Movies

The Weinstein Company Checks Into 'Suite Francaise' With Michelle Williams

May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 2 hours ago

Matthias Schoenaerts and Kristin Scott Thomas co-star in Saul Dibb's adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky's unfinished novel

  

Wrekin Hill Acquires U.S. Rights to John Malkovich Movie 'Siberian Education'

May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 2 hours ago

Director Gabriele Salvatores and co-writers Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli adapted the novel by Nicolai Lilin

  

'Senna' Director Asif Kapadia to Direct Love Story 'Ali and Nino'

May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 2 hours ago

Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is adapting Kurban Said's 1937 novel

  

Cannes Deals: Sundance Selects Buys Dardenne Brothers’ ‘Two Days, One Night’ Starring Marion Cotillard

May 19, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 3 hours ago

Cotillard plays a woman desperate to keep her job

  

Asghar Farhadi's Cannes Drama 'The Past' Has a Future at Sony Classics

May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 3 hours ago

Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim star in the foreign-language film

  

'Fill the Void' Fills the Romantic Void in the Dizzying 'Great Gatsby'

May 19, 2013 By Aviva Kempner 3 hours ago

Guest blog: Rama Burshtein’s “Fill the Void” captures an intimate story that is about the emotions confronting a young Orthodox woman faced with a romantic dilemma

  

Independent Box Office: 'Place Beyond the Pines' Passes $20M

May 19, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 3 hours ago

IFC's "Francis Ha" averages $33.5K per-screen in four-theater debut

  

Cannes Review: 'Borgman' Makes No Sense - in a Good Way

May 19, 2013 By Sasha Stone 3 hours ago

Alex van Warmerdam's film is a bizarre, rambling, vivid dream that often feels as if the director and cast are making it up as they go along

  

'Great Gatsby' Edges 'Iron Man 3,' 'Star Trek Into Darkness' at Overseas Box Office

May 19, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 5 hours ago

Universal's "Fast & Furious 6" debuts No. 1 with record-breaking $13.8M in the U.K.

  

Good Morning, Cannes: The Coen Brothers Make People Forget About Their Wet Socks

May 19, 2013 By Steve Pond 6 hours ago

Before it even had its official Cannes premiere, "Inside Llewyn Davis" became the most acclaimed film at the festival

  

'Star Trek Into Darkness' Can't Hit Warp Speed at Box Office

May 19, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 7 hours ago

J.J. Abrams' space epic sequel is year's 3rd-biggest opening, but $84M 4-day total is less than Paramount hoped to bring in

  

What is Jewish Humor? Justin Timberlake ‘Smells a Trap’ for Coen Brothers in Cannes

May 19, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 10 hours ago

At news conference, Coen brothers are asked: “Jewish humor, does it exist? If so what does it consist of?”

  

Cannes Review: Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Is a Breathtaking Ode to Failure

May 18, 2013 By Sasha Stone 21 hours ago

Coens' tragicomic story of Greenwich Village folk scene is a sharp, evocative portrait of a world about to be changed by Bob Dylan

  

Cannes Deals: Weinstein's RADiUS Buys 'Blue Ruin,' IFC Takes RAZE

May 18, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 23 hours ago

IFC Midnight bought North American rights to the thriller "RAZE"

  

'Star Trek Into Darkness' On $80M Pace After $21M Friday at Box Office

May 18, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 1 day ago

J.J. Abrams space epic sequel will fall short of the $100 million Paramount was expecting

  

'Fast & Furious 6' Opening Day Universal's Best-Ever in U.K.

May 18, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 1 day ago

The $4.6 million debut is the year's 2nd-best in that market, just behind "Iron Man 3"

 

  

Good Morning, Cannes: Much Ado About Absolutely Everything

May 18, 2013 By Steve Pond 1 day ago

Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past” is the hot title for now, but elsewhere Cannes embraces excess and exaggeration

 

  

The Curious Case of Benicio del Toro in ‘Jimmy P’

May 18, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 1 day ago

The film is based on a 1951 study by the French ethnopsychiatrist Georges Devereux

  

Wentworth Media Launches to Finance, Produce Movies

May 18, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 1 day ago

The company will acquire films and seek to produce three to four feature films per year “in various budget ranges”

  

How Many Different Companies Can Bid on Hulu? Too Many

May 17, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 1 day ago

DirecTV and Time Warner Cable are the latest companies to throw their hat in the Hulu ring

  

'Walking Dead' Alum Jon Bernthal in Negotiations to Join Brad Pitt in David Ayer's 'Fury' (Exclusive)

May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 1 day ago

Sony is distributing the WWII movie, which also stars Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Michael Pena

  

Cannes: Gunfire Interrupts TV Broadcast, Man Firing Blanks Taken Into Custody

May 17, 2013 By Steve Pond 1 day ago

Jurors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil are hustled off the set of "Le Grand Journal" when chaos briefly erupts

  

Why 'The Great Gatsby' Reveals a Huge Divide Between Hollywood and Its Fans (Video)

May 17, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 1 day ago

Audiences were not attuned to some of the bad buzz like Hollywood executives

  

Oscar Winner Ari Sandel to Direct 'The DUFF' for CBS Films (Exclusive)

May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 2 days ago

McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision is producing the high school movie with Vast Entertainment

  

'21 Jump Street' Villain Rob Riggle Joins Fox Comedy 'Let's Be Cops' (Exclusive)

May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 2 days ago

Luke Greenfield is directing the movie, which stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.

  

Marton Csokas in Negotiations to Battle Denzel Washington in 'The Equalizer'

May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 2 days ago

Antoine Fuqua is directing the Sony drama, which will co-star Chloe Moretz as a young prostitute