Cannes: Brad Pitt Says 'Killing Them Softly' Isn't Anti-Obama, But It Is Political
May, 22, 2012 3:33 pm | Comments On #Andrew Dominik, Brad Pitt, Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, Killing them Softly, MoviesAndrew Dominik's gangster movie "Killing Them Softly" has been interpreted by Cannes reviewers as being about the failures of capitalism, an attack on America and a slap at the failed promise of Barack Obama's presidency -- but at a Cannes press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Brad Pitt insisted that only part of that is true.
Viewers are wrong to read anti-Obama sentiment into the movie because of the way it juxtaposes his optimistic Democratic National Convention speech of 2008 with a landscape of greed and violence, he said.
The footage, he said, was used not "as a cynical look back at a statement of failure, but as a real expression of hope."
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Read More'The Master': Paul Thomas Anderson Reaches Out to Scientologist Tom Cruise (Exclusive)
May, 22, 2012 10:19 am | Comments On #Cannes, Cannes 2012, Movies, pt anderson, The Master, Tom Cruise, weinstein companyFilmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has screened his new film about a Scientology-like sect leader for Tom Cruise, Scientology’s most famous follower, in the hopes of heading off a conflict with the group, TheWrap has learned.
According to two individuals close to the movie, Anderson recently screened the film, loosely based on the life of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard, for Cruise.
Both individuals said that Cruise “had issues” with some parts of the movie. Cruise starred in one of Anderson’s earlier movies, “Magnolia,” and the two remain friends.
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Read MoreCannes Review: 'Killing Them Softly' Has Brad Pitt, Dirty Money and No Regrets
May, 22, 2012 8:09 am | Comments On #Andrew Dominik, Brad Pitt, Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, James Gandolfini, Killing them Softly, MoviesIn the first few scenes of Andrew Dominik’s masterful "Killing Them Softly," you think you are in the presence of two idiots who have no idea what they’re doing. They’re being ordered to pull off a robbery. They’re the kind of guys who never figured out how stupid they were, and those kind of guys don’t last long in crime novels. You know they’re marked men for their stupidity alone.
This is a film that peels open slowly like an onion – stylized violence, piercing dialogue, the occasional blood spatter set to a familiar tune, a la Scorsese. But it was never meant to be a Scorsese film, nor a Tarantino film, though it makes you think it is from the first few scenes.
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Read MoreCannes 2012: AngelWorld to Finance and Produce 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea'
May, 22, 2012 7:05 am | Comments On #Cannes, Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake, MoviesAngelWorld Entertainment will finance and produce "The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea," the company said Tuesday.
The film stars Jessica Biel, who not only will produce the film, but has also enlisted her fiancé Justin Timberlake to help with the project.
The "Sexy Back" singer will compose and serve as music supervisor for the film’s soundtrack. It's a welcome return for fans of Timberlake's music. The pop star has concentrated on acting in recent years and has not released an album since 2006's "FutureSex/LoveSounds."
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Read MoreCannes 2012: Where's the Excitement?
May, 22, 2012 6:37 am | Comments On #Benh Zeitlin, Cannes, cannes film festival, David O. Russell, Django Unchained, film festivals, Movies, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, The Master, the silver linings playbookIt has continued to rain in Cannes, and enthusiasm appears to be as dampened as the sidewalks.
On Monday, for instance, three films that weren't ready in time for the festival nonetheless dominated chatter along the Croisette. The Weinstein Company's unveiling of footage from Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," David O. Russell's "The Silver Linings Playbook" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" quickly overshadowed the latest from 90-year-old French icon Alain Resnais, and even got people to stop talking about the rain for a while.
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Cannes 2012: Icon UK Group Backs Lee Daniels' 'The Butler'
May, 22, 2012 6:28 am | Comments On #Cannes, Forest Whitaker, Lee Daniels, Movies, Oprah Winfrey, Precious, The Butler, The PaperboyThe Icon UK Group will back Lee Daniels' "The Butler," the company said Tuesday.
The story of Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served eight American presidents over the course of four decades, will star Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker.
It marks Daniels’ fourth film as director. He earned an Oscar nomination for his gritty 2009 drama "Precious."
Daniels' latest film, "The Paperboy," is currently competing for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It stars Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman.
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Read MoreCannes 2012: Sony Pictures Classics Buys Gael Garcia Bernal Chilean Drama ‘No’
May, 22, 2012 1:56 am | Comments On #acquisitions, Cannes, Cannes 2012, Gael Garcia Bernal, independent film, indies, Movies, No, Sony Pictures ClassicsSony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to “No,” a drama about Chilean 
dictator Augusto Pinochet starring Gael Garcia Bernal.
The film has been screening in the Director’s Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival to strong reviews.
Directed by Pablo Larraín (“Post Mortem”), the film tells the true story of when dictator Pinochet called for a referendum on his presidency in 1988 under international pressure.
Garcia Bernal plays a brash young advertising executive who heads the campaign under constant scrutiny by the government’s henchmen. The opposition campaigners devise a plan to win the election and free their country from oppression...
Read MoreCannes: Alister Grierson to Direct Biblical 'Prequel' 'Mary Mother of Christ'
May, 21, 2012 11:57 pm | Comments On #Alister Grierson, Cannes, cannes film festival, film festivals, Mary Mother of Christ, MoviesAustralian director Alister Grierson has signed a deal to direct "Mary Mother of Christ," a Biblical story to be distributed in the United States by Lionsgate.
The deal was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hyde Park Entertainment is currently handling international sales.
Grierson's previous films include the 3D underwater thriller "Sanctum," which was released last year, and 2006's World War II action film "Kokoda."
Benedict Fitzgerald, who co-wrote the screenplay for Mel Gibson's blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ," co-wrote "Mary Mother of Christ" with Barbara Nicolosi.
Israeli actress Odeya Rush has been cast...
Read MoreJames McAvoy Joins Jessica Chastain in Myriad Pictures' 'Eleanor Rigby' Films
May, 21, 2012 6:47 pm | Comments On #Cannes, Cannes 2012, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, MoviesJames McAvoy will star opposite Jessica Chastain in Myriad Pictures' double-feature film project, the company said Monday.
The two movies -- "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him" and "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her" -- will explore how a married couple in New York City deals with a life-altering experience.
Read MoreRoman Polanski Returns to Cannes - With a Prada Ad
May, 21, 2012 2:04 pm | Comments On #Cannes, cannes film festival, Movies, Prada, Roman Polanski, TessRoman Polanski came to Cannes on Monday to show an old film, and also to debut a new one.
But the new Polanski film is an oddity in the controversial director's career: It's an ad for Prada, though Polanski described it as "an anti-ad" afterwards.
The short, which screened before a restored version of Polanski's 1979 film "Tess," features Helena Bonham Carter as a Prada-wearing patient and Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who finds himself distracted by the beauty of the purple fur coat his patient has hung on a rack.
"Prada Suits Everyone," reads the caption as Kingsley dons the coat and strokes his face with its fur collar.
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