The secret to making a documentary worthy of comedy legend John Candy was to lean into the magic he created on screen in films that include Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Spaceballs and Splash. The final product resulted in John Candy: I Like Me, directed by Colin Hanks, who also produced alongside Ryan Reynolds, and who…
TV dramas come in many shapes and sizes, as perfectly spotlighted at Variety FYC TV Fest on May 6, where discussions took place around WBTV/HBO’s “Welcome to Derry,” AMC’s “The Audacity” and CBS’ “Matlock” — three shows that all dive into differing type of evil, from clowns to tech bros to a law firm hiding…
The machine has yet to be invented that can tie up all the loose ends in Kantemir Balagov’s third feature, a puzzling family drama set in the small, tight-knit community of Circassians in New Jersey. Such is the intimate nature of Balagov’s film that there’s no real indication of how large this diaspora is, or…
NBC’s most robust pilot season since the pandemic is over, with four of the network’s eight pilots going to series: dramas The Rockford Files, toplined by David Boreanaz, and Line of Fire, starring Peter Krause, and comedies Sunset P.I. (single-camera), headlined by Jake Johnson, and Newlyweds (multi-camera), starring Téa Leoni and Tim Daly. In NBC’s…
Leonardo DiCaprio has wished Sir David Attenborough a happy birthday. In a heartfelt post on Instagram, the Oscar-winning actor and environmental campaigner joined royalty and other stars in celebrating Attenborough’s 100 years on the planet. “Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough — a storyteller, naturalist, and one of the most enduring champions of our…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from the Season 1 penultimate episode of The Four Seasons. Netflix has dropped the official trailer for Season 2 of The Four Seasons which sees Tina Fey, Will Forte and gang head to Europe for their next vacation as they mourn the shocking loss of their late friend that…