Cannes

Cannes 2012: Alec Baldwin Apologizes for Trashing Harvey Weinstein

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Alec Baldwin pulls out of his onstage appearance at the amfAR gala but makes up with Harvey Weinstein after publicly blasting the mogul earlier in the festival

  

Cannes 2013: Anchor Bay Films Wins Rights to 'Shadow People'

May 25, 2012 By Brent Lang 51 weeks ago

Arclight Films sells rights to Chinese romantic drama "Dangerous Liaisons"

  

Cannes 2012: A Giggly Robert Pattinson Touts Cronenberg Thriller 'Cosmopolis'

May 25, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 51 weeks ago

"Cosmopolis" star Robert Pattinson struggles to explain the David Cronenberg movie set largely in a limousine cruising New York streets

  

Cannes 2012: 'Jaws,' Boos & Drugs

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Day 10: Steven Spielberg shows "Jaws" and says sharks have been very good for him, but audiences get unruly, and Pete Doherty talks frankly about making a movie on heroin

  

Cannes 2012: Sundance Selects Acquires Ken Loach's 'The Angels' Share'

May 24, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 51 weeks ago

IFC/Sundance have worked with Loach on three prior projects, one of which won the Palme d'Or

  

Cannes 2012: 'Aqui y Alla' Wins Critics Week Prize

May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Antonio Mendez Esparza's "Aqui y alla" has won the Grand Prize in the festival's Critics Week section

  

Cannes 2012: Is 'The Paperboy' a Camp Classic, or an Appalling Mess?

May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Some critics think Lee Daniels' steamy Southern potboiler is so bad it's good, but most say it's just plain awful

  

Wes Anderson on ‘Moonrise Kingdom’: ‘It’s a Memory of a Fantasy’

May 24, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 51 weeks ago

“It’s the autobiography of something that didn’t happen,” the director with one of Hollywood's most specific visual idioms tells TheWrap in an interview 

  

Cannes 2012: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Get Sweaty, Trampy in 'Paperboy'

May 24, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 51 weeks ago

Nicole Kidman says she gave herself over to the graphic scenes in Lee Daniel's pulpy "The Paperboy," which has become the talk of the Croisette

  

Cannes 2012: Kino Lorber Wins U.S. Rights to 'In Another Country'

May 24, 2012 By Brent Lang 51 weeks ago

Southern Korean film stars Isabelle Huppert of "The Piano Teacher" fame

  

Cannes 2012: Kim Kardashian and Other Signs of Life in the Zombie Ghost Town

May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Day 9: The festival winds down with baffling movies, a Roman Polanski short and a giddy Kim Kardashian

  

Cannes 2012: Critics Don't Like 'On the Road,' but They Blame Jack Kerouac

May 23, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 weeks ago

Even the most positive reviews of Walter Salles' adaptation of "On the Road" say Jack Kerouac's book is nearly impossible to adapt

  

Cannes 2012: Kristen Stewart Embraces Topless, Beatnik Role in 'On the Road'

May 23, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 52 weeks ago

 “I love pushing, I love scaring myself," Kristen Stewart says about her role in Walter Salles' new movie, "On the Road"

  

Cannes 2012: 'Holy Motors,' Holy S#*!

May 23, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 weeks ago

Day 8: The wild and weird "Holy Motors" provides a shot of adrenaline, and Ken Loach doesn't want to watch his language

  

Cannes: IFC Acquires Ben Wheatley Road Comedy 'Sightseers'

May 22, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 weeks ago

IFC grabs North American rights before dark comedy from Ben Wheatley debuts in Cannes' Directors Fortnight

  

Cannes: Brad Pitt Says 'Killing Them Softly' Isn't Anti-Obama, But It Is Political

May 22, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"Killing Them Softly" juxtaposes Obama's rhetoric with grim violence, but Brad Pitt tells Cannes press conference it's not a slap at the president

  

'The Master': Paul Thomas Anderson Reaches Out to Scientologist Tom Cruise (Exclusive)

May 22, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Paul Thomas Anderson recently screened the film, loosely based on the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, for the group's most famous follower: Tom Cruise

  

Cannes Review: 'Killing Them Softly' Has Brad Pitt, Dirty Money and No Regrets

May 22, 2012 By Sasha Stone 1 year ago

Lots of things go wrong in Andrew Dominik's Brad Pitt gangster movie "Killing Them Softly" -- but beneath it all, the film is a dark indictment of American capitalism

  

Cannes 2012: AngelWorld to Finance and Produce 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea'

May 22, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Grieving widower drama will star Jessica Biel and feature music composed by her fiancé, Justin Timberlake

  

Cannes 2012: Where's the Excitement?

May 22, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Day 7: Three movies that weren't ready in time for Cannes steal the spotlight from the movies that did make it to the festival

  

Cannes 2012: Icon UK Group Backs Lee Daniels' 'The Butler'

May 22, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Daniels' historical epic will center on an African American White House butler and will star Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey

  

Cannes 2012: Sony Pictures Classics Buys Gael Garcia Bernal Chilean Drama ‘No’

May 22, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to “No,” a drama about Chilean dictator Pinochet starring Gael Garcia Bernal

  

Cannes: Alister Grierson to Direct Biblical 'Prequel' 'Mary Mother of Christ'

May 21, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Australian director Alister Grierson will direct film for Lionsgate, with faith-based marketing campaign planned

  

James McAvoy Joins Jessica Chastain in Myriad Pictures' 'Eleanor Rigby' Films

May 21, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 1 year ago

James McAvoy will play opposite Jessica Chastain in the two-film his-and her projects "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" 

  

Roman Polanski Returns to Cannes - With a Prada Ad

May 21, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Cannes had promised a new film from controversial director Roman Polanski, but they didn't say it would be a fashion ad

  

Supercouple Smackdown at Cannes: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson vs Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

May 21, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 1 year ago

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson make their debut appearances at Cannes. Will they overtake Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as King and Queen of the Croisette?