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The cause of death for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon has been revealed, nearly two months after he died at 54. According to a report from the coroner’s office in Putnam County, N.Y., obtained by People, Brendon died of atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Pneumonia and previous myocardial infarction were listed as contributing […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

“The Nature of Invisible Things,” the debut feature of Variety Next Gen Brazilian Talent to Track Rafaela Camayo, has been sold to Sundance TV (Spain) and RTP (Portugal) by The Open Reel. “After the massive turnout and numerous awards at international festivals since its debut at the Berlinale, I’m delighted to see how these festivals […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

For Georgia’s Ketevan Vashagashvili, whose debut feature documentary “9-Month Contract” recently won the Alternativa Film Festival’s Spotlight Award, making it has impacted her life profoundly. “I think we grew together and changed each other’s lives,” she says of Zhana, the main subject of her docu. “For me, ‘9-Month Contract’ is a story of a mother’s […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) and Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) will next star in “Impunity,” an espionage thriller from award-winning Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez (“The Settlers”). Shot between Chile, U.K., Spain – in English and in Spanish — the film is set against the backdrop of one of the legal cases of the 20th century when […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

A24 has released the first trailer for the upcoming Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony,” starring “The Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa in the starring role. The film is set in 1976, when a young Bourdain has a life-changing experience working and living in Provincetown, Mass. Bourdain, the late chef-turned-TV host for CNN, enrolled in culinary school two […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

The entire 10-season run of true crime series “World’s Most Evil Killers” has landed at Radial Entertainment, with Seasons 9 and 10 set to debut on the company’s FilmRise channel this month, pushing the franchise to 200 episodes and more than 150 hours of programming. Both new seasons – each formatted as 20×60-minute episodes – […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Andrius Blazevicius’ “How to Divorce During the War,” a beautifully directed portrait of a couple navigating the dissolution of their marriage during the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The film made its world premiere as part of the World Cinema Dramatic […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

Attention, soccer fans: Fox Sports may have the summer job of your dreams. Executives at the Fox Corp.-backed sports-media outlet aren’t looking for the next Colin Cowherd or Tom Brady. Starting Tuesday, however, they will have their eyes peeled for a sports fan who can watch every minute of the 104 matches in this year’s […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

When she first started putting the pieces together for her upcoming album, Tori Kelly took a write-what-you-know approach. “I was pretty clear on what I wanted to say, which were three pillars: My faith, my marriage and then motherhood,” the singer-songwriter tells Variety about “God Must Really Love Me,” due June 12 via Epic Records. […]

Published on: 5/5/2026

Isabella Rossellini is set to star in Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s adaptation of U.S. author Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “Three Incestuous Sisters,” alongside previously announced cast members Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor. The film marks the first English-language feature by Rohrwacher who is a two-time Cannes prizewinner with “The Wonders” (2014) and “Happy […]

Published on: 5/5/2026