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The new movie Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is now in theaters, reuniting co-stars Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. on the big screen.

Cinematographer Darius Khondji has confirmed that Ari Aster’s dark comedy Eddington, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone, has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Rumors raced around Hollywood today that the script Quentin Tarantino planned to make his last film but abandoned will see the light of day. It started with a wild report about a Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood sequel that originated in The Playlist. Being this is April Fool’s Day, it required some vetting.

Leave it to Tom Rothman to tee up CinemaCon, ever the philosopher, with the ultimate sermon that waves the flag for moviegoing.

Brent Lang Executive Editor It’s not all superheroes, all the time. Studios are still willing to take a few bets on directors with compelling visions, hoping that they can offer up something distinctive and compelling at a time when multiplexes are filled with more of the same. So give Sony Pictures credit for backing not one, but two of these riskier projects — Darren Aronofsky‘s “Caught Stealing” and Kogonada’s “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.” The former is a crime thriller about a former baseball player (Austin Butler) who gets caught up in New York City’s underworld in the 1990s, while the latter is a romantic fantasy that follows two middle aged people who step through a magical portal into their past lives.

Austin Butler is starring in a brand new campaign for Swiss watchmaker Breitling!

Daisy Edgar-Jones is weighing in on her male co-stars, who she says have supported her being top billed over them.

Labor Day weekend this year won’t be sleepy. Searchlight is jumping into the mix on Aug. 29 with their Jay Roach-directed comedy The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Oscar winner Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Oscar winner Allison Janney, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, Belinda Bromilow and Kate McKinnon.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Daisy Edgar-Jones said in an interview with Elle Magazine that she is quite fortunate her A-list male co-stars have never taken issue with her being the lead star over them. She first broke out onto the scene opposite Paul Mescal in “Normal People” before co-starring with Sebastian Stan (“Fresh”), Harris Dickinson (“Where the Crawdads Sing”), Glen Powell (“Twisters”), Andrew Garfield (“Under the Banner of Heaven”) and Jacob Elordi (“On Swift Horses”). Edgar-Jones joked that she’s basically “worked with all of the internet’s boyfriends,” so much so that she’s just got “Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler left.” “I’m lucky that every actor I’ve worked with has been incredibly supportive of me being the lead,” she added on a more serious note.

The Hunger Games: On Stage went on pre-sale today (March 25), but technical difficulties have left many fans frustrated and without a spot secured for the show.READ MORE: Austin Butler reveals failed audition for key ‘Hunger Games’ characterAs eager fans logged on to nab their tickets, issues with the ticketing website saw them put in a queue, only to be met with an error message once they reached the front saying that their queue number had been rejected.Many have shared their annoyance online, with one user publishing a post on X that read: “Why is the Hunger Games On Stage presale an absolute shambles?”Everyone trying to get pre-sale tickets to The Hunger Games on stage this morning pic.twitter.com/azve0G2ntl— Nicola Austin (@nicola_aus) March 25, 2025maybe the real hunger games is the queue for the hunger games on stage tickets.— this is Li trying⸆⸉ (@cowboylikeli_) March 25, 2025why is the hunger games on stage presale an absolute shambles— ⋆ rachel ⋆ (@racheIaIi) March 25, 2025Another wrote: “Maybe the real hunger games is the queue for the Hunger Games On Stage tickets.”X user @nicotinemoon posted: “Why tf is the queue not moving at all for the Hunger Games On Stage man not even a queue number or anything, guess the odds are not in my favour”Why tf is the queue not moving at all for the hunger games on stage man not even a queue number or anything, guess the odds are not in my favour— liss (@nicotinemoon) March 25, 2025streets are saying once you get to the front of the hunger games on stage queue it just says queue number rejected

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Lizzo will play trailblazing musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the upcoming biopic “Rosetta” from Amazon MGM Studios. From writers Natalie Chaidez (“The Flight Attendant”) and Kwynn Perry (“Tigerbelles”), “Rosetta” will tell Tharpe’s true story and how she became known as the godmother of Rock & Roll. Lizzo will also produce the film alongside Kevin Beisler and Significant Productions’ Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker.

Darren Aronofsky is circling Netflix‘s “Cujo,” a remake of Stephen King’s horror novel about a bloodthirsty St. Bernard.

There were so many stars in attendance at the Saint Laurent fashion show during Paris Fashion Week!

Kaia Gerber was the epitome of elegance wile attending the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday (March 2) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of The Iron Claw, director Sean Durkin and A24 have found their next project to team on and have assembled some serious star power to lead it. Sources tell Deadline that Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler are set to star in Deep Cuts, a movie based on the debut novel of Holly Brickley. Durkin is on board to direct and adapt. Ronan is also on board to produce.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Patrick Wilson is getting ready to return to musical theater. Not only is he a producer of the new “Lost Boys,” but he’s actively pursuing landing a starring role on the stage. “I definitely want to figure that out in the next two years,” Wilson says on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

Fans will have to wait just a little bit longer to see the next Spider-Man movie!

Jerry “The Iceman” Butler, who had a national hit with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act The Impressions before leaving for a successful solo career and later entering Chicago politics, died Thursday at his home, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 85. No cause of death was reported, but Butler had been struggling with Parkinson’s disease.

While the official lineup of films at the Cannes Film Festival taking place in May won’t be made public until mid-April, there are already some early rumblings of what projects we should expect to see on that list and there are plenty of reasons to get excited.

EXCLUSIVE: Talent manager Doug Wald has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Wald, who spent 13 years at Anonymous Content and repped a client list there that includes Emma Stone and Austin Butler, exited that company earlier this month.

Jack Black and Kyle Gass — has returned from a hiatus after the latter made controversial remarks about the attempted assassination of President Trump last July.And they’re coming back for a good cause: The twosome cover REO Speedwagon’s 1980 classic “Keep on Loving You” as part of “Good Music to Lift Los Angeles,” a compilation album benefiting victims of the LA wildfires, which is exclusively available on Bandcamp for one day only on Friday.With proceeds going to the LA Regional Food Bank and California Foundation’s Wildfire Fund, the 90-track compilation also features covers, remixes, live recordings, demos and other previously unreleased material from R.E.M., TV on the Radio, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Dawes, Interpol, the New Pornographers, Mudhoney, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Animal Collective, Perfume Genius, Manchester Orchestra and more.Tenacious D, who previously covered “Keep on Loving You” live, canceled an Australian tour and announced that they were taking a break last July after Gass’ controversial comments about Trump’s attempted assassination at a show in Sydney. When Black rolled out a birthday cake for Gass to celebrate his 64th and asked him to make a wish, Gass quipped, “Don’t miss Trump next time,” just weeks after a gunman opened fire on Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s ear and killing a rally attendee.After the comment, Black posted an apology on Instagram, writing, “I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday.

Alex Ritman A24 is bringing “Eddington,” Ari Aster‘s hotly-anticipated contemporary Western thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler, to the European Film Market in Berlin this month, Variety has learned. Also starring Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward and Clifton Collins Jr., the film is now in post-production and is believed to revolve around a couple stranded in a small New Mexico town.