Good 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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Read MoreCannes: The Weinstein Co. Pays $6M for Stephen Frears' 'Philomena'
May, 16, 2013 5:08 pm | Comments On #Cannes, MoviesThe Weinstein Co. has acquired Stephen Frears’ “Philomena” for $6 million, TWC co-chair Harvey Weinstein told TheWrap.
Based on a real story, the film stars Judi Dench (left) as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who searches for her son that she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager.
The film is based on BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book, "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee." British comedian Steve Coogan also stars in the film, which he co-wrote with Jeff Pope. He plays a journalist who helps Lee search for her son.
Buyers saw the reel at Cannes, where Pathe and BBC Films were...
Read MoreCannes Review: 'Young & Beautiful' Supplies Sex and Nudity, but Where's the Soul?
May, 16, 2013 1:23 pm | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, François Ozon, Jeune & Jolie, Marine Vacth, Movies, Young & BeautifulA young and beautiful woman has untold amounts of power over men, and most women don’t realize it until we’re long past it. French director Francois Ozon’s “Jeune & Jolie” (“Young & Beautiful”), which is part of the main competition at Cannes, is about a teenage girl who goes from virgin to prostitute in two seasons.
In the summer, she loses her virginity to a German tourist at the beach. It’s a miserable experience, teaching her what men want and how little what a woman wants has anything to do with it. The sex wasn’t about her pleasure, but about his.
By fall, she’s built up a successful business as a young prostitute in Paris, lying about her age and servicing a mostly older clientele.
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Read MoreCannes: What the Critics Think of Sofia Coppola's 'Bling Ring'
May, 16, 2013 1:02 pm | Comments On #Bling Ring, Cannes, Movies, Sofia CoppolaThe early Cannes verdict on Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" is in and for most part the reaction has been favorable.
The movie, about the gang of celebrity-obsessed teenage thieves from the San Fernando Valley who swiped jewelry and high fashion from the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, opens Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section on Thursday. Hilton, who lent her home for the filming, was expected to attend the gala premiere, along with stars (at left) Katie Chang, Israel Broussard and Emma Watson.
But before that premiere, “The Bling Ring” played for the members of the Cannes press corps who could squeeze into a jammed...
Read MoreCannes: Samuel L. Jackson, Hailee Steinfeld Team for 'Barely Lethal'
May, 16, 2013 9:27 am | Comments On #Cannes, MoviesSamuel L. Jackson will bring his trademark strut and baritone to "Barely Lethal," RKO Pictures announced from the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
The "Pulp Fiction" actor will co-star opposite Hailee Steinfeld, who nabbed an Oscar nomination for her work in the Coen Brothers' "True Grit." The action-comedy follows a 16-year-old assassin (Steinfeld) who fakes her own death, so she can have a normal high-school experience. But it's a fate worse than detention when her former-employer (Jackson) comes looking for her.
Kyle Newman ("Fanboys") will direct the film, which will begin shooting in the fall of 2013.
Jackson and Steinfeld are both represented by ICM Partners. Jackson recently co-starred in "Django Unchained" and will soon be seen in the Spike Lee's remake of "Oldboy."
Steinfeld...
Read MoreCannes: Scarlett Johansson to Make Directorial Debut; Hayden Christenson Launches Production Company
May, 16, 2013 9:00 am | Comments On #Cannes, MoviesHayden Christensen, his brother Tove Christensen and three additional partners have launched Glacier Films, a new production company that aims to make 11 films over the next three years.
Six of those films will be made for around $10 million while another five will be in micro budget movies costing about $1.5 million.
Financing for the company comes from Renovatio, which the announcement describes as a “diverse Russian concern.”
Glacier’s first film will be “American Heist,” a remake of the 1959 Steve McQueen classic “St. Louis Bank Robbery.” Hayden Christensen will star while one of his partners, Sarik Andreaysan, will direct. His three other partners – his brother, Geyond Andreasyan and Georgy Malkov – will produce along with Vladimir Poliakov.
The first micro budget film will be “Lady of...
Read MoreCannes: Bruce Willis to Star in 'Expiration'
May, 16, 2013 6:49 am | Comments On #MoviesBruce Willis will star in the action thriller "Expiration," Emmett / Furla Films said Thursday from the Cannes Film Festival.
The company will produce and finance the picture, which is budgeted at $60 million.
Willis will star as a hitman who is poisoned and desperately searching for an antidote before he dies. Brian Tucker, who handled script duties on the company's "Broken City," wrote the screenplay. No director has been named. Production is set to start in March 2014.
Emmett / Furla Films has been busy of late, producing this summer's action thriller "2 Guns" with Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington and announcing projects such as Martin...
Read MoreGood Morning, Cannes: DiCaprio Shines, Spielberg's on Jury Duty, and Everybody Gets Wet
May, 16, 2013 6:49 am | Comments On #MoviesIt rained on Baz Luhrmann’s parade as the Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night, but the heavy showers that fell on the Croisette as luminaries arrived for the opening-night screening of “The Great Gatsby” didn’t appear to measurably dampen enthusiasm for the extravagant film or the lavish (of course) after-party.
In fact, TheWrap’s Wednesday speculation notwithstanding, “Gatsby” didn't go down in history as one of the films famously booed by the sometimes demanding Cannes audience – instead, it was well-received as a fitting way to launch a festival that always finds a way to obliterate the lines between art and glitz.
In Contention’s Guy Lodge, for instance,...
Read MoreGood Morning, Cannes: Will the Boo Birds Be Out for 'The Great Gatsby?'
May, 15, 2013 6:47 am | Comments On #Alexander Payne, Baz Luhrmann, cannes film festival, Coen Brothers, film festivals, independent films, indies, Inside Llewyn Davis, Movies, Nebraska, Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring, The Great GatsbyThe 66th Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday night with a gala screening of Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” and we all know what that means:
The Grand Theatre Lumiere will reverberate with the sound of booing.
Oh, most of the Cannes audience will most likely applaud Luhrmann’s amped-up take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic. But scattered (and occasionally not-so-scattered) boos are a time honored Cannes tradition, and it’s hard to imagine that a few audience members won’t jeer the extravagant artifice of this “Gatsby.”
Then again, a few catcalls will just put Luhrmann in some august company.
In fact, the...
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