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“Lilo & Stitch,” Disney’s latest live-action remake, has been revealed to select members of the press, and the first reactions to the film are overwhelmingly positive. Critic Wendy Lee Szany wrote on X, “Lilo and Stitch is the best Disney live-action to date. Seeing Stitch in his live-action form on the big screen brings on

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić is partnering with some of Europe’s hottest indie production labels for the sequel to her Academy Award-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which the director is pitching May 18 at the Cannes Investors Circle. “Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Part” is an international co-production led by Deblokada (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in co-production with Indie

Austria has won the 69th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The country’s 24-year-old entrant — Johannes Pietsch, known as JJ — won the total cumulative votes from the public and judges with his emotional song “Wasted Love,” walking away with 436 points. Last year’s winner, nonbinary Swiss singer Nemo, was also 24 when they

Mariska Hargitay fought back tears while basking in a four-minute standing ovation at Saturday’s Cannes Film Festival premiere of “My Mom Jayne,” a new HBO documentary about her mother, Jayne Mansfield. The film is Hargitay’s feature directorial debut, and marks the first time she publicly dives into Mansfield’s story and legacy, nearly sixty years after her

The Cannes Film Festival is well underway, and some of the world’s biggest actors are in full glam for La Croisette. “Mission: Impossible” stars Angela Bassett, Pom Klementieff, Hannah Waddingham and Hayley Atwell were among the stars photographed for Variety at Cannes. The cast of “Sirat,” the creative team behind “The Plague” and actors and

Jennifer Lawrence has electrified the Cannes Film Festival with the world premiere of “Die, My Love,” the latest directorial effort from the acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. The movie earned a six-minute ovation following its world premiere. “Die, My Love” is in competition at Cannes and competing for the Palme d’Or. Ramsay cut her own

"Die My Love," for all of Ramsay’s talent, isn’t designed to explore that experience. It’s designed, rather, as a kind of thesis movie: reckless on the surface but overdetermined. And I think that’s why Jennifer Lawrence’s performance feels so explosive but, at the same time, so emotionally reined in.

As if your garden variety serial killer weren’t scary enough, Australia-set terror show “Dangerous Animals” features a sicko whose weapon of choice is … sharks. In some ways, the notion’s scarier than the razor-toothed creatures themselves, in that most people can avoid being chomped to death simply by steering clear of any body of water

Ezra Miller showed up on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet to support director Lynne Ramsay, who is premiering “Die My Love” on Saturday. Wearing a burgundy tux and trousers, Miller was sporting long hair and a beret, but did not stop for photographers on the carpet. Miller starred in Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk

The idea of adolescence as a horror story is not new, but it’s given a splashy workout in Charlie Polinger’s queasily stylish debut feature, in which the swimming pools, lockers rooms and bunk-bed dormitories of a boys’ water polo camp are a puberty petrie dish livid with sinister bacteria. Drawn from experience and benefiting from