‘Zola’ Trailer: Riley Keough & Taylour Paige Are The Messy B*tches From An Epic Twitter Thread

Jamie Lang Visions du Reél world premiere feature “The Bubble,” playing in the festival’s International Competition, provides a candid look at the often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community, in Central Florida.

's three-part reunion is going to bring the drama. In the first look at the dungeon-themed, multi-episode, season 13 reunion, Porsha Williams, Kenya Moore, Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, and Drew Sidora aren't holding anything back.The teaser kicks off with the ladies unintelligibly speaking over each other as host Andy Cohen watches from the sidelines.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorIn response to the shooting in Atlanta and the rise in hate crimes it underscored, Asian American theater artists took action, organizing support and self-care programs for the Asian American community while using their platforms as performers to speak out.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:The two guests on this week’s episode of Variety’s Stagecraft podcast, Christine Toy Johnson and Leslie Ishii, were among the theater creators who appeared in “Stronger

Canadian studio operators have been watching the growing Hollywood backlash against Georgia's restrictive voting laws and are betting the major studios will soon bow to pressure and shift production out of Atlanta. Paul Bronfman, CEO of Comweb Corp.

The Beatles, or legendary lyrical duo OutKast — it’s a “So Fresh, So Clean” sweep for the rhymers from Atlanta. With Twitter as the digital battlefield, cyber-soldiers of the OutKast army beat back troops in the Beatles brigade with hard-hitting arguments supporting their stance that the “ATLiens” are the greatest group of all time. The drums of better band war were sounded by a now-viral retweet from OutKast’s official Twitter account which read: “When society admits OutKast is better than The

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTyler Perry is developing a drama prequel series about the early life of his iconic character Madea for Showtime, Variety has learned.Showtime has ordered multiple scripts for the projects, which is titled “Mabel.” Per the official description of the project, long before she was the force of nature known as Madea she was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy 20-something black woman named Mabel Simmons.

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A24's Zola dramedy has dropped a new trailer that's as predictably wild as the epic stripper saga set in Florida's flesh trade from writer-director Janicza Bravo and which stars Taylour Paige and Riley Keough.

It’s been years in the making, but Zola’s story is finally coming to the big screen.

Taylour Paige stars as the titular Detroit waitress who is seduced by a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), into taking a road trip to make some fast money dancing in Florida. What comes next involves a pimp (Colman Domingo), an idiot boyfriend (Nicholas Braun) and probably the craziest 48 hours in Florida, ever.

everywhere, but if you need a refresher: In the thread, King explained how she agreed to travel with a stripper she just met, her roommate, and her boyfriend to Florida for a spontaneous “hoe trip.” Zola thought she was going down there to dance—but this new friend had other plans. This jaw-dropping, real-life story was begging to be made into a and now we're getting one—starring Taylour Paige as Zola and as her new friend, Stefani.

The insane world saga of a Twitter user named Zola went viral in 2015. Now, that tweet thread about strippers, gangsters, pimps, and partying in Florida has become one wild-looking movie starring Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, and Colman Domingo.

Tyler Perry is weighing in on Georgia's new voting law. The Atlanta-based mogul, who runs a sprawling studio in the city, acknowledged that it's not the first time his state has passed controversial legislation."As a Georgia resident and business owner I’ve been here a few times with the anti-abortion bill and the LGBTQ discrimination bill," Perry said in a statement.