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After struggling with original fare in recent years, Pixar is hoping to regain its box office mojo with this weekend’s “Hoppers.” Disney’s animal-centric adventure is poised to lead in North America with $35 million to $40 million from 4,000 theaters. With enthusiastic reviews and fierce demand for

This week, “The View” has been feeling different from how it has in years. Suddenly, it’s relevant. One might think this is nothing new — after all, in the first Trump presidency, and before that for much of its history, the panel show was a clearinghouse for fiery debates about politics and policy.

New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.

SXSW has enlisted boldface names, including Jane Fonda, Demi Moore, Serena Williams, Keke Palmer and Andy Cohen, to deliver keynote addresses at the annual Austin-set festival. This year’s edition will be held from March 12-18. Among the films slated to premiere are horror comedy “Ready or Not 2: He

The flagship series may have ended, but Taylor Sheridan's franchise continues to expand.

“Jersey Shore Family Vacation” is ending after its upcoming ninth season on MTV, which will premiere on May 7 and run for 18 episodes. “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” premiered in 2018 as a revival of “Jersey Shore,” which originally ran on MTV for six seasons from 2009 to 2012. It appears that no ne

Variety will host a Next Generation Entertainment Podcast Brunch presented by Google TV at SXSW on March 14. Kicking off the brunch is a Strictly Business Conversation featuring Jonathan Zepp, Managing Director, Entertainment Content and Platforms, Google and Tommy Harper, Founder and CEO, VeYou. Th

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Selome Hailu details her profile of actor Keke Palmer, star of “I Love Boosters,” the Boots Riley comedy that is set to open the SXSW festival next week. Palmer tells Hailu how much the birth of her son three years

Amid the rollout for his new album “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.,” Harry Styles opened up about the loss of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, telling Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that it made him want to “[live] your life to the fullest.” Styles was discussing how artists are all “

The show, called ’Tides of Temptation,’ will be a digital companion piece to an original movie on the cable network.

Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ and Daniel Goldhaber’s ‘Faces of Death’ remake will bookend the April 2 to 5 showcase of horror, fantasy and sci-fi flicks spun off from Beyond Fest in Los Angeles.

The Cannes Film Festival will unveil the lineup of its 79th edition on April 9 at a press conference in Paris hosted by the festival’s president Iris Knobloch and general delegate Thierry Fremaux. The next edition will take place May 12-23 with a jury presided over by South Korean filmmaker Park Cha

Here’s what your dads and uncles will be watching in the near future.

Chloé Zhao, Bowen Yang, Daniel Dae Kim, Park Chan-wook, Lawrence Shou and 'KPop Demon Hunters' are set to be recognized at the event, which celebrates Asian and Pacific Islander excellence in film, TV and culture.

The company announced a boldface name-stuffed programming slate and a new branded content studio, while also inking deals with creators in specific genres to expand its reach.

A+E Global Media wants to ramp up the work it does to help advertisers create bespoke content for its media properties. The company, jointly controlled by Disney and Hearst, is launching Storyground, a studio that aims to help advertisers create bespoke content for A+E outlets that could include His

A+E Global Networks expects to launch a handful of new digital series while continuing to make the programming for outlets like Lifetime, History and A&E for which it is best known. The company, controlled by Disney and Hearst, has also struck new pacts between Lifetime and Queen Latifah and Taraji

Disney’s chief marketing and brand officer Asad Ayaz shares his thoughts with THR as the Oscar-nominated movie winds down its history-making run at the global box office.

Well, it's sort of new.

“Abbott Elementary” has been renewed for Season 6 at ABC, the network announced Wednesday. The news comes on the same day the show resumes its fifth season, with a new episode set to air tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET on the broadcast network. Season 5 originally premiered on Oct. 1. “Abbott Elementary” ha

Kaley Cuoco is the latest cast member to join the HBO Max drama pilot “How to Survive Without Me,” Variety has learned. Cuoco joins previously announced stars Ray Romano and Joshua Jackson in the pilot, which hails from writers Greg Berlanti and Bash Doran with a story by Berlanti, Doran, and Robbie

The Emmy-winning comedy continues to perform well, particularly on streaming.

For most of the 120 years that Variety has covered the entertainment industry, creatives followed a tried and true script to gain the attention of Hollywood’s gatekeepers by cutting their teeth on smaller projects, rising through the ranks and maybe, eventually, their project got made. But fetching

With a number of free livestream options, here's when and where to catch the women's basketball final.