The Weinstein Company is closing in on U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 3D adventure movie "The Young and Prodigious Spivet," which is one of the hottest available titles at Cannes.

A spokesperson for TWC didn't immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment, but an individual close to the negotiations confirmed that a deal was likely to close.

"Spivet" stars Kyle Catlett as the title character, a gifted 12-year-old boy who leaves his family in Montana and sets out across the country in order to receive a prize in Washington D.C.

"Spivet" is Jeunet's first 3D movie and his first English-language film since "Alien Resurrection" in 1997. Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates co-star in the film, which Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant adapted from the novel by Reif Larsen....

Michael Douglas hits a career high with Steven Soderbergh’s masterful “Behind the Candelabra,” the love story about Liberace and Scott Thorson slated for an HBO debut on Sunday.

One of the best films to play in Cannes so far, it's really about the lengths gay men had to go in decades past to have a relationship that equaled marriage and the difficulty for an icon like Liberace to even admit he was gay at all.. 

Soderbergh has made his best film in years, an honest rendering of a passionate, sometimes silly love affair between Liberace and the much younger Scott Thorson.

Plucked from obscurity when he was just 18, Thorson was...

Devotees of Japanese director Takashi Miike’s violent, cult-horror style will go to “Shield of Straw” hoping for something other than what Miike has in mind. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

The worst thing a filmmaker can do is stagnate, relying on the same formula. There is no danger of that happening with Miike, who has often dipped into different styles throughout his prolific career. His latest, in competition at Cannes, is another step in a new direction. It could leave viewers less than satisfied as it adheres to its objective, refusing to give his audience the blood lust it seeks.

“Shield of Straw” is about a police security team hired to protect a loathsome criminal who is in custody for brutally raping and killing a seven-year-old girl. Disgusted, the girl’s grandfather offers a bounty to anyone who...

Can someone please stop the rain? After two days of constant moisture, the misery quotient at the world’s leading international film festival in Cannes – waterlogged feet, trampled gowns, canceled screenings, interrupted parties, fickle umbrellas and overcrowded lobbies – has hit a peak.

“I hope this isn’t the new normal,” commiserated one film executive, picking her way through the puddles on the rue d’Antibes after noting that this is the second year in a row of constant downpours.

The sun finally broke through on Sunday, leaving grumpy paparazzi and pushy police in its wake, part of the ritual Cannes experience. Still, when people travel this far to stay in $500/night hotel rooms for weather this bad, the movies had better be worth it.

Thus far? A mixed bag.

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