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EXCLUSIVE: Since Warner Bros acquired the rights to make more Middle-earth films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's works and the canon established by New Line's original trilogy, Peter Jackson and his Lord of the Rings cohorts Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens hovered over the proceedings for a long time, as they…

After she won the 2021 Palme d'Or for Titane, in a which a sociopathic stripper becomes a serial killer and has sex with muscle cars, Julia Ducournau was effusive in her gratitude to the Cannes Film Festival. "Thank you for calling for more diversity in our experiences of film and our lives," she said…

Neon has made some key promotions within its team, upping Elissa Federoff from President of Distribution to Chief Distribution Officer and Ryan Friscia from EVP, Finance and Business Development to Chief Financial Officer.  Federoff has been with Neon since its inception in 2017. In her new role, she…

Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep revealed her admiration for actresses who move into production having achieved fame on the big screen in an onstage conversation Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival. "There are so many women are producing for themselves and I’m so in awe of the ones who have…

Cannes is not lacking for glamor this year, even in the documentary lineup. Among the films premiering at the festival is Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, an HBO feature documentary directed by Nanette Burstein and produced by J.J. Abrams, Glen Zipper, Sean M. Stuart, and Bill Gerber. The…

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act starring Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel serving as this year’s opening-night film. This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres like Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, Kevin…

EXCLUSIVE: Meryl Streep says that a meeting is "imminent" where she'll hear about the proposals for her to return for a third helping of Mamma Mia! The acting legend, honored with an Honorary Palme d'Or at an emotional presentation Tuesday night during the Cannes Film Festival’s opening ceremony the…

Omnes Films has a goal. "Our mission is to fill a void in modern cinema," says its website. "Our films are passionate, ambitious works made by friends that favor atmosphere over plot and study the many forms of cultural decay in the 21st Century. Whatever the subject or genre, we seek projects that are…

The immediate cost of war is front and center these days, as the grim scenarios in Gaza and Ukraine continue to play out in front of us. But in his fiction debut, documentary filmmaker Jonathan Millet takes us beyond the headlines of the now to present the…

Judith Godrèche has been a regular on the Cannes red carpet for close to 30 years for her performances in films such as Patrice Leconte's 1996 Palme d'Or contender Ridicule and Un Certain Regard cycling drama The Climb in 2019.  The popular French actress-turned-director touches down this edition…

In 2020, Magnus von Horn was excited to find that his film Sweat had been accepted into the Official Selection at Cannes, a big step up from his debut, The Here After, which made Directors' Fortnight in 2015. The pandemic put an end to that, but his disappointment was short-lived; this year, his dark…

There’s a lot of epic noise, and lot of great chase and a lot of bare-chested dudes, particularly on motorcycles, in George Miller’s prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, making its world premiere at Cannes on Wednesday night. As such, reading Anya Taylor-Joy’s comments about the shoot in a New York Times…