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Russia’s Glavkino Unveils Slate, Expansion Plans
Russian film and TV studio Glavkino has revealed its first film production slate, and its plan for a $100 million expansion of its studio facilities. Glavkino CEO Ilya Bachurin presented the latest de...
Kanye West on ‘SNL’: Performs Tracks From New Album ‘Yeezus’
Kanye West may have appeared on “Saturday Night Live” Saturday night, but his performances were no laughing matter. SEE ALSO: Who Is Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’? The outspoke...
Marion Cotillard’s ‘Two Days, One Night’ Bought For U.S.
Sundance Selects has bought U.S. rights to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s upcoming drama “Two Days, One Night,” starring Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione and Olivier Gourmet. The deal...
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Cannes: New Dardenne Brothers Movie Starring Marion Cotillard Goes to Sundance Selects
In "Two Days, One Night," the actress will play a woman trying to save her job.read more
Cannes Film Review: ‘Seduced and Abandoned’
A spirited, highly amusing and endearingly shambolic documentary about film, money, Cannes and death, roughly in that order.
John Malkovich’s ‘Siberian Education’ Finds U.S. Home with Wrekin
Wrekin Hill Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Gabriele Salvatores’ crime drama “Siberian Education,” starring John Malkovich. WestEnd is handling international sales at Cannes. W...
Anna Paquin’s ‘Free Ride’ Picked Up By Phase 4
Anna Paquin’s “Free Ride” gets a boost from Phase 4 Films, which has picked up all U.S. and Canadian rights to the Shana Betz-helmed crime thriller. The deal was announced at Cannes,...
Ben Affleck on 'SNL': Oscar Speech Apology Is Hard Work (Video)
Ben Affleck returned as host of "Saturday Night Live" for the fifth time, but didn't get the full-on welcome treatment from fellow "five-timers" that Justin Timberlake did earl...
Ben Affleck on 'SNL': Oscar Speech Apology Is Hard Work (Video)
Ben Affleck returned as host of "Saturday Night Live" for the fifth time, but didn't get the full-on welcome treatment from fellow "five-timers" that Justin Timberlake did earl...
Cannes Film Review: ‘Borgman’
A sly, insidious and intermittently hilarious domestic thriller that is likely to remain one of the most daring selections of this year's Cannes competish.
Peabody Awards Honors TV At Its Best
Thirty-nine recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards will be honored May 20 at the Waldorf-Astoria in Gotham. The Peabodys, bestowed by the U. of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass C...
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Seduced and Abandoned: Cannes Review
James Toback and Alec Baldwin -- along with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain -- show what it's like to bring a project to the Cannes.read more
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Cannes: Phase 4 Takes 'Free Ride' Starring Anna Paquin
Writer-director Shana Betz helmed the autobiographical tale, which is the first film from Paquin's production company. read more
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Cannes: Alexandra Maria Lara Joins All-Star Cast for German Kids Book Adaptation
Fox International Productions is producing "Rico, Oskar and the Pasta Detectives," but also German teen comedy "Playing Doctor."read more
Telefilm Canada Backs Indie Film Competition
Telefilm Canada has signed up to back Vancouver-based CineCoup Film Accelerator’s million-dollar indie filmmaking competition. Telefilm has committed to providing a million dollars and guarantee...
Cohen Media Takes Movie Rights on Muybridge Tome
Cohen Media Group has acquired movie rights to Edward Ball’s “The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures.” Story, published earlier this year, focu...
Jia’s ‘Touch of Sin’ Ignites Biz
Jia Zhangke’s Palme d’Or contender “A Touch of Sin,” the critics’ favorite among Cannes competition films through Saturday, is igniting more than a touch of Riviera sales business. Five terr...
Fox International Prods. Launching Two German Films
Fox International Prods. Germany has set production on a pair of movie projects — teen comedy “Playing Doctor” and children’s drama “Riko, Oskar and the Pasta Detective.&...
Colombian Talent Turns to Television
Dominated by Caracol and RCN TV, Colombia’s television duopoly can be credited with spurring the film production surge of the past decade as TV-trained talents applied their experience to bigscreen ...
Colombian Productions, Projects and Players at Cannes
A look at the films and filmmakers heading to Cannes.

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