Get used to seeing these faces this awards season. Variety’s 2026 10 Actors to Watch took the stage in Newport Beach, ...

Taraji P. Henson reflected on the power of art to defend dignity and create possibility, while casting director Sarah Finn ...

Every April, movie marquees across Orange County are seized by the Newport Beach Film Festival. The big, black block letters advertising the annual festival host over 350 films shown in a span of ...

The music documentary, directed by Veronika Emily Pohl, will screen Oct. 18 and spotlight cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper and GRAMMY-nominated conductor Constantine Orbelian.

Adam Pearson, Ambika Mod, David Jonsson and Harris Dickinson are some of the “Breakout and “Spotlight” honorees at the Newport Beach Film Festival‘s U.K. and Ireland Honors event. Presented in ...

In 1999, Orange County natives Gregg Schwenk and Todd Quartararo were working in the corporate sector but shared a love for cinema and producing events. They looked around their seaside locale and saw ...

The 27th annual Newport Beach Film Festival will close with "Behemoth!" on Oct. 22, with writer and director Tony Gilroy set to attend. Pedro Pascal stars as gifted cellist Alex Serian, who returns ...

Inde Navarrette, among other stars, attended Sunday's Newport Beach Film Festival Presents Festival Honors and Variety's 10 ...

The Newport Beach Film Festival has added Irish Spotlight, a program that will showcase a small slate of Irish films. The fest will host North American Premieres of Blue Fiddle, Four Mothers and the ...

Submitted for your approval, "We're Being Watched," a Twilight Zone-ish slice of sci-fi paranoia from RPA, promoting the 17th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. With dazzling visuals and sharp ...