Cannes: Gunfire Interrupts TV Broadcast, Man Firing Blanks Taken Into Custody
May, 17, 2013 5:43 pm | Comments On #MoviesA man holding a fake hand grenade and firing blanks disrupted the filming of a French television show in Cannes on Friday, causing the crowd to flee the open-air broadcast and judges Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil to be hustled off the set.
Police took the man into custody during the French show "Le Grand Journal," which was broadcasting live from an outdoor studio near the Cannes shoreline. The man, who was near the site, reportedly fired two blanks from a gun while holding the phony grenade.
Waltz and Auteuil were taken out of the area as the crowd fled, in a chaotic scene that was captured on video. The shots cannot be heard on the video.
The show reportedly returned to the air within a few minutes, with its host explaining that the shots were blanks and the grenade was fake.
The incident took place less than 24 hours after a safe...
Read MoreWeinstein Unveils Slate in Cannes: 'Osage' Shouts Oscars, 'Salinger' Intrigues
May, 17, 2013 1:49 pm | Comments On #Cannes, MoviesThe Weinstein Company unveiled its slate for the year at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, giving a glimpse of their game plan for Oscar season, which includes an intriguing documentary-style feature about the elusive writer J.D. Salinger, a biopic on Nelson Mandela and a southern vehicle for A-list Actresses, "August: Osage County."
The presentation included a small parade of stars, including Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Michael B. Jordan and a host of other actors and directors joined by co-chairman Harvey Weinstein at the event. Weinstein joked that he would have invited George Clooney, a coproducer on "August," but he was still sore over losing the Best Picture Oscar...
Cannes Deals: Chinese Mogul Bruno Wu Partners With French Film Vet; Pierce Brosnan to Chase Olga Kurylenko
May, 17, 2013 12:58 pm | Comments On #Cannes, Movies, Pierce BrosnanChinese mogul Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment has partnered with French mogul Pierre-Ange Le Pogam to form Angel Storm, a new joint venture that will develop and produce European-Chinese co-productions.
Le Pogam and Wu have already picked the venture’s first two films, “Shanghai” and “Triangle,” which both will produce. Le Pogam’s Stone Angels will handle distribution rights in France, while Seven Stars will distribute in China.
“Pierre-Ange is a very versatile filmmaker and executive, whether he’s dealing with a mainstream commercial title or an art house film, he understands the global business, and we both share a love for movies,” Wu said in a statement. “I believe Angel Storm will deliver franchise actioners to international audiences everywhere.”
Wu has set up a...
Read MoreChopard: Cannes Heist Value 'Far Lower' Than Reported, Jewels Not for Celebrities
May, 17, 2013 12:45 pm | Comments On #Cannes, MoviesWhile it's vague about the exact value of the jewels heisted from the Suite Novotel Cannes Centre Thursday night, Chopard says the $1.4 million being reported by the media is far too high.
The company also said the stolen items were not headed for the red carpet.
It was Chopard's first statement on the robbery at the 124-room business-class hotel.
Also read: Chopard Jewelry Heist at Cannes Film Festival
The entire safe housing the jewels was taken from the room of a Chopard employee sometime between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. -- ironically, roughly the same time as the premiere in Cannes of Sofia Coppola's newest film, "The Bling Ring," which is about real-life...
Read MoreMichael B. Jordan on Playing a Black Superhero: 'I'm Up For It'
May, 17, 2013 12:41 pm | Comments On #MoviesCANNES, France -- Michael B. Jordan, a rising young talent who is winning new fans at the Cannes Film Festival, told TheWrap on Friday that playing a superhero of color is something he’s up for.
“If it were to happen, I would definitely embrace it and take it on, for sure,” he told TheWrap at a Weinstein Co. gathering where his new film, “Fruitvale Station,” was presented.
He was referring to the possibility of being cast as the Human Torch in a Fox reboot of “Fantastic Four,” which TheWrap recently reported is under consideration. The role was not written for a black actor and...
Read MoreCannes: Kim Kardashian, Lauren Conrad Were 'Bling Ring' Inspirations, Says Emma Watson
May, 17, 2013 12:20 pm | Comments On #Bling Ring, Cannes, Emma Watson, Kim Kardashian, Lauren Conrad, Movies, The Bling RingReality stars Kim Kardashian and Lauren Conrad have become Hollywood film muses.
"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson was in Cannes promoting her new film, Sophia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." The film is based on actual events surrounding a gang of kids AKA The Bling Ring, who looted the houses of young Hollywood for about $3 million in total booty in 2009-20010, including Paris Hilton, Rachel Bilson, Megan Fox, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom.
"I watched a lot of 'Keeping up With the Kardashians' and 'The Hills,' and I tried to understand the psychology of this kind of girl as much as possible," Watson told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Read MoreCannes Review: 'The Past' Is a Brilliant Meditation on Secrets & Lies
May, 17, 2013 9:48 am | Comments On #Asghar Farhadi, Berenice Bejo, Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, Le Passe, Movies, The PastWilliam Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” This is the thrust of Asghar Farhadi’s “Le Passe” (“The Past”), which screened on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.
This is the kind of film that leaves you changed by the time the credits start to roll. And like everything else in Farhadi’s style, those credits take their time, eventually disclosing a moment that is as important as every other.
Farhadi’s “A Separation” was among the best-reviewed films of the year when it debuted two years ago, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. That film was about the new and old Iran, about separating from an oppressive culture that could not move forward. “The Past” is about another kind of separation -- how we let go of past...
Read MoreChopard Jewelry Heist at Cannes Film Festival
May, 17, 2013 9:17 am | Comments On #Cannes, MoviesSome of the glitz and glamour has been taken from Cannes. Or at least the glitz.
Chopard jewels were stolen at the famous film festival, the high end jewelry designer confirmed on Friday. Original reports had the value estimated between $1 million and $1.4 million, but Chopard later said in a statement that the real value is "far lower." The company also stated that the stolen items were not set to be worn by celebrities at the film festival.
The jewelry was stolen sometime between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. from the Suite Novotel Cannes Centre room of a Chopard employee.
The irony is that the robbery occurred roughly at the same time as the premiere of Sofia Coppola's newest film, "The Bling Ring," which is about real-life celebrity jewelry thieves.
The entire safe was taken out of the wall in the business-class, 124-room hotel. ...
Read MoreGood Morning, Cannes: Paris Hilton Loved 'Bling Ring' - Now Can We Get Back to the Art Movies?
May, 17, 2013 6:21 am | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, Fruitvale Station, Movies, Paris Hilton, Robin Wright, ryan coogler, Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring, The CongressWell, Sofia Coppola can rest easy: Paris Hilton loved “The Bling Ring.”
And maybe now Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section can go back to showcasing art movies rather than playing host to platinum heiresses.
Thursday night’s premiere provided an unusual shot of glitz for Un Certain Regard, which typically takes a back seat to the main competition and the out-of-competition star vehicles.
But the second day of Cannes was a day when the main competition showcased Francois Ozon’s enigmatic “Jeune & Jolie” and Amat Escalante’s brutal “Heli,” giving UCR an opening to take some of the spotlight away with “The Bling...
Cannes Review: 'The Bling Ring' Rips Open the Fame Game
May, 16, 2013 5:25 pm | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, Emma Watson, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Movies, Sofia Coppola, The Bling RingIn 20 years or so -- after we sift through the rubble of three decades of self-help, 15 minutes of free-for-all fame, the Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan monuments to vapid designer-fueled high-living, and camera close-ups to catch it all -- we might finally see what the milking of our narcissistic tendencies on social networks has done to our priorities. It’s never been defined as brilliantly as Sofia Coppola does in "The Bling Ring," which opened the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes on Thursday.
While some will always maintain "Lost in Translation" is her best work, "The Bling Ring" represents a far more ambitious movie for this filmmaker. For once, she has stepped outside her comfort zone of portraying the languid wistfulness of disaffected youth in "atmosphere" films about the well-to-do.
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