Jane Fonda, the actor and activist who is the founder of the modern Committee for the First Amendment, strongly criticized the FCC’s order requiring Disney’s ABC-owned local stations to apply for early renewal of their broadcast licenses. The agency’s order Tuesday came a day after President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump called for Disney […]VarietyRead More
Dan Bongino, the one-time Fox News Channel weekend host who went on to become deputy director of the FBI, is returning to the cable-news outlet as a contributor, the network confirmed Monday. Bongino is slated to appear Monday night on “Hannity” to discuss the case of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie…
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Box Office segment, Variety’s Brent Lang unpacks what went wrong for Warner Bros.’ “The Bride” and what went right for Pixar’s “Hoppers” this weekend. And then we step into the Wayback Machine for a Vintage Variety rewind to look at the stories and personalities who were…
Jon Favreau is finally admitting he was wrong to warn Joe and Anthony Russo against killing off Tony Stark/Iron Man in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” Favreau gave rise to the Marvel Cinematic Universe when he cast Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man in the 2008 movie of the same name. They re-teamed for 2010’s “Iron Man…
Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It’s a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l’amour fou, a renegade take-off on the “Frankenstein” mythology. And while the movie doesn’t entirely work — it lumbers along and blows fuses; it has plenty of flesh and blood but not enough storytelling spine — there’s a genuine spark of…
At Free Eden, a Dallas mall boutique, four young women sell overpriced clothes, burn sage and run a secret after-hours coven. “Forbidden Fruits,” the horror-comedy from first-time feature director Meredith Alloway, is now open in theaters. Adapted from playwright Lily Houghton’s stage work “Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We…
