China’s ‘billionaire’ Earns $131 Million Opening Weekend

On a recent episode of “The Pat McAfee Show,” Travis Kelce discussed how exciting it was to work with comedy legend Adam Sandler. Kelce will appear alongside Sandler in Netflix’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” which is set for a 2025 release. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is cast in a currently undisclosed role; in a […]

Universal Kids, the youth-oriented network that began life as the preschool-centric PBS Kids Sprout (and later, Sprout) before being rebranded as a destination for a wider age range in 2017, is shutting down, Variety has confirmed. The network is expected to go dark on March 6, with an on-screen slate after that directing audiences to […]

TikTok denied a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to tech billionaire Elon Musk to keep TikTok operational in America amid a looming U. S. government ban. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that “Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok” […]

Lyra Valkyria and Dakota Kai are one match away from the biggest moment of their careers. After clawing their way through their respective sides of a qualifying bracket, the two will face off in the tournament finals to crown WWE’s first-ever Women’s Intercontinental Champion. Variety spoke to Valkyria and Kai ahead of their clash on […]

Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation is granting $500,000 to Los Angeles fire relief efforts carried out by the California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Eaton Canyon Fire Relief and Recovery Fund. The Los Angeles wildfires area have caused widespread destruction in communities across the city since Jan.

Reporting by Jem Aswad, Matt Donnelly, Angelique Jackson, Elsa Keslassy, Gene Maddaus, Marc Malkin, Pat Saperstein, Michael Schneider, Tatiana Siegel, Jazz Tangcay, Chris Willman and K. J. Yossman. Before mid-afternoon on Jan. 7, the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles was a salt-air oasis tucked into the second-largest city in the country.