Steve Pond is TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards and has been writing and overseeing awards coverage on the site since 2009. He spent decades writing about film, television, music and the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Premiere, New York Times, Playboy and many other publications. He is the author of the L.A. Times bestseller “The Big Show,” a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Awards based on 15 years of unprecedented access to that show.
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Cannes 2012: Where’s the Excitement?
Day 7: Three movies that weren't ready in time for Cannes steal the spotlight from the movies that did make it to the festival
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Cannes: Alister Grierson to Direct Biblical ‘Prequel’ ‘Mary Mother of Christ’
Australian director Alister Grierson will direct film for Lionsgate, with faith-based marketing campaign planned
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Roman Polanski Returns to Cannes – With a Prada Ad
Cannes had promised a new film from controversial director Roman Polanski, but they didn't say it would be a fashion ad
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Cannes: Kino Lorber Acquires Prostitution Doc ‘Meet the Fokkens’
Kino Lorber plans summer release for "Meet the Fokkens," documentary about twin 69-year-old hookers-turned-brothel owners
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Cannes 2012: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Day 6: On a wet and soggy day along the Croisette, umbrella sellers are happy, and "Amour" continues to win raves
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Cannes: Content Acquires Terrorism Drama ‘Complicit’
British drama about the torture of a terrorist will premiere on Channel 4 in the UK before worldwide theatrical release
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‘Oscars Outdoors’ Launches in Hollywood With ‘Field of Dreams’
Academy debuts its new outdoor Hollywood theater with an open-air screening of "Field of Dreams," and some presidential popcorn scoopers
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Cannes 2012: Do We Have a New Leader in the Palme d’Or Race?
Michael Haneke's old-age drama 'Amour' draws rapturous reviews, jumps to the top of bookmakers' lists
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Cannes 2012: Samuel Goldwyn Lands Gilles Bourdos’ ‘Renoir’
Gilles Bourdos film is love story about painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his director son Jean Renoir and the young woman who inspired them both
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Cannes 2012: BBC Films To Release Simon Curtis’ Art Drama ‘The Golden Lady,’ Other Films
Simon Curtis film tells true story of Gustav Klimt painting stolen by the Nazis; BBC Films slate will also include Saoirse Ronan in World War I memoir "Testament of Youth"
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Cannes 2012: Millennium, West Coast Film Partners Sign $100 Million Deal
Millennium/West Coast agreement calls for co-production and co-financing of two or three films a year, beginning with Antoine Fuqua's "White House Taken" with Gerard Butler
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Cannes 2012: ‘Last Days on Mars’ Begins Shooting with Liev Shreiber, Olivia Williams
Elias Koteas and Tom Cullen also join cast of sci-fi drama currently selling at Cannes Marketplace
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Cannes 2012: Shame, Money and Long Movies
Day 4 roundup: Sean Penn raises big money for Haiti, and Megan Ellison doesn't want to talk about being a Cannes power player
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Cannes 2012: Film Movement Acquires Israeli Thriller ‘Room 514’
Sharon Bar-Ziv's interrogation drama "Room 514" won a special jury mention at Tribeca; Film Movement plans late 2012 release