Zombies had seemingly been done to death in every conceivable media when a zero-budget Japanese film in 2018 proved that there was still creative life in the genre. Titled “One Cut of the Dead,” this heartwarming zombie comedy by Ueda Shinichiro earned 1,000 times its JPY3 million ($23,000) budget at the Japanese box office, while…

“Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead,” a zombie comedy anime series, will launch in July this year following a development and production deal between the U.S.’s Viz Media and Japan’s Shogakukan and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions. The story focuses on a salaryman who finds an exciting new side to life while under siege from zombies. Viz…

Park Chan-wook’s noirish romance “Decision to Leave” makes the running in the Asian Film Awards by collecting ten nominations, including best film and best director. Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “Drive My Car,” another awards season favorite which also debuted at Cannes, albeit a year earlier, has eight nominations. Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed mainland Chinese director of “One…

The Set Decorators Society of America has announced the nominees for the annual SDSA Awards. Among the films nominated are “Babylon,” “Tár,” “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and “Bullet Train.” The awards celebrate excellence in the art of set decoration for film with the decor and design categories highlighting feature-length films of…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 2 of “Ginny & Georgia,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s coming-of-age mother-daughter drama “Ginny & Georgia” dove in a bit deeper with Season 2. The series, which dropped on Jan. 5, picked up with Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her little brother living with her dad, Zion (Nathan…

Universal Music Group sued Triller on Thursday, alleging that the video-sharing app has failed to make payments for the last nine months, in violation of their licensing agreement. In the complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Universal said it notified Triller on Tuesday that it is terminating the agreement due to Triller’s repeated breaches….

UPDATED: A Grammy-winning recording engineer who has worked in the Nashville music scene for 35 years, Mark Capps, was shot and killed by police in Nashville Thursday afternoon. A spokesperson said he was killed by a SWAT team member after he brandished a gun in his doorway, as police responded to an incident in which…

For more than a quarter-century, Variety has been canvassing the field of emerging filmmaking talents for the artists whose voices set them apart: directors with an original point of view and the chops to go the distance. The idea is to identify talent before they “pop,” although in some cases, they’ve already started racking up…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Yellowstone” Season 5. “Yellowstone” is filled with characters who have strong convictions, and no character has challenged their worldviews quite like Summer Higgins. Played by Golden Globe-nominated actor Piper Perabo, Summer first arrived as a foil to John Dutton (Kevin Costner) in Season 4, an environmental activist whose…

For Colin Farrell, playing The Penguin in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” was just the “tip of the iceberg” in his exploration of the character, which will continue with its eponymous HBO Max spinoff series. At the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Thursday night, Farrell opened up to Variety‘s Marc Malkin about how…