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Alexander Skarsgård is having a monumental year, starting with two indie films playing at Sundance this winter.

Alexander Skarsgård doesn’t know why you’re so obsessed with what he wears. As we speak in November at the Chateau Marmont, he’s splayed his 6-foot-4 frame into a chair, and wears a billowing white shirt unbuttoned to mid-chest and ’70s-style aviators....

KIRK CONGRATULATIONS SOMMER

When I was invited to share my memories and thoughts on one of the most beloved and respected giants in all of music I was at a loss where to even begin… But Kirk, just for starters, you’re a legend for all the right reasons and I fricken’ adore you!...

Wrestlemania Dwayne Johnson celebrates his first Golden Globe nomination in Beverly Hills. Plus: Kristen Wiig joins Will Arnett at the “Is This Thing On?” premiere in L.A.

DEC. 17 Britt Lower, nominated for her work on “Severance,” says winning won’t be everything for her at the big awards ceremony on Jan. 11. “I have orders from my 9-year-old stepdaughter that if I meet Ariana Grande, I need to get her autograph,” she...

Desert Winds

Dakota Johnson, Jessica Alba and Kirsten Dunst head to the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. Plus: “Rupaul’s Drag Race” celebrates Season 18 in NYC.

Battle for the Future

How we view movies and TV will be different in a few years, depending on whether Netflix buys Warner Bros. or if Paramount Skydance takes it over. And that decision has something to do with Donald Trump.

Who’s the Boss?

Oprah Winfrey chats with Jeremy Allen White about “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” in Santa Barbara. Plus: The Gotham Awards are handed out in NYC.

A Festival of Laughs

Variety’s film critics and movie buffs weigh in on the 100 greatest comedies of all time.

"TV AT ITS MOST ADDICTIVE: SEXY, DRAMATIC, AND DRIPPING IN EXCESS"

The Beat Goes On

Despite a lukewarm reception for his new film “The Smashing Machine,” about mixed martial artist Mark Kerr, Dwayne Johnson feels certain his acting career is taking a turn for the better.

New Sheriff in Town

A deep dive into what’s happening at Paramount since David Ellison bought it in August.

Power of Women L.A.

This season we honor Jamie Lee Curtis, Kate Hudson, Nicole Scherzinger, Sydney Sweeney and Wanda Sykes for their generosity as well as their ability to reinvent themselves. Plus: A celebration of 92 women who make Hollywood great.

In Her Shoes

Designing a dress that would become ubiquitous was only the first of many iconic successes in Diane von Furstenberg’s long life. At 78, she’s still being awarded for them.

THE SCARIEST MAN IN HOLLYWOOD

AFTER 15 YEARS OF TERRIFYING AUDIENCES, JASON BLUM IS READY TO REDEFINE HORROR

Psycho Killer

To play a serial killer on Ryan Murphy’s series “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” — his rst major role in years — Charlie Hunnam goes to the dark side.

Luca Guadagnino’s controversial new lm may be upsetting to some, but Julia Roberts, Andrew Gar eld, Ayo Edebiri, Chloë Sevigny and Michael Stuhlbarg had a great time making it.

julia roberts landed at the venice film festival wrapped up in her director. As she flashed her famous smile, the iconic star donned a custom white cardigan with Luca Guadagnino’s face emblazoned all over it. The garment fit in more ways than one....

Lynette Howell Taylor, the newly elected president of AMPAS, explains how the Academy Awards are entering a “brave new world.”

As a successful independent producer, she’s juggled everything from action movies (“The Accountant”) to indies (“Half Nelson”) to Lady Gaga’s big-screen debut (“A Star Is Born”), all while dealing with movie-star egos, unforgiving budgets and punishing...

Toy Story

Channing Tatum regretted turning down Derek Cianfrance’s offer to star in “Blue Valentine.” Then Cianfrance came around again.

OUTSTANDING SCRIPTED VARIETY SERIES

Working It Outie

Tramell Tillman’s father demanded excellence in a way that sometimes felt too harsh. But it paid o for the breakout star of “Severance.”

Harrison Ford Forever

At 83, Hollywood’s ultimate leading man gets his first Emmy nomination — and plots his next move

Earth Shattering

How Noah Hawley brought to life “Alien: Earth,” FX’S pricey TV take on the enduring “Alien” franchise.

Paramount has agreed to pay the president $16 million to settle a case against “60 Minutes,” putting news organizations in jeopardy. The Media v. Trump

BULLYING THE PRESS FOLLOWING $16 MILLION PAY YOUT ROM PARAMOUNT, DONALD TRUMP IS WEAKENING FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS AND TRYING TO RESHAPE MEDIA COVERAGE IN HIS FAVOR

How insanity in the courtroom shaped the Diddy trial’s shocking verdict

How insanity in the courtroom shaped the Diddy trial’s shocking verdict By Ethan Shanfeld

Bad Bunny

Inside the career-topping concerts bringing him home to Puerto Rico

Unedited and Unfiltered

“Rupaul’s Drag Race” executive producer and World of Wonder co-founder Fenton Bailey is still giddy over the cold open of Season ’s sketch “The Squirrel Game.” “It’s better than drugs. It’s better than sex. It’s the best thing ever,” Bailey laughs....

EXTRA EDITION

EMMY: WOMEN OF EMMY SEASON

While Hollywood is happily filming its most expensive movies in and around London, U.K. crews are out of work.

IF the United Kingdom has become such a hot spot for Hollywood films and shows, why are so many of its entertainment industry workers out of a job? On the one hand, the country’s soundstages are filled with massive American productions ranging from...

"MESMERIZING & MASTERFUL"

"MESMERIZING & MASTER"

Actors on Actors Is Back!

Variety’s award-winning series — where stars talk to each other about their craft — is out just in time for Emmy nominations-round voting on June .

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

TV for the Anxiety Generation

The first time it happened was during the strike. A writer came up to me on the picket line to tell me that their 13-year-old loved “The Rookie.” Since then, I’ve heard that same sentiment over and over again (with the age often lowered to 10 and 11)....

Jane Rosenthal talks about her career since co-founding the Tribeca Festival with Robert De Niro after 9/11.

As the legendary producer strolls onto the patio of The Greenwich Hotel, clad in her signature blue shades, she’s visibly aghast. A small army of workers is plastering a banner and some streamers onto trees in preparation for a bridal shower scheduled...

The Dark Side

The first time they ever met, Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nélisse immediately agreed that Shauna, the character they both play (at different ages) on Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” was anything but the wallflower housewife audiences see at first. “We both...

Competition Like No Other

For the last five Emmy cycles (including the two last year), a theme has repeated: Things aren’t easy. Half a decade after the beginning of COVID-19, it’s eye-opening to look back at the years that followed — the recovery process, a second strand, a...

If you think it’s impossible to be a crazily successful actor, producer or showrunner and still have a great, long-lasting marriage, you haven’t met Kaitlin Olson and Rob Mcelhenney.

RRob Mcelhenney was visiting a stunning new West Hollywood hotel recently to speak at a conference, and started snapping photographs of the place on his cellphone. “I took a bunch of pictures because I was like, ’Kaitlin would love this. It’s right up...

“THRILLING. “A STUNNER OF A FINALE.

ELISABETH MOSS DELIVERS A GROUNDBREAKING PERFORMANCE.”

After being acquitted of charges that might have left him in prison for 25 years, rapper A$AP Rocky is headed to Cannes to celebrate his next big success — a role in Spike Lee’s new film.

It’s after midnight in a hotel suite overlooking New York City’s Union Square, and I’m sitting across from A$AP Rocky as he toys with a halfsmoked blunt. There’s a fresh one in the ashtray beside it that one of his assistants recently rolled for him....

THE JUDD FAMILY

MAY 10th & 11th | Lifetime

Actors on Actors Goes to Broadway

Variety’s Emmy-winning series turns to the Great White Way, where renowned stage actors including Patti Lupone, Nicole Scherzinger and Audra Mcdonald trade deep thoughts and mortifying moments with big-screen stars like George Clooney, Jake Gyllenhaal...

Paging Dr. Wyle

By Adam B. Vary Photographs by Chantal Anderson

Mystery Night Uzo Aduba and Giancarlo Esposito hit the “Residence” carpet in L.A. Plus: The “Othello” opening night in New York.

For the first time in more than 40 years, Shakespeare’s “Othello” is back on Broadway, this time headlined by Denzel Washington as the tragic general and Jake Gyllenhaal as his manipulative adviser Iago. Director Kenny Leon, who worked with Washington...

Ted Talks

Netflix CO-CEO Ted Sarandos answers questions about striking an overall deal with the Obamas, meeting Donald Trump for dinner and why he doesn’t get Apple’s content strategy.

Back Page

“Dazed advertised and Confused” as just another was stoner comedy when it came out in 1993. But Richard Linklater’s film about growing up in Austin, Texas, in the ’70s turned out to be a seminal coming-of-age story.

Daddy Dearest

After Tatum O’neal won a best supporting actress Oscar for “Paper Moon” at 10, her relationship with her father, Ryan O’neal, went from difficult to nearly fatal.

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld is latenight TV’S man of the moment with a gleeful agenda of sticking it to the woke.

On a Tuesday in February, Hollywood is the in throes of a “Bonfire of the Vanities” moment. Karla Sofía Gascón’s old social media posts, with shocking takes on George Floyd (“a drug addict swindler”) and Islam (“an infection for humanity that urgently...

deep cuts

nbcuniversal is the first of hollywood’s majors to take the plunge into tv’s post-cable future. it won’t be the last

13 ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINATIONS BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR

BEST DIRECTOR JACQUES AUDIARD • BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY • BEST ACTRESS KARLA SOFÍA GASCÓN BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ZOE SALDAÑA • BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE • BEST ORIGINAL SONG “EL MAL”, “MI CAMINO” BEST ORIGINAL SCORE • BEST SOUND • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY...

Grammys in the Time of Fire

For the third time in five years, the music award ceremony has had to pivot in the face of a crisis. Plus: Clive Davis’ coveted ticket and Variety’s predictions.

Marvel actor Benedict Cumberbatch makes another move toward indie film with “The Thing With Feathers,” a dark drama about male grief.

“They are very open to discussing where we go next,” he says. “Who do you want to write and direct the next one? What part of the comic lore do you want to explore so that Strange can keep evolving? He’s a very rich character to play. He’s a complex,...

Save Your Tears

HOW THE WEEKND LOST HIS PRECIOUS INSTRUMENT, GOT IT BACK AND AS THEUSED IT INSPIRATION FOR HIS NEXT PROJECT, ‘HURRY UP TOMORROW’

The Wizard and I

Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jon M. Chu explore what “Wicked” is or was — and the places it will go.

Ladies First

We recently had a presidential election in America, and there was much talk about the U.S. having its first woman president, as well as talk about restoring American women’s reproductive rights. The reality of the election results has been mulled over...

Directors on Directors

Denis Villeneuve, Jon M. Chu, Zoë Kravitz and more trade notes on how they created the year’s most talked-about movies.

Actors ON Actors

There’s no place like home — and, during awards season, home base is Actors on Actors. For three days in November, our studio is the only place where you’ll find each of the most exciting stars on the campaign trail, whether they arrived from ancient...

An Actor Prepares

Actors learn new skills and confront their own fears in awards-season features. Plus: Breaking down the contenders vying for a spot on the Oscar shortlist.

A Banner Year

With the success of “Shōgun,” FX chief John Landgraf proves longform storytelling is alive and well — and that FX, with the help of Disney, can pull it o.

PITCH PERFECT

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by...

Hear Me Roar

Paul Mescal made his name playing sensitive young men in indie projects. So how risky is it for him to portray a brute in Ridley Scott’s blockbuster “Gladiator II”?

Queen Theory

What happened when veteran actor Daniel Craig and newcomer Drew Starkey were cast to play drugged-out lovers in Luca Guadagnino’s latest lm.

Law Abiding

nd II can’t keep up with him. ¶ On a recent September afternoon, Jude Law is running away from the set of “Black Rabbit,” a Netflix miniseries where he plays a Manhattan nightclub owner who welcomes his troublemaker brother back into his life. Today’s...

THEY'RE CALLING THE SHOTS

Lower Taxes or Tyranny

For Hollywood, the possible upside of a second Trump term is tax cuts. The downside is that crazy man hell-bent on revenge.

THE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

The New York ISSUE

Rachel Zegler started out in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” Now she’s back in the Big Apple, telling the tale of starcrossed lovers in a modern-day “Romeo + Juliet” on Broadway.

Sebastian Stan’s rst two starring roles are risky; in one he plays a man with facial tumors and in the other Donald Trump.