J.C. Chandor’s Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Margin Call" took him 10 years to write. That film was a deliberate, careful study of what it takes for a man to survive on Wall Street, with a large ensemble cast. But while Chandor’s new film, “All Is Lost,” makes use of the same deceptively simple writing and directing style, this time it stars just one person: Robert Redford.

"All Is Lost," which is screening out of competition at Cannes, begins with a few plainspoken words from Redford, whose character is at sea on a small sailboat. From that point on, the film relies only on Redford’s actions; no other dialogue is spoken. Still, we learn much about his character from watching him struggle through a series of tests.

When his boat is hit by a stray shipping container full of shoes, he carefully sets about patching...

Ryan Gosling must be feeling pretty happy about his decision to skip the red carpet at Cannes this year. Critics at the Riviera film festival vivisected "Only God Forgives," his ultra-violent collaboration with Nicolas Winding Refn, leaving it as bruised and battered as the hunky star appears in promotional art for the film. 

Winding Refn, the enfant terrible of Danish film, previously teamed with Gosling on "Drive," earning a Best Director award at Cannes in 2011 for his hallucinatory crime story. Once again, the screen pulsates with all manner of blood-letting -- from beheadings to mutilations with ice picks. The film finds a street-fighting Gosling punching, kicking and maiming his way through Bangkok to avenge his brother's death. It opens stateside on July 19.

Sasha Stone of...

Lionsgate nabbed  U.S. distribution rights to the crime drama "Blood Ties" from Worldview Entertainment, the studio said Wednesday from the Cannes Film Festival. 

The film premiered at the French Riviera gathering this week and features Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, Zoé Saldana, and Marion Cottilard.

Lionsgate said it plans to release the picture through its sister company, Roadside Attractions. "Blood Ties" is a remake of the French film "Les Liens du sang," yet unspools in a distinctly American setting -- New York City in the height (or depth) of its 1970s urban dissolution. 

The crime drama finds a middle-...

Once he wraps the Boston-set gangster movie "Black Mass" director Barry Levinson will fly halfway around the world to film an untitled love story that will be set in Shanghai.

Shanghai Film Group is financing the mid-budget movie, which Mike Medavoy is producing with Rafaella De Laurentiis and Edward McGurn.

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Originally written by Hannah Shakespeare, story follows a group of Jews who escape from Leningrad and take refuge in Japan-occupied Shanghai, where romance is kindled amid the chaos of a world at war.

Ronald Harwood ("The Pianist") is now adapting the script, which will be loosely based on Bei...