A man holding a fake hand grenade and firing blanks disrupted the filming of a French television show in Cannes on Friday, causing the crowd to flee the open-air broadcast and judges Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil to be hustled off the set.

Police took the man into custody during the French show "Le Grand Journal," which was broadcasting live from an outdoor studio near the Cannes shoreline. The man, who was near the site, reportedly fired two blanks from a gun while holding the phony grenade.

Waltz and Auteuil were taken out of the area as the crowd fled, in a chaotic scene that was captured on video. The shots cannot be heard on the video.

The show reportedly returned to the air within a few minutes, with its host explaining that the shots were blanks and the grenade was fake.

The incident took place less than 24 hours after a safe...

Chinese mogul Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment has partnered with French mogul Pierre-Ange Le Pogam to form Angel Storm, a new joint venture that will develop and produce European-Chinese co-productions.

Le Pogam and Wu have already picked the venture’s first two films, “Shanghai” and “Triangle,” which both will produce. Le Pogam’s Stone Angels will handle distribution rights in France, while Seven Stars will distribute in China.

“Pierre-Ange is a very versatile filmmaker and executive, whether he’s dealing with a mainstream commercial title or an art house film, he understands the global business, and we both share a love for movies,” Wu said in a statement. “I believe Angel Storm will deliver franchise actioners to international audiences everywhere.”

Wu has set up a...

CANNES, France -- Michael B. Jordan, a rising young talent who is winning new fans at the Cannes Film Festival, told TheWrap on Friday that playing a superhero of color is something he’s up for.

“If it were to happen, I would definitely embrace it and take it on, for sure,” he told TheWrap at a Weinstein Co. gathering where his new film, “Fruitvale Station,” was presented.

He was referring to the possibility of being cast as the Human Torch in a Fox reboot of “Fantastic Four,” which TheWrap recently reported is under consideration. The role was not written for a black actor and...

William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” This is the thrust of Asghar Farhadi’s “Le Passe” (“The Past”), which screened on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.

This is the kind of film that leaves you changed by the time the credits start to roll. And like everything else in Farhadi’s style, those credits take their time, eventually disclosing a moment that is as important as every other. 

Farhadi’s “A Separation” was among the best-reviewed films of the year when it debuted two years ago, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. That film was about the new and old Iran, about separating from an oppressive culture that could not move forward. “The Past” is about another kind of separation -- how we let go of past...