Movies
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Cannes Deal Central: Sundance Selects Keeps Buying, IFC Midnight Joins In
Company makes fifth Cannes purchase with “Poliss,” while sister company IFC Midnight grabs controversial “Snowtown”
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Cannes Deal Central: Official Film Festival Selections
A continually updated list of deals involving the films screening in the Cannes official selection lineup
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Jeff Bewkes: Premium VOD Is Much Ado About Nada
Time Warner chief says shorter windows means less piracy, but he doesn’t tip his hand about how early releases are selling
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Guillermo del Toro Named Guest Director of LA Film Fest
Festival also adds “Green Hornet” screening, conversations with James Franco and Julie Taymor
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Weezer, Robbie Williams, Brad Paisley Rock ‘Cars 2’
Weezer recorded The Cars’ “You Might Think” for Pixar’s film, and Williams and Paisley recorded a duet
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Lindsay Lohan Responds to Sentence: ‘I Support the Judge’s Decision’ (Updated)
“Mean Girls” actress catches a break in her legal entanglement over jewelry theft and probation violation
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Cannes: Weinstein Starts Buying with ‘Dragon,’ Nears ‘Artist’ Deal
Weinstein Company acquires martial arts film from Peter Ho-Sun Chan, pursues silent comedy from Michel Hazanavicius
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Cannes, Day 1: The ‘Unreal Experience’ Begins
TheWrap’s daily roundup of Cannes news begins with previews, deals and fear and loathing from opening-night director Woody Allen
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Cannes: Open Road Acquires Robert De Niro, Jason Statham Film ‘Killer Elite’
Deal for action-adventure film announced at Cannes but in the works for months
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Millenium Acquires Rights to Elgin James’ ‘Little Birds’
On the eve of the festival, a new distributor acquires an indie drama
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Cannes: Leaving Oscar Behind in the South of France
The beauty of Cannes, says our guest columnist, is that you can take awards out of the equation and focus on the films themselves
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UTA Sues ‘American Pie’ Writer; Says He Stifler’d Agency
Agency says scribe, who worked on all the “American Pie” movies until he was bounced from the upcoming sequel “American Reunion, still owes it commissions
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Hugh Jackman Ushers Forth the Robot Wars in New ‘Real Steel’ Trailer (Video)
“Australia” actor tries his hand at becoming the Don King of android pugilism
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Woody Harrelson Joins Bulging ‘Hunger Games’ Cast
Harrelson will play Haymitch Abernathy in Lionsgate adaptation of Suzanne Collins novel
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Adam Shankman’s Offspring Entertainment Decamps to New Line
The company has been at Disney for eight years