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BLAME THE ABRUPT SHIFT FROM DROUGHT SUNSHINE to pelting rains, but up until right after the new year, 'Godzilla El Nino' was not exactly top of mind for Hollywood. Tom […]

Dick moves? They're here A-to-Z as THR surveys industry women and reveals the subtle slights and microagressions that cause them to reconsider career choices A ASSENTING OPINIONS, ONLY 'When I've [...]

COVID lockdowns dramatically upended purchasing habits everywhere, including in the wine business. With restaurants shuttered and homebound happy hours commencing early and often, digital U.S. wine sales rose 32 percent [...]

BUBBLING UP Various sparklers are less available this year because of supply chain issues. Here are a few alternative fizz suggestions: La Battagliola Lambrusco from Italy's Emilia-Romagna region is 'a [...]

As the Globes, Critics' Choice, SAG Awards and WME opt for plant-based menus, pressure is on Oscar-season events to send the right message: 'Everybody is concerned about the environment' The [...]

With work pressure often feeling crazier than ever, time management experts offer a range of solutions that focus on mind-set shifts. Author Laura Vanderkam (I Know How She Does It) [...]

1. MIND MY PERSONAL SPACE (LIKE YOU WOULD ANYONE ELSE'S) In a meeting with several industry movers and shakers, an Oscar winner reached over and touched my hair and said [...]

Swing's schwing is back! L.A. power players are picking up their racquets again as an ultracompetitive scene re-emerges, from exclusive enclaves to public parks, and everyone from Larry Ellison to [...]

Private equity--mostly from high-networth individuals--is still available. Sure, Bernie Madoff may have dented a few pockets, but highfliers love to head to Hollywood. 'The crazy money is gone,' decries one [...]

With several of kudo season's key hopefuls--The Curious Case Benjamin Button,' 'The Reader,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Australia' Gran Torino--seen only by a select few outside of their respective studios, it's a [...]

In our 11th year publishing the 10 Producers to Watch list, things haven't necessarily gotten any easier for the folks who bring together the various elements required to make movies. [...]

THE LIST This year marks Variety's 12th annual selection of helmers. Composed mainly of first- or second-time feature directors, it includes four with films at Sundance. The other six impressed [...]

AKEELAH AND THE BEE Doug Atchison won the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship in 2000 for this touching story about a young spelling bee contestant from South L.A. Six years later, 'Akeelah,' [...]

As Variety's 10 Directors to Watch series turns 10 this year, it seems we even got it right in some cases over the past decade. Straight out of the gate, [...]

A-Listers Top-shelf thesps have been swimming in indie waters for years now, often citing the opportunity for meatier or pigeonhole-breaking roles. And the last year has seen a slew of [...]

The Oscar-nominated prison thriller A Prophet first threw the international spotlight on Tahar Rahim in 2009. Now another film involving incarceration is drawing fresh praise for the French actor. In [...]

Our eighth annual list of up-and-coming directors is our most international yet. Of the five American-born helmers who made the cut, two have lived outside the country for long stretches [...]

Our annual 10 Screenwriters to Watch candidates usually have more produced credits than this year's batch, but with this list we chose to go with writers who either have several [...]

This year's crop of 10 Producers to Watch developed their skill sets through myriad sources and routes. Some, like David Bushell, Ross Katz and Mary Jane Skalski, learned by hands-on-work [...]

HOLLYWOOD In its sixth year, our 10 Directors to Watch list features as diverse and geographically mixed a group as ever. Repping the Latin American front, Argentina's Fabian Bielinsky wowed [...]

While carving out downtime is rare for those who are actually working during Sundance, some fest veterans have perfected the art of disappearing long enough to recharge before heading back [...]

With Venezia playing host to cinema's Br W luminaries for decades, industry pros are familiar with the floating city's most famous haunts--including legendary Harry's Bar (where the Bellini is said [...]

Variety's fourth annual Global 50 lineup of the world's largest media and entertainment companies saw little change from last year. The top 10 remain much the same, while merger mania [...]

Behind the scenes, ahead of the times, hot creatives make their mark Hope isn't just for the young, and neither is Variety's annual list of up-and-comer creatives who work behind [...]

The Venice Film Festival's natural environs and its late-summer dates mean attendees likely will be confronted with one of Mother Nature's fiercest forces--water. Venice's historical acqua alta (high water) events [...]

As Sundance launches its 2010 edition tonight, under new management, the fest might not look drastically different from prior years, but some subtle tweaks might prove significant as the year [...]

After a quarter century of vividly showcasing indie cinema, the Sundance Film Festival has bred some great expectations. Audiences expect to discover edgy new talent. Filmmakers expect to get a [...]

YU DONG (LEFT), JEFFREY CHAN & NANSUN SHI After last year's failed attempt to launch a content und with Yu's Polybona, China's largest privately owned distributor, producers Shi and Chan [...]

With thousands of wannabes and couldbes swirling around the Riviera during the festival and market, how does a self-respecting Cannes-goer determine what business cards to hang on to, which meetings [...]

Even as Berlin bulked up with a bigger European Film Market in February, most international sales reps still view this month's Marche du Film in Cannes (aka Cannes Market) as [...]

At last month's Sundance Film Festival, the most visible faces of Sony Pictures Classics--Michael Barker and Tom Bernard--were also among the most visible execs around Park City. The specialty arm's [...]

Fest brass may characterize this year's Sundance lineup as going 'back to its roots,' emphasizing fewer star vehicles and more films from newbie helmers, but that's not what some industryites [...]

When member companies of the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) voted a while back to move February's American Film Market (AFM) to November, it was with the intention to [...]

Michael Moore delivered an antiwar, anti-Bush speech at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003, and the crowd didn't flinch. The next night, his identical words at the Oscars drew boos […]

As jets from L.A. and New York head to Salt Lake City this week, industry pros predict another acquisitive sesh at the Sundance Film Festival. Last year yielded a breakout [...]

As the American Film Market preps its second go-round in 2004, it's already won a decisive victory. Milan-based Mired, a longtime November pit stop, held its final autumn confab last [...]

More than ever this year, the Toronto Film Fest proved to be as worldly as the Summer Olympics when it came to showcasing international talent. And while it's easy to [...]

The idea of a film festival set in the studio film-making epicenter of the world still baffles many industryites. Why would the average Angeleno want or need to see movies [...]

HOLLYWOOD It could be spring fever, changing market conditions, or the fact that anxiety over the recession is waning. Whatever the cause, optimism is clearly the dominant mood among this [...]

It may be the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival's 10th anni, but the fest's Film Discovery Program isn't quite a teen yet. Yet, like the event from which it sprung, the [...]

The notion of a primetime TV star scoring big at Sundance may not have been entirely what its founders had in mind when the Park City event was first created. [...]

Come Thursday night, there will be more acquisition execs than usual elbowing their way into the Sundance Film Festival's opening night feature. This year, not only is the fest kicking [...]

AS the international sales brigade readies for another and quite possibly the last Mifed film market in Milan next week (Nov. 9-13), various companies are already in sync with the […]

These thirty somethings belong to a rarified group of film execs who are responsible for picking the winners out of a sea of accomplished works from around the globe. They'll [...]

Indie film is back in full force at Sundance 2003. Acquisition executives and agents are calling this year's festival 'solidly independent' and a move away from what some have viewed [...]

Buena Vista Pictures Distribution prexy Chuck Viane has a lot to smile about and it's not just because he's being singled out by his peers at ShowEast this week with [...]

Our survey asks: Where's the money for films coming from today? The results are in, and we hope they're on the money. Variety's first indie finance survey confirms several recent [...]

Pregnant at the Oscars? A Star Is Born producer Lynette Howell Taylor, who endured awards season while with child, shares tips along with other insiders on what to wear and [...]

Power Breakfast You'll find Sony Pictures Classics' co-president Tom Bernard sipping V8 and tucking into his eggs over easy at Kos (61 Bellevue Ave.) after his usual Monday morning fest [...]