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Awards season is here in London this weekend, and with it comes South Asian films. “We are living in incredibly worrying and dangerous times, especially in the United States,” two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Geeta Gundbir told guests Friday at the South Asian Emerging Industries Gathering in London during BAFTA Film Awards weekend. “It was the great Spike Lee who gave me my first film opportunity. It was the black community in the United States that really opened the door for me, and I stand on their shoulders. We are fighting this battle, but what happens in the United States has ripple…

Conan O’Brien has spoken out for the first time about the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner. The filmmaker and his spouse were killed in an apparent murder on December 14th. The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Mr O’Brien finds himself thrust into the center of the story when it is revealed that Rob, Michelle and Nick had attended his holiday party the night before the fatal accident. “I knew Rob and Michelle, and then I started getting closer and closer to them and seeing them often,” O’Brien told The New…

First lady Melania Trump unveiled her 2025 inaugural ball gown at the Smithsonian Institution on Friday. AP It’s leather weather for the First Lady. Melania Trump celebrated the donation of her second inaugural gown to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on Friday in an all-black outfit that coordinated with her historic dress. FLOTUS spoke at the gown unveiling wearing a Bottega Veneta double-breasted coat ($4,300), a knit turtleneck, leather leggings, and knee-length Christian Louboutin boots with snakeskin embossment. She wore a historical dress that was all black from head to toe. Getty Images Trump wore a Bottega Veneta…

Fragrant Nature Film Creations is making its first foray into international acquisitions, acquiring the Indian rights to the Oscar-nominated French animated feature Little Amelie, or the Rain Character, from Paris-based Goodfellas Animation. The Kochi, Kerala-based banner has acquired all Indian rights to the film, except for airlines, which marks the launch of a dedicated sourcing and distribution arm for the company. The production from Maybe Movies and Ikki Films, helmed by Mairis Valade and Lian Cho Hung, is based on the novel “Métaphysique des tubes” by Amelie Norton. The film succumbed to Cannes and received Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Annie,…

As the CBS daytime series “Beyond the Gates” celebrates its one-year anniversary on Tuesday, executive producer Sheila Ducksworth said the milestone is the culmination of a decades-long dream. That dream began when she was 10 years old and glued to “General Hospital.” “Launching a soap is the strangest thing I’ve done in all my years of producing,” Ducksworth said on Variety’s Strictly Business podcast. “This is something we knew we needed to build to last.” Ducksworth, who is also president of content partnerships for CBS Studios and the NAACP, traced the show’s origins back to his childhood, when watching “General…

Conan O’Brien has finally reflected on the deaths of his friends Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, who were known to have attended an annual Christmas party in Los Angeles the night before the Dec. 14, 2025, murders. “It’s really terrible,” he told The New Yorker in a newly published interview. “And I think about how Rob felt about what was going on in this country, how involved he was, how much he put himself out there. And for that voice to be silenced in an instant, it’s still hard for me to understand.” Conan O’Brien, who was spotted here in…

The Indian film industry is gearing up for a once-in-a-generation reunion as film legends Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth are set to return to the big screen in a new feature film (currently titled ‘KHxRK’) produced by Red Giant Movies. The project will be helmed by director Nelson Dilipkumar, who cemented his reputation as one of the most commercially formidable directors in Tamil cinema with his 2023 blockbuster The Jailer starring Rajinikanth. The two icons shared the screen more than a dozen times in the late 1970s and early 1980s, starring in a string of Tamil film classics including ‘Apoorva Raagangal’,…

Brooks Brothers and the Gold House celebrated Chinese New Year with a starry night dinner at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills on Thursday night. The guest list includes “K-Pop Demon Hunters stars Yoo Ji-young, Daniel Dae Kim and Harry Shum, Toy Story 5 stars Shelby Labara, Yara Shahidi, Jeannie Mai, fashion influencer Nick Wooster, former Queer Eye star Bobby Berk, celebrity jeweler Ben Baller, stylists Jeanne Yang and Jared Ng, and TV personality Lawrence Zarian. Daniel Dae Kim, left, Jared Eng, Bing Chen, Jeannie Mai, Ken Ohashi Steve Lucero/BFA.com Brooks Brothers CEO Ken Ohashi and creative director Michael Bastian kicked…

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has revealed that she has stage 1 cervical cancer and may have to have a hysterectomy. The “Jersey Shore” alum announced her adenocarcinoma diagnosis on TikTok on Friday after receiving the results of a cone biopsy (a surgery in which a surgeon removes a cone-shaped abnormal tissue from the cervix), according to the Cleveland Clinic. “Obviously it wasn’t the news I was expecting, but it wasn’t the worst news either because they caught it so quickly. Thank you so much,” she said. “2026 is not going to go the way I want it to, but it could…

Variety reports that Taylor Schilling has been cast as the lead in the NBC drama pilot “What Dead People Know.” The pilot was picked up by NBC in January and was executive produced by NBC founder Dick Wolf. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by former New York City medical examiner Barbara Butcher. The show’s logline reads, “Death investigator Eva Ledger (Schilling) is very good at working with corpses. It’s the living that haunt her. ‘What the Dead Know’ follows Eva as she teams up with the NYPD to solve their toughest cases.” Schilling is…