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Kim Soo-mi, a veteran female actor who had been active in the South Korean film and TV industries for over 50 years, died on Friday. Korean media reported that Kim was found unconscious at her home in Seoul and was transported to Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital at 8am Friday, Korean local time.

There is another disturbance in the Force. Screenwriter Steven Knight has departed the “Star Wars” movie set to follow Daisy Ridley’s Rey after the events of 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” In March 2023, Variety exclusively reported that Knight had signed onto the project, replacing original screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson.

Across “Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride” and “Shelter,” Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis has built a sturdy body of work, telling defiant stories of Middle Eastern women from different walks of life. With “Reading Lolita in Tehran” — a moving adaptation of Iranian-American author and professor Azar Nafisi’s memoir — he adds an understated, yet generally […]

Bela Bajaria, chief content officer at Netflix, gave a powerful speech about gender equality and access to education during Variety‘s Power of Women presented by Lifetime event in Hollywood on Thursday night. During her acceptance speech highlighting the work of education organization Room to Read, Bajaria paid homage to her two great-grandmothers, who were both married by the […]

Carol Burnett was honored at Variety’s Power of Women presented by Lifetime on Thursday — but wanted to share her award with Dr. Nancy Wexler. “She is the true recipient of this honor,” Burnett said in her speech in Los Angeles. “I first got involved with The Hereditary Disease Foundation many years ago when I […]

Jack Jones, a singer who found fame and chart success on the easy-listening side of the street in the 1960s, and who later became etched in television-watching America’s psyche with the “Love Boat” theme, died Wednesday at 86. Jones died of leukemia at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif., his wife of 15 years, Eleanora […]