Cate Blanchett kicked off her stilettos on Friday night as she took the stage a Cannes Film Festival party hosted by Variety and the Golden Globes. Because this is Cannes, where women are mandated to wear heels on the red carpet, shoes have become a political symbol on the French…
Tom Bernard
On Jan. 22, the sales agents of WME Independent braced themselves for an all-night negotiation at the Sundance Film Festival. Once a staple of major film festivals, where million-dollar price tags soar as high as the altitude in the Utah mountains, these kind of marathon bidding wars had gone digital…
“Thirty years ago, I was looking for a job in the back pages of your magazine…It’s a singular thrill to be on the cover,” Brendan Fraser said in front of an intimate, yet powerful, room of media players at Variety‘s New York Party Wednesday night. Standing alongside “the Whale” director…
Variety announced on Tuesday that it will be hosting this year’s The New York Party on Oct. 19. The in-person celebration, held at the American Bar in New York City, will recognize Brendan Fraser and Darren Aronofsky for their acclaimed film “The Whale.” Fraser and Aronofsky are Variety’s cover stars…
Thirty years ago, former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom created the independent arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment with full autonomy to produce, acquire and distribute films from cinema’s notable auteurs. In the decades since, Sony Pictures Classics has picked up 158 Oscar nominations and 37…