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Kroenke Sports and Entertainment has acquired a majority stake in the Los Angeles Angels, adding a Major League Baseball franchise to a list of sports assets that includes the Los Angeles Rams, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche. Financial details of the deal were not immediat

In July, leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump was captured on camera boarding Air Force One. But the president did not fly back to the United States on that plane. Instead, he slipped out the other side and onto a secret catering truck that transported him to a different

Variety is pleased to announce the honorees for their upcoming Power of Women issue on Thursday, Sept. 17, with the event the following Wednesday. Sept. 23 in Beverly Hills. The event, in partnership with Lifetime, celebrates the Power of Women honorees, who will each appear on t

With the decision to abandon a planned retrospective on the works of fashion designer John Galliano announced just one month ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its affiliated Costume Institute has bookended an ignominious chapter in its vaunted history. The exhibition, and p

It’s officially fall at Disney+, which is entering the month of September with a lineup of beloved spooky classics and all things football. “Coraline,” “ParaNorman” and “Jennifer’s Body” are among the titles kicking off the fall season on the streaming platform and Hulu, which wi

David Byrne wrote a song about the world’s richest man. The Talking Heads frontman wrote and performed an original song for “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s sprawling documentary reckoning with Elon Musk, Variety can exclusively reveal. Titled “Let Me Sell You a Dream,” the track plays with

Korean-Japanese romantic comedy series “Merry Berry Love,” starring Ji Chang-wook and Imada Mio, is bowing on Disney+ and Hulu this October. Set on a picturesque Japanese island, the series follows Karin Shirahama, a strawberry farmer who pours everything into her land, and Lee Y

India’s leading streamer JioHotstar has launched internationally in the U.K., Canada and Singapore, bringing its catalog of more than 160,000 hours of entertainment across more than 12 Asian languages alongside interactive features, personalized recommendations and new subscripti

“Wheel of Fortune” announcer Jim Thornton has been suspended from the game show, producer Sony Pictures Television has confirmed. The decision to remove Thornton, who has been with “Wheel of Fortune” since 2010 (and “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” since 2021), was first reported by

Remote workers at DreamWorks Animation have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The agreement was ratified on Aug. 21, with 97 percent of participants voting in favor of the contract. Of the 108 eligible voters, 90 cast ballots, representing 83.3% of voter turno

Tom Cruise is confident David Ellison will deliver on his promise of 30 films a year from a combined Paramount and Warner Bros. “I think it’s awesome,” Cruise told “The Pat McAfee Show.” “You know, here’s the thing. They’re going to deliver 30 movies. It’s a community to me. It’s

Oscar and Emmy winner Melissa Leo has joined the cast of Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax’s action-thriller “Supermax,” starring Will Smith. David Gordon Green directs the film, which follows two FBI agents investigating a seemingly impossible murder within the impenetrable walls o

Ariana Grande took a moment during the final show of her “Eternal Sunshine” tour to thank the audience at London’s O2 Arena, sharing how it’s been an “extraordinary experience” across her 41 shows. “I just want to say thank you so much,” said Grande, seated on a stool on the B-st