15 Actors Who Made Huge Demands And Were Completely Shut Down
From a fish slap to a $1-million-a-day payday, these are the on-set demands that blew up productions — and, in...
Sebastian Stan Says The Batman Part II Feels Like ‘F—ing Godfather Part Two’
Between the Godfather line and his own guarded role, Stan gave Variety more than just a soundbite.
David Fincher Wanted to Turn The Black Dahlia Into an $80 Million, Five-Hour Miniseries — Then Mark Wahlberg Passed on It for The Italian Job
An acclaimed director with Hitchcockian sensibility, and a sensational novel adapted from the author of L.A. Confidential — what could...
Andrew Garfield Has Two Oscar Nominations and a Spider-Man Franchise. His Last Two Movies Still Had the Worst Opening Weekends of His Career — Both in the Same Month
The Oscar nominee just posted the two lowest wide-release openings of his career — three weeks apart.
Straight to Director’s Jail (Again): The TIFF Verdict on Zack Snyder’s The Last Photograph
TIFF reviews are calling it "sluggishly paced", "abortion of a film", and "unabashedly sh*t on every level". Yikes… However, a...
Terrence Howard Just Gave a New Reason for His Iron Man 2 Exit — And It’s Not About Money
The actor's latest podcast appearance points to a 2007 confrontation with a producer — not the salary dispute everyone's blamed...
Peter Jackson Wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 — New Line Rejected It for Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
Once a fearsome slasher who haunts teenagers by invading their dreamscapes, Freddy Krueger has become a joke in the sixth...
“You Gotta Stop Kickboxing”: The Reason Jean-Claude Van Damme Was Fired As the Predator
Jean-Claude Van Damme wanted to turn the Predator into a kickboxing machine.
John Leguizamo Is Finally Having His Moment in The Odyssey — 30 Years After Almost Becoming Robert Rodriguez’s Next Action Star In Desperado
Before playing Eumaeus in Christopher Nolan's epic, Leguizamo was nearly Antonio Banderas's replacement in one of the '90s' most iconic...
Blade Runner 2049 Bombed in Theaters. Nine Years Later, It’s Back in HBO Max’s Top 5
As Blade Runner 2099 approaches, the sequel that flopped at the box office is climbing back into HBO Max's most-watched...
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