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Malcolm D. Lee will serve as director and executive producer on two projects for NBC and Peacock under his Blackmardo Productions banner, Variety reports. Universal Television, where Lee and Blackmared have a first-look deal, will produce both shows. The NBC project is titled “Need to Know,” and Taye Diggs (“All American,” “The Best Man”) will star and executive produce. The project’s logline reads, “Inspired by true events, this is a spy procedural about a battle-scarred CIA veteran who must team up with a brash young officer as he carries out the CIA’s most daring operation from a secret base in…
Happy birthday, Leonardo DiCaprio! The Oscar-winning actor turns 51 years old on November 11, 2025. In his decades in the industry, dating back to his years on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, he has grown in front of the camera, earning leading role status at a young age before transitioning to the ultimate emotional role in Titanic, and is now an award-winning actor. As we celebrate DiCaprio’s big day, take a look at some of his early vintage photos. Oh boy Leonardo DiCaprio in 1989. Darlene Hammond/Getty Images In 1989, 15-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio looked as fresh as ever as he…
Antonio Banderas will be honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Turin Film Festival in Turin, Italy, where the Oscar-nominated actor will present a special screening of Pedro Almodovar’s 2019 semi-autobiographical drama “Pain and Glory.” Banderas will receive Turin’s Stella della Mole Award on November 29th at the opening ceremony of the Italian event dedicated to independent films. As previously announced, the festival will open with David Frain’s afterlife romantic comedy “Eternity.” Afterwards, a special screening of “Pain and Glory,” in which Banderas stars as Almodóvar’s alter ego and a director reflecting on his life and career, will be…
Heart health is very personal to Jane Seymour. Coronary artery disease runs in her family. Seymour’s mother suffered a stroke, and her father underwent valve replacement and quadruple heart bypass surgery. The actress also played a heart transplant patient in the 2002 TV movie Heart of a Stranger. “I’ve seen four open-heart surgeries,” she said of preparing for the role. “When you actually watch the surgery, it’s quite amazing and you see this miracle. While they’re repairing it, you see the actual artery being connected to the machine that’s managing the surgery. It’s like macramé. It’s incredible what they’re doing.”…
What you need to know Paris Hilton got engaged to Carter Liam on a private island in February 2021. He proposed with a 20-carat emerald-cut diamond ring. They married in November 2021. Paris Hilton has an engagement ring befitting a hotel heiress. Hilton and Carter-Liam began their romance in 2019 after reuniting at Thanksgiving dinner, eventually dating for two years and getting engaged over the holidays in February 2021. Réum answered this question with a giant emerald-cut diamond designed by jeweler Jean Doucet. The Simple Life star opened up about the engagement in a September 2021 blog post, calling her…
Variety has learned exclusively that a “V for Vendetta” TV series is currently in development at HBO. Sources say Pete Jackson will write the script for the series. DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran will serve as executive producers, with Poison Pen’s Ben Stephenson and Wall to Wall Media’s Leanne Klein, part of Warner Bros. Television Studios UK, also serving as executive producers. Produced by Warner Bros. Television. HBO and DC Studios declined to comment. Representatives for Mr. Jackson did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment. V for Vendetta began as a comic book series written by…
Ariana Grande just debuted a truly show-stopping cinematic look in London. While on tour to promote “Wicked: For Good,” Grande traded in her traditional pink Glinda wardrobe for something perhaps more befitting her counterpart Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. Grande’s sparkling one-shoulder black gown, created by Gilbert Adrian in 1952, is very Old Hollywood couture. Ariana Grande chose a vintage Gilbert Adrian piece for the London premiere of Wicked: For Good. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images The asymmetrical black tulle dress was designed around 1952 by Gilbert Adrian, the costume designer for “The Wizard of Oz.” zumapress.com Grande added some sparkle to her neckline…
As box office returns for many independent films continue to slump, with the conventional wisdom that low-budget indies or low-nine-figure franchise candidates are the safest bets, two upstart domestic distributors, Black Bear and Low-K Entertainment, have recently taken a counterintuitive strategy. The idea is to release mid-budget movies. Given the tough market conditions, the big question is why. “There aren’t many options for releasing these kinds of movies,” says entertainment lawyer and producer Elsa Ramo, founder of Los Angeles-based film company Ramo Law. “So I think some of these entrepreneurial companies like[producer-turned-US distributor]Black Bear are serving a market with fewer…
When “KPop Demon Hunters” blew up over the summer, Netflix was nearly finished with the Philadelphia location of Netflix House — the first of its permanent entertainment and shopping venues. “We weren’t loaded in, but every element had been planned, and there’s complexity there,” Netflix chief marketing officer Marian Lee told Variety Monday in an interview inside of the Tudum Theater (where Netflix IP will be regularly screened) at Netflix House at the King of Prussia mall in Philadelphia. Netflix House Philadelphia. Photo by Kat Kendon.©2025 Netflix Attractions, LLC Kat Kendon But a hit as big as “KPop” couldn’t be…
What you need to know Florence Pugh doesn’t regret defending her ex-relationship with Scrubs star Zach Braff, whom she dated from 2019 to 2022 In a Nov. 10 podcast interview, Pugh recalled a 2020 video in which she defended Braff, who is 21 years her senior. Pugh said she has to “check in” with her fans and remind them that she and Braff are “real.” Florence Pugh still has no regrets about standing up for ex Zach Braff when online commenters criticized the former couple’s 21-year age difference. Pugh, 29, appeared on the Louis Theroux Podcast on Nov. 10 to…