” which he both wrote and directed.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn “Small Axe,” Steve McQueen’s new Amazon anthology series about the Black experience in the U.K., John Boyega stars in the third installment — “Red, White and Blue” — as Leroy Logan, a real-life police officer in 1980s London.“He’s a scientist, a father, a community man and a husband who decides to join the police force in order to motivate change,” Boyega, 28, says on this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big

Bake Off star Peter Sawkins has sailed through to the final after an outstanding semi-final bake. The 20-year-old had such a fantastic week that he received a hand shake from Paul Hollywood who was totally impressed with his technical challenge.

Almost 20 minutes into our conversation, Paul Bettany jokes that maybe he really is a “glass half empty” person. It’s been less than a week since Joe Biden was anointed the President-Elect of the United States, but the British born Bettany, who was just able to vote as an American citizen for the first time this year, is far from overjoyed.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorGus Van Sant may have just collaborated with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele on a seven-part film series presentation of the fashion house’s next collection, but he isn’t looking to up his wardrobe anytime soon.