Dev Patel has "heard all about" the lookalike contest he inspired. At the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, Patel, 34, spoke with Variety about the Dev Patel lookalike contest at Dolores Park in ...

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Dev Patel doesn't resent his imitators — he thinks they're even better qualified to be Dev Patel than he is. When asked at the Red Sea Film Festival about last month's Dev Patel look-alike contest ...

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And for a decade, one project has loomed largest for Patel, who appears on the cover of our 2025 Hollywood Issue: Monkey Man, his ambitious directorial debut, in which he stars as an underground ...

Dev Patel first pitched “Monkey Man” as “a revenge film about faith.” “Faith can be such a beautiful, powerful thing. It can bring us together. At its best, it should make us fight for each other ...

Dev Patel’s Monkey Man premiered earlier this year and was a huge success, drawing comparison’s to Keanu Reeves’ legendary action franchise, John Wick, while also earning more than 3x its reported ...

An essential part of filmmaking is adapting to last-minute changes on the spot — and Dev Patel proved his directorial mettle after sustaining a significant injury on the set of Monkey Man. In an ...

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This horror feature envelops us with its technical atmospherics, but don’t dig too far beneath that surface. By Brandon Yu With his feature filmmaking debut, “Monkey Man,” Dev Patel joins a list of ...