Season 2 of “The Night Agent” was the most-watched Netflix series of the week of Jan. 20-26, debuting with 13.9 million views in its first four days of availability. The season’s success is unsurprising given how Season 1 performed when it debuted in 2023 — landing at No. 7 on Netflix’s list of its most […]

Andrew Hampp has been promoted to managing director of music and consumer partnerships at Variety. Since joining the Variety team in 2022, Hampp has extended Variety’s partnerships significantly, creating first-to-market opportunities with several brands including TikTok, AFEELA, Sony Audio, Expedia, Kinesso, Cash App and many more. “Andrew Hampp is respected by his clients and colleagues […]

What’s great about a Goop gift guide is that the list itself is as much a gift as the extravagant, over-the-top offerings that Gwyneth Paltrow and her team curate every year. More important than whether you can actually afford earrings that cost more than four years of college tuition, or how much use you’d really […]

The visual approach in “Heightened Scrutiny” — Sam Feder’s documentary following a transgender lawyer prepping for a U.S. Supreme Court case — seems familiar at the outset. Its straightforward approach to locked-off sit-down interviews, interspersed with graphics and other B-roll footage, is hardly novel. However, an immense amount of care and detail goes into its […]

Caroline Kennedy wrote a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions strongly discouraging them from confirming her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary. Robert will be questioned by senators this week before being confirmed to President Donald Trump’s cabinet. “Overseeing the FDA, the […]

Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg and Goteborg’s artistic director Pia Lundberg addressed controversial remarks of Swedish Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand. Lundberg admitted she was “surprised” by the Minister’s statement during the opening ceremony Jan. 24, which made for a “tumultuous” start of the event. “The Swedish film industry [which has around $50.5 million a year […]