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“I’ve been waiting for this moment,” says Anna Faris. The celebrated actress and comedian is on top of the box office once more, as “Scary Movie,” the sixth installment in the popular horror-spoof series, opened to a franchise-best $55 million last weekend. It all came to fruition thanks to Marlon Wayans, whose family was callously … Read more
Claire Danes got some very valuable advice from a future Oscar winner. In her Variety Actors on Actors conversation with “Half Man” star Richard Gadd, the “The Beast in Me” performer reminisced about shooting 1996’s “Romeo + Juliet” with Leonardo DiCaprio. While the shoot — like the film — was emotionally intense, Danes, at 17, … Read more
Donald Trump is once again using taxpayer resources to throw himself a birthday party. Last year, it was a sparsely attended military parade on the National Mall. This year, the president wants blood sport, hosting an exclusive, open-air UFC event on the South Lawn of the White House that is estimated to cost upwards of … Read more
Russell Crowe proudly recalled “sticking to his guns” about not having sex scenes with Connie Nielsen in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator.” Speaking at the Taormina Film Festival, the New Zealand-born actor was asked about a “certain attitude” he showed about the 2024 sequel to his 2000 Oscar-winning epic. Crowe dodged speaking directly about “Gladiator II,” but … Read more
This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 pm ET. Claire Danes and Richard Gadd both flirted with madness in high-profile acting duets this season. On “The Beast in Me,” veteran actress Danes played … Read more
Beware: AMC’s “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 3 is coming. And it might be the best one yet. “This is our best season – by far. This is such a different relationship now,” said Jeffrey Dean Morgan at Monte Carlo TV Festival on Saturday, following the premiere of the first two episodes at the … Read more
San Antonio, Texas — All these Christian ladies are trying to do is get inside the Marriott. And yet outside, dark forces abound. On one side of the building, a cluster of women and children in calico are shouting on bullhorns about the “true Jesus.” Across the street, a group in red-cloaked hoods are re-enacting … Read more
American director Gore Verbinski, who is at the Taormina Film Festival in competition with “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” spoke about the challenges of labelling the use of AI in films as the technology continues to grow exponentially. Verbinski’s latest, a genre-bending sci-fi that sees Sam Rockwell as a time-travelling madman recruiting help to … Read more
The South Lawn has hosted Easter egg rolls, state arrivals and countless presidential helicopter departures. This week, it got a fighting cage. A massive arena now looms over the White House grounds, the iconic UFC octagon at its center, thousands of seats fanning out around it and rows of standing areas in the back. Down … Read more
Workers began the process of prying “Donald J. Trump” off the facade of Kennedy Center in the early morning hours on Saturday, after a court found the president’s renaming of the Washington, D.C., landmark was illegal. After crews set up scaffolding Friday in front of the Kennedy Center, they started pulling off the letters from … Read more