Rare Movie Ads From 120 Years of Variety
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29th December 2025
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2025
Harrison Ford to Receive 2026 SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award
Here’s the latest from Variety Harrison Ford, the man behind Han Solo and Indiana Jones, will be the recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s Life Achievement Award. Considered the show’s highest honor, it recognizes Ford’s legendary career as one of Hollywood’s most successful actors. He will be presented with the union’s tribute at...
18th December 2025
Nolan Elected President of DGA
Here’s the latest from Variety Christopher Nolan has been elected president of the Directors Guild of America, taking over the reins as the union prepares for upcoming negotiations with the major studios. Nolan, an Oscar winner and one of the most successful helmers of his generation, succeeds Lesli Linka Glatter, who...
21st September 2025
Fantastic Four First Reactions
Here’s the latest from Variety Marvel‘s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” has been unveiled to members of the film press, and first reactions are praising the MCU epic as a “visual feast” with “snappy, confident storytelling.” Next Best Picture editor-in-chief Matt Neglia wrote on X that the Marvel tentpole lives...
19th July 2025
Dinosaurs are ruling the box office again
Here’s the latest from Variety Dinosaurs are ruling the box office again. “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the seventh installment in Universal’s long-running prehistoric series, stomped to $147.3 million over its first five days in 4,308 North American theaters. Those ticket sales are enough to tower over domestic charts during the star-spangled...
6th July 2025
I’m Happy to Move on From Star Wars
Here’s the latest from Variety “Rogue One” director Gareth Edwards recently told Business Insider that he would never make another “Star Wars” movie again, adding: “I’m very happy to move on and do my thing.” Starring Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, “Rogue One” was the first “Star Wars” spinoff movie and centered on a...
26th June 2025
Denis Villeneuve to Direct James Bond Film
Here’s the latest from Variety Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has revealed, with Tanya Lapointe signing on as an executive producer. As previously announced, Amy Pascal and David Heyman will serve as producers. “Some of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching...
26th June 2025
Get Over Yourself. You’re Luke Skywalker
Here’s the latest from Variety Mark Hamill says Carrie Fisher once had to remind him where he came from. During a recent interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” Hamill remembered that Fisher encouraged him to “embrace” his “Star Wars” roots after Hamill omitted the credit from a Broadway playbill. “[Carrie Fisher] came to see...
4th June 2025
‘I Had My Time’ In the Star Wars Franchise
Here’s the latest from Variety Don’t expect Mark Hamill to return to the “Star Wars” universe anytime soon. In a recent interview with ComicBook, Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the first three franchise-spawning “Star Wars” films, discussed his future in the immortal sci-fi universe. While he was the one to kick it...
1st June 2025
RIP: Loretta Swit (87)
Here’s the latest from Variety Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on seminal TV comedy “MASH,” died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 87. Her rep Harlan Boll said the New York police reported her time of death at 12:01 p.m. on May...
30th May 2025
RIP: Ed Gale (61)
Here’s the latest from Variety Ed Gale, who made his film debut wearing the “Howard the Duck” suit and went on to play Chuckie in “Child’s Play” and two other films in the series, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 61. His niece Kayse Gale wrote on Facebook, “It...
28th May 2025
She Came From Hollywood
Here’s the latest from Variety “Scream queen” Kathleen Hughes Rubin thrived for nearly a century in Hollywood. Despite her image as a sexy screen siren of the 1950s, she enjoyed an enduring marriage to producer Stanley Rubin, and was the beloved mother of four children and a joy to all who knew...
27th May 2025
Netflix to Stream Alfred Hitchcock Film Collection
Here’s the latest from Variety Get ready to scream: Netflix is bringing a collection of Alfred Hitchcock films to the streaming service this June — and, despite chief Ted Sarandos’ belief that the movie-theater biz is “outdated,” the company will showcase the legendary filmmaker’s work at its Paris Theater in...
30th April 2025
Mikey Madison Passes on Shawn Levy’s ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Here’s the latest from Variety Mikey Madison won’t journey into a Galaxy Far Far Away for her first project after picking up the best actress Oscar. Sources tell Variety that Madison was offered a role in the new and untitled “Star Wars” movie directed by “Deadpool & Wolverine” filmmaker Shawn...
16th April 2025
Starship Troopers Reboot in the Works at Sony
Here’s the latest from Variety Neill Blomkamp is doing his part. The “District 9” and “Chappie” filmmaker is attached to write and direct a new film adaptation of “Starship Troopers,” the 1959 sci-fi novel by Robert A. Heinlein that was last memorably brought to theaters in 1997 by director Paul Verhoeven....
15th March 2025
Jaws: The Exhibition
Here’s the latest from Variety The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has set “Jaws: The Exhibition” for Sept. 14 through July 26, 2026. Celebrating 50 years of Spielberg’s blockbuster film, “Jaws: The Exhibition” is the first exhibition of its scale at the Academy Museum focused on a single film, and the largest...
4th March 2025
Shit Happens
Here’s the latest from Variety Harrison Ford is not too upset over “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” flopping at the box office. His fifth and final turn as the iconic archeologist opened in theaters in summer 2023 and lost Disney a reported $130 million after its global box office haul fell...
5th February 2025
2024
The Royal Variety Performance 2024
The Royal Variety Performance 2024 Amanda Holden and Alan Carr to host the Royal Variety Performance for Their Majesties The King and Queen as The King attends for the first time as patron of the Royal Variety Charity – with appearances from Elton John, Penn & Teller and BGT winner...
20th November 2024
Why Lucasfilm Entrusted Simon Kinberg
Here’s the latest from Variety When news broke on Thursday that Simon Kinberg — best known for being a writer, producer, director or all of the above on much of the “X-Men” franchise — had been hired by Lucasfilm to write and produce a new “Star Wars” trilogy, it came...
9th November 2024
New ‘Godzilla’ Movie Greenlit by Toho
Here’s the latest from Variety Godzilla is stomping its way back to the big screen. A new “Godzilla” movie, from the director of last year’s Oscar-winning Japanese film “Godzilla Minus One,” has been officially greenlit. Toho, the Japanese entertainment company and creator of Godzilla, made the announcement on Friday. Takashi Yamazaki, who...
1st November 2024
We Tried to Make It Fun
Here’s the latest from Variety Daniel Craig opened up about filming sex scenes for Luca Guadagnino‘s “Queer” during the film’s Venice Film Festival press conference, saying he and co-star Drew Starkey “tried to make it fun.” “You know as well as I do, there’s nothing intimate about filming a sex...
3rd September 2024
Inside Out 2 First Animated Film to Hit $1 Billion at International Box Office
Here’s the latest from Variety “Inside Out 2” has surpassed $1 billion at the international box office, one of 12 releases — and the only animated film — to ever cross that coveted milestone. Though 55 films have grossed $1 billion globally (which is comprised of domestic and international ticket...
25th August 2024
Noomi Rapace Talks About The Power of Film As Art
Here’s the latest from Variety Noomi Rapace, who is serving on the Sarajevo competition jury, visited the Variety Lounge presented by the Sarajevo Film Festival and BH Telecom to share her history with the Balkan region. Although it is her first time in Sarajevo, Rapace grew up with films from...
24th August 2024
Harrison Ford Accepts Disney Legends Award at D23
Here’s the latest from Variety Oscar nominee Harrison Ford has been officially declared a legend — a Disney Legend that is. On Sunday at the D23 Expo, Ford was honored with the hall-of-fame-style award from the Walt Disney Company. Because Lucasfilm is owned by Disney, Ford’s most famous roles —...
12th August 2024
All the Ways ‘Twisters’ Pays Homage to the Original
Here’s the latest from Variety If you’re heading to your local theater to see “Twisters” and wondering “Do I need to see the original ‘Twister’ first?” Well, no. But revisiting the movie certainly would enhance the experience. The Lee Issac Chung-directed disaster movie is a standalone story from Jan de...
20th July 2024
Star Wars Was Possible Thanks to This Camera
Here’s the latest from Variety A half-century ago when George Lucas decided to make “Star Wars,” a core visual effects team was handed a sizable challenge: Figure out a believable way to transport audiences to a galaxy far, far away. Essential to that goal was the development of a new...
4th May 2024
Al Pacino Addresses Oscars ‘Controversy’
Here’s the latest from Variety – Film Al Pacino has issued a statement amid questions surrounding his appearance during the 2024 Oscars ceremony, where he awkwardly presented the best picture category. Pacino, who won an Academy Award for best actor in “Scent of a Woman,” did not list any of...
11th March 2024
Disney Grandchildren Slam Activist Investors
Here’s the latest from Variety – Film The descendants of Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney have weighed in on the bid by two activist investment firms to win seats on the board of the Walt Disney Co. Nelson Peltz, the activist investor who runs hedge fund Trian...
1st March 2024
Rest In Peace: Carl Weathers (76)
Here’s the latest from Variety – Film Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four “Rocky” films opposite Sylvester Stallone, died Tuesday, his manager Matt Luber confirmed to Variety. He was 76. Weathers also starred in 1987’s “Predator” and had a memorable role in Adam Sandler’s “Happy...
2nd February 2024
2023
33 Unique, Galactic Gifts for ‘Star Wars’ Fans
Here’s the latest from Variety – Film “Star Wars” is good about keeping the content churning for fans: the franchise most recently released the highly anticipated third season of “The Mandalorian” in March, with several offshoots already in the works for the coming year, including “Skeleton Crew,” “The Acolyte” and...
5th December 2023
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