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Developers have taken a wrecking ball to some of the most distinctive properties on the Croisette in Cannes. "It's like a gaping wound," gasped one onlooker as they surveyed the desolate scene Monday on the block that was once 33 Croisette. One apartment building and shopfronts have been…

Kevin Costner has turned his Santa Barbara home into a fully-fledged post-production facility. In one room, editors are cutting the first leg of Horizon: An American Saga he'll premiere in Cannes. In another, an editor is working on Part Two. In a third, there is an assemblage of a documentary on the…

As a #MeToo wave looked to rock the 77th Cannes Film Festival with rumors swirling that filmmakers with films at the event would be tagged, Thierry Frémaux emphasized his event isn’t about polemics, rather the picture that’s on the screen. If there are controversies during Cannes “we try to avoid them” he…

EXCLUSIVE: Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood, Daredevil) is set to star in horror-thriller The Cycle, which will be launched for sales at the Cannes market by The Exchange. In the film, when the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it's up to his…

With a #MeToo expose looking less to rattle the 77th Cannes Film Festival, all agita now seems to lie in whether Cannes Film Festival workers strike or not. Festival Boss Thierry Frémaux in a presser this AM provided an update saying “there are negotiations and we have talked directly with them,” meaning…

In the fuselage of a C-47 transport plane, a group of high-ranking Nazis in uniforms stripped of their insignia are facing their captors. Among them, Hermann Göring strikes up a conversation with a U.S. military psychiatrist, Lt. Colonel Douglas Kelley. "Howie here tells me you do magic," Göring says to…

EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has tapped Amazon MGM Studios and IFC distribution vet Mark Boxer as their U.S. Head of Distribution. Boxer will be on the Croisette during the run of this year’s Cannes Film Festival scoping out product for Mubi. In the new job, Boxer will be based in the New York office, and he’ll report…

Cannes mayor David Lisnard has published a blistering critique of media coverage of #MeToo in France, suggesting that investigations into cinema figures accused of sexual harassment were not dissimilar to those of East Germany's secret police into political dissidents. Lisnard made the comments in an…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Statham (Fast & Furious) has been set to lead a new action-thriller from director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest), which Black Bear is launching this week for the Cannes market. In the currently untitled pic, Statham will play Mason who lives in isolation in a remote Scottish island…

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman has joined the voice cast for French director Ugo Bienvenu's upcoming animated feature Arco about a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time and his adventures as he gets stuck in the wrong era. Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Phillippe (Shooter) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) are leading thriller The Patient, which is launching in the Cannes market with International Film Trust. Kelly Greyson (Fortress) and David Cade (Lansky) also star in the under-the-radar project, which wrapped principal photography…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Nour Films has acquired French rights to Saudi director Tawfik Alzaidi's first feature Norah ahead of its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard. The film will make history as the first ever Saudi feature to play in Cannes' Official Selection just six…