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Here’s a challenge: adapt a lauded, Olivier- and Tony-winning play that has played the West End and Broadway, toured around the world, and been adapted into over a dozen languages into a feature film. Wait, stop, add in this: The original play is a one-woman show, essentially just one heart-stopping monologue, that has to be…

Nicholas Weinstock, executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” has boarded “Tongue,” an Indian fantasy-horror feature written and directed by Krishnarjun Bhattacharya and starring Sayani Gupta.

Production: Executive Producers are Academy Award-nominee Alexander Rodnyansky, Jason Sarlanis, Sam Linsky, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Tamer Mortada and Leslie Greif. Produced by AR Content, who optioned Nixon’s book, Big Dreams Entertainment, and Aroma Studios in association with WatchIt. Crew: The series is created by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham, and written by Leslie Greif, Graham…

Cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz has been dealing with patchy internet over the past few days. He and his crew have been sailing on the Baltic Sea and have finally docked at an undisclosed location in northeastern Poland. In a few weeks, Pietkiewicz will attend the Toronto International Film Festival to accept the VarietyTIFF Artisan Award for…

Helen Mirren, Laura Linney, Rhys Ifans, Erin Doherty and James McAvoy star in three of the biggest U.K. titles world premiering at Toronto and making Variety’s 2026 selection of 20 International Titles to Track at this year’s Toronto.Jodie Comer sings (very creditably Variety suggests), in a fourth U.K. package, gothic rom-com “Stuffed” as romance takes…

Mirzapur The Movie box office collection day 9 (updated live): It has been wa week since release and Pankaj Tripathi and Ali Fazal’s Mirzapur The Movie is proving to be unstoppable at the box office. The film’s impressive run is a testament to the immense popularity the show and its characters have built over the…

Jeremy Thomas put his weight behind some of the riskiest — and most fondly remembered — pictures in Hollywood across a nearly 60-year-long career. The UK-based Thomas died on September 11 at age 77, as confirmed by his family in a statement

MS NOW viewers already spend an average of nine hours a week watching the network. Now it wants its most loyal fans to spend a little more: $7.99 a month.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched “Amazing Locations: From Scene to Scenic,” a campaign built to convert the country’s rising profile as a filming destination into lasting tourism, as productions ranging from “The White Lotus” to “The Challenge” Season 42 continue to draw international attention to Thai locations.

International media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, a Munich- and Berlin-based AI-native film studio, developing premium films, high-end TV series and IP-based short-form content.