Brent Lang

Brent Lang is Variety’s New York Bureau Chief, as well as Executive Editor, Film & Media. In that capacity, he covers the major Hollywood studios and their corporate parents. Brent joined Variety in 2014 and has contributed analysis pieces on the rise of streaming services, the threats facing the theatrical exhibition landscape and the impact of the #MeToo movement on the film and television business. He has also penned dozens of cover stories on the likes of Michael B. Jordan, Hugh Jackman, Kathryn Bigelow, Kevin Hart, Al Pacino, Alfonso Cuarón and Mindy Kaling.

Brent was previously a senior reporter at TheWrap. He has written extensively about politics, business and culture and his work has appeared in Forbes, CBSNews.com, The Patriot-Ledger and the Providence Journal.

Brent is a graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University School of Journalism.