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The Weinstein Company Checks Into 'Suite Francaise' With Michelle Williams
The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. rights to Saul Dibb's WWII drama "Suite Francaise," which will star Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts and Kristin Scott Thomas. TF1 Droits ...
Cannes Film Review: ‘Death March’
“I don’t think I can hold on much longer,” groans a soldier in “Death March,” and his sentiment is likely to be echoed by the small audience for Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.&...
What is Jewish Humor? Justin Timberlake 'Smells a Trap' for Coen Brothers in Cannes
Justin Timberlake stepped in to save an awkward situation when directors Joel and Ethan Coen were asked at the Cannes Film Festival about Jewish humor by a German reporter on Sunday. Related Ar...
What is Jewish Humor? Justin Timberlake 'Smells a Trap' for Coen Brothers in Cannes
Justin Timberlake stepped in to save an awkward situation when directors Joel and Ethan Coen were asked at the Cannes Film Festival about Jewish humor by a German reporter on Sunday. Related Ar...
Asghar Farhadi's Cannes Drama 'The Past' Has a Future at Sony Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to Asghar Farhadi's family drama "The Past," which stars Berenice Beho ("The Artist") and Tahar Rahim ("A Prophet"). S...
Asghar Farhadi's Cannes Drama 'The Past' Has a Future at Sony Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to Asghar Farhadi's family drama "The Past," which stars Berenice Beho ("The Artist") and Tahar Rahim ("A Prophet"). S...
Cannes Deals: Sundance Selects Buys Dardenne Brothers' 'Two Days, One Night' Starring Marion Cotillard
Sundance Selects has acquired domestic distribution rights to "Two Days, One Night," Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's upcoming film starring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard. The Dardennes, Belgian brother...
Cannes Deals: Sundance Selects Buys Dardenne Brothers' 'Two Days, One Night' Starring Marion Cotillard
Sundance Selects has acquired domestic distribution rights to "Two Days, One Night," Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's upcoming film starring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard. The Dardennes, Belgian brother...
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Stone Temple Pilots Surprise at KROQ Weenie Roast: Concert Review
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington acted as the STP frontman as the band played an unscheduled set during the alt-rock radio station's annual spring festival.read more
Independent Box Office: 'Place Beyond the Pines' Passes $20M
"Place Beyond the Pines" this weekend became the first independent movie to cross $20 million this year. The crime drama from Focus Features, starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, added $284,584 f...
Independent Box Office: 'Place Beyond the Pines' Passes $20M
"Place Beyond the Pines" this weekend became the first independent movie to cross $20 million this year. The crime drama from Focus Features, starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, added $284,584 f...
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Cannes: Warm Red Carpet Reception for Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Star Oscar Isaac draws the loudest applause and shouts of "bravo" during the standing ovation.read more
Cannes: Hewlett Packard’s Animated Debate
At a Hewlett Packard panel on the future of animation, participants sometimes crossed swords on the finer points of technology, but all agreed that, as in live-action, the script is the key to success...
B Media Global Backs Up Jim Mickle’s ‘Cold’ in First for Fund (EXCLUSIVE)
Paris-based Backup Media, a film consultancy and investor, has unveiled the first financing deals put through on three titles by B Media Global. Launched last year by Backup, B Media Global is a film ...
Ford’s Focus is on Selling Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ as He Drives IM Global
IM Global topper Stuart Ford knows how to make a splash with Martin Scorsese: Put him on a boat. The director mingled at one end of Emmett/Furla’s yacht party on Thursday to promote “Silence,&...
Cannes Review: 'Borgman' Makes No Sense - in a Good Way
You have to appreciate a film festival that would put a movie as strange as Alex van Warmerdam's "Borgman" in main competition. Though it often feels as if the cast and director are making it up as th...
Cannes Review: 'Borgman' Makes No Sense - in a Good Way
You have to appreciate a film festival that would put a movie as strange as Alex van Warmerdam's "Borgman" in main competition. Though it often feels as if the cast and director are making it up as th...
International Financing ‘Salvation’ for Danish Producer
A poster producer for Danish cinema, Sisse Graum Jorgensen, who with helmer Thomas Vinterberg received the prestigious European Union Prix Media Sunday in Cannes for their film project, “The Com...
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud Presents ‘Wolf Totem’
Most French film folk have come to Cannes from Paris. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud came from Ulaghai, Inner Mongolia. You would expect no less from Annaud, a helmer who shot “The Lover” in...
Guillaume Canet Sees More Opportunities in English-Language Films
Underscoring the breadth of artistic aspirations driving many of today’s European directors, Guillaume Canet’s “Blood Ties” is one of three English-language films helmed by a Euro director pla...

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