Marlee Matlin and fellow Sundance jurors walk out of theater after film failed to provide captioning

a viral photowith Justin Timberlake at the end of the singer’s 2018 Super Bowl halftime showspent this past Super Bowl weekend differently. Ryan McKenna, now 18, was arrested Saturday at a shopping mall in Naples, Florida, where he was allegedly drunk and fighting with friends inside a California Pizza Kitchen, according to TMZ.A 15-year-old boy greeted cops at the restaurant and reportedly told them that he and the social media star, whom he called a friend, had been in an argument that escalated, with McKenna allegedly standing up and aggressively pushing their table.He supposedly screamed obscenities at the boy’s girlfriend, too.

Shalini Dore Features News Editor Smriti Mundhra, the creator of “Indian Matchmaking,” has launched a show called “The Romantics” on Netflix just in time for Valentine’s Day. The docuseries centers on a bastion of Hindi cinema, Yash Raj Films, which just released the smash hit “Pathaan.” Netflix releases the series day and date in India, the U.S. and around the world. And it is coming just as interest in films from the subcontinent are piquing international interest. “It was sort of on my bucket list to make something about Indian cinema, broadly,” she tells Variety. “The intention was to look at the formative, most iconic films in Indian cinema, or the filmmakers — something that gives a glimpse into our industry.”

Chrissy Metz and her boyfriend Bradley Collins are feeling the love this Valentine's Day. The couple, who are approaching their three-year dating anniversary in May, sat down with ET's Rachel Smith to kick off «Couples Week,» sharing everything from how they first met and the moment they fell in love to their new children's book, .«When we first met, which was over the pandemic, we got to know each other very well because all you could do was talk because you didn’t get together,» Metz recalled of the early days of their romance. The two met on the dating app, Bumble, while in Nashville, Tennessee. As Metz shared in the interview, they soon realized they had mutual friends among other things in common.«For me, prayer is always important and I think for Bradley as well, and we always talked about how we were raised and how important it was to bolster children’s self-esteem and confidence and so we just wanted to impart that,» Metz said of how their new book came about, also referencing her time as a preschool teacher as a key period in her life. «I have a big family, so we just wanted to impart that message and to do that through a gentle direction to prayer because it was so important to us.»Metz added that she herself prays for «everything, literally all the time.» «Every single moment, I'm sort of talking and asking for help or guidance or sort of grateful for all the blessings that I've received,» she said.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced her retirement on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most competitive Senate race in California in three decades. Feinstein, who will turn 90 in June, said she will not seek reelection when her term expires in 2024. Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter have already announced their campaigns to succeed her, and Rep. Barbara Lee is also expected to join the race. Feinstein has served California since being elected in 1992, and is the oldest current member of Congress. In recent years, her declining acuity has been a source of widespread concern, especially when she was the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee during the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. She relinquished that post in 2020.

Katie Reul editor First-look images of “Dead Ringers,” an upcoming limited series from Prime Video, were revealed on Tuesday along with an official April 21 premiere date. All six episodes will be released at once on Prime Video and available for streaming in over 240 countries and territories. The psychological thriller is a fresh take on director David Cronenberg’s 1988 film of the same name. “Dead Ringers” follows the complicated lives of twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who perform ethically questionable procedures on infertile women. Rachel Weisz, best known for her roles in 2018’s “The Favourite” and 2017’s “Disobedience,” will star as both Mantle siblings. The cast also includes Britne Oldford, Poppy Liu, Michael Chernus, Jennifer Ehle and Emily Meade.

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis have gone from friendly exes co-parenting their two children to waging a legal war in a bitter custody battle that was dragged out in public. In January 2023, however, Wilde and Sudeikis appeared to be on amicable terms when they were spotted sharing a friendly hug.

Kylie Jenner is celebrating Valentine's Day with her BFF, Stassie Karanikolaou.

Melissa Gorga is opening the doors of her new mansion to ET's cameras, and giving an exclusive tour of her sprawling and lavish residence.ET's Brice Sander joined the star at her home in the Garden State and chatted with the reality star about her new, six-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot abode.One of the first — and most important — destinations on the tour was Melissa's stunning, chic, glass-walled office space, which she said was «a must» when it came to designing the house.«I spend a lot of time in my office, I'm on Zooms all day… so I wanted it to be part of the house, but I also wanted to have my own little space,» Melissa explained, excitedly detailing all the elements of the office that make it special — particularly the chandelier, which is «all crystal and diamond.»Other unique elements of Melissa's impressive estate include two built-in bars — including one full-sized bar/lounge downstairs, which comes complete with a private poker room and an impressively decked-out gym room.«You can imagine men, and the games of poker they are going to play in this room,» she shared, adding that, as part of the deal with her husband, Joe Gorga, she got the glass room and he got the poker room.«The house is always stocked with liquor, at any time,» she added.

New York Times bestselling author and CEO of the multimedia Hollis Company, Rachel Hollis, took to social today about the sudden loss of her ex-husband, former Disney President of Worldwide Distribution Dave Hollis.

J. Kim Murphy With “Fast X” only a little over three months away, Universal put the pedal to the metal for the film’s unveiling last week. The first “Fast X” trailer nabbed roughly 295 million views globally in its first 72 hours of availability, a source close to Universal confirmed to Variety. Universal drummed up anticipation for “Fast X” footage with quite the promotional runway in the days ahead. On Feb. 9, the studio hosted a trailer launch event in downtown Los Angeles, featuring appearances from franchise stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Sung Kang, as well as director Louis Leterrier. Other fan events were also held in Mexico, France and Japan.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Move over, Tom Cruise! The “Top Gun: Maverick” legend wasn’t the only star Hollywood’s latest group of Oscar contenders were excited about seeing at Monday’s nominees luncheon. “The Banshees of Inisherin” stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson gushed over meeting Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”). “I spent a long time chatting with him,” Gleeson told me after the annual luncheon at the Beverly Hilton. In fact, Gleeson texted Mescal after the nominations were announced in January. “I had to ask my son Domhnall for his number. I was very proud of [Mescal],” Gleeson said.

"Sister Wives" star Christine Brown went public with her new boyfriend David Woolley in an Instagram post she shared on Valentine's Day. The 50-year-old reality star, who split from her husband Kody Brown in 2021, shared images of herself with Woolley for the first time on Tuesday after teasing that she was in a new relationship last week. "I finally found the love of my life, David," Brown wrote in the caption, tagging Woolley's Instagram profile in the snaps.

Marc Anthony and Nadia Ferreira are officially celebrating Valentine’s Day with a new baby on the way!

The Sundance Film Festival has begun unveiling its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: How Long Gone, a culture and interview podcast founded by Chris Black and Jason Stewart, is going full Hollywood.

Over the past few years, it’s thankfully become more common to find screenings with closed captioning at your local multiplex. Not just theaters that hand out closed captioning devices — which often require another layer of artifice between the audience and the movie — but actual onscreen captions.

Sundance U.S. dramatic competition jury members — including Marlee Matlin– chose to leave after the festival fell short of providing proper captioning for deaf and hearing impaired audience members during the Eccles Theatre premiere of Magazine Dreams last night.

Jonathan Majors and Magazine Dreams flexed some big muscles tonight at the drama’s Sundance Film Festival premiere with the actor drawing a standing ovation.

Marvel superhero Echo, aka Maya Lopez, played by deaf Native American actress Alaqua Cox, signifies progress in a Hollywood that’s still a real challenge for diverse talent, but there’s so much more to ve done, said Marlee Matlin today at the Sundance Film Festival.