On today’s episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast, host Cynthia Littleton breaks down the complicated business of being a business manager for clients who work in media and entertainment. Variety is set to publish its annual Business Managers Elite feature section, in print and online on Nov. 11, highlighting the industry’s top financial and accounting […]

Florence Pugh said in a new interview with Elle magazine that it’s taken time for her to learn how to lead a film set and she is no longer accepting “bullshit” when it comes to her fellow casts and crews. “Every time I work on a movie, I get more confident in the way that […]

Film producer and Anti-Recidivism Coalition founder Scott Budnick has tapped a young, fresh face to help launch the latest vocational program in California state prisons: celebrity barber Victor Fontanez. Known on the internet as VicBlends, Fontanez has recently backed the first two barber programs in the history of the state’s prison system. After starting with […]

British heatwaves and massive, thick dwarven beards, perhaps unsurprisingly, don’t mix well together. We’re inside a soundstage at Shepperton Studios in late June for Season 3 of Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” and with mercury levels topping 90 degrees and wildfire alerts across Greater London, the residents of the […]