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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 5 days 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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 5 days ago

Cotillard plays a woman desperate to keep her job

  

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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 5 days ago

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

  

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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Aviva Kempner 5 days 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

Movies | Box Office
 May 19, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 5 days ago

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

  

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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Sasha Stone 5 days 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

Movies | Box Office
 May 19, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 5 days 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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Steve Pond 5 days 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

Movies | Box Office
 May 19, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 5 days 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

Movies
 May 19, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 5 days 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

Movies
 May 18, 2013 By Sasha Stone 6 days 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

Movies
 May 18, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 6 days ago

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

  

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

Movies | Box Office
 May 18, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 6 days 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.

Movies | Box Office
 May 18, 2013 By Todd Cunningham 6 days 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

Movies
 May 18, 2013 By Steve Pond 6 days 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’

Movies
 May 18, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 1 week ago

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

  

Wentworth Media Launches to Finance, Produce Movies

Movies
 May 18, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 1 week 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

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 1 week 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)

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 1 week 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

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Steve Pond 1 week 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)

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 1 week 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)

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 1 week 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)

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 1 week 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'

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 1 week ago

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

  

Weinstein Unveils Slate in Cannes: 'Osage' Shouts Oscars, 'Salinger' Intrigues

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 1 week ago

The most unusual film of a half-dozen unveiled was certainly "Salinger," a docu-style movie about the reclusive author of "Catcher in the Rye"

  

PowerGrid's Biggest Movers of the Week: Baz Luhrmann on the Rise, Shawn Levy's Latest Makes a Move (Video)

Movies
 May 17, 2013 By Rebecca Rosenberg 1 week ago

The director of "Great Gatsby" moved up this week, as did the film's Daisy

  
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