Todd McCarthy, the longtime chief film critic at Variety who was summarily fired in March during a cost-cutting round, has landed at the Hollywood Reporter.
McCarthy joined IndieWire's network with an independent blog shortly after losing his job at Variety, and now jumps the free-spending Hollywood Reporter under new editorial director Janice Min.
His hire puts another prominent name on the masthead days before the Reporter ditches its daily print edition in favor of a weekly glossy.
McCarthy becomes the Reporter’s chief critic; current critic Kirk Honeycutt is to become the international film critic, though he’ll still review Hollywood films, according to the New York Times, which first reported the shakeup.